Mass Observation Online

Access: Connect to e-resource.
Description: Mass Observation Online offers access to an archive for the study of Social History. The range of topics covered is immense, including popular culture (with reports on cinema-going, radio and music, and the advent of television); consumerism, branding and fashion (including the rise of department stores and the New Look); sex, marriage, and the family, as well as attitudes to war, politics and America, Russia and Europe.
Subject Coverage: Social History
Date Coverage: 1937 -1972
Database Type: Full-text; primary sources.  Nature of the Material: Original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass-Observation organisation, together with printed publications, photographs and interactive maps.

 

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