Using the mass-observation archive as a source for women's studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3125183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy Sheridan (0000-0001-7918-0515, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-113 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612029400200044 |
| OpenAlex | W4253595743, W2052664673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
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 the base for a contemporary writing project which invites volunteer mass-observers to record in diaries, and in response to open ended prompts and questions their opinions and experiences for the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, the archivist describes which parts of the collections might appeal to the Women's Studies scholar
Appeal · Archaeology · Archivist · Everyday life · Mass media · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
'Subjecive Cameras'
The Domestic Soldier
A public house is for all classes, men and women alike
A Woman's Right to Know
Mass Observing British politics
Mass Observation, Counterculture and the ‘Art of Living’
Food hates’ over the life course
Teenage Girls, Female Friendship and the Making of the Sexual Revolution in England, 1950–1980
The Memory of the Great War and Morale During Britain's Phoney War
Voter Decision-Making in a Context of Low Political Trust
Changing spaces of political encounter and the rise of anti-politics
Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive
The Materiality of Method
| Citations per year | 0.61 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |