What are you doing for the Coronation? I mean you. Of course we know we all get a public holiday and there will be commemorative mugs and other china and (if there is still some sort of postal service running) stamps. But... parishes, schools, youth groups, various organisations...what will be happening?
At the last Coronation, there was a lot to celebrate. A radiant young sovereign, a sense that a rightful victory had been obtained at great sacrifice in war, and a nation conscious of its heritage and history. Anyone over 40 had been brought up by parents raised in Queen Victoria's reign. Britain's achievements were recognised and understood, from Brunel's engineering to Florence Nightingale's creation of the modern nursing profession, and were seen as belonging not just to the named individuals but to the nation. People thought of the country as a "we" and an "us."
