Friday, 21 September 2018

Summer Research - Mass Observation


- Social research organisation founded 1937 to create an 'anthropology of ourselves

- Recruited a team of observers and investigators to go out into the public and observe and record every day people's behaviours, conversations and lives

- Had National Panel of Diarists who kept regular diaries or responded to a number of open-ended questionnaires on a variety of topics and subject matters

- Generated and archived people's history up until 1949, the archive being held at University of Sussex




Projects such as Mass Observation are crucial in preserving social and cultural history. They offer an invaluable resource for learning about our society in the past, how it has changed over time. Without it, a lot of the information would have been lost. 





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