Studies like The Pub and the People (1943) and Weeping in the Cinema in 1950 (1995) are just two of the many studies based on Mass-Observation data.

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Her diaries, one suspects, could stand alone but have their own part to play here in fashioning the collective "anthropology of ourselves" that the Mass-Observation founders sought to create.

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They were employed by Mass-Observation, a social research organization founded in 1937 to study the everyday lives of ordinary people, who were also invited to participate in surveys and keep diaries.

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The files were commissioned by Mass Observation, a private social-research project that has studied the British since the 1930s.

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