Come along to our afternoon of craft and writing workshops in the Queen's House, exploring how law shapes refugee boat journeys

You can use this database to explore material collected by Mass Observation during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021). This database contains both the catalogue and the narrative responses.

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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...

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...

Example Responses Current Directive Our Directives are often a combination of commissioned questions and in-house designs. We often ask about current events, as well as often repeating questions the A...

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...

Our 12th May diary day is your chance to be part of recording everyday life. Sending us your dairy helps us record everyday life in the UK.

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.

Please use this form to submit your 12th May diary to the Mass Observation Archive.

What are your favourite songs? What memories do they bring up? Use the archive and prompts to begin creative writing.

Our 12th May diary day is your chance to be part of recording everyday life. Sending us your dairy helps us record everyday life in the UK.

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