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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mass Observation"”.
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The making of 'Labour's working class', 1931-1951.
… was ‘natural’. Using archived material from Mass-Observation, it places Labour’s appeals to working-class voters, at national and local levels, in dialogue with the perspectives of working-class voters themselves. This thesis explains the uneven, varied nature of working-class support for …
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The 'responsible' woman: the BBC and women's radio 1945-1955
… Centre, and further work carried out at the Mass Observation Archive, this thesis addresses the production side, as well as the text, and the audience; in a sense a very multifaceted approach. Focus has been laid on women's programmes such as Woman’s Hour and Mrs. Dale’s Diary. But other …
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Identity, Memory, Compassion and Competition: Mass-Participation Photography and Everyday Life
… for a charitable competition and now held in the Mass Observation Archive, this rich resource provides the opportunity for fine-grained historical analysis of a 'vernacular' photographic practice that has been both eulogised and criticised but rarely investigated at such breadth. The layered …
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The Management of Change - Mechanizing the British Regular and Household Cavalry Regiments 1918 -1942
… of public opinion, in which the Britain by Mass Observation archives have been illuminating, and the economic priorities of inter-war British Governments. Following the abandonment of the ‘10 Year Rule’ in 1932, a defence policy was formulated that gave the army the lowest priority for …
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British attitudes towards German prisoners of war and their treatment: 1939-48
… principal sources: newspapers, newsreels, and Mass Observation material. Focusing on these sources, this thesis considers how the narrative of captivity was presented to the British public and the variety of responses which challenged representations of POW treatment.
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'Food, Body Weight, and Everyday Life in England, c. 1954–1990'
… with thirty men and women, together with Mass Observation directives and sociological surveys, to highlight the value of integrating subjectivities and lived experiences into the history of food in modern England. Existing histories of diet in this period fall into one of two main …