{"id":19338,"date":"2022-11-12T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=219774"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:39:08","slug":"writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing the history of the modern monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>

By Matt Elton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

\n\n

Recent years have seen a flurry of historical dramas and documentaries surrounding the modern monarchy, with historians and commentators debating whether or not they offer a fair depiction of the royal family \u2013 and whether or not it matters. But, how do scholars go about researching the full story of what happened during the Queen\u2019s long reign? In conversation with Matt Elton, Professor Philip Murphy offers his views on why telling the recent history of Britain\u2019s monarchy is so complicated.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Matt Elton Published: Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 12:00 am Recent years have seen a flurry of historical dramas and documentaries surrounding the modern monarchy, with historians and commentators debating whether or not they offer a fair depiction of the royal family \u2013 and whether or not it matters. But, how do scholars go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19339,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/11\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/11\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/11\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/11\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/11\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/11\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/11\/writing-the-history-of-the-modern-monarchy.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Matt Elton Published: Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 12:00 am Recent years have seen a flurry of historical dramas and documentaries surrounding the modern monarchy, with historians and commentators debating whether or not they offer a fair depiction of the royal family \u2013 and whether or not it matters. But, how do scholars go…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/19338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}