Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
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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.
Jennifer J. Purcell is Professor of History at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, USA. Using Mass-Observation diaries and directives, her first book, Domestic Soldiers (2010), seeks to understand the day-to-day lives of six women on the home front during the Second World War. She is also the author of Mother of the BBC: Mabel Constanduros and the Development of Light Entertainment on the BBC, 1925–1957 (Bloomsbury, 2020) and editor of Mass Observation: Text, Context and Analysis of the Pioneering Pamphlet and Movement (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Reflections on British Royalty: Mass Observation and the Monarchy, 1937-2022 (with Fiona Courage; Bloomsbury, 2024). Lucy D. Curzon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Alabama, USA. She is the author of Visual Culture and Mass Observation: Depicting Everyday Lives (2017), which was awarded the Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-authored book with a subject after 1800. With Ben Jones, she co-edited The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation: 1930s to the Present (2025). She has previously published work on contemporary queer portrait painting and photography, British women war artists, the Ashington Group and Humphrey Spender. Fiona Courage is Head of Collections and Academic Services & Curator of the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex, UK. Her publications include ‘Recipes for co-production with children and young people’ in Time, Technology and Documentation in a Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2018; with Liam Berriman and Kate Howland) and ‘Mass Observing Sport’ in Recording Leisure Lives: sports, spectacles and spectators in 20th century Britain (2013; with Jessica Scantlebury).
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: May the 6th: Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III, Jennifer J. Purcell and Lucy D. Curzon with Dorothy Sheridan
Part I
OBSERVATIONS I
1 Tales we tell ourselves: The Endurance of British Monarchy in the Twenty-First Century, Jennifer J. Purcell
Part II
OBSERVATIONS II
2 Visualizing Coronation, Lucy D. Curzon and Jennifer J. Purcell
Part III
OBSERVATIONS III
3 ‘Timid, Bookish, and Unproductive’?: Mass Observation, Monarchy And Academia, Lucy D. Curzon
Part IV
4 Majesty, Magic and Mass-Observation, Martin Francis
5 Charles III’s Royal Body: Some Reflections, Paul R. Deslandes
6 Observing the Coronation from Wales, Nick Hubble
7 Another Coronation, Janet Wolff
8 Rain, Revels and Rebellion: The People’s Coronation 1937 and 2023, Claire Langhamer and Lucy Noakes
9 Royal Families, Lucy D. Curzon
10 Carlos III E Camila: Notes from a very small Island, Catherine Ellis
11 Rumour and the Coronation Ritual, Kimberly Mair
12 ‘Coronation Orgies’ and a ‘Terribly White Balcony’: Emotion and Race in the Coronation of King Charles III, Khaleda Brophy-Harmer
13 ‘Lighting up the Nation’?: Sounding Multicultural Britain and the Commonwealth at the Coronation Concert, Trevor R. Nelson and Christina Baade
OBSERVATIONS IV
Appendix: Spring 2023 MO Directive
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Mass-Observation Critical Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 39 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 280 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781350441774 / 9781350441774 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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