A project initiated in 1937 to study and record the social habits and opinions of ordinary people in Britain.
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- The programme began life in 1993 as an experimental television and archive project for BBC TWO, inspired by a mass observation project of the 1930s.
- This paper re-uses qualitative data collected by Mass Observation which asks about the social class identities of correspondents of its directives in two different points in time, 1948 and 1990.
- He came to Bolton in the 1930s and took mass observation images of ordinary people going about their everyday business in the town.
- A new Mass Observation started in 1981 and they are currently recruiting for male writers aged 16 to 44 living in the North to take part.
- The Mass Observation movement in the inter-war period changed the ways in which the lives of ordinary people were represented.