Post AVNnOGjsDvre6tlAsC by DamonHD@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AVNj8m5dUh72tTIN9M by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-06T15:01:40Z
       
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       I am a student of history, and the historical significance of UK coronations reaching back more than a 1000 years is impossible to overstate. That said, in a time when so many British people can't even pay their energy bills, the discontinuities of seeing such pageantry are impossible to ignore.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVNjQaVLJ5eYAtoUUa by pjfasano@nova.community
       2023-05-06T15:04:29Z
       
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       @lauren I’d argue that, in the context of the last 1000 years, this is substantially less incongruous than typical.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVNjq43eZ6JR4Z0ggy by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-06T15:09:34Z
       
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       @pjfasano There was still postwar rationing in 1953 there when Elizabeth's coronation took place.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVNnOGjsDvre6tlAsC by DamonHD@mastodon.social
       2023-05-06T15:49:12Z
       
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       @lauren Maybe just maybe some of us in the UK avoided getting involved or even watching it...
       
 (DIR) Post #AVO02ItWpKnZpU8GgK by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-06T18:11:03Z
       
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       @pjfasano Yes, I noted the bonuses that were made available to the standard rations in honor of the coronation, in another post. Rationing ended completely there the next year.