5/30/2023 0 Comments Our hidden lives simon garfield![]() ![]() In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten Voices or indeed Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman. In Our Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield has skilfully woven a tapestry of diary entries in the rarely discussed but pivotal period of 1945 to 1948. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where remarkably most remain unread. ![]() An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. ![]() The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. ![]()
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