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Dear Jiscmailers,
We are very pleased to report that two important publications using material from the Mass Observation Archive are about to be released:
MASS OBSERVATION ONLINE UPDATE III
Our colleagues at Adam Matthews Digital have just published the latest update to Mass Observation Online, which includes the following material:
Diaries, Men and Women, 1946-1950
Directives, Men and Women, 1946-1947
Topic Collections:
Propaganda and Morale, 1939-1944
Conscientious Objection and Pacifism, 1939-1944
Press, 1938-42
Police, Law and Invasion Preparations, 1939-1941
Reconstruction, 1941-1942
Coal Mining, 1938-1948
Industry, 1940-1955
Sexual Behaviour, 1939-1950
Health, 1939-1947
Family Planning, 1944-1949
Live Entertainment, 1938-1948
Sport, 1939-1947
Holidays, 1937-1951
For more details visit:
The Mass Observers: A History, 1937-1949 by James Hinton
Oxford University Press are publishing the first full–scale history of Mass Observation;
The Mass Observers: A History 1937-1949 by James Hinton. The publication captures the early years of the social research organisation, which set out to document the attitudes, opinions, and every-day lives of the British people.
James Hinton has previously used the Archive in his acclaimed publication
Nine Wartime Lives, which demonstrated how the Mass Observation diaries could be used to shed light on broader historical issues. In this publication, Hinton has written a wonderfully vivid and evocative account which does justice not only to the founders
whose tempestuous relationship dominated the early years of Mass Observation, but also to the dozens of creative and imaginative, and until now largely unknown, young enthusiasts whose contributed to Mass Observation. This long-awaited and deeply researched
history revises much of the existing knowledge of Mass Observation and opens up new and important perspectives on the organisation.
You can purchase the book from the 14th March from
here.