Of particular use were the oral histories of life in the Blitz compiled by the
Mass Observation Project, as well as books by Anne de Courcy, whose interviews of women in The Last Season and Debs at War were a gold mine of information.
This study of volunteerism in Britain draws on research conducted at the Third Sector Research Centre, specifically qualitative data from the
Mass Observation Archive between 1981 and 2012, plus data from other longitudinal and cross-sectional social surveys.
He was also the artist most closely involved with the beginning of the
Mass Observation movement, which was founded by, among others, a young anthropologist called Tom Harrisson.
WRITING in the Cardiff Post, a long time ago now, and under the heading "Percy's diary gives us a taste of Cardiff life", I wrote: "In 1937, Percy Bibbings, a 20-year-old hospital clerk from Cardiff, kept a diary as part of a UK-wide
Mass Observation project launched that year.
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Mass observation D Bulk equality QUESTION 12 - for 12 points: Where would bast, rays and cambium be found?
The degree of forensic detail to be found in his exhibition at the New Art Gallery, for being inward-and unambitious Walsall, recalls the faintly sinister work of the 1930s organisation
Mass Observation, with its obsessive interest in working-class tastes in leisure and home decor.
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Mass Observation report even sympathised with the environmental causes of poverty, speaking about poor uban mothers whose "habits and behaviour have formed themselves around a definite set of social conditions and economic needs." (32)
Chapter Three, "Dancing in Place: Folk, Mass, and Visions of Community," extends this concern by examining the English Folk Song and Dance Society and
Mass Observation, a project to create an ethnography of everyday life in Britain using a team of observers and writers.
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Mass Observation report from the day after Churchill delivered his 'finest hour' broadcast in 1940, shows reaction to the speech was not unanimous.
The newly-commissioned film will consider the traditional role of the photographer in a world where CCTV and
mass observation have become the norm.