Our Hidden Lives  -  Simon Garfield

The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain, 1945-1948

KORTE INHOUD

In 1936, anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where remarkably most remain unread. In "Our Hidden Lives", Simon ...
2005 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2005 Uitgever: Ebury Press 544 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0091896959 ISBN-13: 9780091896959