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Dear All,
Just to remind you that Mass Observation's 70th anniversary conference is
coming up soon:
CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF MASS OBSERVATION
FROM THE 1930s TO THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
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Conference at the University of Sussex, 11 May
ALL WELCOME
Registration details and the programme are on our website
at www.massobs.org.uk
10.00 Registration and coffee/tea
10.30 Welcome Dorothy Sheridan, Director, Mass Observation Archive
10.35 Opening address Lord Briggs, Patron of the Mass Observation Archive
10.45 Research outside the walls - Mass Observation over the years
Professor Ruth Finnegan FBA (Open University) Trustee of the Mass
Observation Archive
11.00 Mass Observation goes to war Juliet Gardiner, Author and Honorary
Research Professor Middlesex University
11.20 Facts and fictions: Mass Observation as a fictional resource
Margaret Drabble, novelist and editor
11.40 Publishing and broadcasting Nella Last Richard Broad, co-editor of
Nella Last's War and formerly Director/Producer with Thames TV
12.00 Questions and discussion
12.30 LUNCH and a chance to look around the market place
2.15 Britain's First Sex Survey: "Little Kinsey" Steve Humphries,
Director, Testimony Films and Dr Hear Cook, Historian, University
of Birmingham
2.45 Any Questions? Panel discussion with the audience chaired by
Professor Alistair Thomson, University of Sussex and Trustee of
the Mass Observation Archive
Panel members to include: Professor James Hinton (University of Warwick),
Dr Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex), Dr Louise Purbrick (University
of Brighton), Dorothy Sheridan (University of Sussex), Professor Liz
Stanley (University of Edinburgh)
4.00 Rapporteur: Professor Brian Street (King's College London),
Trustee of the Mass Observation Archive
4.15 Tea and coffee
5.00 Closes
Registration details and the programme are on our website
at www.massobs.org.uk
ALSO at Komedia (Brighton) on Thursday 10 May:
Simon Garfield talks about "Our Hidden Lives" (book and BBCTV programme)
See www.komedia.co.uk
AND
On the evening of 11 May , an audience with Victoria Wood
(author and main actor, Housewife 49 shown on ITV in Dec 2006)
at the Brighton Dome (part of the Brighton Festival).
Tickets available from the Dome Box office.
See www.brightonfestival.org/
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