Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain B .9780091896959

OUR HIDDEN LIVES The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain 1945-1948 (SIGNED COPY) \nGarfield, Simon\n\nPublished by Ebury Press, London (2004) First Edition and impression, signed on the title page, without inscription, on the title paqe. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to the front cover. Jacket unclipped with edgewear. Internally clean and tight, a little spine end bumping. 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 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 Garfield has skilfully woven a tapestry of diary entries in this rarely discussed but pivotal pr