Monarchy in Peril

Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich / Associate Professor Cindy McCreery

Is the monarchy in peril? Join Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich, and Associate Professor Cindy McCreery - both from the University of Sydney - on this 8-episode podcast series about monarchy. With the help of expert guests, the series will examine challenges faced by monarchies in modern history – such as revolution, assassination, and scandal – and why some monarchies have survived, and others have disappeared. The series is from the University of Sydney, School of Humanities and is produced by Peter Adams.

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Monarchy in Peril

Episodes (9)

Jul 8, 2024 Long to rule? Monarchy, Republicanism and the Commonwealth
Jul 1, 2024 Lost imperial crowns: Monarchy and decolonisation
Jun 24, 2024 African kings: Monarchy and its challenges

Monarchy in Peril

Jul 8, 2024
25¾ minutes
22 MB

Republicanism has long been one of the major challenges to monarchy, and the majority of countries in the world are now republics. Yet monarchies endure. King Charles III reigns over the United Kingdom and also over fourteen realms in the Commonwealth of Nations, from Canada to New Zealand, and from the Bahamas to the Solomon Islands. Many former realms of the British monarch, however, have become republics, most recently Barbados, and Jamaica plans to follow suit. With Dr Harshan Kumarasingham of the University of Edinburgh, we conclude this series of podcasts with some reflections on the transition of B...

Monarchy in Peril

Long to rule? Monarchy, Republicanism and the Commonwealth

Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich / Associate Professor Cindy McCreery

00:00 -23:58