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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#MarketResearchers-r old mags filling your shelves? We r missing quite a few from our collection–if you have any copies to donate, email us. Missing:Rsch Mag-Jan03-Dec09,Jun-Sep10,Jun-Jul12; Rsch Plus-Nov92,Jan93, Aug93-97,May98-now Will take them off u n save them for posterity! #amsr10years
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Calling all #ALevelTeachers📢 Do you teach #socialscience subjects? We are working in partnership with key #ExamBoards, & have curated material that clearly links to the syllabus, as well as providing ideas for lesson & independent #research activity 👉 ow.ly/lW5h50ZFx8l #schools #curriculum
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🔥HOT NEWS🔥 The AMSR has reached over 200,000 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND) scanned pages in its #Archive from Post -WW2 (although you will find some prior to that 🙂). Thank you to all the amazing volunteers & supporters that made this possible. To discover more 👉https://www.amsr.org.uk AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Dieting: from spectator sport to solo endeavour🤔 As more of us need to lose #weight & more try with slimming clubs (most famous was Weight Watchers) undergo steady, slow decline. A new essay based on TGI data tells the story 👉 ow.ly/9Zu350Z29Ct Are you on your own weight loss programme?
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Whatever happened to Weight Watchers? - AMSR
Whatever happened to Weight Watchers? AMSR Stories - Looking at British dieting from 1980s to now, you notice that dieting has become a permanent background condition of British life.
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's 75 years since the Festival of Britain 🤔 Explore AMSR #FestivalofBritain #history 👉 amsr.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/col…. If you have ANY surveys that cover or mention the Festival then the AMSR would very much like to hear from you. AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What about the Boomers? 🫣 Discover their story in a fascinating report preserved in the AMSR #archive! 77 FGD in 16 countries! #BabyBoomers #GenerationalResearch #MarketResearch OK Boomer! click 👉 ow.ly/k0l250Z8Qgc AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
George Orwell would have supported AMSR as a means of preserving social facts. From the terrifyingly prescient 1984: “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean & re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. ......." AMSR Making History (but not in that way!) #history #insights
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🤔 Who trusts politicians these days? But when did we ever trust politicians? The AMSR holds a piece of #research from 2001 about #attitudes to #taxation – maybe time to repeat that one! ow.ly/TaA550Z8RkX Chin up Kier! AMSR Making History #MarketResearch #socialresearch #insights
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Ipsos in the UK @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A decade after the Brexit referendum, half (52%) of Brits think the UK should apply to join the European Union. 🇪🇺
Should the UK rejoin the European Union? 
52% The UK should apply to join the European Union. 
33% The UK should stay out of the European Union. 
14% Don't know/Would not vote/Prefer not to say.
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The mental health of children and young people is very much in the news. The AMSR holds an extensive report by the ONS covering different disorders in 5 to 16 year olds. View report ➡️ ow.ly/L49950YQYQc If you are #studying in this field it is well worth a look #MentalHealthResearch
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
School summer holidays coming into view. Planning A-Level teaching in #ModernHistory, #Sociology, #Politics & #MediaStudies. Visit AMSR is FREE digital #Archive ➡️ ow.ly/kLZx50YR0CV Help your students develop their critical thinking skills by exploring the #Archive.
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
More & more people seem to be turning to the apparent magic potion offered by #weightloss drugs.🤔 A #MORI survey from 2001, now available in the AMSR asked the public about weight & dieting. Survey Link👉: ow.ly/LakE50YQYva What are your views on weight loss drugs? AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
⚽ #Football: How are female fans driving #PremierLeague growth? According to #TGI data, 60% of growth in TV viewing comes from women. More women are attending live matches too, contributing to a noticeable shift in overall profile of match-goers. 👉https://ow.ly/KbpR50YEO30 AMSR Making History
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Have football fans become more representative of the population? - AMSR
Data in the Archive of Market and Social Research demonstrate that the demographic of football watchers has become a better reflection of society as a whole.
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Big Data -is it Humongous Data?😆 Some clients believed that a massive number of interviews was needed to achieve accuracy. In a 1959 #survey on #attitudes to the re-nationalisation of #steel, client asked for a 1M interviews - 248,000 were actually completed Click 👉https://ow.ly/i0M150YEOss
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Did you catch Rory McIlroy's Masters win? Golf ranked 6th in AB viewers in 1990! Bowls made top 10 😁 #GolfHistory #SportsSponsorship ow.ly/tSic50YKMXb AMSR Making HIstory
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Oil price headline is back in the news! In 1992 a #MORI survey: UK backs renewables 66%, US 72%. Read more 👉 ow.ly/z7zf50YQY02 #EnergyResearch #RenewableEnergy #EnergySurvey AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
AA Level exams approaching fast. Good luck to all students and their teachers. AMSR is an excellent FREE resource for teaching #ModernHistory, #Sociology, #Politics, #EPQs & #MediaStudies –curriculum-linked, curated material & lesson ideas-plan next year’s teaching 👉 ow.ly/fiIV50YNkJb
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Calling #marketresearch industry 🗣️📢 AMSR needs your support. Already collected, scanned & made available (FREE Online) over 11,000 items (185k+ pages) from World of #Research & adding more daily. #Archives exist to keep things safe but not secret. 👉 www.amsr.org.uk/support-for-the-amsr
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Christmas ends when Easter Eggs appear early! Check the #Archive's #research on chocolate egg gender bias 🐰 ow.ly/fhVI50YzPH6 Happy Easter! AMSR Making HIstory #insights #marketresearch #history #easter #chocolate #mrx
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Were Easter Eggs ever a boy thing? - AMSR
Were Easter Eggs ever a boy thing? AMSR Stories - The AMSR contains qualitative insights from the 1970s into how the easter egg market was segmented by age and sex
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
🎶 Calling all music lovers! 🎶 Dive into the #Archive, where serious #insights meet nostalgic treasures. Discover gems here: RADiO piece ➡️ ow.ly/M2Gf50YqA9M Book Review ➡️ ow.ly/UNRf50YqAaC AMSR Making History #researcher #music #archive
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Shoplifting's social acceptability? 44% think worse of offenders. Has public opinion changed? 👉 amsr.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/col… AMSR Making History #PublicOpinion #SocialIssues #CrimeAndPunishment #insights
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Today is International Women's Day. Judith Rose (Staig) reveals #women's ongoing fight for #equality of treatment, of opportunity and of #safety and security, but it is also possible to see signs of improvement’. Read more 👉 ow.ly/soRb50YqAeJ #InternationalWomensDay AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Think this weather ☔ is bad! In 1987: ➡️ 40% of workers had difficulty getting to work ➡️ 18% had frozen/burst pipes ➡️ 8% fell over in snow ➡️ 41% faced #school closures! All this and more is available for FREE in the #archive 👉 ow.ly/2FTm50YogcH How is the weather affecting you today?
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Who uses AMSR? 🤔 #teachers, #pupils, #university students, #academics, #advertisingagency, and #Government departments find valuable research. Explore the #Archive! Visit us 👉https://ow.ly/KSqi50YmGvf AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR
The AMSR is a free-to-search archive of premium historical UK market and social research data and commentary.
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paulgeb.bsky.social @paulgeb.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#insights #history #marketesearch
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A Career in Market Research/Insights? hmmmm.....🤔 If you are considering applying for a job in #marketresearch/#insights or you have recently joined the industry you could do yourself a favour by reading ⭐Post war developments in Market Research⭐. Download FREE pdf copy 👉 ow.ly/mzFC50YmG4e
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Drones constantly in news-taking part in warfare to helping police catch mobile phone thieves. 1st mention found in #AMSR in 2014, TNS Connected Life survey, reporting on #telecoms Cos experimenting with #satellites & #drones to provide connection in remote areas ➡️ ow.ly/Jtka50YmE3j
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Times really have changed❗ AMSR has some brilliant 1983 #socialstats — from brushing #habits to early computer use ✔️ Half of UK #toothpaste users brushed 2 a day ✔️ 7–14 weekly #computer use: boys 10%, girls 6% Read it 👉https://ow.ly/ayZx50Yio9N Got today’s equivalent? Let us know AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Rising from the ashes!🤔 Topshop is back! 🔥 After vanishing from the high street, it’s popping up in #JohnLewis. The AMSR Geoff Wickens, dives into the fall + rise ➡️ ow.ly/U7h050YilIk #Topshop #MRS #FashionRetail #Insights AMSR Making History
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Is Topshop back to stay? - AMSR
Is Topshop back to stay? AMSR Stories - Topshop is returning to the High Street, several years after closing all its UK stores. AMSR helps us to understand why.
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The Winter Olympics ⛷️ are nearly here — and snowboarding 🏂 even inspired survey design! A 2011 ASC paper in the AMSR archive shows how snowboarding was used to make #questionnaires more engaging. Take a look ➡️https://ow.ly/SXAT50Yikj7 #SurveyDesign #Insights AMSR MakingHistory
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Editors Paul Edwards & Phyllis Vangelder The quote is a reminder of the relationship of time past, time present & time future. Inside this issue inc: ✔️ Interview with Jim Whaley, CEO #OvationMR ✔️ Schools usage update from Liz Watts To access & read 👉 ow.ly/Wl0u50YeprR #DataInsights #mrx
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The #Archive is pleased to be participating in #HistoryDay North event taking place in beautiful #Durham City on Tue 29 Jul (2 wks tday 🙂). Discovering Collections, Discovering History-a great day to come & visit our stand & say hello. FREE to attend. AMSR - Making History #mrx #education
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#mrx #insights #history #archive
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It’s BeaujolaisNouveau time again.🍷 Apparently it’s still a thing. AMSR has a fascinating review of our changing #wine tastes. CRAM('81) report, most commonly mentioned country of origin - wine drunk @ home-Germany. Who remembers Blue Nun & Black Tower? Own up now! click ow.ly/oYi350XtlMw
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How have British tastes in wine changed? - AMSR
How have British tastes in wine changed? AMSR draft posts - “Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!” is not the rallying cry it once was. But are we regaining our taste for it?
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Ipsos in the UK @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Did you enjoy an advent calendar chocolate this morning?🎄 📅 7 in 10 (72%) of Britons buy an advent calendar each year 💸Over half (55%) plan to spend under a tenner on their advent calendar 🍫 8 in 10 (84%) would choose chocolate calendars Full findings 👇 bit.ly/4pH8YRV
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Chocolate reigns supreme in the advent calendar market, but gen z increasingly swayed by beauty calendars
Seven in ten (72%) Britons say they purchase advent calendars.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New IHR Research Training: Oral History and Digital Storytelling - in-person two-day oral history and digital storytelling course. Explore the key issues and best practices for integrating creative expression with oral history. 26-27 Feb 2026 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The AMSR was at #Historyday at the University of London on 4 Nov. It was very well attended by both exhibitors & delegates. Lots of interest in our stand and plenty signing up for our mailing list. If you want to avoid FOMO you can sign up here 👉: ow.ly/zfzv50Xpa6x AMSR Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If I tell you the year is 1973 then you are more likely to guess Liberals. The AMSR builds a bridge to our political past. Whether you are studying #politics or just interested in politics AMSR holds plenty to give you some #historical perspective. ➡️ ow.ly/ZAbT50X8zlq AMSR. Making History
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Farewell then Jilly Cooper and thanks for all the fun. Head to the #archive to see how Market Research saved Jilly's job at the #SundayTimes.  www.amsr.org.uk/did-market-research… AMSR Making History #History #Insights #jillycooper #mrx #marketresearch #careers
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Did market research save Jilly Cooper's career? - AMSR
Did market research save Jilly Cooper's career? AMSR Stories - When the Sunday Times was considering letting Jilly Cooper go, market research proved her value and she kept her job, as the AMSR shows.
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
JohnLewis celebrates 100yrs being ‘never knowingly undersold’.There seemed to be real awareness of their promise-refund diff if bought cheaper elsewhere.JL some criticism not accepting CC & not opening on Mon (Sun opening not allowed till '94). Findings: 👉 ow.ly/W7Pg50X46W4 How times changed
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Anyone for Guinness? - New Netflix series ‘#TheHouseofGuinness’ premiered on 25 Sep Always keen for a sip (😃) of the black stuff we have peered into the #AMSR-UK to give you a bit of background on the different formats the brand has been drunk. Story ➡️ ow.ly/jFmn50X46B9 AMSR Making History
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How has Guinness kept its brand fresh for over 25 years? - AMSR
How has Guinness kept its brand fresh for over 25 years? AMSR Stories - The AMSR contains TGI data that demonstrates how Guinness has managed its brand assets over a long period.
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Back to school🏫 AMSR holds an article in #ResearchPlus from 1995-87% of #Secondaryschools had CD-Roms vs only 8% of all UK businesses.Multimedia ‘revolution’ obviously happened in schools before it hit business world.What can we learn today from this? #UKSchools Read: ow.ly/etbG50X1p0x
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Archive of Market and Social Research - AMSR @amsruk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Legislating for social change🤔 Sometimes #legislation is driver for changing #public #opinion; consider seat belts, same sex partnerships, although hanging was abolished 60+yrs ago, opinion still quite divided particularly for certain crimes. Where do you stand on this one? Read: ow.ly/ubC550Vgtww
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Is support for capital punishment growing? - AMSR
Is support for capital punishment growing? AMSR Stories - What do research reports held in the AMSR tell us about support for capital punishment in the UK?
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