Happiness in a Northern Town ( ISBN: 978-1-861776-29-7)
Edited by Sandie McHugh and Jerome Carson, University of Bolton
We all aspire to happiness, but happiness in Bolton?
In the 1930s, the Mass Observation Happiness Project researched Bolton (anonymised as Worktown). Stil avilable, the paper from this exercise provide a vivid insight into joys and disappointments of ordinary people at that time.
This book looks at how the dramatic changes since then have affected the aspirations of Boltonians and their perception of the good life. Suggestions on the way forward for the experience of happiness round off the book.
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Contents
Preface Professor Sir Cary Cooper • Worktown, past , present and future Sandie McHugh & Jerome Carson • The role of leisure in happiness Robert Snape • Perceptions of happiness in three women’s groups in Bolton: A qualitative study Kathryn Thomasson, Sandie McHugh and Jerome Carson • Happiness through enabling others Julie Levy • Fitness and happiness Ken Heathcote • Happiness and freedom from alcohol addiction Jerome Carson and Paul Makin • Faith and happiness Mohammed Sadiq, Aishath Shahama, and Aashiya Patel • Forgiveness and happiness Reginald Amanze • Happiness, music and the occasional creative Chris Elliot and Kathryn Thomasson • A bit of grim makes us great up North Elisabeth Long • Happiness and wellbeing in high schools: The Hummingbird Project Ian Platt, Chathurika Kannangara, Michelle Tytherleigh, Sarah Banks and Jerome Carson • Happiness: Is there really a north-south divide? Jerome Carson, Sandie McHugh, Rosie Allen and Julie Prescott • Voices from the past: A qualitative investigation of letters on happiness from 1930’s Bolton Sandie McHugh, Julie Prescott and Jerome Carson
The Editors
Sandie McHugh is an honorary research fellow at the University of Bolton. Sandie has two Masters Degrees and an MPhil. She is both a historian and a psychologist. Her early research at the University of Bolton was with Professor Rob Ranyard on economic psychology. Since 2013 she has been conducting happiness ... read more
Jerome Carson
Dr Jerome Carson BA(Hons), MSc, PhD, C.Psychol. is Professor of Psychology at the University of Bolton, and a clinical psychologist holding posts at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He has been running self-esteem workshops since 1996 for health and social
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