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In the bid to disseminate Spanish identity in the second half of the nineteenth century, royal visits were examples of civil ceremonies — accompanied by the religious and military repertoire of the day — which were used in public policies to further nation-building efforts, thus helping to shape political and cultural identities. Based on the specific episode of Amadeo I’s visit to Galicia in August 1872, this article suggests that the study of the Savoyard monarchy should be included in this approach in view of its combination of political power and symbolic power. Through an analysis of the monarchical ceremonies deployed with a view to legitimizing the new dynasty, we explore the new Crown’s actual reach in relation to the dynasty’s socialization and nationalization at a time when, in principle, the social actors underpinning it did not themselves identify with either the form itself or the person representing it. We will investigate two critical aspects: the political implications of the visit and social perceptions of it. Our sources will be newspaper chronicles and stories, including both the provincial and regional press and central editions, together with documents from the General Palace Archive in Madrid, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, the Municipal Historical Archive in A Coruña, the Local Studies Municipal Library in A Coruña and the Municipal Archive in Ferrol, A Coruña., En la difusión de la identidad española durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX las visitas reales fueron ejemplos de ceremonias civiles —acompañadas del repertorio religioso y castrense de la época— explotadas a modo de políticas públicas para la difusión de la nation-building, participando así en la conformación de las identidades políticas y culturales. Este artículo propone incorporar el estudio de la monarquía saboyana desde la combinación del poder político y simbólico a partir de un episodio concreto: la visita a Galicia de Amadeo I en agosto de 1872. A través del ceremonial monárquico desplegado de cara a la legitimidad de la nueva dinastía, pretendemos analizar el verdadero alcance de la nueva Corona en la socialización y nacionalización de la misma cuando, en principio, los actores sociales que la sustentaban no se reconocían ni en la forma ni en la persona que la representaba. Indagaremos en dos aspectos fundamentales: la proyección política de la visita y la percepción social de la misma. Nuestras fuentes serán las crónicas y reportajes hemerográficos, tanto la prensa provincial y regional como la de edición central, junto con documentación del Archivo General de Palacio (Madrid), del Ministero degli Affari Esteri (Roma), del Arquivo Histórico Municipal (A Coruña), de la Biblioteca Municipal de Estudos Locais (A Coruña) y del Arquivo Municipal (Ferrol-A Coruña).

La Rioja y Navarra fueron objeto de cuatro visitas reales desde la Revolución de 1868 hasta la muerte de Baldomero Espartero, “exiliado” voluntariamente en la capital riojana. La primera, en septiembre de 1871, fue realizada por Amadeo I al comienzo de su reinado, mientras que Alfonso XII llevó a cabo las tres restantes (febrero de 1875, marzo de 1876 y octubre de 1878). Este artículo profundiza en la búsqueda de la legitimidad y del capital simbólico del militar manchego por parte de los reyes, origen de la presencia de los monarcas en la ciudad y en otros puntos de la región. Para una mejor comprensión de estos actos y su dinámica, se analizan elementos como la donación de enseres del hogar y las arquitecturas efímeras, desentrañando su uso político en la Europa del siglo XIX. La Rioja and Navarra were the destination for four royal visits since the 1868 Revolution until Baldomero Espartero’s death, voluntarily “exiled” in the Riojan capital. First one, September 1871, was made by Amadeo I in the beginning of his reign and Alfonso XII led the other three (February 1875, March 1876 and October 1878). This article delves into the search of the born-in-La-Mancha soldier’s legitimacy and symbolic capital by the kings, which were the origin of their presence at the city and other places of the region. In order to have a better understanding of these events and their dynamics, donation of house stuff and ephemeral architecture are studied, unravelling their meaning and political use in 19th century Europe. Investigación financiada por el programa de Ayudas a los Estudios de Temática Riojana del IER (2019). Asimismo, el autor disfruta de un contrato de investigación postdoctoral sufragado por la Generalitat Valenciana y el Fondo Social Europeo.

During the early twentieth century, New Zealand’s royal visits helped to forge an identity for the young nation. The events portrayed Pakeha New Zealanders as “Better Britons”: a compound designation which affirmed Britishness but also distanced New Zealanders from Britons elsewhere. Using New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, as a case study the thesis examines tours by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (1901), the Prince of Wales (1920) and the Duke and Duchess of York (1927). The thesis employs a conceptual framework derived from the Ethno-Symbolist paradigm for nationalism. This contends that national identity has interdependent “Ethnic” and “Territorial-Civic” components. Applied to Pakeha New Zealanders, this suggests that inherited British traits were inseparable from received attributes associated with the country’s distinctive geography and emerging welfare practices. Employing Eric Hobsbawm’s concept of “ritual complex”, Victor Turner’s “multivocal” symbols and Lyn Spillman’s loose-fit “symbolic repertoire”, the research reveals Wellington’s royal events to be versatile amalgams of architecture, landscape, decoration, published ephemera, rhetoric and performance. Flexible symbols allowed the visits to promote exaggerated ethnic traits which confirmed Pakeha’s Britishness but also distinguished the New Zealanders from Britons elsewhere. At the same time, the royal receptions advertised the country’s racial harmony, healthy outdoor lifestyles and progressive social policies. These claims were advanced within a series of narratives. A “Maori Narrative” portrayed Pakeha as the benign custodians of New Zealand’s indigenous culture. A “Military Narrative” assigned a distinctive martial spirit to all New Zealanders. A “Progress Narrative” attributed New Zealand’s rapid development to the exceptional talents of early British settlers. These tropes were sometimes difficult to sustain within Wellington’s modest urban fabric. They required the city’s symbolic landscape to be augmented with simulated Maori spaces and mass displays of “human architecture” performed by soldiers and school children. Furthermore, during the course of the three visits, the principal setting for the “Progress Narrative” shifted from central Wellington to a proletarian Garden Suburb where New Zealand’s putative advantages over Britain were more evident.

Este trabajo aborda el arte efímero generado por las visitas reales a Pamplona en la se-gunda mitad del siglo XIX y primeras décadas del XX, contextualizándolo en las coordenadas espaciotemporales en las que surge y a las que en absoluto resulta ajeno. Tras señalar las pautas generales a las que se acomoda el arte efímero pamplonés, se analizan aquellos ejemplos que nos permiten profundizar en su uso y función y extraer conclusiones válidas a distintos niveles, desde el meramente ornamental, hasta el simbólico e ideológico. A todo ello se sumarán cuestiones de naturaleza tipológica e iconográfica, así como aquellas relacionadas con el alquiler, venta y reutilización del arte efímero; y también tendrán cabida en nuestro estudio las voces críticas que, al despuntar el siglo XX, se alzaron en contra de la construcción de aparatos, cuestionando su validez estética y como ornato urbano. Con ello pretendemos contribuir al mejor conocimiento de esta manifestación artística que atravesó un nuevo período de esplendor en la España de la transición de los siglos XIX al XX This paper analyzes the ephemeral art created on the occasion of royal visits to Pamplona in the second half of the 19th and early decades of the 20th century, contextualizing in the space-time coordinates in which it arises and that is foreign at all. Noting the general guidelines that will ac-commodate the ephemeral art in Pamplona, we look at those examples that allow us to deepen their use and function, and draw valid conclusions at different leves, from the purely ornamental, to the symbolic and ideological. To this is added typological and iconographic issues, as well as those related to the rental, sale and reuse of ephemeral art; and are also present in our study the critical voices that, at the beginning of the 20th century, rose against the construction of these temporary architectures, questioning their aesthetic qualilities for urban decoration. Our aim is to contribuye to better understanding of this artistic expresión that went through a period of extraordinary splen-dor in Spain in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century.

El 23 de septiembre de 1862 Su Majestad la Reina Isabel II acudió a las Ruinas de Itálica. Lo hizo para ver las excavaciones que se efectuaban en el Anfiteatro. Para recordar y conmemorar el acto, las distintas instituciones organizadoras acordaron colocar una lápida de mármol. Tras el triunfo de “La Revolución Gloriosa”, el día 13 de octubre de 1868, el Ayuntamiento Provisional Revolucionario de Sevilla ordenó a la Comisión de Monumentos retirarla. En este artículo se describen las varias vicisitudes que acompañaron a esta lápida hasta su recuperación y colocación actual. También se tratan las vivencias de otras modernas placas conmemorativas que existen en el actual Conjunto Arqueológico de Itálica. On September 23rd 1862, Her Majesty Queen Isabella II visited the Ruins of Italica. The reason of her visit was to see the excavations being carried out in the amphitheatre. To commemorate the event, the various organizing institutions decided to place a marble plaque. After the victory of the “Glorious Revolution”, on October 13th 1868, the Provisional Revolutionary Seville City Council ordered the removal of this plaque by the Monuments Commission. This article describes the various vicissitudes that surrounded this plaque until its recovery and current location. We also deal with the histories of other modern commemorative plaques that currently exist at the archaeological site of Italica.

El 23 de septiembre de 1862 Su Majestad la Reina Isabel II acudió a las Ruinas de Itálica. Lo hizo para ver las excavaciones que se efectuaban en el Anfiteatro. Para recordar y conmemorar el acto, las distintas instituciones organizadoras acordaron colocar una lápida de mármol. Tras el triunfo de “La Revolución Gloriosa”, el día 13 de octubre de 1868, el Ayuntamiento Provisional Revolucionario de Sevilla ordenó a la Comisión de Monumentos retirarla. En este artículo se describen las varias vicisitudes que acompañaron a esta lápida hasta su recuperación y colocación actual. También se tratan las vivencias de otras modernas placas conmemorativas que existen en el actual Conjunto Arqueológico de Itálica. On September 23rd 1862, Her Majesty Queen Isabella II visited the Ruins of Italica. The reason of her visit was to see the excavations being carried out in the amphitheatre. To commemorate the event, the various organizing institutions decided to place a marble plaque. After the victory of the “Glorious Revolution”, on October 13th 1868, the Provisional Revolutionary Seville City Council ordered the removal of this plaque by the Monuments Commission. This article describes the various vicissitudes that surrounded this plaque until its recovery and current location. We also deal with the histories of other modern commemorative plaques that currently exist at the archaeological site of Italica.

During his visit to Yallourn in November 1945, the Duke of Gloucester inspects a guard of honour formed by RSL members in front of the post office.

A large crowd of people, including a scout troop, shelter from the rain while waiting around Monash Square in Yallourn for the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester on 26 November 1945.

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