The Pub and the People: A Worktown Study - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571250955 ISBN 13: 9780571250950

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Synopsis

Mass Observation was founded by Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings in 1937. Its purpose was to create 'an anthropology of ourselves' in other words, to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. Discounting an initial pamphlet, this was the eleventh book to be published. It appears in Faber Finds as a part of an extensive reissue programme of the original Mass Observation titles. Four Worktown (Bolton) volumes were projected but only The Pub and the People made it into print. After many delays it was finally published in 1943. It remains one of the most important of the Mass Observation titles and it is significant it was the one Tom Harrisson himself selected for republication when the new Mass Observation archive was established. As the title indicates the book is in two parts: the pub: the people. The Pub has four chapters: The Pub: The Drink: Drink-Servers: Drinking Places. The People has eight chapters: Drinkers: Drinking: Drunk: Singers and Pianists and Bookies and Prostitutes: Sub-Group Pub Groups: Sports, Games and Gambling: Non-drinking: The Last Hour! This represents Mass Observation at its most pure and objective, the result is a unique anatomizing of one of our most time-honoured recreations.

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Mass Observation was founded in 1937 by Tom Harrission, Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings. Its purpose was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves', in other words, to provide a study of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. In its first period, from 1937 to 1950, it published twenty-two books, many of which are being reissued in Faber Finds. These books constitute a unique social history of the period. Since 1970 the Mass Observation Archive has been at Sussex University. In 1981 the New Mass Observation Project was born. It is run from the Archive under the direction of Dorothy Sheridan. The Archive is a magnificent resource which continues to provide rich material for books. Recent publications have included Nella Last's War, Nella Last's Peace, Our Longest Days (all published by Profile) and three selections of Mass Observation Diaries of the Second World War and just after , edited by Simon Garfield and published by Ebury Press.

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• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• ISBN 10: 0571250955
• ISBN 13: 9780571250950
• Binding: Paperback