| Evidence: | 'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her day. Mass-Observation, it was something new, something to talk about; the things I do in the house are monotonous, but on the 12th, they are different somehow, letting the dog out, getting up, making the dinner, it makes them important when they have to be remembered and recorded.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1938 and 31 Dec 1939 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: North of England | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | Working-class girl |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [n/a] |
| Title: | News Chronicle |
| Genre: | Social Science |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 10178 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson, 'First Year's Work 1937-1938' (London, 1938), Notes With an Essay on a Nation-Wide Intelligence Service by Bronislaw Malinowski, p. 70, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk, |
| Citation: | Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson, 'First Year's Work 1937-1938' (London, 1938), Notes With an Essay on a Nation-Wide Intelligence Service by Bronislaw Malinowski, p. 70, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10178, accessed: 16 April 2024 |
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