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The Royal Studies Podcast
This podcast is connected to the Royal Studies Network and the Royal Studies Journal and covers topics related to monarchical history as well as featuring new research and publications in the field of royal studies. Join us for interviews, roundtable discussions and more covering all things royal studies and highlighting the latest and greatest in the field!
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The Royal Studies Podcast
Interview with Lorinda Cramer on Queen Charlotte and the Colonies
In this episode, host Susannah Lyon-Whaley interviews Lorinda Cramer on her research on Queen Charlotte. In this episode they discuss Queen Charlotte's relationship with Britain's global empire, and the queen's deep interest in the flora and fauna of the colonies.
For more on Queen Charlotte, see our earlier interview with Natalee Garrett on her biography of this queen in our series.
Bio:
Dr Lorinda Cramer is a lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University, Australia. She first explored specimen collections taken by Joseph Banks from Australia in her museum work more than a decade ago. She returned to these specimens as a research fellow in the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre at the Australian Catholic University while working on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘A History of Early Modern Natural Resource Management’, led by Professor Susan Broomhall.
Featured Publication: Cramer, Lorinda. ‘Queen Charlotte and the Colonies: Queenly Agency in Collecting Australia’s Flora and Fauna.’ In Queens, Queenship, and Natural Resource Management in Premodern Europe, 1400-1800, edited by Susan Broomhall and Clare Davidson, 313-334. London: Routledge, 2025.
