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Britain Observed
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Author : Brian Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
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Britain Observed
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language : en
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Release Date : 1984
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Britain Observed
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Author : Geoffrey Grigson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Britain By Mass Observation
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Author : Tom Harrisson
language : en
Publisher: Hutchinson
Release Date : 1986
Britain By Mass Observation written by Tom Harrisson and has been published by Hutchinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
Britain
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Author : Mass Observation
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-04-19
Britain written by Mass Observation and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-19 with History categories.
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 to create 'an anthropology of ourselves', to provide a study of everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. In this book, arranged and written by Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge (two of the founders of Mass Observation) the notorious year of 1938 is anatomized. It was the year of Munich. The first half of the book deals with the unfolding crisis, culminating with Neville Chamberlain waving his scrap of paper, the agreement with Hitler, from No. 10 Downing Street. A Mass Observation observer was there. The Press gave wildly misleading impressions of the turn-out. In fact the crowd was under 5000. As the commentary tartly observes, 'No second division football club could survive on a Chamberlain gate.' A bleakly comic moment is recorded, 'P. M. stretches out his arm for silence. Several in crowd appear to take this as a Fascist salute and stretch forth their arms likewise.'Other chapters deal with the dance craze 'The Lambeth Walk', all-in wrestling, the cow's-head cult of Westhoughton (the chapter is aptly entitled A Slight Case of Totemism) and the Two Minutes' Silence on Armistice Day. As the Times said then, ' . . . With these anthropological spies among us one wonders how statesmen and journalists will ever again dare to speak and write on behalf of ''the people''. For here are ''the people''.
A History Of The Birds Of Europe Not Observed In The British Isles
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Author : Charles Robert Bree
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
A History Of The Birds Of Europe Not Observed In The British Isles written by Charles Robert Bree and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Birds categories.
Observations On The State Of Society Among The Asiatic Subjects To Great Britain Particularly With Respect To Morals And On The Means Of Improving It
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Author : Charles Grant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1797
Observations On The State Of Society Among The Asiatic Subjects To Great Britain Particularly With Respect To Morals And On The Means Of Improving It written by Charles Grant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1797 with Bengal (India) categories.
This essay became a much publicized plea for the toleration of Christian educational and missionary activities in India. Being presented to the East India Company's Court of Directors on August 16, 1797 by Charles Grant, and to the House of Commons in 1813, the Commons ordered its general printing in 1813.
Observations On The Popular Antiquities Of Great Britain
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Author : John Brand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
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The English People
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Author : Denis W. Brogan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
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The Mass Observers
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Author : James Hinton
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-03-14
The Mass Observers written by James Hinton and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with History categories.
This is the first full-scale history of Mass-Observation, the independent social research organisation which, between 1937 and 1949, set out to document the attitudes, opinions, and every-day lives of the British people. Through a combination of anthropological fieldwork, opinion surveys, and written testimony solicited from hundreds of volunteers, Mass-Observation created a huge archive of popular life during a tumultuous decade which remains central to British national identity. The social history of these years has been immeasurably enriched by the archive, and extracts from the writings of M-O's volunteers have won a wide and admiring audience. Now James Hinton, whose acclaimed Nine Wartime Lives demonstrated how the intensely personal writing of some of M-O's volunteers could be used to shed light on broader historical issues, has written a wonderfully vivid and evocative account which does justice not only to the two founders whose tempestuous relationship dominated the early years of Mass-Observation, but also to the dozens of creative and imaginative, and until now largely unknown, young enthusiasts whose work helped to keep the show on the road. The history of the organisation itself - the staff, the research methods, the struggle for funding, M-O's characteristic 'voice', and its role in the cultural and political life of the period - are themselves as interesting as any of the themes that the founders set out to document. This long-awaited and deeply researched history corrects and revises much of our existing knowledge of Mass-Observation, opens up new and important perspectives on the organisation, and will be seen as the authoritative account for years to come.