Mass Observation Livres

Few social institutions have had so central a place in British life as the pub. "The Pub and the People", the second Mass-Observation book to be included in The Cresset Library, looks at the pub in 1930's British life. Through the eyes and words of the 'observers', and in Humphry Spender's stark and arresting photographs of pub scenes, we get a glimpse of the bars, the drinkers, the conversation and a community where the pub was the heart of the social life.

The first of a series of four volumes on life in "Worktown",an anonymous town in the north of England.

Does not even glance at pages 2 and3. And in Readers Tested:A 34-year-old Essex office-manager at the end of the day (Wednesday, July 16th, 1947) could recall, at the end of the day, reading the following:'I glanced at the front page of today's Daily Mail when I came downstairs and saw it on the hall table.