The Honours System
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The Honours System
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Author : Michael De-la-Noy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Honours System written by Michael De-la-Noy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Reference categories.
Honouring A Nation
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Author : Karen Fox
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2022-01-20
Honouring A Nation written by Karen Fox and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-20 with History categories.
The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system’s transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution. From the extension of British honours to colonial Australasia in the nineteenth century, through to Tony Abbott’s revival of knighthoods in the twenty-first, this book explains how the system has worked, traces the arguments of its supporters and critics, and looks both at those who received awards and those who declined them. Honouring a Nation brings to life a long history of debate over honours, including wrangles over State rights, gender imbalances in honours lists, and the emergence and hardening of the Labor/Liberal divide over British awards, illuminating issues that are still part of Australian life—and of the honours system—today. The history of the honours system is equally the history of the nation, revealing who Australians were, what they have become, what they value, and the things that have unified and divided them. ‘National honours are a fraught recognition of merit. They beg many questions: who decides, why some people are recognised, and others ignored. Honours provide a window to the soul of the nation and invite us to consider who we really are and what we value. These are big issues to ponder. Karen Fox provides many of the answers in this timely, lively and important book.’ — Julianne Schultz AM FAHA, Emeritus Professor Media and Culture, Griffith University ‘Give Karen Fox a gong: for distinguished service to Australian culture in recognition of her authoritative yet entertaining account of how a supposedly egalitarian country embraced knighthoods, OAs and other baubles.’ — Richard White, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and author of Inventing Australia ‘Karen Fox has written an intelligent, incisive and intriguing account of how Australians have acknowledged and elevated their fellow citizens, from the founding of the first colony to the present day … a work packed with insights about the ever-shifting determinants of social hierarchy, individual merit and public esteem … a thoroughly stimulating read.’ — Stuart Ward, Head of the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen ‘At last, a definitive account of the Australian honours system, from the First Fleet to 2021. Honours serve as a prism through which to view imperial strategies, federal rivalries and partisan, class-based and gender politics, with many scandals and controversies along the way. Karen Fox has given us a book that is both topical and compelling on evolving national identity and honours as a symbol of exclusion or inclusion.’ — Marian Sawer AO, Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University
The Orders Of Knighthood And The Formation Of The British Honours System 1660 1760
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Author : Antti Matikkala
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2008
The Orders Of Knighthood And The Formation Of The British Honours System 1660 1760 written by Antti Matikkala and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the "middle ages"'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame. This is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the end of George II's reign. It examines the revival of the Order of the Garter and the proposals to establish the Orders of the Royal Oak and the Esquires of the Martyred King at the Restoration, the foundation (1687) and the revival (1703-4) of the Order of the Thistle as well as the foundation of the Order of the Bath (1725). It establishes just how central a part the orders played in the British high political life and its comprehensive and multidimensional approach carefully contrasts the idealistic discourse of virtue and honour to the real workings of the honours system; it also makes the case for the 'Chivalric Enlightenment'. The 'orders over the water', the Garter and the Thistle conferred by the Jacobite claimants, are discussed for the first time in the context of the established British honours system. Overall, the comparison between the socially very restricted British and the increasingly meritocratic Continental orders highlights the isolation of the British honours system from the European tendencies.
From Servants Of The Empire To Everyday Heroes
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Author : Tobias Harper
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-13
From Servants Of The Empire To Everyday Heroes written by Tobias Harper and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with History categories.
In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, or CBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and how did the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it? This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidst democratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest-and most important-components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to it in diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies.
The British Honours System
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Author : John Henry Bruce Bedells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The British Honours System written by John Henry Bruce Bedells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Decorations of honor categories.
Reform Of The Honours System
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Author : Great Britain. Cabinet Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Reform Of The Honours System written by Great Britain. Cabinet Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
This publication contains the Government's responses to the recommendations made in two reports on reforming the honours system (the report of the Public Administration Select Committee: "A matter of honour: reforming the honours system" (HCP 212-I, session 2003-04, ISBN 0215018370) and the review by Sir Hayden Phillips). The contrasting approaches of the two reports is noted, and the Governments states its intention to implement the proposals made by Sir Hayden Phillips as a matter of priority; in particular, that the new honours committee system he recommended will be in place for the 2006 New Years honours list.
A Matter Of Honour
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2004
A Matter Of Honour written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Governmental investigations categories.
The Committee's report considers whether the current honours system (excluding awards for gallantry and those honours which are in the personal gift of the Queen) is the right means of marking service to the community, and options for its reform. The report acknowledges concerns about honours awards to political donors and others who have rendered political services, as well as the lack of transparency in the system, particularly in relation to members of selection committees. Recommendations made to ensure that the honours system is consistent with the principles of sound public administration include: an end to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) award, now considered to be unacceptable as it embodies values no longer shared by many of the country's population; the foundation of a new Order of British Excellence; and reforms to increase the independence of the selection process through the establishment of an Honours Commission and the end of the 'Prime Minister's List' and other ministerial honours lists.
Order Of Canada Second Edition
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Author : Christopher McCreery, MVO
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Order Of Canada Second Edition written by Christopher McCreery, MVO and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with History categories.
The second edition of The Order of Canada continues the celebration of the order. Christopher McCreery sheds new light on the development of Canadian honours in the early 1930s, the imposed prohibition on honours from 1946 to 1967, and new details on those who have been removed or resigned from the Order.
The Queen Has Been Pleased
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Author : John Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Queen Has Been Pleased written by John Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Decorations of honor categories.
A Matter Of Honour
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Matter Of Honour written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Administration Select Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.
matter of Honour : Reforming the honours system, fifth report of session 2003-04, Vol. 2: Written Evidence