Archive of Mass Observation, 1937-1967 1937-1967

Madge, Charles, 1912-1996

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Charles Madge (1912-1996) was the son of Lieut Col. C. A. Madge and Barbara, ne Hylton Foster, and was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, though he left without graduating. Although Madge worked successfully as both a poet and a sociologist, there was little congruence between the two in his life and his early promise in the former was soon eclipsed by the demands of the latter. Precociously talented as a poet, his work received greatest recognition in ...

Observation, Mass

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The Archive results from the work of the social research organisation, Mass Observation. This organisation was founded in 1937 by three young men, part of a small group of like-minded friends. The origins resulted from a strange coincidence. Early in 1937, Tom Harrisson's one and only published poem appeared in the New Statesman on the same page as a letter from Charles Madge and Humphrey Jennings, in which they outlined their London-based project to encourage a national panel of vo...

Mass-Observation (Firm)

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Harrisson, Tom, 1911-1976

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Anthropologist and conservationist. Curator of the Sarawak Museum, Borneo, member of the IUCN Survival Service Commission, and co-chairman of its Marine Turtle Specialist Group. From the description of Papers, 1866-1976, bulk 1947-1976. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 31875379 Tom Harrisson, noted turtle scientist and conservationist, first began turtle observations as curator of the Sarawak Museum in Borneo and as chief executive officer of the Sar...

Jennings, Humphrey

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