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Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 9, Korea, 1950.

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 9, Korea, 1950. [1950]

Material from one Mass Observation study conducted in London on public reactions to the war in Korea: the implications for world relations, the role of the USA and General MacArthur, the resignation of Sir Stafford Cripps and general political views.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (4 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779962653 View

Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 74, Radio listening, 1939-44.

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 74, Radio listening, 1939-44. [1939-1949]

This Topic collection from the Mass Observation Archive contains material on radio and broadcasting. Wartime material includes scripts, reports, observations and the 1940 Mass Observation Programme surveys. Post-war material consists of responses to a special directive on radio listening, 1947-48, and miscellaneous material pertaining to both radio and television. One box in the collection is devoted to Tom Harrisson's wartime public broadcasts and reviews.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (26 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779967586 View

Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 50, World outlook 1945-50.

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 50, World outlook 1945-50. [1945-1950]

Material collected by Mass Observation, describing opinions of the post war world. The collection includes replies to questionnaires on the perceived prospect of future war, causes of and ways of avoiding war.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (24 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779966877 View

ROBINSON, Kenneth Ernest (b 1914), 1974-1978

Title: ROBINSON, Kenneth Ernest (b 1914) 1974-1978

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes and 1 folder

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb101-ics134 View

McCrea, William Hunter. Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.

Title: Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.

Covers his family background, upbringing, education at the University of Cambridge, and positions at University of Edinburgh, Imperial College, University of Belfast, Royal Holloway College and University of Sussex. The scientific topics discussed include: the development of Newtonian cosmology, the origins and development of steady-state cosmology; work on theories of the solar system. Also prominently mentioned are: Philip Abelson, Luis Walter Alvarez, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Raymond Thayer Birge, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Ira Sprague Bowen, Sydney Chapman, Karl Taylor Compton, Edward Uhler Condon, Charles Galton Darwin, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Kenneth Dodd, Colonel Dudley, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Robley Dunglison Evans, Enrico Fermi, Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Howard Fowler, Friedman, Wolfgang Gentner, Thomas Gold, Sterling E. Hendricks, Fred Hoyle, Edwin Powell Hubble, Henry Hulme, James Jeans, W.O. Kermack, Joseph Larmor, Charles Christian Lauritsen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, George Lemâitre, Milton Stanley Livingston, Howard J. Lucas, Walter Michels, Edward Arthur Milne, Joe Morris, Arthur A. Noyes, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling, Firth Pierce, George Placzek, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Samuel Ruben, Henry Norris Russell, Ryokishi Sagane, Samson, Erwin Schrödinger, Emilio Gino Segrè, George Paget Thomson, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler, Warren. Weaver, Edmund T. Whittaker, Robert Rathbun Wilson, Charles Thomas Zahn; California Institute of Technology, Cambridge Radio Survey, Germany Kriegsmarine, Great Britain Science Research Council, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, National Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Princeton University, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Universität Göttingen, University of California at Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, and Zeitschrift für Physik.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 38 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77698909 View

Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Title: Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Papers of Russian physicist and human rights activist Andreĭ Sakharov.

ArchivalResource: 137 boxes (57 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01977/catalog View

University of Sussex. Letters, 1968-1969, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1968-1969, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Asa Briggs, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155877358 View

Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 57, The budget, money matters and household budgeting, 1939-50 [electronic resource].

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 57, The budget, money matters and household budgeting, 1939-50 [electronic resource]. [1939-1953]

Miscellaneous material collected by Mass Observation on the effects of wartime and post-war changes in the British economy. Reactions to wartime national budgets and their effects on taxation, income and sales are included, together with papers concerning the financial press, the devaluation of the pound in 1949 and the general postwar economic situation. Studies of rents in unfurnished accommodation (1950) and living on fixed incomes (1947) provide information on contemporary home economics.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (42 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/693000113 View

Harrisson, Tom, 1911-1976. File reports, 1937-1972.

Title: File reports, 1937-1972. [1937-1951]

Over 3000 file reports contain summaries of work carried out by Mass Observation, the pioneering British social research organisation. These reports contain information gathered by Mass Observation's paid observers, through interviews, overheard conversations, street surveys and questionnaires. Reports contain information on everyday life in Britain, attitudes to politics and the state, and market research for commercial products. Includes a number of memos issued by Tom Harrisson.

ArchivalResource: 1795 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779966867 View

Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 14, Famous persons, 1938-52.

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 14, Famous persons, 1938-52. [1938-1952]

A miscellaneous collection of surveys on attitudes to a selection of well-known figures: Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Rudolph Hess, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Franklin Roosevelt, Tom Driberg, King George VI, Gracie Fields and H.G. Wells.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (13 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779966876 View

Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 56, Peace and the public survey, 1956.

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 56, Peace and the public survey, 1956. [1956]

Questionnaires and responses gathered by Mass Observation on attitudes to war, its prevention and the role of the United Nations in world affairs. The material was gathered in the wake of events of 1956 in Hungary and Egypt. It includes methodological notes and a final report.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (7 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779966878 View

Harry Levin papers

Title: Harry Levin papers

Papers of Harry Levin, American literary critic, scholar of modernism and comparative literature, and the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature atHarvard University.

ArchivalResource: 41 linear feet (34 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01917 View

Hima Raza, 1917-2003

Title: Hima Raza 1917-2003

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1975-hr View

Papers and correspondence of William Hunter McCrea, Knight, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, 1904-1999, 1890-2004

Title: Papers and correspondence of William Hunter McCrea, Knight, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, 1904-1999 1890-2004

ArchivalResource: 186 boxes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb505-pp46 View

University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Sir Michael Warwick Thompson, 1949-1991

Title: University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Sir Michael Warwick Thompson 1949-1991

ArchivalResource: 189 items

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb150-us14 View

University of Sussex. Correspondence, 1959, from Lewis Mumford.

Title: Correspondence, 1959, from Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155881954 View

Mass-Observation Archive. Directive replies, 1939-1940.

Title: Directive replies, 1939-1940. [1939-1940]

These directive replies are responses from Mass Observation's National Panel to open-ended questionnaires. The questionnaires asked for opinions on a variety of subjects, including class, race, sexual behaviour, air raids, and conscription. The National Panel consisted of around 500 volunteers who wrote personal accounts for Mass Observation.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779962641 View

University of Sussex Foundation Papers, 1905-1962, mainly 1911-1913

Title: University of Sussex Foundation Papers 1905-1962, mainly 1911-1913

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes; 1.2 cubic feet

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb181-sxms2 View

Paul Scofield Collection, 1807 - 2010

Title: Paul Scofield Collection 1807 - 2010

ArchivalResource: 75 boxes plus framed and oversized items

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb71-thm/397 View

Tessa Boffin Archive, 1957-1993

Title: Tessa Boffin Archive 1957-1993

ArchivalResource: Approximately 4 metres

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb3094-boff View

Office of International Programs Records, 1959-1983

Title: Office of International Programs Records 1959-1983

Collection contains the records of the Office of International Programs at the University of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes; (76.7 linear feet)

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc00009.xml View

Mass-Observation Archive. Day surveys, 1937-1938.

Title: Day surveys, 1937-1938. [1937-1938]

The day surveys are daily diaries sent to Mass Observation, recording the ways in which particular days of the year were spent by up to 500 people. The surveys were taken on the 12th of each month, including George VI's coronation on 12th May 1937. The day surveys were kept by members of Mass Observation's National Panel of volunteers.

ArchivalResource: 789 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779962640 View

Mass-Observation Archive. Diaries, 1939-1940.

Title: Diaries, 1939-1940. [1939-1940]

Personal diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, kept by members of its volunteer National Panel. Kept usually on a daily basis, these diaries describe everyday life in Britain during the period 1939-1940. They offer an insight into the outbreak of World War Two, the Blitz and rationing from the perspectives of ordinary people.

ArchivalResource: 254 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779966864 View

Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 57, The budget, money matters and household budeting, 1939-50.

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 57, The budget, money matters and household budeting, 1939-50. [1939-1953]

Miscellaneous material collected by Mass Observation on the effects of wartime and post-war changes in the British economy. Reactions to wartime national budgets and their effects on taxation, income and sales are included, together with papers concerning the financial press, the devaluation of the pound in 1949 and the general postwar economic situation. Studies of rents in unfurnished accommodation (1950) and living on fixed incomes (1947) provide information on contemporary home economics.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (42 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779967585 View

Mass-Observation. Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 11, Juvenile delinquency, 1946-47.

Title: Topic collections, 1938-1956. TC 11, Juvenile delinquency, 1946-47. [1946-1947]

This material relates entirely to work carried out for the Mass Observation publication, Juvenile delinquency (Falcon Press, 1948). It includes first-hand accounts of life in Borstal, case histories of boys in Borstal, interviews and observations at Feltham Prison and extracts from psychology publications on criminality.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (8 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779962655 View

American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase II: Space Science and Geophysics. Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment (AMPTE) (Space Science): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

Title: Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment (AMPTE) (Space Science): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

Interviews were conducted with members of the project's collaboration using a structured question set covering all stages of in the collaborative research process: the formation of the collaboration and its personnel; the organizational structure; the formation of the experiment teams; the drafting of the proposal; funding for U.S. groups by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; use of subcontractors; development of software for data collection and analysis; the collaboration's decision-making style; role of the Project Manager, Project Scientist, Program Manager, Program Scientist, and graduates students; impact of internationalism; patterns of communications; records creation, use, distribution, and retention; also, comments on the interviewee's home institution and trends in graduate education in space science. Interviews (listed by institutional member of the collaboration and by name of individual) were conducted with: Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University: John Dassoulas, Thomas Krimijes, Richard McEntire; Goddard Space Flight Center: Mario Acuna, Gilbert Ousley; Imperial College, London: Peter Hedgecock; Lockheed, Palo Alto: Edward Shelley; Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Haerendel, Bernd Häusler, Jakob Stöcker; Mullard Space Science Laboratory: Tom Patrick; NASA Headquarters: Tim Eastman, Erwin Smerling; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: Duncan Bryant, Trevor Edwards, Alan Rogers, Kim Ward; Technical University Braunschweig: Herman Lühr; University of Maryland: George Glocker, Douglas Hamilton. Other institutions in the collaboration include: Max Planck Institute for Aeronomie; TRW; University of Bern; University of California, Berkeley; University of Iowa; University of Sussex; University of Sheffield; and others participating informally by providing data useful to timing the ion releases or by observing the releases from the ground.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82863021 View

Contemporary Dance Trust Archive, 1957-1998

Title: Contemporary Dance Trust Archive 1957-1998

ArchivalResource: 2999 files

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb71-thm/22 View