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The Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early
1950s), a pioneering independent effort aimed at education,
specialised in material about everyday life in Britain and recorded
material through a panel of around 500 volunteer observers who
maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires known as
directives. The collection of papers on film is one of the largest
collections on a single theme produced by Mass-Observation but
before this book was originally published in 1987 very little of
the film material had been put into print. This anthology presents
a selection from the Mass-Observation archive which offers unique
insights into cinema-going trends, particularly in the years of the
Second World War. This is a great reference work on the role of the
cinema in national morale and other social effects during the war
years with details of people's behaviour at the cinema and their
opinions of the films and the newsreels they saw at the movies.
The Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early
1950s), a pioneering independent effort aimed at education,
specialised in material about everyday life in Britain and recorded
material through a panel of around 500 volunteer observers who
maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires known as
directives. The collection of papers on film is one of the largest
collections on a single theme produced by Mass-Observation but
before this book was originally published in 1987 very little of
the film material had been put into print. This anthology presents
a selection from the Mass-Observation archive which offers unique
insights into cinema-going trends, particularly in the years of the
Second World War. This is a great reference work on the role of the
cinema in national morale and other social effects during the war
years with details of people's behaviour at the cinema and their
opinions of the films and the newsreels they saw at the movies.
A unique document offering unrivalled insight into women's minds
and lives during the Second World War. The Mass-Observation
organisation was set up in 1937 with the aim of recording everyday
life in Britain. Dorothy Sheridan has plundered its astonishingly
rich archives to put together this anthology of women's experience
in the Second World War. What was this experience? How far did it
go to liberate women? Was it the opportunity that so many expected
or was it simply six years of deprivation, hard work and pain?
WARTIME WOMEN allows us to explore these questions through the
writings of women living through the war years. Dorothy Sheridan
has chosen extracts from the whole range of Mass-Observation
material including research reports, letters, dairies and detailed
questionnaires. The range of contributors is enormous from a fish
and chip shop worker in Birmingham to Irish immigrant munitions
factory workers, young women welders in Yorkshire and a
seventeen-year-old schoolgirl in Essex. 'My horror of all this war
business is qualified by an eagerness to be a unit of it. I feel as
if I have been waiting for this all my life and I have just
realised it' A young woman writing in her diary in September, 1939.
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