team on both sides of the Atlantic to coordinate Contents activity. The most significant downside of the change was a short hiatus in service, resulting from THE KING’S FRIENDS ...... 1 the decision to house the merged website at William DOCUMENT RELEASES & OTHER NEWS FROM & Mary. This meant that Data Legislation in Britain RCT ...... 1 required us both to secure the permission of Friends for a change in the place (though not the terms) on FAREWELL TO ROYAL LIBRARIAN OLIVER which their data was stored, and also new URQUHART IRVINE ...... 2 underpinning legal agreements to ensure that regulators would also be happy with the new NEW GPP WEBSITE ...... 2 arrangements. We decided the simplest way to ensure that nothing occurred in violation of the law SHAKESPEARE IN THE ROYAL COLLECTIONS 3 was to close off the Friends pages and not to attempt NEW GPP RESEARCH PUBLISHED ...... 4 to communicate with Friends using their data until the new arrangements were in place. Perhaps NEXT SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION inevitably this process took longer than expected, VISITING PROFESSOR AT KING’S COLLEGE but we were debarred from communicating on the LONDON ANNOUNCED ...... 4 issue by the terms of GDPR. Happily, all is now in place, and almost without exception our still NEW APPOINTMENTS AT THE WASHINGTON growing community of Friends indicated their LIBRARY AT MOUNT VERNON ...... 4 acceptance of the new arrangements. Any future development of the website should not involve IMPORTANT CURRENT APPLICATION similar changes, so we hope that no such DEADLINES ...... 5 interruption of service will occur in the future. RECENT GPP EVENTS AND APPEARANCES ... 5 Thank you all for your patience over this. #HISTORYGOESTOTHETHEATRE ...... 5 FORTHCOMING EVENTS ... DATES FOR YOUR DIARY ...... 6 DOCUMENT RELEASES & OTHER NEWS FROM RCT

THE KING’S FRIENDS Welcome to the fourth Newsletter for the King’s During the autumn the major document release Friends, who now number almost 400! We should advertised in the last newsletter took place, with a begin by apologizing for the delay in the appearance public launch on 16 November 2018. You may well of this Newsletter, and for the fact that for a short have seen some of the press coverage that ensued, period this summer the King’s Friends section of the concentrating on the medical papers relating to website was inaccessible. Over the summer, as you George III, which were of especial interest to will be aware, we realized a long-held ambition to journalists on account of the coincidence of the merge the UK and North American versions of the revival of Alan Bennett’s play The Madness of Georgian Papers Programme website into a single George III at the Nottingham Playhouse (see resource. This makes our web presence much less elsewhere in this newsletter). confusing. It has also made it much easier for the

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For a variety of reasons Phase 5 of the release, which we indicated as scheduled for early October 2018 in FAREWELL TO ROYAL the May Newsletter, and containing some 11,000 LIBRARIAN OLIVER images, had to be postponed. This partly relates to the availability of cataloguing resources at the Royal URQUHART IRVINE Archives, and the experience we have gained in the progress to date of the programme of release. This has prompted an ongoing re-assessment of the approach taken to cataloguing the Georgian Papers by the Royal Archives, and this has important potential implications for the broader content delivery schedule for the GPP over the life of the project. In consequence, the overall delivery schedule will be comprehensively reviewed in the New Year. As soon as the review is complete, a revised schedule will be made available to the Friends.

In the meantime, the Royal Archives team have The Librarian and Deputy Keeper of the Queen’s provided a temporary schedule indicating material Archives for Trust, Oliver Urquhart that will be made available in January 2019, and Irvine, has been appointed to the role of Director of listing the collections still to come to Georgian Library Services and Librarian at the School of Papers Online in the delivery phases up to 2021. Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and will take up this position The next release will indeed come in January 2019. in January 2019.

As Royal Librarian, Oliver has made a vital • George IV’s Calendar as Prince of Wales, contribution to the Georgian Papers Programme dating from 1766-1803 from the outset, helping fashion its priorities and • George IV’s financial papers and account approach in ways that have had an unprecedented books impact on the operation and outreach of the Royal • GIV’s bills relating to the purchases of Archives, significantly expanding access to the prints and enamels 205,000 books and 7 million items in the archives. • GIV’s Private Papers (GEO/ADD/3) The Programme team would like to thank him for his including correspondence with Miranda part in supporting and leading their ambitions, and Hamilton we wish him well for his new role directing one of the • Correspondence with members of the world's most important academic libraries for the House of Prussia study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. A successor • GEO/ADD/35 – Military Papers is yet to be appointed.

FAREWELLS After two and a half years working as a cataloguer for the Georgian Papers Programme and more recently NEW GPP WEBSITE Archivist (Digitization Projects) in the Royal Archives, Rachael Krier is leaving Windsor for pastures new. Rachael has been a driving force for the programme, cataloguing key collections of the Georgian Papers, implementing a copyright clearance infrastructure and researching the historical provenance of the papers (you may have read some of her resulting blog posts on the website). Peter Bogle is leaving the Royal Archives for a new job after three years as Imaging Technician. Peter has been responsible for the creation of all the images attached to, and many thousands of images yet to be published on, Georgian Papers Online. As some of the first Georgian Papers Programme staff, Rachael and Peter will be much missed. We At the end of September the Georgian Papers thank them for their contributions and wish them Programme made significant changes to its online both well for the future. presence. From the outset there have been four websites directly related to the programme: the RCT Two new cataloguers have already been appointed website through which the bulk of the documents and will start in the New Year, while a successor as made available online are accessed; the RCT imaging technician will be recruited soon. microsite which publishes commentary on the documents from the archival perspective; and the

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two GPP websites, one based at King’s College London and one at William & Mary. SHAKESPEARE IN THE ROYAL COLLECTIONS These last two platforms, which increasingly carried 2018 saw the launch of another major Humanities duplicate contents, have now been merged into a research project based at King’s College London and single website for the Georgian Papers Programme at in collaboration with the Royal Collection Trust, www.georgianpapersprogramme.com. As well as with many interests in common with GPP and bringing a welcome streamlining to the web presence which will also have much to offer many of the for the academic and outreach work of the academic Friends. Here Sally Barnsden, Postdoctoral partners, this development also gave us the Research Associate for the project at King’s College opportunity to redesign and enhance the webpages London, introduces it. there.

As well as housing our blogs, events calendar, academic commentary, the homepage for the King’s Friends, recordings of lectures and providing links to the documents, visitors to the site will now encounter two prominent features. One is the portal to the Transcription project, where Friends can sign up to participate in the active transcription of our digitized material using the dedicated platform that provides vital material for our metadata and search Shakespeare in the Royal Collections (ShaRC) is a capabilities as we develop them. The other are the newly-launched research project funded by the first of what we envisage as an ongoing series of AHRC, led by Professor Gordon McMullan at King’s virtual exhibitions, the first two related to our and Professor Kate Retford at Birkbeck University of collaborations with theatre productions (of which London. Seeking to identify, annotate, and digitally more elsewhere in this newsletter.) collect Shakespeare-related items from across the Royal Collections and Archives, the project will investigate the mutually sustaining nature of two Finally, the project has reinvigorated our Twitter hegemonic symbols of British national identity: feed, which provides a shared platform for the Shakespeare and the royal family. The project covers Project team both at the Archives and the Academic a long historical period beginning in 1714, and as partners to disseminate and reflect on the project on such it overlaps considerably with the interests of the a daily basis. We are very grateful to Rachael Krier, Georgian Papers Programme. The accession of at the Royal Archives, and Marie Pellisier, a George I was a disorienting moment for the postgraduate student at William and Mary in the Britishness of the royal family – royalty, like Department of History, for leading on the Twitter Shakespeare, developed in Britain over the feed, not least for their unerring ability to uncover eighteenth and nineteenth centuries after a distinctly what Marie has dubbed ‘Georgian Goodies’ German pattern. But although approaches to his highlighting the research potential of the archive. works had in many cases been imported from the King’s Friends are strongly encouraged to follow the ideas of German Romantic poets and critics, Programme @GPP_Geo_III. Shakespeare also served as a means of naturalizing TRANSCRIBERS WANTED the royal family by asserting their acquired Englishness and re-emphasizing their connection to The Transcribe Georgian Papers website is now the Plantagenet and Tudor ancestors dramatized in ready for transcribers, and The King’s Friends have his plays. first access. Transcribe Georgian Papers is a transcription site where it is possible to contribute to The history of Shakespeare and the royal family is in the Programme by transcribing documents from the many ways a history of the theatre: its political uses, Georgian Papers. The site provides guides on its respectability, and its points of intersection with transcribing, walks one through the process, and other facets of cultural and political life. Royal offers a behind-the-scenes look at the transcription individuals attended performances of Shakespeare activities. The site is now open for use by King’s in commercial theatres as well as private settings, Friends, and we would welcome engagement with it and in some cases those performances stayed with as we seek to refine its operation. them: they mentioned them in letters, developed relationships with performers, kept mementoes, commissioned paintings, and occasionally produced artwork of their own informed by what they had seen. Some royal individuals participated in performances themselves – they acted in school plays, participated in Victorian tableaux-vivants, and staged private theatricals at and elsewhere. Shakespeare’s characters provided models for some royal individuals to imitate. Most If you are curious about transcribing, and would like notably, the young Henry V who appears in the two to give it a go, visit Transcribe Georgian Papers at Henry IV plays as a lover of drunken shenanigans http://transcribegeorgianpapers.wm.edu and practical jokes was an inspiration for several

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later Princes of Wales, relying on their ancestor’s example, as drawn by Shakespeare, to promise that a NEXT SONS OF THE dissolute heir might still become a celebrated AMERICAN REVOLUTION . VISITING PROFESSOR AT The Shakespeare-related items in the collection cut across subdivisions within the Royal Collections and KING’S COLLEGE LONDON Archives; they include printed books, manuscripts, paintings, prints, decorative objects, performance ANNOUNCED records, letters, journals, accounts, and photographs. The Royal Library holds multiple We are delighted to announce that printed editions of the plays, including a copy of the the Sons of the American Revolution second Folio (1632) with handwritten annotations by Visiting Professor at King’s College Charles I, and the richly illustrated volumes of Henry London for 2019-20 will be Irving’s Shakespeare, presented to Queen Mary. Professor David Armitage. David Other treasures include paintings of famous Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of Shakespearean actors by masters like Hogarth and History and former chair of the Department of Gainsborough – but the Royal Collections also History at Harvard University, where he teaches include stranger and humbler evidence of intellectual and international history. He is also an engagement with Shakespeare. In the archives, there Honorary Professor of History at the University of is a petition from an impoverished actor desperate to Sydney and at Queen's University Belfast and an perform as Shylock for . Gifts Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, acquired on monarchs’ travels have included Cambridge. translations of Shakespeare’s works and depictions of Shakespeare’s characters transposed into different cultures – for instance, an Ada Lum doll from Hong A prize-winning writer and teacher, Kong labelled ‘I am Portia the Judge’. Professor Armitage is the author or editor of seventeen books, among In its attention to the education, leisure and self- them The Ideological Origins of the representation of royal individuals during the British Empire (2000), which won Georgian period, ShaRC’s interests overlap with the Longman-History Today Book those of the Georgian Papers Programme. Starting in of the Year Award, The Declaration 1714 and continuing into the twentieth century, the of Independence: A Global History project traces a long history of cross-pollination (2007), a Times Literary Supplement Book of the between two hegemonic institutions, asking twin Year, Foundations of Modern International research questions: what did Shakespeare do for the Thought (2013), and, as co-author, The History royal family, and what did the royal family do for Manifesto (2014), one of the Chronicle of Higher Shakespeare? Education's 20 most influential books of the last 20 years. His most recent book is Civil Wars: A History Follow Shakespeare in the Royal Collections on in Ideas (2017). He has lectured on six continents Twitter @ShaRC_project. and held visiting positions and research fellowships in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea and the United States and his works have been translated into fifteen languages. He is currently NEW GPP RESEARCH working on a global history of treaties over a longue PUBLISHED durée of some five hundred years; his research as the SAR Visiting Professor at King's and with the We are delighted to see that Madeleine Pelling Georgian Papers Programme will focus particularly (Univ of York and King’s GPP fellow) has just on King George III's engagement with treaties and published an article drawing on the research she with the law of nations more generally. conducted on her fellowship: Crafting Friendship: Mary Delany’s Album and Queen Charlotte’s Pocketbook – available now in Journal18 at http://www.journal18.org/nq/crafting-friendship- NEW APPOINTMENTS AT mary-delanys-album-and-queen-charlottes- pocketbook-by-madeleine-pelling/ THE WASHINGTON LIBRARY Many of you may also have seen press coverage of AT MOUNT VERNON Nick Foretek’s discovery of George IV as the first known purchaser of a work by Jane Austen: Dr Kevin Butterfield has https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/books/jane been appointed the executive -austen-prince-regent.html director of The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. Before taking up the position, Butterfield was

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Director of the Institute for the American 5 July. King’s College London, UK. GPP Fellows Constitutional Heritage and Constitutional Studies Coffee Morning. Speakers: Kate Carté (Southern Program and Wick Cary Professor and Associate Methodist Univ, SAR Visiting Professor) - Religion Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Transformed: Protestants and the American Oklahoma, where he engaged public audiences in Revolution; Cassandra Good (Marymount exploring current affairs with a historical approach University/OI GPP fellow) - George III’s public focused on the Constitution and civic engagement. presentation of his family on George Washington’s He is the author of Making Tocqueville’s America: ideas of family; Nicola Phillips (Royal Holloway, Law and Association in the Early United States University of London; GPP LOC fellow) – (2015). He succeeds Dr Douglas Bradburn, who was Transatlantic Legal History; Nicolas Foretek named president of George Washington’s Mount (Univ of Pennsylvania, OI GPP fellow), Crown and Vernon in January 2018; we would like to take this Press; James Fisher (King’s) Digital developments opportunity to thank Doug for his contribution to the Georgian Papers Programme in his former role, 4 September. University of Stirling, Scotland. while we look forward to continuing to work with Conference on Editing Eighteenth-Century and both him and Dr Butterfield in their new capacities. Early Modern Texts. Presentation on teaching with editions by Arthur Burns (King’s) based on ‘At the Court of King George’, the GPP module at King’s. 10 October. Enfield, Middlesex, UK. ‘George III as IMPORTANT CURRENT revealed by the Georgian Papers: A Progress Report’. Lecture by Arthur Burns (King’s) to APPLICATION DEADLINES North London Branch of Historical Association. Any King’s Friends who might be interested in 16 October. Institute of Historical Research, London, applying for one of the various fellowship schemes UK. Digital Humanities and Political History associated with the Programme (for more details of Roundtable. Contribution from Arthur Burns which, see the King’s Friends members’ area) should (King’s) on GPP. note the following current deadline for applications: 28 October. North American Conference on British George Washington Library Georgian Papers Studies, Providence RI, USA, Georgian papers panel: Fellowship: 31 December 2018. Jim Ambuske (U Virginia, OI GPP fellow), Suzanne Schwarz (Univ Worcester, OI GPP fellow), Carolyn Day (Furman Univ, King’s GPP RECENT GPP EVENTS AND fellow), chairs Arthur Burns, Karin Wulf. APPEARANCES 9 November. Nottingham Playhouse, UK. ‘King George III in his own words: new findings There have been numerous from the Georgian papers at Windsor Castle’: occasions where we have talked Pre-performance talk for The Madness of George III about the Georgian Papers over (Arthur Burns, King’s). the last few months through our 12 November: Society for Court Studies Seminar, own events and at those organised London, UK. ‘George III as Map Collector’. by others. Appearances include: Lecture by Peter Barber (King’s).

20 November: Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities DCDC18 Conference, Birmingham, 7 June 2018. King’s College London, UK. GPP UK. ‘Ngā Taonga Mokemoke: Indigenous Fellows Coffee Morning Speakers Carolyn Day Communities and their Lonely Treasures’: (Furman University, King’s GPP fellow), Amelia and paper by Samantha Callaghan (King’s KDL), illness; Jacyln Shankel (King’s College London) including GPP material. – Religion, Emotion, and Natural Disasters 12 June. Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China. 28 November: Law Library, Library of Congress, Presentation of the Georgian Papers Washington USA. Nicola Phillips (Royal Holloway Programme to History Department, Fudan UoL, LoC GPP fellow), ‘Politics, Truth and University. (Arthur Burns, King’s) Malice: Thomas Erskine and Freedom of the Press in Britain and America, 1780-1830’ 14 June. Omohundro Institute, William & Mary, VA USA. "As written: An Exploration of the Georgian Papers Programme Digital Archive", Angel Luke O’Donnell (King’s) & Jim #HISTORYGOESTOTHETHEATRE Ambuske (Univ of Virginia, OI GPP fellow), Omohondro Institute 24th Annual Conference During October and November the GPP engaged in two extremely successful and worthwhile outreach 21 June. Saffron Walden, Essex, UK. ‘George III as initiatives which served to bring the project to the revealed by the Georgian Papers: A Progress attention of new audiences across the world, and Report’. Lecture by Arthur Burns (King’s) to which also encouraged us to develop a new model for Saffron Walden Town Library Society. offering academic commentary on the digitized documents.

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programme, the original documents housed in the Archives mentioned in the play were used to produce the props, and Burns delivered a pre-performance talk to a full house during the run. The production attracted rave reviews and national attention, becoming the most successful production in the Playhouse’s history in terms of Box Office. On 20 November it was chosen for broadcast as part of the NTLive! programme, being screened in more than 2,500 cinemas in some 65 countries, and for this Gatiss’s visit to Windsor with the programme provided much of the content for the pre- performance film. Once more, we turned the In September we invited Mike Jibson to Windsor. He exhibition into an online exhibit, this time focusing is the British actor acclaimed for his award-winning on George’s illness, coinciding with the release of turn as George III in the London staging of these documents as part of the digitization Hamilton: An American Musical. We gave him the programme. opportunity to view a selection of key original documents from the collection to illuminate some of the realities of the character he has been playing. The visit proved very interesting for all concerned, and led to London Hamilton producing a short video subsequently mounted on their social media channel (and which has been viewed more than 18,000 times) and coverage in the national press – interest extended to the US in particular once it had been The experience of working with the shows and tweeted by Lin Manuel Miranda himself! Some quick thinking about representations of our period in work by the team meant that by the time these went popular culture has informed a couple of blogs either live a virtual version of the exhibition complete with posted or forthcoming on the website, and if all goes images and transcriptions of all the documents had to plan we hope to host an event in which actors been mounted online on the GPP website, where it discuss performing the Hanoverian at King’s in the has already been used in education in the classroom near future. as well as being visited by the show’s considerable and vociferous fanbase.

If you are organizing an event where you would like the GPP to make a contribution, or you would like to invite one of the team to deliver a lecture or other form of presentation, please contact the academic directors.

Roughly a month later a similar invitation to FORTHCOMING EVENTS ... Windsor was extended to Mark Gatiss, as part of his preparation for the role of George III in the DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Nottingham Playhouse revival of Alan Bennett’s The 5 Jan 2019, 9.00 am. British Society for Eighteenth Madness of George III directed by Adam Penford. Century Studies Annual Conference, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK. GPP panel featuring: • James P. Ambuske (Univ. of Virginia, OI GPP fellow), ‘A Loyal Island in a Sea of Rebellion: Prince William Henry’s New York City in the American Revolution’; • Miranda Reading (King’s, King’s GPP fellow), ‘A Royal Circle: Membership, networks and identities in the Society for the Suppression of Vice’; • Nicola Phillips (RHUL, LOC GPP fellow), ‘“Politics”, Truth and Malice: Thomas Erskine and Freedom of the Press in

Britain and America, c 1780-1820’; This formed part of a wider collaboration with • Nicholas Foretek (Univ Penn, OI GPP Nottingham Playhouse in which Arthur Burns and fellow), ‘Islands of Information; Or, Sir Simon Wessely met the cast during rehearsal to The Prince Regent’s Reading in 1811’ discuss George and his illness, Arthur Burns and Karin Wulf wrote historical notes for the

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23 Jan. 2019. King’s College London, UK, Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01, 5.30 pm: Washington Library Mount Vernon Visiting Fellow Lecture 2019: Flora Fraser, ‘In Search of Flora Macdonald: A Life in the Royal Archives, Windsor, and in the George Washington Library at Mount Vernon, Virginia’. All welcome: free admission by ticket obtainable from Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/georgian-papers- programme-mount-vernon-fellow-lecture-flora- fraser-tickets-53148361179

12 March 2019: Institute of Historical Research, London, Digital History Seminar: John S Cohen Room, N203, Second Floor, IHR, 5.15. GPP team presentation, ‘The Digital Challenge of the GPP’. (All welcome) 21 March 2019: King’s College London, UK, Lecture Theatre 1 Bush House, 6.00 pm. The annual Sons of the American Revolution GPP Lecture. Kate Carté (Southern Methodist Univ, Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London), ‘Royal Religion: King George III and the American Revolution’ (All welcome). 10 June 2019. Lecture, Saffron Walden, UK. Saffron Walden Museum Society Lecture – Arthur Burns (title to be confirmed). We would be happy to include details of lectures or presentations being made by Fellows or Friends which makes use of material from the Royal Archives or GPP resources. Please send items for listing to Arthur Burns.

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