Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III

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) sought to understand the day-to-day lives of six women on the home front during the Second World War. Lucy Curzon is Associate Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art History at the University of Alabama, USA. She is the author of Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain (2017), which was awarded the 2018 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800. 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).

Introduction
Part One - Documenting the Coronation
1. Pre-Coronation Activities
2. The ‘Big’ Weekend
3. Coronation
Part Two – Reflections
4. Mass Observation Panel and Mobile Investigators’ Observations
5. Media: Continuity and Change
6. Coronation and its Meaning
Bibliography
Index