The Mass-Observation Critical Series
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The Mass-Observation Critical Series is published by Bloomsbury Academic UK. It pairs innovative interdisciplinary scholarship with rich archival materials from the original Mass-Observation movement and the current Mass Observation Project.
Andrew Jackson's January 2025 review of Everyday Life in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mass Observation’s 12 May Diaries (2024) states that the book is 'critical, comprehensive, and compelling' and is 'testimony to the long-established and well-proven significance of...MO in historical record keeping'.
Says Ben Highmore of Historical Contexts & Contemporary Uses (2025): 'Each chapter reveals scintillating new riches from the inexhaustible fount of felt thoughts and thoughtful feelings that is Mass-Observation. This is essential, engaging, and delightful reading.'
Coming in Autumn 2025 -- Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III: Monarchy, Spectacle, and Experience. Edited by Jennifer J. Purcell, Lucy Curzon, and Fiona Courage.
The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation (2025) is now available -- with essays by Ben Jones, Matt Taunton, Claire Langhamer, Lucy Curzon, Jeremy MacClancy, Annebella Pollen, Jon Lawrence & David Thackeray, Charlotte Hallahan, Nick Hubble, Lucy Robinson, and Rose Lindsey