Long to Reign over Us... Memories of Coronation Day and of Life in the 1950s

by Kenneth McLeish, Valerie McLeish (Editor)

A collection of stories and souvenirs from all over Britain, from those who were actually in Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day to those who crowded into the sitting-rooms of the country's few television owners. The book's main theme is that in a very real sense the post-war period began with Coronation Day - the pageantry and the ceremonial, the parades and the bands, occasioned a patriotic fervour that many would not forget.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish was a British writer, playwright and translator. McLeish, "the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain", translated all the surviving classical Greek plays, most plays by Henrik Ibsen and Georges Feydeau, and individual plays by Plautus, Molière, Alfred Jarry, August Strindberg, Ödön von Horváth and Eugène Labiche.