CAN YOU HELP?
The Mass Observation Project ( mass obs.org.uk) is appealing for former Mass
Observers from the 1980s to get in touch. Mass Observation was a major anthropological project that began in
1937. The project’s organisers recruited volunteers to record their daily lives in diaries, creating a portrait of life in
Britain during the 1930s and the Second
World War. The project was revived in the early 1980s. The Mass Observation Team is now collaborating with academic publisher Adam Matthew Digital to digitise more of the project’s archives, which are held by the University of Sussex, and is seeking feedback from former Mass Observers about the project. If you or someone you know contributed to Mass Observation between 1980 and 1989, please email moa@sussex.ac.uk.