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Celebrating 70 years of Mass Observation

May 2007 sees the 70th anniversary of the first ever Mass Observation survey which was carried out on King George VI's Coronation Day on May 12 1937.

A series of events are being held to mark the anniversary. Come and join in the celebrations and participate in the debates. Find out more.

Spring 2007 Directive

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Mass Observation Bulletin

The new look Bulletin containing news and information from the Archive is now available to download as a PDF.

Can any mother help me?

Jenna Bailey
Published by Faber 2007

The Cooperative Correspondence Club began in 1935 when a young woman, writing under the pen name Ubique, wrote a letter to the magazine Nursery World. Other mothers living all over the United Kingdom replied via Nursery World saying that they too were suffering from boredom and loneliness. The women agreed that they would start writing to each other through a correspondence magazine called the Cooperative Correspondence Club (CCC).

The collection was donated to the Mass Observation Archive in the 1990s and researched by Jenna whilst a student on the MA in Life History Research course taught at the University of Sussex.