Mass Observation: 4 books
by Mass Observation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Britain, although not the first Mass Observation title, was the one that made its name. Britain was published as Penguin Special and is reported as selling over 100, 000 in ten days. It was published in January 1939, and seventy years on Faber Finds are reissuing it. The aim of Mass Observation was...
May the Twelfth
Mass Observation Day Survey
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Mass Observation was founded by Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings in 1937. Its purpose was to create 'an anthropology of ourselves' in other words, to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. Discounting an initial pamphlet, this was the first book to be published....
by Mass Observation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Mass Observation was founded by Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings in 1937. Its purpose was to create 'an anthropology of ourselves' in other words, to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. Discounting an initial pamphlet, this was the second book to be published....
The Pub and the People
A Worktown Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Mass Observation was founded in 1937 with the aim of researching the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. One of its best-loved publications is The Pub and the People (1943), a unique study of one of Britain's best-loved pastimes, describing how people behaved in pubs, what and how much they...