The Royal Collection

Abstract This unique collection of essays explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interdependent histories of the royal f...

This collection presents folklore recorded by the Finnish folklorist Aukusti Robert Niemi in 1911 in Dzūkija, in the parishes of Valkininkai, Perloja, Merkinė, Nedzingė, and Marcin...

As nurses, ‘Jenny Wrens’, and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout history. From its earliest years, women maintained homes and ...

This book contains complete transcriptions, with notes, of the 133 surviving letters of Charles Hutton (1737–1823). The letters span the period 1770–1823 and are drawn from nearly ...

Royal Prussia was the most urbanized part of Sigismund I’s monarchy, its Hanseatic ports profoundly affected by Luther’s message from 1518. This chapter traces the Polish Crown’s r...

This chapter investigates the evolution and effects of James VII’s policy towards Scotland’s royal burghs. In 1686, the king blamed parliament’s failure to repeal laws against Cat...

This new work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing a broad understanding of the collection develo...