Publications 1974 onwards

Publications relating to the early 1937-50 Mass Observation organisation

In general, these books consist of edited original material, some written by Archive staff or with Archive involvement. The list includes publications by authors that have used early Mass Observation as part of their research.

Barson, T. et al. Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool, 2006

Beaven, B. Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945, Manchester University Press, May 2005

Beaven, B. and Griffiths, J.‘The Blitz, Civilian Morale and the City: Mass Observation and Working-Class Culture in Britain 1940-41’, Urban History, 26,1, 1999

Bennett, T & Watson, D. (eds) Understanding Everyday Life (Sociology and Society), The Open University, 2002

Binding, H. & Pearce, B., Exmoor Village: Celebrating the enduring landscape of Exmoor and it people over fifty years, Exmoor Books, 2004

Broad, R & Fleming, S (eds): Nella Last's War, Falling Wall Press 1981, Sphere paperback 1982, Profile Books, 2006

Browning, B. Ecko’s of Cowbridge: House and War Factory, Cowbridge Publishing, 2005

Calder, A & Sheridan, D (eds): Speak For Yourself: A Mass Observation Anthology 1937-49, Jonathan Cape 1984 and OUP (paperback) 1985

Courage, F: Digitising a Special Collection: assessing the feasibility of digitising the Mass Observation Archive, MA dissertation, University of Brighton, 2002

Coare, P. & Thomson, A., Through the Joy of Learning: Diary of 1,000 Adult Learners, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1996

Cross, G (ed). Worktowners in Blackpool: Mass Observation and popular leisure in the 1930s, Routledge 1990

Gardiner, J. Wartime Britain 1939-1945, Headline, 2004

Garfield, S. Our Hidden Lives: The everyday diaries of a forgotten Britain 1945-1948, Ebury Press, 2004

Garfield, S. We are at War: The diaries of five ordinary people in extraordinary times, Ebury Press, 2006

Garfield, S. Private Battles: Our intimate diaries - how the war almost defeated us, Ebury Press, 2007

Gilles, M. Waiting for Hitler: Voices from Britain on the brink of invasion, Hodder and Stoughton, 2006

Harrisson, T. Living Through the Blitz, Collins 1976 and Penguin paperback 1978. Re-published in the USA by Schocken Books in 1989 and in the UK by Penguin, 1990

Harrisson, T & Spender, H. Britain in the Thirties: Worktown by Camera, Unicorn Press, Royal College of Art, 1975 (limited edition)

Highmore, B. Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: an introduction, Routledge, 2002

Highmore, B. The Everyday Life Reader, Routledge, 2002

Horwood, C. 'Keeping Up Appearances: clothes, class and culture 1918-1939', PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2004

Horwood, C. Keeping Up Appearances. Fashion and Class Between the Wars, Stroud,
Sutton Publishing, 2005

Howkins, A. The Death of Rural England: a social history of the countryside since 1900, Routledge, 2003

Hubble, N. George Orwell and Mass Observation: mapping the politics of everyday life in England 1936-1941, DPhil thesis, University of Sussex, 2002

Hubble, N. Mass Observation and everyday life: culture, history, theory, Palgrave 2005

Jennings, M. (ed), Humphrey Jennings: Film-maker, Painter, Poet, British Film Institute, 1982

Jennings, H., Pandaemonium 1660-1886: The Coming of Machine as seen by contemporary observers, Andre Deutsch, 1985

Jolly, M (ed). Dear Laughing Motorbyke: letters from women welders of the Second World War, Scarlet Press 1997

Koa Wing, S. Mass Observation: Britain in the Second World War, Folio Society, 2007

Koa Wing, S Our Longest Days: A people's history of the second world war, Profile Books, 2008

Kushner, T. We Europeans?: Mass Observation, 'Race' and British Identity in the Twentieth Century (Studies in European Cultural Transmission), Ashgate, 2004

Kynaston, D. Austerity Britain, 1945-51, Bloomsbury, 2007

Langhamer, C. Women's Leisure in England, 1920-1960, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000

Laughey, D, Music and Youth Culture, Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Malcomson, R. (ed): Love and War in London: a Woman's Diary 1939-1942, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005

Malcolmson, R and Searby, P. (eds) Wartime Norfolk: The Diary of Rachel Dhonau 1941-1942, Norfolk Record Society, 2004

Malcolmson, P. & Malcolmson, B. (eds) A Woman in Wartime London: The Diary of Kathleen Tipper 1941-1945, London Record Society, 2006

Malcolmson, P and Malcomson, R (eds) A Women in Wartime London: The diary of Kathleen Tipper, London Record Society, 2007

Mass Observation Archive, Centre for Continuing Education, The Mass Observation Diaries: an introduction, M-OA, CCE, 1991.Out of print but available in pdf form (59.1KB)

Mass Observation File Reports 1937-1949 (in microform), Harvester Microfiche, 1983, accompanied by an annotated list and subject index. (Available for purchase from Primary Source Media).

Parker, S. Faith on the Home Front: Aspects of church life and popular religion in Birmingham 1939-1945, Peter Lang, 2005

Richards, J & Sheridan, D. Mass Observation at the Movies, Routledge 1987

Roiser, M. "Social psychology and social concern in 1930s Britain" in Bunn, G C et al (eds), Psychology in Britain: historical essays and personal reflections, Leicester, BPS Books, 2002

Roodhouse, M. “The 1948 Belcher Affair and Lynskey Tribunal” in Twentieth Century British History, Vol 13, No 4, 2002

Sheridan, D. (ed) Among You Taking Notes: the Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison, Gollancz 1985; OUP (paperback) 1986; Phoenix Press (paperback) 2000

Sheridan, D. "Mass Observation 1937-" entry in Encyclopaedia of women's writing 1900-1950, eds Faye Hammill, Esme Miskimmin & Ashley Spoonenberg, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Sheridan, D. (ed). Wartime Women: a Mass Observation Anthology, Heinemann 1990; Mandarin (paperback) 1991; Phoenix Press (paperback) 2000

Sheridan, D. “Using the Mass Observation Archive” pp 66-79, in Jamieson, Anne & Victor, Christina eds Researching ageing and later life: the practice of social gerontology, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2002

Sheridan, D. "Using the Mass Observation Archive as a source for Women's Studies" in Women's History Review, vol 3, no.1 , 1994

Sheridan, D; Street, B V. & Bloome, D: Writing ourselves: Mass Observation and Literacy Practices, Hampton Press, 2000.

Snape, M. God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars, Routledge, 2005

Spender, H. Worktown People: Photographs from Northem England 1937-8 edited by Jeremy Mulford, Falling Wall Press, 1995 reprint

Spender, H. Worktown, catalogue to an exhibition of photographs at the Gardner Arts Centre with an introduction by David Mellor, University of Sussex 1977

Stanley, L. Sex surveyed, 1949-1994: from Mass Observation's 'Little Kinsey' to the National Survey and the Hite Reports, Taylor & Francis, 1995

Taylor, A and Taylor, I (eds), The Secret Annexe: An anthology of war diarists, Canongate, 2004

Thane, P., Old Age in English History: Past Experiences and Present Issues, Oxford, 2000

Williams, P. G. (ed), Songs of Love and Songs of Longing, William Sessions, 2005

Ziegler, P. The Crown and the People, Collins 1978

Publications relating to the current post 1981 Mass Observation national writing Project and Mass Observation related collections

Below is a list of published and unpublished research based on the post 1981 Mass Observation material and Mass Observation related collections held at the Archive.

Bailey, J. ''In the club': an analysis of a private women's magazine', MA dissertation, University of Sussex, 2003

Bailey, J. Can Any Mother Help Me?, Faber and Faber, 2007

Barton, D., Bloome, D., Sheridan, D. and Street, B., Ordinary people writing: the Lancaster and Sussex Writing Research projects, ed. Lancaster University Centre for Language in Social Life series, No. 51, pp. 17-23, 1993.

Bhatti, M.''When I'm in the garden I can create my own paradise': Homes and gardens in later life', Sociological Review, Volume 54, Issue 2, May 2006.

Black, A & Crann, M “In the public eye: a mass observation of the public library” in Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 3 (3), 2002

Bloome, D., Sheridan, D., & Street, B., "Literacy, personhood, power and the everyday lives of 'ordinary' people: research with the Mass Observation Project". Draft paper presented at AERA Conference, San Francisco, April 1995

Bloome, D., Sheridan, D. & Street, B., "Reading Mass Observation writing: theoretical and methodological issues in researching the Mass Observation Archive", in Auto/Biography (Bulletin of the BSA Auto/Biography group), Spring Issue, 1994

Bloome, D., Sheridan, D. & Street, B. Reading Mass Observation writing: theoretical and methodological issues in researching the Archive, M-OA Occasional Paper No.l, University of Sussex Library, 1993

Bytheway, B. 'Many Happy Returns? Birthdays and lived-through experiences in later life', Report, Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies, SHSW, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 2003

Bytheway, B. 'Birthdays and prejudice', a paper presented at the annual conference of the British Society of Gerontology, University of Roehampton, 2004

Couldry, N & Langer, A I (2003) “The future of public connection: some early sightings” (Cultures of Consumption Working Papers, No 4), published electronically at http://www.consume.bbk.ac.uk/
working_papers/couldry4.doc

Day-Lewis, D., One Day in the Life of Television (with the British Film Institute), Grafton, 1989

Dickens, P. One Nation? Social change and the politics of locality, Pluto 1988

Dickens, P. People, Nature and alienation: an alternative perspective and a case study, Centre for Urban and Regional Research, University of Sussex, Working Paper No. 82, December 1991

Dickens, P. Society and Nature: towards a Green social theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.

Dickens, P. Who would know? Science, environmental risk and the construction of theory, CURR Working Paper No. 89, December 1992

Dickens, P. Reconstructing nature: alienation, emancipation and the division of labour, Routledge, 1996

Dickens, P. Society and Nature: changing our environment, changing ourselves, Polity, 2004

Dickens, P. Cosmic Society: Towards a sociology of the universe, Routledge, 2007

Finnegan, R (ed), Participating in the knowledge society: Researchers beyond the university walls, Palgrave 2005

Hartmann, M. The Mass Observation Archive and television: a study of contemporary viewers, M.A. dissertation, University of Sussex,1995

Harrison, K. & McGhee, D., 'Reading and writing family secrets: reflections on
Mass Observation' in Auto/Biography, Vol. XI Nos 1&2, 2003

Harrison, K. "The role of female friends in the management of affairs" in The State of Affairs: explorations in infidelity and commitment, eds Jean Duncombe, Kaeren Harrison, Graham Allen and Dennis Marsden, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004

Homan, J. “The social construction of natural disaster” pp 141-156, in Pelling, Mark, ed , Natural disasters and development in a globalizing world, Routledge, 2002

Homan, J.'Writing disaster: autobiography as a methodology in disasters research' in International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Vol 21, No 2, Aug 2003, pp.51-80

Jerrome, D.The family in time and space: personal conceptions of kinship, M-OA Occasional Paper No. 6, University of Sussex Library, 1996

Jerrome, D.'Time, change and continuity in family life' in Ageing & Society, 14,1994

Johnson, J.Exploring attitudes towards death and bereavement through the writings of the Mass Observation Archive, CCE Certificate in Life History Work course paper, Sussex, 1995

Koa Wing, S. Having a laugh: exploring humour and identity through Mass Observation, M.A. dissertation, University of Sussex, 2002

Kushner, T. Observing the 'other'.. Mass Observation and 'race', M-OA Occasional Paper No. 2, University of Sussex Library, 1995

Lowe, G. "Everyday use of social relaxants and stimulants" paper given at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Scarborough, February 1992

Lowe, G. "Judgements of substance use in 'ordinary' people's everyday lifestyles" in Psychological Reports, 76,1995. pp.1147-1154

Lowe, G. Ordinary pleasures - Mass Observation Archive analysis of people's pleasures and enjoyments, draft report, University of Hull, 1995

Mace, J. Playing with Time: mothers and the meaning of literacy, UCL Press, 1988

Miles, I. et al, Dependence, Interdependence and changing work roles: a report to the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, Science Policy Research Unit, 1984

National Lesbian and Gay Survey, Proust, Cole Porter, Michelangelo, Marc Almond and Me: Writings by gay men on their lives and lifestyles, Routledge, 1993

National Lesbian and Gay Survey, What a Lesbian Looks Like: Writings by lesbians on their lives and lifestyles, Routledge, 1992

Noakes, L. Gender and British national identity in wartime: a study of the links between gender and national identity in Britain in the Second World War, the Falklands War and the Gulf War. D. Phil thesis, Sussex, 1996.

Noakes, L. Mass Observation, gender and nationhood: Britain in the Falklands War, M-OA Occasional Paper No. 5, University of Sussex Library, 1996

Noakes, L. War and peace: the Gulf War: memories of World War Two in the Gulf War, Kingston University Contemporary Debates Series paper, March 1995

One Day for Life: Photographs by the people of Britain, taken on a single day, Bantam, 1987

Pocock, D. Introduction to Movable Feasts by Arnold Palmer, OUP, 1984

Porter, D. "City Slickers" in Perspective: the Daily Mirror, its readers and their money, 1960-2000, Media History, Vol.9, no. 2, 2003

Power, R. The whole idea of medicine, Ph.D. thesis, CNAA, 1991

Purbrick, L. The Wedding Gift: Domestic life beyond consumption, Ashgate 2006

QueenSpark Books, Children's Millennium Diary Anthology: our present to the future, Brighton, QueenSpark Books, June 2001

Randall, H. "Looking at Europe: pointers to some British attitudes" in Europe 83, April 1983

Shaw, J. "Transference and countertransference in the Mass Observation Archive: an under-exploited research resource" in Human Relations, Vol. 47, No. 11, 1994

Shaw, J. "Punctuality and the everyday ethics of time: some evidence from the Mass Observation Archive" in Time and Society, 3(1), 1994

Shaw, M. Civil society and media in global crises: representing distant violence, Pinter, 1996

Sheridan, D. "Dear Diary...". script for BBC Radio 4 programme, 22 July 1994

Sheridan, D & Holland, C. “A Day in the life: interpreting first-hand accounts from the Mass Observation Archive” pp 20-33, in Bytheway, Bill, ed, Everyday living in later life, Milton Keynes: Centre for Policy on Ageing, Open University, 2003

Sheridan, D. "Life writings on themes: the Mass Observation project" (published as "Themenzentrierte Lebensbeschreibungen: Das britische'Mass Observation' Projekt") in Bios: Zietschrift fur Biographieforshung und Oral History, 1005

Sheridan, D. "Mass Observation: des 'capsules'de vie quotidienne" in Cahiers de Semiotique Textuelle, special issue: Archives Autobiographiques, No. 20, 1991

Sheridan, D. (2002) “Using the Mass Observation Archive” pp 66-79, in Jamieson, Anne & Victor, Christina eds Researching ageing and later life: the practice of social gerontology, Milton Keynes: Open University Press

Sheridan, D. Bloome, D., & Street, B., Writing ourselves: Mass Observation and literacy practices, Hampton Press, 2000.

Sheridan, D. "'Ordinary hardworking folk'?: volunteer writers for Mass Observation 1937-50 and 1981-91 " in Feminist Praxis, 37/38, 1993

Sheridan, D."Researching women's lives: notes from visits to East Central Europe", Women's Studies Intemational Forum, 1992

Sheridan, D. "Women and Life History Work in East Central Europe", Oral History, Autumn 1991

Sheridan, D. "Writing to the Archive: Mass Observation as autobiography" in Sociology (Journal of the British Sociological Association) 21:1, pp. 27-40 1993

Sheridan, D."Damned anecdotes and dangerous confabulations".. Mass Observation as Life History, M-OA Occasional Paper No. 7, University of Sussex Library, 1996

Somerville, C.Watson, H. et al, Birth and power.. an examination of some Mass Observation writing, M-OA Occasional Paper No.4, University of Sussex Library, 1996

Street, B. & Sheridan, D. Literacy Practices and the Mass Observation project, Report to the ESRC, No. R000 23 3728, January 1994

Swales, V., "Making Yourself at Home: a Study in Discourse" in Household Choices, edited by Tim Putnam and Charles Newton, Futures Publications 1990

Thomas, J. Diana’s mourning: a people’s history, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2002

Thomson, A. "Adult learning and life histories: opportunities and issues for qualitative research at the British Mass Observation Archive" in Miller, N. & Jones, D. (eds), Research reflecting practice, 1993

Thomson, A."Writing about learning: using Mass Observation educational life-histories to explore learning through life" in The Uses of autobiography, ed J Swindells, Taylor & Francis, 1995

Woodley, K., ""One sherry and I'm anybody's": Women and drink in Mass Observation, 1989'. MA dissertation, University of Sussex, 2004