London Socialist Historians Summer Term Seminars 2023
Monday 15th May 5.30pm Keith Flett: The Coronation. Inventing and Reinventing Royal Traditions.
Free on Zoom
Book at this link: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/coronation-inventing-and-reinventing-royal-traditions
Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger argued that all traditions are invented and the British monarchy have been experts at it for centuries.
This seminar will look at what is real and what is invented in the Coronation of a monarch and grapple with what this means for an understanding of British history beyond patriotic posing
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