Dorothy Sheridan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Sheridan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheridan |
| SIGNATURE | SHERIDAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7918-0515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Woven Tapestries
Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) was an established novelist and political campaigner throughout her life. During the Second World War, she kept an extensive daily diary from her home on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland which she sent in instalments to the London offices of the social research organisation, Mass Observation. Until the 1980s, this diary, together with 500 other diaries for the same period, remained largely unread. It was stored as part …
Book and Website Reviews
Myra H. Strober (2011): Interdisciplinary Conversations. Challenging Habits of Thought Review by Silvia Rief Hans Radder (ed.) (2010): The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University Review by Antonino Palumbo Gabriela Pleschová (ed.) (2010): IT in Action: Stimulating Quality Learning at Undergraduate Students Review by John Craig Les Back (2010-11): Academic Diary, http://www.academic-diary.co.uk/ Sally Fincher, Janet…
We're in this war too
Using the mass-observation archive as a source for women's studies
The Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex (UK) is a rich source of material on and by women. The Archive holds the papers which resulted from the work carried out by ‘Mass-Observation', a pioneering British social research organisation, between 1937 and the early 1950s. These papers include personal diaries and detailed questionnaire replies as well as reports and surveys focusing on aspects of everyday life. The Archive is also th…
Writing to the Archive
The social research organisation, Mass-Observation, which operated between 1937 and 1950, recruited volunteer writers to join a 'panel' to record aspects of their everyday life in Britain during those years. In 1981, the Archive which houses that material (diaries, detailed questionnaire replies) initiated a revival of the panel. This article describes this revival and argues that the contemporary writing for the Archive can be considered a form …
Researching women's lives
Writing to the Archive
The social research organisation, Mass-Observation, which operated between 1937 and 1950, recruited volunteer writers to join a 'panel' to record aspects of their everyday life in Britain during those years. In 1981, the Archive which houses that material (diaries, detailed questionnaire replies) initiated a revival of the panel. This article describes this revival and argues that the contemporary writing for the Archive can be considered a form …
Using the mass-observation archive as a source for women's studies
The Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex (UK) is a rich source of material on and by women. The Archive holds the papers which resulted from the work carried out by ‘Mass-Observation', a pioneering British social research organisation, between 1937 and the early 1950s. These papers include personal diaries and detailed questionnaire replies as well as reports and surveys focusing on aspects of everyday life. The Archive is also th…
Researching women's lives
Researching women's lives
Writing to the Archive
The social research organisation, Mass-Observation, which operated between 1937 and 1950, recruited volunteer writers to join a 'panel' to record aspects of their everyday life in Britain during those years. In 1981, the Archive which houses that material (diaries, detailed questionnaire replies) initiated a revival of the panel. This article describes this revival and argues that the contemporary writing for the Archive can be considered a form …
Using the mass-observation archive as a source for women's studies
The Mass-Observation Archive at the University of Sussex (UK) is a rich source of material on and by women. The Archive holds the papers which resulted from the work carried out by ‘Mass-Observation', a pioneering British social research organisation, between 1937 and the early 1950s. These papers include personal diaries and detailed questionnaire replies as well as reports and surveys focusing on aspects of everyday life. The Archive is also th…
We're in this war too
Book and Website Reviews
Myra H. Strober (2011): Interdisciplinary Conversations. Challenging Habits of Thought Review by Silvia Rief Hans Radder (ed.) (2010): The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University Review by Antonino Palumbo Gabriela Pleschová (ed.) (2010): IT in Action: Stimulating Quality Learning at Undergraduate Students Review by John Craig Les Back (2010-11): Academic Diary, http://www.academic-diary.co.uk/ Sally Fincher, Janet…
Woven Tapestries
Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) was an established novelist and political campaigner throughout her life. During the Second World War, she kept an extensive daily diary from her home on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland which she sent in instalments to the London offices of the social research organisation, Mass Observation. Until the 1980s, this diary, together with 500 other diaries for the same period, remained largely unread. It was stored as part …
Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Data Analysis and Archiving (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Archivist (2 works) · Art history (2 works)