Papers from ‘Courts and Capitals 1815-1914’ series published

Vol. 11, No. 1 (July 2006) - Munich, Paris, Vienna, London
Papers given at the first joint Society for Court Studies / Victorian Society conference on Courts and Capitals, 1815-1914, held at the Wallace Collection on 1 October 2005.

David Watkin
The Transformation of Munich by Maximilian I Joseph and Ludwig I

Philip Mansel
Paris, Court City of the Nineteenth Century

Alan Sked
Franz Joseph and the Creation of the Ringstrasse

Steven Brindle
Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial, 1901-14

Vol. 13, No. 1 (June 2008) - Petrópolis, Budapest, Rome, Berlin, Sofia
Papers given at the second joint Society for Court Studies / Victorian Society conference on Courts and Capitals, 1815-1914, held at the Wallace Collection on 29 September 2007.

Roderick J Barman
Imperial Cities and Seasonal Residences: Petrópolis, Summer Capital of Brazil (1843-1889), and its European Counterparts

Gavin Stamp
Budapest 1867-1914: A Dual Capital for the Dual Monarchy

Terry Kirk
The Image of King Vittorio Emanuele II and the Remaking of Rome

Giles MacDonogh
‘Nothing Is Too Colossal, Nothing Too Expensive': Berlin under Emperor William II

John Hamilton
False Starts and Failed Hopes: The Rise and Fall of Royal Sofia 1878 - 1946

Vol. 15, No. 1 (June 2010) - Tehran, Athens, Dresden, Madrid, Bucharest
Articles based on papers given at the third joint Society for Court Studies / Victorian Society conference on Courts and Capitals, 1815-1914, held at the Art Workers' Guild, London WC1 on 7 November 2009.

David Blow
From Islamic Small Town to Westernised Metropolis: The Development of Tehran under the Qajars and the Pahlavis

George Vassiadis
Athens: The Creation of a Royal Capital, 1834-1914

Giles MacDonogh
The Slow Death of Royal Dresden

Juan F. Remón Menéndez
Madrid from the Ancien Regime to the Bourgeois Restoration: The Parque Del Oeste and the Augmentation of the Capital

John Villiers
‘It is the sovereign who makes the palace, as a stone in a field may become an altar': Bucharest under Carol I and the building of Peleş

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