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May brings news of exciting summer events and activities as we look forward to the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and Queen Consort.

We have also announced our special Coronation events – everything from the Coronation Exhibition and Afternoon Tea to Wednesday Late opening!

Read on to find out what else is happening at Westminster Abbey in the month ahead. We look forward to welcoming you soon.

Broadcaster Diane Louise Jordan, of Blue Peter, is delighted to announce that the oral history and digital storytelling project, The Making of Black Britain (MOBB) will be working in partnership with London Transport Museum for a series of exciting events in 2023.

Diane Louise Jordan at London Transport Museum, 2023 © London Transport Museum

The brainchild of Diane Louise Jordan, MOBB  is a mass collection of stories from all over the United Kingdom exploring what it means to be British; a uniquely British story about nationality, citizenship, identity and belonging, with the ambition of being the UK’s biggest ever audio and digital gathering exercise. At the heart of MOBB’s mission is the creation of an oral history archive, which documents the transformation of mainland Britain (or the British metropole) from the start of mass migration from Commonwealth nations post war. It takes the British Nationality Act of 1948 as its anchor point, which recognised Commonwealth subjects as British citizens and recognised their right to work and reside in the UK on an equal status to other British residents.