Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Twitter: British Monarchy
This has got to be historic. Twitter: British Monarchy has the official Twitter stream for the British Monarchy, featuring news and updates about Royal events.
If only King John had had Twitter. Maybe good PR would have prevented the Magna Carta...
All credit to the monarchy for making the most of new media.
However I have to say I find it a pity that whoever makes these kinds of decisions still thinks it's a good idea to refer to the monarchy as the "British" Monarchy on these kind of international online profiles. You would think if they were serious about maintaining a monarchy shared by sixteen different nations, they would realise the Queen needs to be seen as equally the Queen of Canada etc as of Britain, instead of treating these places as barely-remembered afterthoughts.
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All credit to the monarchy for making the most of new media.
However I have to say I find it a pity that whoever makes these kinds of decisions still thinks it's a good idea to refer to the monarchy as the "British" Monarchy on these kind of international online profiles. You would think if they were serious about maintaining a monarchy shared by sixteen different nations, they would realise the Queen needs to be seen as equally the Queen of Canada etc as of Britain, instead of treating these places as barely-remembered afterthoughts.
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