The people's victory : VE Day through the eyes of those who were there
Noakes, Lucy, 1964-, author2025
In 1937, bemused at British newspapers making opposing claims about 'national feeling' and the 'will of the people', Cambridge graduates Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson created the social survey organisation Mass Observation to capture the thoughts, feelings and minutiae of daily life across the British Isles. With 1000 concurrent writers at its height - stretching from Penzance to Aberdeen and including miners, academics and housewives - and over 1 million individual diary entries between 1937-1960, Mass Observation is the largest and richest single collection of British social history on record. In this book, historian Lucy Noakes mines the Mass Observation archive to present a comprehensive, colourful and groundbreaking history of how Britons at home experienced and celebrated the end of World War II.
Main title:
The people's victory : VE Day through the eyes of those who were there
Creator:
Noakes, Lucy, 1964-, author
Date Published:
2025
Language:
English
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