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Seven Lives from Mass Observation - Britain in the Late Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Seven Lives from Mass Observation - Britain in the Late Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the
twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime
Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James
Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass
Observation since 1981 to explore the social and cultural history
of late twentieth-century Britain. Prompted by thrice-yearly
open-ended questionnaires, Mass Observation's volunteers wrote
about their political attitudes, religious beliefs, work,
childhoods, education, friendships, marriages, sex lives, mid-life
crises, aging - the whole range of human emotion, feeling,
attitudes, and experience. At the core of the book are seven
'biographical essays': intimate portraits of individual lives set
in the context of the shift towards the more tolerant and
permissive society of the 1960s and the rise of Thatcherite
neo-liberalism as the structures of Britain's post-war settlement
crumbled from the later 1970s. The mass observers featured in the
book, four women and three men, are drawn from across the social
spectrum - wife of a small businessman, teacher, social worker, RAF
wife, mechanic, lorry driver, City banker: all active and forceful
characters with strong opinions and lives crowded with struggle and
drama. The honesty and frankness with which they wrote about
themselves takes us below the surface of public life to the efforts
of 'ordinary', but exceptionally articulate and self-reflective,
people to make sense of their lives in rapidly changing times.
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