| Evidence: | 'Well, I think Civil Defence is a marvellous racket. It's given me the spare time I've been wanting for years?I've done more solid reading, for instance, than I've done since I was twenty-one.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 3 Sep 1939 and 2 Sep 1945 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | [M35B] Anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | Civil Defence Warden |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | unknown |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | This reader is identified as M35B in the Mass Observation archive |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | unknown ["solid reading"] |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9915 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Advertising Service Guild, "The Journey Home: Advertising Service Guild's Report on the Problems of Demobilisation Conducted by Mass-Observation", (London, 1944), 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: | Advertising Service Guild, "The Journey Home: Advertising Service Guild's Report on the Problems of Demobilisation Conducted by Mass-Observation", (London, 1944), 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=9915, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
| Further information about Civil Defence workers can be found in the Mass Observation Online archives. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)