Seven Lives from Mass Observation: Britain in the Late Twentieth Century

by James Hinton

What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass Observation up to 1981 to explore the social and cultural history of late twentieth-century Britain. Prompted by thrice-yearly open-ended questionnaires, Mass Observation's volunteers wrote about their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198787138
• ISBN13: 9780198787136
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"