The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture

Andreas Gestrich is Director of the German Historical Institute London. Before he joined the Institute he was Professor of Modern History at Trier University. His present research interests comprise the history of family, childhood and youth, the history of poverty and poor relief, media history and the social history of religious groups. His publications include Absolutismus und Öffentlichkeit: Politische Kommunikation in Deutschland zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994), Familie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Oldenbourg, 1999), (ed. with Lutz Raphael) Inklusion/Exklusion: Studien zu Fremdheit und Armut von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Lang, 2004), and (ed. with Christiane Eisenberg), Cultural Industries in Britain and Germany: Sport, Music and Entertainment from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (Wißner, 2012). Michael Schaich is a research fellow in Early Modern History at the German Historical Institute London. He specializes in seventeenth and eighteenth-century British and German history. His current research focuses on the symbolic representation of the British monarchy and state during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His publications include Staat und Öffentlichkeit im Kurfürstentum Bayern der Spätaufklärung (Beck Publishers, 2001), (ed.) Monarchy and Religion: The Transformation of Royal Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe (OUP, 2007) and (ed. with R.J.W. Evans and Peter H. Wilson) The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 (OUP, 2011).