November 2007
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Mass Observation And Humphrey Spender
As a result of the Abdication Crisis…we realised as never before the sway of superstition in the midst of science. How little we know of our next door neighbour and his habits. Of conditions of life and thought in another class or district our ignorance is complete. The anthropology of ourselves is still only a dream. Those words are taken from the introductory pamphlet to the Mass Observation project of 1930s Britain, in which the photography…