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Reflections on British Royalty: Mass-Observation and the Monarchy, 1937–2022 by Jennifer J. Purcell 9781350107137

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In this original volume, Jennifer J. Purcell and Fiona Courage curate and contextualize the rich archival materials of social research organisation Mass-Observation on the British popular imagination of the monarchy and the royal family between 1937 and 2022. From the coronation of George VI in 1937 to Elizabeth II's death - via war, weddings, a jubilee and a tragedy - this book incorporates everything from diaries and detailed responses to questionnaires, internal organisational documents and published reports on popular attitudes to royalty in order to reveal the complex nature of Britain's relationship with its monarchy in the modern era. How does the British public imagine the monarchy and its role in British society and governance? What is the relationship between the British people and the Crown? Using material from Mass-Observation, which has been asking these questions for over 80 years, Reflections on British Royalty gets to the heart of these issues and more besides.

A comprehensive exploration of British society's views on and relationship with the monarchy and royal family since 1937.

About the Author
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 Mass-Observation: Text, Context and Analysis of the Pioneering Pamphlet and Movement (Bloomsbury, 2023). Fiona Courage is Deputy University Librarian and Director 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).


Book Information
ISBN 9781350107137
Author Jennifer J. Purcell
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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