May the twelfth
Subtitle: mass-observation day-surveys, 1937
By: by over two hundred observers ; edited by Humphrey Jennings, Charles Madge [and others]
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1937
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780571250455
Subjects: Social surveys; Coronation; History; Coronations
Other titles: May the 12th; Mass-observation day-surveys, 1937
Description: Mass Observation's purpose was to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. This title offers a portrait of life on a single day, the day of the Coronation of George V1 in 1937. Compiled from the individual reports of hundreds of people, the Mass Observers, it creates the atmosphere and excitement of a great national occasion.
Notes: Includes index.