Our Hidden Lives Garfield Simon
Our Hidden Lives Garfield Simon In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. An estimated…
Specifikacia Our Hidden Lives Garfield Simon
Our Hidden Lives Garfield Simon
In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive, and it soon became clear that this was more than anyone could digest. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives.
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. The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking