The Mass Observation Anniversary Lectures Series, 2011 – 2012
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Dear all,
I thought that you might be interested in the Mass Observation Anniversary Lecture Series. The details are below. I hope to see you there!
Jessica
Juliet Gardiner – ‘Writing the mid century with Mass Observation’ – to book: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/newsandevents/lecture_booking
Wednesday 12th October 2011, 6.30pm, Fulton lecture theatre A, University of Sussex
Juliet Gardiner is the bestselling author of popular histories such as The Thirties: an Intimate History (2010) and The Blitz: The British Under Attack (2010). Juliet’s lecture will explore the complex ways in which intention and reception framed Mass Observation’s work.
Virginia Nicholson – ‘The Living Archive’ – to book: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/newsandevents/lecture_booking
Thursday 8th December 2011, 6.30pm, Fulton lecture theatre A, University of Sussex
Virginia Nicholson’s Millions Like Us – Women’s Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949 was published to widespread critical acclaim in 2011. In this book, Nicholson tracked the hopes and fears of Mass Observation diarists during the war years. Here she will explain how the Archive enabled her to “eavesdrop” on the innermost thoughts of such ordinary women.