false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175288606m/501706.jpg 931199 4 <div><div>In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive, and it soon became clear that this was more than anyone could digest. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where remarkably most remain unread. In <i>Our Hidden Lives</i>, Simon Garfield has skilfully woven a tapestry of diary entries in the rarely discussed but pivotal period of 1945 to 1948. The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book.</div></div> 916187 2004 Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain total:24|5:6|4:14|3:3|2:1| 24 97 41 6 4 0 false false Fri Jun 26 10:28:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 10:28:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 29 04:51:03 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 04:51:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Mar 31 11:44:36 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 11:52:10 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 12:09:10 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 12:11:34 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Mar 22 11:07:18 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 11:07:31 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Feb 28 08:54:34 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 08:54:34 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 07:45:11 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 11:52:50 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 07:45:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 14:20:29 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 14:20:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Jun 21 00:23:41 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 00:23:50 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Jun 20 12:33:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 12:33:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 07 06:16:17 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 06:16:17 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed May 27 16:47:41 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 16:47:41 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 10 23:44:01 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 04:23:30 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 23:44:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 18 02:24:02 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 02:24:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 17 07:23:30 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 07:23:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 16 10:19:23 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 10:19:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 17:43:26 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 17:43:26 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 13:15:37 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 13:15:59 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Dec 12 06:04:35 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 06:04:35 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Dec 12 02:18:48 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 02:18:51 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=501706