By Henry Parish May 2025 saw the Mass Observation Project gather information about how British everyday life had been impacted by Covid-19. Its panel of life writers were prompted to reflect on how aspects of their lives, from work, homelife and health, to attitudes towards technology and socialisation, had changed five years on from Covid.ContinueContinue reading “Mass Observing the Pandemic, Five Years On”
Category Archives: Covid-19
Researching MO: Mass Observation Covid-19 collection: What does it mean for researchers?
As we are now five years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown in the UK, we asked Justyna Robinson (“Mass Observing Covid-19” project academic advisor) how researchers can harness the knowledge presented in Covid-19 collection. The collection includes texts discussing life during the Covid-19 pandemic as well as rich metadata, which consists of biographic informationContinueContinue reading “Researching MO: Mass Observation Covid-19 collection: What does it mean for researchers?”
Transcribing Covid-19
By Emily Warwick As a University of Brighton Masters student I have been volunteering with the Mass Observation Archives at The Keep as part of my course. The team have been incredibly welcoming and are really helpful if I have any enquiries on something I haven’t encountered it before. As part of my time spentContinueContinue reading “Transcribing Covid-19”