Special Edition: The Stone of Destiny and the Crowning of Kings

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During his coronation ceremony Charles III will sit on a chair built by Edward I over 725 years ago to house the Stone of Destiny (also called the Stone of Scone) that he had recently stolen from the Scots. Tune in today to learn more about the Stone of Destiny, where it comes from, and why it mattered so much that a bunch of students from Glasgow bothered to steal it in 1950.

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Further Reading

D.J. Breeze, T. Clanchy, and R. Welander, eds. The Stone of Destiny: Artefact and Icon. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 22. (2003).
 
D.H. Ferris, “The Truth About the Stone of Scone.” The Dalhousie Review (1952): 201-209.
 
Ian Hamilton, No Stone Unturned: The Story of the Stone of Destiny, Funk & Wagnalls, (1953).
 
A. Marchant, “Romancing the Stone: Emotion and the Affective History of the Stone of Scone,” in Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions Through History, edited by S. Downes, S. Holloway and S. Randles,  Oxford University Press, (2018): 192-208. 
 
Warwick Rodwell, The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone: History, Archaeology and Conservation, Oxbow Books, (2013).

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)