Robert Aldrich

Biography

Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Sydney. He has written widely on the history of European colonialism and decolonisation, (particularly with regards to the French and British overseas empires), the legacies of colonialism, gay history and the history of modern monarchy. His most recent authored books include Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (2018), The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited (with John Connell) (2020), The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present (with Andreas Stucki) (2023), and a revised edition of Gay Lives (2023). He has also published three volumes co-edited with Cindy McCreery, Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires (2016), Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism (2018) and Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (2020), as well as Global Royal Families: Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (co-edited with Cindy McCreery and Falko Schnicke) (2024). He is currently co-editing a volume in the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Monarchy series.