New Research with Lucy Worsley - Floating Palaces: Royal Yachts

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4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this mini-series on new research at our palaces, PhD student Ellis Huddart joins Lucy Worsley to explore the history of the Royal Yacht.

Ellis’ PhD hopes to examine how Royal Yachts existed as places outside of the usual rules and conventions of both royal palaces and royalty. They can therefore reveal a lot about the material culture of British Imperialism in the Victorian era, and the changing image of royalty.

This episode is part of a mini-series about new research at our palaces.

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0:00.0	Hello listeners and welcome to the Historic World Palaces podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Lucy Worsley for a long time chief curator at Historic World Palaces and now a friend
0:14.0	at the charity. And welcome back to the new research at our Palace' mini-series, where I get to talk to our latest researchers
0:22.9	themselves. These are our PhD students. He'd been working with us to discover more about the
0:29.6	histories and stories from our palaces. You might not know this, but Historic World Palaces
0:33.8	is an independent research organisation that is kind of like a university and this
0:40.7	research is fresh. It's happening right now and it has the potential to change the way we think
0:46.9	about the past. So let's jump into some of the exciting new research from our palaces.
0:56.0	This time I'm so pleased to be welcoming Ellis Huddart,
1:00.1	who's nearly at the end of his PhD writing process.
1:04.3	Before we jump into your topic, Ellis,
1:05.9	can you tell me what your days look like at this point in time?
1:09.0	At this point in time, I am shackled to a desk writing away, writing up my research.
1:15.7	So they're not the most thrilling days in terms of describing the kind of cut and thrust
1:22.2	of research, but I do have the memories of more interesting times when I was researching.
1:27.1	And those days were varied and absolutely fascinating.
1:32.4	And as a sort of history nerd, really the stuff I signed up for.
1:36.2	So in terms of the historic royal palaces, blindy, I mean, going down to London in particular,
1:42.1	to Hampton Court Palace and talking with the curators,
1:46.0	this base of knowledge, assisting me with my research, kind of having your own team,
1:51.4	looking out for various things related to your research, has been incredible, really.
1:56.4	But in terms of the archives I'm looking at, and as you'll kind of see as I talk more about my research, I'm very sort of maritime themed.
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