An invited paper was given to the Royal Overseas League at ANZAC House on 26 May, 2014, on “The Arts of Peace and the 1953 Coronation: Creating a new, modern and free Commonwealth”, discussing some of the findings from Katherine Firth’s doctoral thesis, recently published in the Finzi Journal. 

Discussed were A Garland for the Queen and, in passing, the Choral dances from Benjamin Britten’s opera, Gloriana.