Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain, 1945-1948 by Simon Garfield

Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain, 1945-1948

Simon Garfield

560 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced

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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 ...

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