Mass Observation Archive, 1947-2018

Material from the open access Mass Observation Archive (MOA) provided the views of the public for this study. We added to this data source by: (i) commissioning a directive in Spring 2018, Directive 111 Charity and the Welfare State; (ii) digitising all responses, and transcribing all handwritten responses, to the directive; (iii)transcribing portions of responses to 3 key directives sent out in 1947, which are part of Topic Collection 53; and (iv) importing these data into Nvivo (a computer assisted qualitative data analysis program (CAQDAS)) where they were analysed. As discussed in our proposal the MOA expects the project to archive all MOA related data (the Nvivo project will be in read-only form) with the MOA at The Keep, in Brighton, rather than the UK Data Archive, and this we have done. To obtain access to these digital copies please either visit The Keep, Brighton or contact the MOA via email. Access to these is at the discretion of the MOA, and on condition of signing a user's agreement (email: [e-mail])