Royals on tour Alison Truelove

Royals on tour Alison TrueloveTravel by European and native monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters.

drawing on literatures

Beginning with the frontier days of the American West

that there has been a process of civic disengagement as voluntary organisations have lost members

is about people and nature relationships

Brannen's message is clear: we must change how we build

in twentieth-century Britain

placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society

Particularly when it comes to Britain

and interviews with seminal directors such as Lone Scherfig

examining the diverse ways in which classical myth narratives have been reworked by women playwrights for the European stage

The volume includes special contributions from scholars right across Europe who focus on previously neglected areas such as news and municipal cinema as well as the canon of key European films

Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs