This bibliography has been compiled
as a supplement to the sources listed at the end of my
article on "Royal Visits", which
will be included in the forthcoming Britain and the Americas: Culture,
Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia , edited by
Will Kaufman, to be published by ABC-Clio Press in February 2005. It consists
of English-language materials published in commemoration of state visits
made by members of the British royal family to destinations in North and
South America and the Caribbean. It is divided into the following categories:
1. Souvenir
books and pamphlets published in commemoration of individual visits
shortly
after the
event. Items listed here are owned by the author, but many more similar
items
exist, since
it is quite likely the royal visits of the Prince of Wales in the 1920s,
King
George VI
and Queen Elizabeth in 1939, and Queen Elizabeth II’s twenty visits to
Canada
would have
inspired numerous locally produced souvenir booklets, comparable to the
ones
in my collection
that were printed in various communities of the Maritime provinces of
Canada for
the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1983. With the advent
of online
new and used
booksellers accessible through the book comparison site AddAll
Books, as
well as online
auction sites like Ebay, it is now far
easier to collect such items than would
have been
the case ten years ago.
2. Primary
sources in the form of first-person accounts, and secondary sources
consisting
of scholarly
books and journal articles written about individual visits, or about the
topic as
a whole,
which analyze the significance of the event(s).
3. Articles
from Majesty and Royalty magazines. I do not think these
publications are indexed
anywhere, and are
seldom owned by libraries, so this information would be extremely hard
to find by other
means. Citations are from copies owned by me, but since I do not own full
runs of these magazines,
this list is undoubtedly lacking some stories from these publications.
Both companies
have back issues for sale, but it is often easier (and cheaper) to purchase
older
issues from the
1980s and 1990s through Ebay.
4. Videos
of documentaries produced by the CBC and BBC about individual tours or
which
include footage
of Canadian tours.
5. Internet sites about royal visits to the Americas.
All items listed are either from
the author’s personal collection or have been borrowed from a
library via interlibrary loan
for the author’s study, with the exception of books published in 1860 and
1861 about the tour by the Prince of Wales, which could not be borrowed
but the existence of which was verified in library catalogs and online
booksellers’ listings. It does not include articles from mass market newspapers
and magazines simply because there are too many stories to be listed here.
If you wish to look for such stories, a visit to a good-sized university
library will enable you to look up articles about older royal visits by
consulting indexes such as
Reader’s Guide
to Periodical Literature, the New
York Times Index, and the Index
to the Times (of London). U.S. university
libraries will also likely have access to Lexis-Nexis,
which is a database that provides access to full-text newspaper articles
from the Americas and the United Kingdom for the past twenty years. It
is particularly useful for finding coverage of events about royal visits
in daily newspapers from larger cities visited by individual members of
the royal family. Newspapers on microfilm from cities honored with earlier
visits can often be obtained via interlibrary loan, but since they are
frequently not indexed, you will need to know the dates you are looking
for to request the appropriately dated reels, and then look through them
to find stories.
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