Reposted from the Mass Observation website By Emily Calcraft Introduction On 12th May 1937 a Day Survey Respondent from Oldham stated: ‘I am not interested in the Coronation and regard all the fuss as artificial and irrational’. In May 2023,…
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Weetabix Trifle and beyond…
By Rose Lock Women’s magazines. Trivial, eh? Just a collection of inconsequential articles on how to keep your man happy, patterns for knitted shorts, vile make-do-type recipes, and adverts for lipsticks and washing powder. Well, yes, all of these things…
Tagged with: Libraries, The Keep, Woman's Own
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, The Library, Uncategorised
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, The Library, Uncategorised
Re-opening the Call for Mass Observers; motivations of a volunteer
by Kirsty Pattrick – Mass Observation Projects Officer “Writing a Mass Observation directive is like taking a thought for a walk” F5186 I was drawn to this lovely quote from one of our Observers. It makes me think of the…
Everyday kindness
By Suzanne Rose – Mass Observation Education and outreach officer Richard Ratcliffe, currently on day 17 of a hunger strike as part of his campaign to free his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe writes in The Guardian on 10th November 2021, “Amid…
Listening to the Most Hated Man in America – Part 2
A glimpse into the audio archive of Harvey Matusow By Duncan Harrison – UOSH Audio preservation engineer A Political Career on Tape The first thing to be aware of is that this audio content does not really provide a chronological…
Tagged with: America, anti-communist, archive, audio, avant-garde, Communism, FBI, Harvey Matusow, interviews, Joseph McCarthy, music, Sound, USA, yo-yo
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Listening to the most hated man in America – Part 1
A glimpse into the audio archive of Harvey Matusow By Duncan Harrison – UOSH Audio preservation engineer The Sound of Mr. Matusow As with everything else in the last 18 months, the work of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH)…
Tagged with: America, anti-communist, archive, audio, avant-garde, Communism, FBI, Harvey Matusow, interviews, Joseph McCarthy, music, Sound, USA, yo-yo
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Listening to Maureen Colquhoun
By Esther Gill – Hub project manager – Unlocking our Sound Heritage It is Monday 1st February 2021, the UK is in lockdown and I am working from home, listening to a radio interview (UTK006/498) from 1973 with a councillor…
Tagged with: Government, LGBTQAI+, Maureen Colquhoun, Politics, Women's rights
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
Posted in The Keep, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)
There ain’t no party like an East Slope party
By Karen Watson – University of Sussex Archivist These days, most people know there ain’t no party like an S Club Party (well if you were born before 1990) but at Sussex in the early 1980s East Slope parties held…
Tagged with: ACCA, Alumni, Drama, Gardner Arts Centre, Parties, SUDS, University of Sussex
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep
Posted in Special Collections, The Keep
Collections reading group
By Richard Wragg – Collections Manager For the last few months, the Collections Team have been meeting for a reading group. The texts we have chosen to discuss have all had a focus on decolonisation, equality and diversity. The reading…