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==Publications== *Mass-Observation (Charles Madge & Tom Harrisson), ''Mass-Observation'' (pamphlet), London, Frederick Muller, 1937. *Charles Madge & Humphrey Jennings, eds. ''May the Twelfth, Mass-Observation Day-Surveys 1937, by over two hundred observers'', London, [[Faber and Faber]], 1937. {{ISBN|0-571-14872-7}} *Charles Madge & Tom Harrisson, ''First Year's Work'', London, Lindsay Drummond, 1938. *Charles Madge & Tom Harrisson, ''Britain'', Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1939. *Mass-Observation, ''War Begins at Home'', London, Chatto & Windus, 1940. *Mass-Observation, ''Clothes Rationing'', Advertising Service Guild, 1941 *Mass-Observation, ''Home Propaganda'', Advertising Service Guild, 1941 *Mass-Observation, ''The Pub and the People'', London, Gollancz, 1943; reprinted Seven Dials Press, 1971. *Mass-Observation, ''War Factory'', London, Gollancz, 1943. *Mass-Observation, ''People's Homes'', London, John Murray/Advertising Service Guild, 1943 *Mass-Observation, ''The Journey Home'', London, John Murray/Advertising Service Guild, 1944 *Mass-Observation, ''Britain and her Birth Rate'', London, John Murray/Advertising Service Guild, 1945 *Mass-Observation, ''Peace and the Public - A Study'', London, Longmans, Green, 1947 *Mass-Observation (Herbert Wilcox), ''Juvenile Delinquency'', London, Falcon press, 1949. *Mass-Observation (with illustrations by [[Ronald Searle]]), ''Meet Yourself at the Doctors'', London, Naldrett Press, 1949 *Mass-Observation (with illustrations by [[Ronald Searle]]), ''Meet Yourself on Sunday'', London, Naldrett Press, 1949 *Tom Harrisson, ''Britain Revisited'', London, Gollancz, 1961. *Tom Harrisson, ''Living through the Blitz'', London, Collins, 1976. A number of publications are also available from the University of Sussex. The following selection of titles also gives some idea of the scope of Mass Observation's work: *''Attitudes to [[AIDS]]'' *''[[Bolton]] [[working class|Working Class]] Life'' *''Children's [[Millennium]] Diaries'' *''Everyday use of social relaxants and stimulants'' *''Gender and Nationhood'' *''Britain in the [[Falklands War]]'' *''Health, sickness and the work ethic'', Helen Busby (2000) *''Looking at [[Europe]]: pointers to some British attitudes'' *''Researching women's lives: notes from visits to East Central Europe'' *''Mass-Observation: des 'capsules' de vie quotidienne'' *''One Day in the Life of [[Television]]'', ed. Sean Day-Lewis (1989) *''[[Sex]] surveyed, 1949–1994'' – The actual Mass-Observation survey was called Little Kinsey; the results were published in a book by Liz Stanley under the above title. *''[[Pub]] and the People: A [[Worktown]] study'' ed. Tom Harrisson (1943) *''Weeping in the [[film|Cinema]] in 1950'', Sue Harper and Vincent Porter (1995) Since the archive was moved and re-established at Sussex University, a number of books based on the diaries commissioned by Mass-Observation in 1939 have been published. These include:<ref>Mass Observation Archive publications 1974 onwards. ''Nella Last’s Peace'' p.304, ''Nella Last’s War'' p. vi.</ref> *''Among You Taking Notes. The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison'' ed. Dorothy Sheridan. 1985 (Victor Gollancz). 2000 (Phoenix) *''Our Hidden Lives, The Everyday Diaries of Forgotten Britain between 1945–48'' ed. Simon Garfield 2005 (Ebury Press) *''Love and War in London. A Woman's Diary 1939–42'' by Olivia Cockett, ed. Robert Malcolmson. 2005 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). 2008 (The History Press) *''We Are At War. The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times'' ed. Simon Garfield 2006 (Ebury press) *''Nella Last's War'' ed. Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming, 1981 (Falling Wall Press). 2006 (Profile Books) *''Private Battles: How the War Almost Defeated Us'' ed. Simon Garfield 2007 (Ebury press) *''Nella Last’s Peace'', covering the years 1945–8. ed. Patricia and Robert Malcolmson, 2008 (Profile Books) *''Our Longest Days - a People's History of the Second World War'', an anthology ed. Sandra Koa Wing 2008 (Profile Books) *''Wartime Women. A Mass Observation Anthology'' ed. Dorothy Sheridan 1990 (Heinemann). 2009 (Phoenix Press) *''Dorset in Wartime: The Diary of Phyllis Walther 1941-1942'' ed. Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson 2009 (Dorset Record Society) See also: * Hubble, Nick. ''Mass-Observation and Everyday Life''. Houndmills-Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. {{ISBN|1-4039-3555-6}}. A history of the Mass-Observation movement from a former Research Fellow at the Mass-Observation Archive, University of Sussex, UK (from back cover). Findings of Mass-Observation have also played a large part in such works of social history as [[Joe Moran (social historian)|Joe Moran]]'s ''Queuing for Beginners.''
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