Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...

By Ella Beales Robert Garner’s Landslide is a partly fictionalised account of the 1945 General Election. This unconventional approach, known as creative non-fiction*, combines extensive historical res...

A series of talks exploring the ways that women's drinking habits and use of pubs has changed from the Second World War to the 1970s and how different consum...

Learn more about the ways our lives changed from the end of the war to the 1970s, exploring gender and generation changes.

Abstract. Very little is known about the experience of infertility before the successful deployment of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the late 1970s. It i

Learn more about the ways our lives changed from the end of the war to the 1970s, exploring gender and generation changes.

British Politics - The current political moment in Britain is characterised by disaffection, affective polarisation, and populist mobilisation of these (dis)affections. How best to research these...

Does Bolton hold the secret to happiness?

Find out more about the Everyday Life in Middletown project here: https://bsudsl.org/edlmiddletown/. Cover image: A photo submitted to the Everyday Life in M...

Trust in politicians has never been high, and even though the global trend is towards people trusting governments less, not every event of corruption will contribute to that trend.

How did ordinary people in 2000 make sense of oil, floods, and climate change? David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore the link between fuel protests and flood waters.