Our friends from the Mass Observation Archive at Sussex University were invited to guest edit the Today programme on Radio 4 on Boxing Day. You can listen to clips of the programme here and the full programme on the BBC’s iplayer until Wednesday 2nd January.
The Bolton Worktown blog
Uncle Bob and his friend Billy
Earlier in the year we decided that looking for each of the locations in the 930 Spender photographs would be far too time consuming for just the two of us, especially as neither of us know Bolton that well, being a Mancunian and a Wiganer. So we decided it would be good to ask you […]
Stranger than Fiction Film Screening
Join guest speaker and Director Ian Potts for a Q&A and introduction to ‘Stranger than Fiction’ (1985); a film about Bolton’s Mass Observation project in the late 1930s. The talk will be followed by a screening of the film itself. The event starts at 5.30 pm tomorrow, Thursday 22 November. Refreshments will be served.
The Non-Voter
These extracts are taken from Mass Observation’s study of the non-voter in Bolton which was brought to mind by the extraordinarily low turnouts for this week’s police commissioner elections. The first extract is taken from a draft written by Tom Harrisson for a book on voting which was never completed. It’s interesting how the same […]