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Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III: Monarchy, Spectacle and Experience

by Jennifer J. Purcell

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A Coronation Seen Through Everyday Observation

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A Coronation Seen Through Everyday Observation

This edited volume brings together Mass Observers’ accounts of the May 2023 coronation weekend, including mobile observers’ reports and photographs, panelists’ pre-coronation writing, and diaries recorded on the day. Its subject is both the public event and the ways people think about and engage with contemporary monarchy. By returning to the Mass-Observation project’s 1937 coronation publication, the book places the 2023 ceremony alongside an earlier record, tracing continuities and changes in social and cultural life. The material also covers the ceremony’s traditions and newer events such as the Big Help Out, making the coronation a point of entry into broader questions about public experience and British culture.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the 2023 coronation and contemporary British monarchy.
  • Those drawn to social and cultural history told through first-hand accounts, diaries, and photographs.
  • Readers studying Mass Observation or comparisons between the 1937 and 2023 coronations.

Themes

Contemporary monarchyMass Observation and everyday experienceCoronation traditions and changeBritish social and cultural history

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Book overview

Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III examines the activities and opinions of Mass Observers who experienced the first British coronation in 70 years, as well as the findings of Mass Observation investigators in several locations in the UK (including London) during the May 6th 2023 coronation weekend.

Reports and photographs by mobile observers, as well as MO panelists' pre-coronation writings and day diaries for May 6th demonstrate the ways in which people think about and engage with contemporary monarchy in practice and concept. Following in the footsteps of the original 1937 Mass-Observation coronation publication, Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III also charts social and cultural continuity and change over time, including the traditions of the ceremony itself and new events such as the Big Help Out.

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