March 12th, 2.30 -6pm

Ceremonies of rulership

Dr Janet Dickinson (University of Reading), ‘Approaching the Queen: adapting to the challenges of ceremony at the Elizabethan court’.

Dr Alice Hunt (University of Southampton), ‘Ceremony and the English Republic’

Dr Anna Keay (Landmark Trust) ‘Sure never to see the like again in this world’: the 1661 coronation of Charles II’.

Professor Miles Taylor (Institute of Historical Research) ‘Coronation and Modernity: the Delhi Imperial Assemblage of 1877’.

All welcome. For enquiries, email: l.m.grant@reading.ac.uk