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…
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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…
12th May 2020 an introduction to the diaries
By Chloe Daniel – Mass Observation Archive Assistant 23 March, 2020. The country, along with life as we knew it, stopped. School’s out. Non-essential shopping is no longer permitted. Gatherings involving more than two people now prohibited. You may only…
Tagged with: 12th May, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Diaries, Lockdown
Posted in MO (Mass Observation), The Keep
Posted in MO (Mass Observation), The Keep
Telling the time and temporal rhythms
Evidence from the MOA Autumn 2017 directive One-day diary: organising and experiencing time By Clare Holdsworth, Keele University Writing a one-day diary is a key activity of being a MOA correspondent. One-day diaries are often used in directives, including the…