Associate ProfessorCindy McCreery

Current Research Projects

Alfred's Empire: imperial identity and Britain's first global royal tour, 1867-71

Bloomsbury Cultural History of Monarchy (20c. volume) with Prof. Emeritus Robert Aldrich (Sydney)

Monarchy and Colonialism in South Africa c.1860-present: memories of Prince Alfred meeting Moshoeshoe I and Sandile with Prof. Hilary Sapire (Birkbeck)

OBTL with royal African and Asia-Pacific objects in postcolonial museums: Berlin, London and Sydney

Research Supervision

I am available to supervise Honours, Masters and PhD theses on 18-early 20c. Britain and the British empire, modern monarchy and colonialism, naval and maritime history and visual and material culture.

I am currently supervising a History Honours thesis on 19c. community responses to and modern memories of shipwreck in colonial Australia.

Recent PhD Supervision:

The 'Radical Underworld' of the British Mediterranean: William Eton, Malta and the British Mediterranean Empire, 1780-1806, Samuel Gribble,(PhD 2019)

'Keeping the Home Fires Burning?: British Female Settlers' Conceptions of Home and Belonging in Colonial India, Van Diemen's Land and Western Australia, 1826-1860', Felicity Berry (PhD 2016)

'New Hebrews' 'New Women'? Gender, Zionism and Orientalism in the Female Imagery of E. M. Lilien, 1890-1914, Lynne Swarts (PhD 2015)

'Devoting the Pen to your Service': Naval Families, War and Duty in Britain, c.1740-1820, Ellen Anne Gill (PhD 2012)