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”
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‘Ooh, the rumours!’: Mass Observation and VE Day
In the lead up to the 80th anniversary of VE, Khaleda Brophy-Harmer (PhD Candidate at the University of Southampton), has gone through the archive’s collection of VE day materials to provide insight into how people experienced and wrote about VE day. – On the evening of May 7th, Prime Minister Winston Churchill interrupted radio broadcasting toContinueContinue reading “‘Ooh, the rumours!’: Mass Observation and VE Day”
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?”
Digitisation of Mass Observation Project material
Responses to Mass Observation Project Directives from 2010-2019 are currently away for digitisation and cannot be viewed in person at The Keep. The material will be unavailable until Summer 2025. Please contact Archive staff for more information or to arrange access to the responses which were sent to the Archive electronically via email. These responsesContinueContinue reading “Digitisation of Mass Observation Project material”