The glittering thread : the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia

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dc.contributor	Connors, Jane Holley	en_AU
dc.date.accessioned	2007-03-14T01:52:32Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:52:12Z
dc.date.available	2007-03-14T01:52:32Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:52:12Z
dc.date.issued	1996
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/20116
dc.description	University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
dc.description.abstract	This thesis is a broadly-based historical study of the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia. In presenting an anatomy of this important but neglected event, it attempts to restore its place in history, to explain the nature of the enduring popular attachment to the British Royal Family, to examine the self-portrait that Australia presented to its Royal visitors in the post-war era and to investigate the political and cultural processes by which it did so. The primary theoretical aim of this detailed case study is to interrogate the means by which the State (represented by the Parliament and the state and federal bureaucracies, with the cooperation of the media) was able to secure the willing participation of an overwhelming majority of the population. The elements of this study are drawn principally from government archives, the vast media coverage of the day, extensive oral history interviews with participants, and academic literature in the areas of Australian history (with particular reference to the nineteen-fifties), popular royalism, popular culture, public memory, civic ritual and spectacle. It was my final objective that these elements and aims might be synthesised into an enjoyable, 'popular' account of this chaotic, surprising and memorable event.	en_AU
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dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
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dc.rights	Copyright Jane Holley Connors	en_AU
dc.subject	Visits of state.	en_AU
dc.subject	Australia.	en_AU
dc.subject	Royal visitors.	en_AU
dc.title	The glittering thread : the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia	en_AU
dc.type	Thesis
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Abstract:

This thesis is a broadly-based historical study of the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia. In presenting an anatomy of this important but neglected event, it attempts to restore its place in history, to explain the nature of the enduring popular attachment to the British Royal Family, to examine the self-portrait that Australia presented to its Royal visitors in the post-war era and to investigate the political and cultural processes by which it did so. The primary theoretical aim of this detailed case study is to interrogate the means by which the State (represented by the Parliament and the state and federal bureaucracies, with the cooperation of the media) was able to secure the willing participation of an overwhelming majority of the population. The elements of this study are drawn principally from government archives, the vast media coverage of the day, extensive oral history interviews with participants, and academic literature in the areas of Australian history (with particular reference to the nineteen-fifties), popular royalism, popular culture, public memory, civic ritual and spectacle. It was my final objective that these elements and aims might be synthesised into an enjoyable, 'popular' account of this chaotic, surprising and memorable event.

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