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Williams, Peter Richard. "Public discussion of the British monarchy, 1837-87." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272194.
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Farguson, Julie Anne. "Art, ceremony and the British monarchy, 1689-1714." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e63509b1-425c-4308-bfc7-d991d46aa693.
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This thesis investigates the ceremonial and artistic strategies of the British monarchy in the years following the Glorious Revolution. By adopting a range of methodologies used in the study of visual culture, the thesis considers royal ceremonies as channels for conveying political messages non-verbally. These could affect attitudes to the monarchy, and inform artistic output. By paying particular attention to the way royal participants performed ceremonially in relation to the various formal and informal architectural settings for the court, the thesis highlights the process of seeing as a communicative act. Being alert to the impact of royal ceremonial and artistic activities on contemporary audiences, the thesis also considers the dissemination of royal imagery in England by commercial means. The thesis surveys paintings, prints and medals produced in England, and places the intended audiences at the centre of the analysis. It also pays keen attention to the impact of war on royal image making, and highlights the political context of continental Europe, especially in relation to William’s role as Stadholder-King but also the exiled Stuart court at St Germain near Paris. The evidence presented here supports a number of conclusions. Firstly, war had a profound impact on all aspects of royal image making. Secondly, royal behaviour and involvement in ceremony were vital elements in the visual presentation of monarchy. Kings and queens were of paramount importance, but their consorts were highly significant. Art was also taken seriously by the monarchy and the Crown tightened controls on royal image making during the period in question. The thesis also concludes that the nationalities of the incumbent monarchs and their consorts, along with their previous experiences and personalities, influenced their individual approach to visual representation. These approaches could shift depending on political circumstances and the personal inclinations of the person concerned.
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Kim, Yongmin. "A comparitive study of the British Monarchy and Japanese Emperorship." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489231.
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In modem global politics, having a constitutional monarchy is in the minority and is perhaps in decline. However, Britain and Japan do not follow this trend. Their respective monarchy and Emperorship remain powerful. Although these do not hold political power constitutionally, they maintain a moral influence on their societies. This thesis explores and compares two constitutional monarchies - the UK in the west and Japan in the Far East - to analyse how they have survived long histories. To do this, it uses the methodologies of path dependency and historical institutionalism.
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Green, Malynda F. "Losing the mystique the effects of letting light in on the British monarchy /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2066589741&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Shipton, Frederick David Ronald. "British diplomatic relations with Austria-Hungary and British attitudes to the monarchy in the years 1885-1918." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39631/.
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The present thesis is an investigation into the relations between Great Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria-Hungary) in these years and how, in the words of Lord Rosebery in 1887 'the natural ally of Great Britain' became the enemy power of 1914 that had to be destroyed. Indeed, great emphasis is placed upon the key role that Britain played in the Monarchy's destruction. (one is reminded, en passant, of the poet William Cowper's admonition of 'love to hatred turned.') The first chapter will examine the general views held of the Monarchy by British travellers and commentators in the 19th and early 20th centuries, while Chapter II will focus on the views of the two greatest commentators on the Monarchy in the English-speaking world- theSlavonic scholar, Robert Seton-Watson and The Times Vienna correspondent, Henry Wickham Steed. Chapter III will deal with a general survey of Anglo-Austrian relations from the 1880's to the crisis years of 1908-9, involving the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which the subsequent chapter (IV) will examine in detail. Chapter V will look at the following years leading up to the First Worls War with particular reference to the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. Chapter VI (parts 1 and 2) will examine the July crisis and the actual outbreak of war and the attitude of people, press and parliament vis-à-vis the Monarchy when the two countries came to blows the following month in August, while the final Chapter VII will stress the important part that Britain subsequently played in Austria-Hungary's overthrow. In particular great significance will be attached to Sir Edward Grey's failure in the years preceding the First World War to act as an 'honest broker' between the two great rival alliance systems of France and Russia and Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy, and the willingness to accommodate Russia at Austria's expense. This led, it will be argued, to Germany effectively waging, initially, 'a preventve war' before her only real ally either disintegrated internally or was overthrown from without, hopelessly encircled as she was. (The very scenario that Grey claimed he feared the most actually happened largely through his failure to help Austria- the weakest link in the European alliance chain. The fact that the Foregn Office Memorandum of 1916 could argue 'that the Austro-Hungarian Empire must come to an end if the causes of war in the future are to be effectively removed' was, it is argued, merely putting a gloss on an anti-Austrian British Realpolitik formulated in the years before the war broke out, even if not openly acknowledged as such.
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Hilton, Austin W. B. "King Fred: How the British King Who Never Was Shaped the Modern Monarchy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3064.
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This thesis examines the British monarchy in the eighteenth century and how the philosophy of Frederick, Prince of Wales, helped to shape that monarchy. The early Hanoverians were seen with contempt by many of their subjects, often being ridiculed as ignorant outsiders. They helped matters none by their indifference to Britain, its people, or its culture. Prince Frederick, George II’s eldest son, however, changed all of this. His philosophy on kingship, influenced by Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke’s work, The Patriot King, helped to change the perception of the Hanoverian dynasty. When Prince Frederick died in 1751 before he could take the throne, it was left up to his son, Prince George, to carry out Frederick’s vision. As George III, he fulfilled the philosophy and became the embodiment of the patriot king. This resulted in a surge in popularity for the Hanoverians, solidifying their place on the British throne.
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Anderson, Alexandra Marie. "Writing the history of the English monarchy : Franco-British historiographical cultures, 1688-1788." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20956/.
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This thesis examines the historiographical cultures of the period of 1688-1788 through an exploration of French historical accounts of English history. At its centre are the French historians Paul de Rapin-Thoyras (1661-1725), Abbé Millot (1726-1785), and Abbé Raynal (1713-1726), whose works were translated into English and published and circulated widely in Britain. The thesis discusses these and other French historians of English history as well as several British historians of English and French history. Through a series of comparative readings, this study illuminates the shared historiographical practices of Britain and France. It is particularly concerned with how historians wrote in the grand manner about English monarchs, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the execution of Charles I in 1649. These historians wrote in a neoclassical manner by organising their texts around the lives of key historical figures and presenting them as models of behaviour, using ideas of virtue and vice. This thesis argues that while French historians looked back to the neoclassical mode, they employed it to connect with a British audience by reflecting on contemporary ideals of politics, gender norms, and moral virtues. In the comparative study of these historical texts, this thesis provides new evidence of French and British historiographical cultures in the eighteenth century through its exploration of the exchange of neoclassical historiographical practices across the channel.
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Edwards, Peter. "British and Austro-Hungarian diplomatic reporting of the problems facing the Russian monarchy, 1894-1914." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403586.
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Mirecka, Martyna. ""Monarchy as it should be"? : British perceptions of Poland-Lithuania in the long seventeenth century." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6044.
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Early modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religious and political situation. This interest in Poland-Lithuania was shared by many Britons. However, a detailed examination of how Britons perceived Poland-Lithuania at that time and how they treated Poland-Lithuania in their political debates has never been undertaken. This thesis utilises a wide range of the previously neglected source material and considers the patterns of transmission of information to determine Britons' awareness of Poland-Lithuania and their employment of the Polish-Lithuanian example in the British political discourse during the seventeenth century. It looks at a variety of geographical and historical information, English and Latin descriptions of Poland-Lithuania's physical topography and boundaries, and its ethnic and cultural make-up presented in histories, atlases and maps, to establish what, where and who Poland-Lithuania was for Britons. Poland-Lithuania's political framework, with its composite structure and unique relationship between the crown and nobility, elicited a spectrum of reactions, and so this thesis evaluates the role that both criticism and praise of Poland-Lithuania played in British constitutional debates. Consequently, the study argues that Britons' perceptions of Poland-Lithuania were characterised by great plasticity. It claims that Britons' impressions of the country were shaped by multiple – real or imagined - borders, whether cultural, economic or political, but also that Britons were affected by the exposure to a uniform, idealised historiography of this country. Crucially, the thesis asserts that references to Poland-Lithuania constituted an ingenious ideological and polemical device that was eagerly used throughout the period by Britons of diverse political sympathies. Moreover, through the examination of the kingdom's geopolitical role, particularly its fluctuating position as a “bulwark of Christendom”, side by side its engagement against Protestants, the thesis challenges the assumption that anti-Catholicism dominated seventeenth-century British perceptions of the world.
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Kelly, Margaret Rose Louise Leckie. "King and Crown an examination of the legal foundation of the British king /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/71499.
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"27 October 1998"Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of Law, 1999.
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Thesis -- Appendices.
'The Crown' has been described as a 'term of art' in constitutional law. This is more than misleading, obscuring the pivotal legal position of the king, which in modern times has been conveniently ignored by lawyers and politicians alike. -- This work examines the legal processes by which a king is made, tracing those processes from the earliest times to the present day. It concludes that the king is made by the selection and recognition by the people, his taking of the Oath of Governance, and his subsequent anointing. (The religious aspects of the making of the king, though of considerable legal significance, are not examined herein, because of space constraints.) -- The Oath of Governance is conventionally called the 'Coronation Oath'-which terminology, while correctly categorising the Oath by reference to the occasion on which it is usually taken, has led by subliminal implication to an erroneous conclusion by many modern commentators that the Oath is merely ceremonial. -- This work highlights the legal implications of the king's Oath of Governance throughout history, particularly in times of political unrest, and concludes that the Oath legally :- conveys power from the people to the person about to become king (the willingness of the people so to confer the power having been evidenced in their collective recognition of that person); - bestows all the prerogatives of the office of king upon that person; - enshrines the manner in which those prerogatives are to be exercised by the king in his people(s)' governance; and that therefore the Oath of Governance is the foundation of the British Constitution. -- All power and prerogative lie with the king, who as a result of his Oath of Governance is sworn to maintain the peace and protection of his people(s), and the king can not, in conscience or law, either do, or allow, anything that is in opposition to the terms of that Oath.
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Alburaas, Theyab M. "The Anglo-Iraqi Relationship Between 1945 and 1948." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9802/.
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This paper discuses the British Labour government's social, economic and military policies in Iraq between 1945 and 1948. The ability of the Iraqi monarchy to adapt to the British policies after World War II is discussed. The British were trying to put more social justice into the Iraqi regime in order to keep British influence and to increase the Iraqi regime's stability against the Arab nationalist movement.
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Ahn, Doohwan. "British strategy, economic discourse, & The Idea of a Patriot King, 1702-1738." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283894.
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Silva, Renato de Almeida Vieira e. "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN O IMAGINÁRIO DA REALEZA BRITÂNICA NAS NARRATIVAS TELEJORNALÍSTICAS CONTEMPORÂNEAS." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2014. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/698.
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Previous issue date: 2014-09-03This research seeks to highlight and analyze the construction of symbolic representations, imaginary and media of the British monarchy the narratives in contemporary Brazilian TV journalism, present in their rituals and ceremonial events, making them media events relevant in the programming of the highest-rated stations in the country and recurring theme on the agenda of the media surveyed. Analyses the mythical and symbolic dimension of building their representations, which, to be played and displayed on television, you get greater range and communicational media along the different local cultures, in broad global spectrum. To this end, combines a historical and bibliographical research with an empirical research focused on the analysis of telenews narratives, present in the Globe and Record network between 2010 and 2013. It was defined in the images and telenews narratives corpus of is research, by its scope and distribution, as well as reference
Esta pesquisa busca evidenciar e analisar a construção das representações simbólicas, imaginárias e midiáticas da monarquia britânica contemporânea nas narrativas do telejornalismo brasileiro, presentes na exibição de seus eventos rituais e cerimoniais, tornando-os acontecimentos midiáticos relevantes na programação das emissoras de maior audiência do país e tema recorrente na pauta dos meios de comunicação pesquisados. Analisa a dimensão mítica e simbólica da construção de suas representações, as quais, ao serem reproduzidas e exibidas pela televisão, ganham maior alcance comunicacional e midiático junto às diferentes culturas locais, no amplo espectro global. Para tanto, combina uma pesquisa bibliográfica e histórica com uma pesquisa empírica voltada à análise de narrativas telejornalísticas, presentes nas emissoras Globo e Record entre 2010 e 2013. Definiu-se nas imagens e narrativas telejornalísticas o corpus dessa pesquisa, por seu alcance e distribuição, além de referência, audiência e preferência popular entre os diversos veículos de comunicação no Brasil e no mundo.
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Neal, Hackler. "Stuart Debauchery in Restoration Satire." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32444.
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The Restoration Era, 1660-1688, has long borne a reputation as an exceptionally debauched period of English history. That reputation is however a caricature, amplified from a handful of recognizable features. That rhetoric of debauchery originates in the Restoration’s own discourse, constructed as a language for opposing the rising French-style absolutism of the late Stuart kings, Charles II and James II. When Charles II was restored in 1660, enthusiastic panegyrists returned to the official aesthetics of his father Charles I, who had formulated power as abundance through pastoral, mythological, and utopian art. Oppositional satirists in the Restoration subverted that language of cornucopian abundance to represent Charles II and his court as instead excessive, diseased, and predatory. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9, Williamite satirists and secret historians continued to wield these themes against the exiled Jacobites. Gradually, the political facets of Stuart excess dulled, but the caricature of the debauched Restoration survived in eighteenth-century state poem collections and historiography. The authors most emphasized in this study are John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and Andrew Marvell. Works by John Milton, John Dryden, Edmund Waller, King Charles I, and Gilbert Burnet also receive sustained attention.
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Kallemeyn, Rebecca. "ESCAPIST CATHARSIS: REPRESENTATION, OBJECTIFICATION, AND PARODY ON THE PANTOMIME STAGE." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211920375.
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Griffin, Megan E. "Fictions of Sovereignty: Temporal Displacements of the Monarch in Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1536582989855847.
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Rotaru, Marina-Cristiana. "British and Romanian constitutional monarchies and their representations in the royal discourse of queen Elizabeth II and king Mihai I." Lorient, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORIL308.
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Cette thèse suit l’évolution de la monarchie constitutionnelle de Grande-Bretagne et de Roumanie et analyse la manière dont l’institution est représentée dans le discours royal de la Reine Elisabeth II et du Roi Mihai I. Pour la Grande-Bretagne l’accent est mis sur la limitation du pouvoir monarchique en faveur du Parlement et sur la cristallisation du concept de pouvoir comme „influence” du monarque. Une attention particulière est donnée au rôle constitutionnel du sovereign dans la vision de Walter Bagehot. Mon analyse de la monarchie constitutionnelle roumaine couvre la période 1859-1947, à partir de la première union des Principautés Roumains jusqu’à l’abdication forcée du Roi Mihai. Dans ma démarche j’ai essayé de souligner une chose: bien que les institutions politiques roumaines ressemblent aux occidentales, prises comme modèle, on ne peut pas parler de juxtaposition parfaite parce que les modèles étrangers sont adaptés à une réalité spécifique roumaine. Un accent particulier est mis sur l’image du Roi Michel avant et après 1989. Les différentes tentatives du Roi Mihai de se retourner en Roumanie et les efforts des autorités roumaines de l’êmpecher prouvent l’effet profond sur la mentalité roumaine des décades de communisme où l’histoire a été falsifiée et l’image de la famille royale a été manipulée méthodiquement. Mon analyse des concepts de “discours” (compris comme “représentation”) et de “style” (compris comme “manière d’être”) se propose d’indiquer comment les deux monarques se voient comme représentents majeures de leurs pays et comment leurs identités sont construites tenant compte de la conduite constitutionnelle qu’on attend d’euxThis thesis follows the development of the constitutional monarchy in Great Britain and Romania and analyses how the institution is represented in the royal discourse of Queen Elizabeth II and King Mihai I. As far as Great Britain is concerned, my focus is on the limitation of royal power in favor of Parliament and on the crystallization of the concept of “power” as “influence of the monarch”. Particular attention is given to the sovereign’s constitutional role in Walter Bagehot’s interpretation. My analysis of the Romanian constitutional monarchy is circumscribed to the period from 1859, the year of the first union of the Romanian Principalities until the forced abdication of King Mihai in 1947. In my approach, I have tried to underline that although many Romanian political institutions were molded after the Western ones, there is not perfect overlapping because the foreign models had to be adapted to the Romanian realities. The image of King Mihai before 1989 and afterwards is given particular focus. King Mihai’s several attempts to return home and the efforts of the Romanian authorities to ban his access prove the strong effect on the Romanian mentality of decades of communism during which a methodical falsification of history and a manipulation of the image of the royal family have been taking place. My analysis of the concepts of “discourse” (as ways of representing) and “style” (as ways of being) is aimed at indicating how the two monarchs see themselves as leading representatives of their countries and how their identities are constructed taking into consideration the constitutional propriety expected from a constitutional monarch
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Pépin, Guilhem. "The relationship between the kings of England and their role as dukes of Aquitaine and their Gascon subjects : forms, processes and substance of a dialogue (1275-1453)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670166.
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Roussell, Maggie E. "Rebels with a Cause: How Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare Subversively Challenge the Monarchy's Source of Power and Other Societal Norms of Early Modern England." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2356.
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This thesis examines the ways that Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare use their history plays to subvert the ideals of early modern England. Writing plays about historical events gave the playwrights freedom to depict certain things on stage that would have otherwise been unacceptable, and because they had history as their source, they could show events that were parallel to the current happenings in England and make commentary on those events.
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Krueger, Misty Sabrina. ""The last dear drop of blood" revenge in restoration tragic drama /." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/719.
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Harvey, Jillian Elizabeth. "Holocene glacier activity in the central British Columbia Coast Mountains." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3473.
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The intent of the research described in this thesis was to reconstruct and document Holocene glacier activity in the central British Columbia Coast Mountains. Despite ongoing efforts to describe glacier fluctuations in the southern and northern Coast Mountains, only limited attention has been directed to revealing the Holocene histories of glaciers in the central Coast Mountain region. The goals of this research were twofold: firstly, to describe mid-Holocene glacier advances at five remote glacier sites in the central Coast Mountains, and secondly, to detail Little Ice Age (LIA) glacier fluctuations at four glacier sites in the central Coast Mountains.
The mid-Holocene behaviour of Canoe, Fyles, Jacobsen, Tchaikazan and Icemaker glaciers was investigated using dendroglaciological techniques and stratigraphic analysis. Subfossil wood evidence suggests these glaciers were expanding into standing forests prior to 6.63, 4.90 and 4.20 ka. Stratigraphically constrained woody detritus at Fyles Glacier records the progradational history of a Gilbert-type delta forming in response to glacial expansion between 7.02-5.47 ka. Glacial expansion occurring between 7.50-4.00 ka has regional correlatives, suggesting coherent broad-scale climate forcing mechanisms influenced glacial mass balance at this time.
Insight into the LIA behaviour of central Coast Mountain glaciers was provided by conducting lichenometric surveys of Rhizocarpon spp. across LIA moraines at Pattullo, Fyles, Deer Lake and Jacobsen glaciers. The presence of a second, lesser known, lichen species at some sites necessitated the construction of a Xanthoria elegans growth curve. An assessment of lichenometric measurements from the southern and central Coast Mountains provided the opportunity to build a X. elegans growth curve constrained by 18 control points. Lichenometric surveys revealed dominant moraine building episodes at 890-1020, 1280-1320, 1490-1530, 1680-1720, 1780 and 1820-1870 AD, highlighting the complex nature of glacier fluctuations during the LIA.
A regional subalpine fir tree-ring chronology (1610-2010 AD) was developed from four stands located in the central Coast Mountains for dendroclimatological investigations. Correlation analyses show that the radial growth of trees corresponded to variations in the mean June/July air temperature and May 1st snowpack. This relationship was used to reconstruct these climate parameters for the duration of the tree-ring record. Intervals of cooler summer air temperatures and above average snowpack were found to broadly correspond with dominant periods of LIA moraine building from 1610-1930 AD.
This reconstruction of mid-Holocene and LIA glacial history offered insights consistent with the emerging record of glacial activity described for the southern Coast Mountain glaciers. It also provides the first evidence for mid-Holocene glacial expansion in the central and northern Coast Mountains. The application of lichenometry in the central Coast Mountains documents the regional LIA behaviour of glaciers and the construction of a Xanthoria elegans growth curve for the Coast Mountains provides a framework for future geobotanical dating using this species.Graduate