The Visible Crown
Queen Elizabeth II and the Caribbean, 1952 to the present
Project Team
The project brings together an interdisciplinary research team of political historians, political scientists, cultural historians, and oral history practitioners from the UK and the University of the West Indies. It combines archival work in the UK and the Caribbean with oral history interviews and a unique, region-wide survey.
The research team will work with non-academic partners in the UK and Caribbean in order to deliver an exciting range of impact activities including policy-orientated briefings (Foreign and Commonwealth Office); community events (University of the West Indies Museum; Black Cultural Archives; National Caribbean Heritage Museum); teacher training and the production of educational materials (Historical Association and Historic Royal Palaces); an exhibition (The UWI Museum); and a television documentary exploring the Queen in the Caribbean.
Professor Anna Whitelock
Professor of the History of Monarchy at City, University of London and Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. Anna is a historian of monarchy and has published widely on early modern monarchy, queenship and the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I. She has an established media profile as a commentator on modern monarchy and regularly appears on ITV News, BBC and Channel 4 as well in the US, Australia and Canada. She is a Trustee of the Heritage Alliance and of the Institute of Historical Research.
Dr Alice Hunt
Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. Alice is a historian of monarchy and royal ceremonies. She has published on Tudor and Stuart monarchy, the English republic, and on the modern royal family. Her first book, The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2008), looked at the history of the coronation ceremony in sixteenth-century England. She is the co-editor, with Anna Whitelock, of a collection of essays on Mary I and Elizabeth I: Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (Palgrave, 2010). She is also a member of Southampton’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture.
Dr Kate Quinn
Associate Professor of Caribbean History at the UCL Institute of the Americas. Kate’s research interests include democracy and governance in the post-independence Anglophone Caribbean; Black Power and the Caribbean left; and Caribbean intellectual traditions. Her publications include Beyond Westminster in the Caribbean (2018); Black Power in the Caribbean (2014); and Politics and Power in Haiti (2013). Dr Quinn served for many years on the Committee of the Society for Caribbean Studies and was Chair of the Society from 2012-2014.
Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Professor in Political Science, Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work at the Cave Hill campus. Cynthia’s publications include: Introduction to Caribbean Politics: Texts and Readings (2002); and Living at the Borderlines: Issues in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development (2003). Cynthia has participated in a number of Election Monitoring and Expert Groups in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. She served as a member of the St. Lucia Constitution Reform Commission from 2005-2011.
Professor Philip Murphy
Professor of British and Commonwealth History at the University of London and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Philip’s many publications include a study of the relationship between the British royal family and the Commonwealth, Monarchy and the End of Empire (2013) and, most recently, The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth (2018). He is also joint editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Alongside British Imperial History, Philip has a long-standing interest in intelligence history, and in international intelligence links.
Dr Cleve Scott
Research Associate at the Oral History Project in the Department of History and Philosophy, UWI Cave Hill. Dr. Cleve McD. Scott is a historian, cultural critic, music producer and development specialist. He is also one of the authors of the recently government commissioned History of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to be published in two volumes.
His research focuses on the political history of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. See e.g. “The Garvey Movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,”
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project: Volume XiCaribbean Series. Ed. Robert Hill. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2011 and entries in the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Editors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Dr Grace Carrington
Research Fellow at both the UCL Institute of the Americas and the Department of International Politics at City, University of London. Grace’s research interests centre on Caribbean politics in the era of twentieth century decolonisation. She has published on grassroots politics and independence movements in the non-sovereign Caribbean, including Guadeloupe and the British Virgin Islands.
Advisory Board
Professor Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy (chair)
Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, Edinburgh University, Co-Convenor of the Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism
Dr Derek O’Brien, Oxford Brookes University and Cayman Islands Law School
Dr Hamid Ghany, UWI St Augustine, Director of Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies
Chris Ship, Royal Editor, ITV News
Major J.W David Clarke CVO, ADC, CCM, Extra Equerry to the Royal Household
Dorothy Pine -McLarty, Chair of Electoral Commission of Jamaica
Professor Alan Cobley, Professor of South African and Comparative History, UWI Cave Hill
Professor Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, KCL
Contact Us
info@visiblecrown.com
Address
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London
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