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Loading... Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Selfby James Hinton
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In Nine Wartime Lives, James Hinton uses diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain to re-evaluate the social history of the Second World War, and to reflect on the twentieth-century making of the modern self. These diaries were written by some of the unusually self-reflective and public-spirited people who agreed to write intimate journals about their daily activity for the social research organisation, Mass Observation. One of the nine diarists discussed is Nella Last, whose published diaries have been a source of delight and fascination for many thousands of readers. Alongsid No library descriptions found. |
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The author takes nine WWII Mass Observation diarists and examines how a sense of self is created / maintained at war time, and how the common myths of community in wartime experiences hold up against the actual experiences of these very different individuals. It makes a clear point that you can't generalise from these individuals, but light is particularly thrown on women's and pacifists' stories, which is interesting. Useful and interesting in itself. (