Polezhaev was arrested not long after the Decembrist uprising, not for participating in any
antimonarchist conspiracies, or even for his explicitly liberal poetry, but rather for writing Sashka, a ribald parody of Evgenii Onegin, The poet was later canonized by the likes of Alexander Herzen as a "dekabrist bez dekabria." Peschio demonstrates that Polezhaev's text was politically dangerous because its playfulness was in itself subversive.
Play the Sex Pistol's
antimonarchist God Save The Queen at full volume to annoy any royalist neighbours.
Queen Elizabeth II conferred the title of Master of the Queen's Music onto Davies despite his outspoken
antimonarchist views, and correspondingly as an atheist.
He argues that antiGerman pogroms were dangerous to the regime, because they promoted "negative integration." It only took a transference of mass anger from one enemy to another (antidynastic,
antimonarchist) to bring down the regime.
Things looked up, though, when an
antimonarchist lent me a fiver for food and drink.
"[F]rom the later Middle Ages to the French Revolution, the administration of justice on the Continent was dominated by professional adjudicators." (131) The gradual evolution of the English jury "from an institution of customary law to a check on despotism" in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries caused the jury trial right to become "a battle cry in the French Revolution and the
antimonarchist movements on the European Continent that followed." (132) Following the French Revolution, nearly all European countries, with the exception of the Netherlands, introduced some form of trial by jury.
Burks demonstrates how these regicidal historians revived the earlier language and imagery which linked political impositions with the sexual transgressions of the monarch: "These
antimonarchist writers set out to prove that Charles was a tyrant by pointing to the arbitrariness of his will, which they insinuated was not only a will to power, but also a will to pleasure irrational and boundless in its desire" (269).
To this end, Churchill blocked the respected
antimonarchist leader Count Carlo Sforza from becoming prime minister in 1944.
Nepal's ongoing
antimonarchist conflict has claimed more than 11,000 lives in the past nine years.
Achinstein is certainly not unaware that she is talking about a heterogeneous group that contained moderate Presbyterians,
antimonarchist Congregationalists, radical Baptists, and the particularly despised Quakers.
I haven't even heard an
antimonarchist on Newsnight pretend to fight Burrell's corner in the quiet belief he is the best hope republicans have of toppling the House of Windsor.
Born in Vienna in 1755, she married the future king of France at 14, and died at the guillotine in Paris at 37, found guilty by her
antimonarchist enemies of plotting against her adopted country.