![]() 1 on my present list to give to everyone in the coming year. 'Funny, vivid, touching, angry, thoughtful - every page is a delight. 'Utterly engrossing, better than any kind of reality TV.' Gavin Esler Simon Garfield - Alibris Weekend Sale Save 10. It will appeal to anyone who appreciates the richness and diversity of human experience.' Tony Benn Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain by Mr. ![]() They have the attraction of being stories, but REAL stories - Better than any novel.' Margaret Forster The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten Voices or indeed Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman. In Our Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield has skilfully woven a tapestry of diary entries in the rarely discussed but pivotal period of 1945 to 1948. ![]() ![]() Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where remarkably most remain unread. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive - Our Hidden Lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Simon Garfield is the author of twelve acclaimed books of non-fiction including. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. All about Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield. In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. ![]()
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