Contents

4 Bodies 6 Lenders • Supporters 8 Imprint 10 Forewords

KATJA LEMBKE

15 Why the Royals came from ...

ARND REITEMEIER

18 Hanover and Great Britain: The , 1714-1837

ANDREW C. THOMPSON

46 George I and George II: The new monarchs

68 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz GEORG RUPPELT

70 The Monarchy and the British Confessional State from the late 17th Century

to Catholic Emancipation in 1829 RONALD G. ASCH

78 Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach ULRIKE WEISS 80 Language, Communications, Networks. Cultural Transfer under the Personal Union

MICHAEL SCHAICH

92 Jonathan Swift RONALD G. ASCH

94 The Horse and its Special Significance in Great Britain and Hanover ULRIKE WEISS

106 The German Chancery in London BENJAMIN BUHRING

116 Knowledge Transfer in the Transnational Space of the Personal Union

MICHAELA KIPP /JOHANNA OEHLER

TORSTEN RIOTTE

126 George III: A Monarch and his Times

146 Mapmaking in Hanover and Great Britain PETER BARBER

160 Friedrich Wilhelm and Caroline Herschel KARIN SCHRADER

162 Wars and the Experience of War MARIAN FUSSEL

170 The Colonies. 'Global' politics in the time of the Personal Union PETER WENDE

http://d-nb.info/1069225983 CHRISTINE VAN DEN HEUVEL

180 George IV and William IV: The and the End of the Personal Union

202 "Rise and Shine, it's Time To Go!" The 'Hanover Experience' and Travelling Hanoverians'

Experiences in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries CLAUDIA SCHNURMANN 212 Music and Literature within the Sphere of the Personal Union

ANDREAS WACZKAT/ BARBARA SCHAFF

224 JaneAusten KARIN SCHRADER 226 Just Wait and Take Tea! Impressions of Trade and the Consumption

of 'Colonial Goods' in Electoral Hanover, 1714-1837 CLAUDIA SCHNURMANN

236 Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves BERNDADAM

RALF BORMANN

238 The Art Collection of Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn

262 Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn RALF BORMANN

HANS-GEORG ASCHOFF

264 What remained of the Personal Union?

Catalogue

277 Exhibition at the Landesmuseum Hanover 407 Exhibition at the Herrenhausen Palace Museum

Appendices

438 Bibliography 462 Picture Credits