Today (25th June 2012) English Heritage launched Britain From Above. This new site publishes over 16,000 aerial photographs taken over the UK in the interwar years. This is a fascinating project and includes a member log in so anyone can add extra information to the site. There is a great selection of aerial shots of […]
Bolton’s Mass-Observers made a mass trip to Blackpool to observe during the September 1937 holiday week. The mills of Bolton would close for a week at a time so workers came to the town alongside their workmates to enjoy the ‘Paris of the North’. The Northern mill towns staggered their holidays so that the cotton […]
Continuing on from here… where our friendly Cannibal is finding it strangely difficult to get anything to eat in Bolton. He looked thoughtfully at the eels and lobsters in the window and then, feeling in his pockets to make sure that small change was handy, pressed down the latch of the door. To his surprise […]
The leader of Mass-Observation’s Worktown study of Bolton was the remarkable Tom Harrisson. His previous anthropological study of tribes in the New Hebrides led him to take a particular interest in the religious life of Bolton. He saw parallels between church and tribal rituals. A book examining religion in Bolton was planned after John Sommerfield’s […]