Lucy Noakes

Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have to find ways to manage death, to support the bereaved and to dispose of bodies amidst the confusion of conflict. It matters to the state, which has to find ways of coping...

In 1937, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson created the social survey organisation Mass Observation to capture the thoughts, feelings and minutiae of individuals across the British Isles. At its height, Mass Observation had 1,000 concurrent writers—stretching from Penzance to Aberdeen and including miners, academics and housewives—and collected over 1 million individual diary entries between 1937 and 1960. In The People's...

'The VE Day book' Amol Rajan, Today, Radio 4 In 1937, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson created the social survey organisation Mass Observation to capture the thoughts, feelings, and minutiae of individuals across the British Isles. At its height, Mass Observation had 1,000 concurrent writers—stretching from Penzance to Aberdeen and including miners, academics, and housewives—and collected over 1 million individual...