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Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain 1945-1948 (CD-Audio)
$16.49 - Save $5.63 25% off - RRP $22.12 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Our Hidden LivesIn 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives.
Full description- Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
- Published: 02 September 2004
- Format: CD-Audio
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- Categories: British & Irish History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9781856869348 ISBN 10: 1856869342
- Sales rank: 1,030,613
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Full description for Our Hidden Lives
In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where remarkably most remain unread. In Our Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield has skilfully woven a tapestry of diary entries in the rarely discussed but pivotal period of 1945 to 1948. The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten Voices or indeed Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman.
