![]() ![]() I knew it was formed in the years before the Second World War, and that it contained accounts of ordinary people’s lives (people all over the country sent answers to questionnaires and copies of their diaries each month), but I had no idea about the range or detail of the material. I first learnt about Mass Observation at school, but knew very little about it. The editor mentioned it to a colleague who knew of my interest in working with oral history and personal testimonies, and not long afterwards I found myself at the Falmer campus near Brighton with my jaw dropping open. The book came about after an editor at Ebury Press/Random House made contact with the Mass Observation archive at the University of Sussex with the hope that there may be a good book to be made from all that wonderful material. I’d love to claim full credit for the birth and success of Our Hidden Lives, but I’d feel guilty and get sarcastic phonecalls. ![]() Watch the BBC drama based on the book About The Book ![]()
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