Seven Lives from Mass Observation
Britain in the Late Twentieth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 October 2016
- ISBN 9780198787136
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages218 pages
- Size 222x149x17 mm
- Weight 378 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
James Hinton uses the Mass Observation project to explore how seven people - the wife of a small businessman, a teacher, a social worker, an RAF wife, a mechanic, a lorry driver, and a City banker - reacted to the rapidly changing society after the war years, through the increasingly tolerant sixties, to the rise of Thatcherite neo-liberalism.
MoreLong description:
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 since 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 political attitudes, religious beliefs, work, childhoods, education, friendships, marriages, sex lives, mid-life crises, aging - the whole range of human emotion, feeling, attitudes, and experience. At the core of the book are seven 'biographical essays': intimate portraits of individual lives set in the context of the shift towards the more tolerant and permissive society of the 1960s and the rise of Thatcherite neo-liberalism as the structures of Britain's post-war settlement crumbled from the later 1970s.
The mass observers featured in the book, four women and three men, are drawn from across the social spectrum - wife of a small businessman, teacher, social worker, RAF wife, mechanic, lorry driver, City banker: all active and forceful characters with strong opinions and lives crowded with struggle and drama. The honesty and frankness with which they wrote about themselves takes us below the surface of public life to the efforts of 'ordinary', but exceptionally articulate and self-reflective, people to make sense of their lives in rapidly changing times.
This immensely readable and thoroughly captivating volume is about contemplating our own lives as much as the lives of the observers. Hinton suggests an overt rethinking of our own autobiographical biases as historians while deftly uncovering the subtle and not-so-subtle motives of his historical subjects. This is a valuable work that not only promises to redirect future uses of MO but also offers a key shift in the historiography toward an anthropological model for assessing historical documents like those produced for and by MO.
Table of Contents:
Mass Observation
Histories
Housewife
Teacher
Social Worker
RAF Wife
Mechanic
Lorry Driver
Banker
Conclusion
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