Podcasts about mass observation

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 63:19

During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods. In The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Kimberly Mair looks at how government publicity campaigns communicated new instructions for care formally, while the circulation of wartime rumours negotiated these instructions informally. These rumours, she argues, explicitly repudiated the improper socialization of evacuees and also produced a salient, but contested, image of the host as a good wartime citizen who was impervious to the cultural invasion of the ostensibly 'animalistic', dirty, and destructive house guest. Mair also considers the explicit contestations over the value of the lives of pets, conceived as animals who do not work with animal caregivers whose use of limited provisions or personal sacrifice could then be judged in the context of wartime hardship. Together, formal and informal instructions for caregiving reshaped everyday habits in the war years to an idealized template of the good citizen committed to the war and nation, with Mass-Observation enacting a watchful form of care by surveilling civilian feeling and habit in the process. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

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Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

New Books in Military History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 63:19

During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods. In The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Kimberly Mair looks at how government publicity campaigns communicated new instructions for care formally, while the circulation of wartime rumours negotiated these instructions informally. These rumours, she argues, explicitly repudiated the improper socialization of evacuees and also produced a salient, but contested, image of the host as a good wartime citizen who was impervious to the cultural invasion of the ostensibly 'animalistic', dirty, and destructive house guest. Mair also considers the explicit contestations over the value of the lives of pets, conceived as animals who do not work with animal caregivers whose use of limited provisions or personal sacrifice could then be judged in the context of wartime hardship. Together, formal and informal instructions for caregiving reshaped everyday habits in the war years to an idealized template of the good citizen committed to the war and nation, with Mass-Observation enacting a watchful form of care by surveilling civilian feeling and habit in the process. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

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Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 63:19

During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods. In The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Kimberly Mair looks at how government publicity campaigns communicated new instructions for care formally, while the circulation of wartime rumours negotiated these instructions informally. These rumours, she argues, explicitly repudiated the improper socialization of evacuees and also produced a salient, but contested, image of the host as a good wartime citizen who was impervious to the cultural invasion of the ostensibly 'animalistic', dirty, and destructive house guest. Mair also considers the explicit contestations over the value of the lives of pets, conceived as animals who do not work with animal caregivers whose use of limited provisions or personal sacrifice could then be judged in the context of wartime hardship. Together, formal and informal instructions for caregiving reshaped everyday habits in the war years to an idealized template of the good citizen committed to the war and nation, with Mass-Observation enacting a watchful form of care by surveilling civilian feeling and habit in the process. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

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Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

New Books in British Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 63:19

During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods. In The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Kimberly Mair looks at how government publicity campaigns communicated new instructions for care formally, while the circulation of wartime rumours negotiated these instructions informally. These rumours, she argues, explicitly repudiated the improper socialization of evacuees and also produced a salient, but contested, image of the host as a good wartime citizen who was impervious to the cultural invasion of the ostensibly 'animalistic', dirty, and destructive house guest. Mair also considers the explicit contestations over the value of the lives of pets, conceived as animals who do not work with animal caregivers whose use of limited provisions or personal sacrifice could then be judged in the context of wartime hardship. Together, formal and informal instructions for caregiving reshaped everyday habits in the war years to an idealized template of the good citizen committed to the war and nation, with Mass-Observation enacting a watchful form of care by surveilling civilian feeling and habit in the process. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

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Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 63:19

During the crisis of the Second World War in Britain, official Air Raid Precautions made the management of daily life a moral obligation of civil defence by introducing new prescriptions for the care of homes, animals, and persons displaced through evacuation. This book examines how the Mass-Observation movement recorded and shaped the logics of care that became central to those daily routines in homes and neighbourhoods. In The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Kimberly Mair looks at how government publicity campaigns communicated new instructions for care formally, while the circulation of wartime rumours negotiated these instructions informally. These rumours, she argues, explicitly repudiated the improper socialization of evacuees and also produced a salient, but contested, image of the host as a good wartime citizen who was impervious to the cultural invasion of the ostensibly 'animalistic', dirty, and destructive house guest. Mair also considers the explicit contestations over the value of the lives of pets, conceived as animals who do not work with animal caregivers whose use of limited provisions or personal sacrifice could then be judged in the context of wartime hardship. Together, formal and informal instructions for caregiving reshaped everyday habits in the war years to an idealized template of the good citizen committed to the war and nation, with Mass-Observation enacting a watchful form of care by surveilling civilian feeling and habit in the process. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose doctoral work focused on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

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Ado Veli Podcast - Roman Interview

Ado Veli Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2023 87:38

In this week's episode, Ado Veli sits down with Roman, a rapper and entrepreneur born and raised in Kenya but he is currently based in Kampala, Uganda. Roman talked about his debut album Mass Observation and his most recent projects namely; Tulia, AWAK3 and Love Me For Me. Watch the full video to learn more about Roman. Ado Veli Podcast Season 12 Episode 06, which is episode number 292. Get Ado Veli Podcast Merchandise here: https://adovelipodcast.hustlesasa.shop/ Listen to Ado Veli Podcast on; Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Boomplay, Google Podcasts, Mixcloud, TuneIn, Stitcher and SoundCloud here; https://smarturl.it/adovelipodcast Tune in, listen and share your thoughts on social media with our official hashtag #AdoVeliPodcast. Video Shot By Jayflix Studios https://www.instagram.com/jayflixstudios/ Follow us on; Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/penninah.wan... https://www.facebook.com/ADOVELl/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/penninahwanjir1 https://twitter.com/AdoVeliRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penninah_wa... https://www.instagram.com/adoveli/ Email: adoveli7@gmail.com Host: Pesh and Ado Veli.

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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 68:33

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2022). In our conversation, we discussed why studies of British sport histories have frequently neglected the Second World War, how various arms of the British state attempted to mobilize sport during the conflict, and how and why ordinary people included sport in their everyday life despite the deprivations of the era. In Sport and the Home Front, Taylor uses a range of historical sources, including state documents, newspapers, diaries and memories, and most especially reports from Mass Observation, in order to better understand why and how people played sport in Britain during the Second World War. He shows that sport was both more commonplace and more meaningful than previous historians have assumed. Sport thus provided a lens to examine whether, in what ways, and to what extent the Second World War was a people's war that unified the nation at a time of great threat. The book is organized thematically, with seven chapters analysing everything from state interventions into sport, the difficulties faced by clubs, and sport and the radio. These chapters cover a range of sports including popular games such as football, rugby, and cycling, but also less commonly discussed competitions including greyhound and horse racing. In each chapter, Taylor eschews any top-down analysis. Indeed, his work shows that the British government had a range of different views about sports – different ministries were more or less favourably disposed towards different sporting practices. Athletes and sporting officials also fought to help define what appropriate sport during the wartime might be and what value sports can bring to a country at war. Greyhound racing faced a possible ban. School children learned resilience through games. The War Ministry worried about football stadiums being bombed. Factory workers preserved their morale playing on Sundays. Newspapers reported on Civil Defence teams using too much petrol travelling to matches. Taylor's narrative includes the sporting activities of groups typically marginalized within histories of sport and wartime. Every chapter covers the ways that British women's sport expanded and faced challenges, unevenly, during the war as sportswomen across the country asserted their right to play to the state, businesses and local clubs. Taylor also covers the sporting activities of children, foreign soldiers, and colonial subjects in the metropole. His final chapter, “Sport, War and Nation,” offers the most compelling case for how British sport contributed to national unification during the war. In an era where Britain was beset by friends and foes, British sport provided a means of bringing people together. While frictions remained – notably over who could play sport and sporting life changed due to the deprivations of the war – British sport remained resolutely British and a way for British people to understand their sacrifices and to define themselves against their allies and enemies. Taylor's rich account of wartime British sport will be required reading for scholars interested in Britain during the Second World War, British sport, and will open doors for additional research into local sport in the United Kingdom across the war years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

New Books in Military History

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 68:33

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2022). In our conversation, we discussed why studies of British sport histories have frequently neglected the Second World War, how various arms of the British state attempted to mobilize sport during the conflict, and how and why ordinary people included sport in their everyday life despite the deprivations of the era. In Sport and the Home Front, Taylor uses a range of historical sources, including state documents, newspapers, diaries and memories, and most especially reports from Mass Observation, in order to better understand why and how people played sport in Britain during the Second World War. He shows that sport was both more commonplace and more meaningful than previous historians have assumed. Sport thus provided a lens to examine whether, in what ways, and to what extent the Second World War was a people's war that unified the nation at a time of great threat. The book is organized thematically, with seven chapters analysing everything from state interventions into sport, the difficulties faced by clubs, and sport and the radio. These chapters cover a range of sports including popular games such as football, rugby, and cycling, but also less commonly discussed competitions including greyhound and horse racing. In each chapter, Taylor eschews any top-down analysis. Indeed, his work shows that the British government had a range of different views about sports – different ministries were more or less favourably disposed towards different sporting practices. Athletes and sporting officials also fought to help define what appropriate sport during the wartime might be and what value sports can bring to a country at war. Greyhound racing faced a possible ban. School children learned resilience through games. The War Ministry worried about football stadiums being bombed. Factory workers preserved their morale playing on Sundays. Newspapers reported on Civil Defence teams using too much petrol travelling to matches. Taylor's narrative includes the sporting activities of groups typically marginalized within histories of sport and wartime. Every chapter covers the ways that British women's sport expanded and faced challenges, unevenly, during the war as sportswomen across the country asserted their right to play to the state, businesses and local clubs. Taylor also covers the sporting activities of children, foreign soldiers, and colonial subjects in the metropole. His final chapter, “Sport, War and Nation,” offers the most compelling case for how British sport contributed to national unification during the war. In an era where Britain was beset by friends and foes, British sport provided a means of bringing people together. While frictions remained – notably over who could play sport and sporting life changed due to the deprivations of the war – British sport remained resolutely British and a way for British people to understand their sacrifices and to define themselves against their allies and enemies. Taylor's rich account of wartime British sport will be required reading for scholars interested in Britain during the Second World War, British sport, and will open doors for additional research into local sport in the United Kingdom across the war years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 68:33

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2022). In our conversation, we discussed why studies of British sport histories have frequently neglected the Second World War, how various arms of the British state attempted to mobilize sport during the conflict, and how and why ordinary people included sport in their everyday life despite the deprivations of the era. In Sport and the Home Front, Taylor uses a range of historical sources, including state documents, newspapers, diaries and memories, and most especially reports from Mass Observation, in order to better understand why and how people played sport in Britain during the Second World War. He shows that sport was both more commonplace and more meaningful than previous historians have assumed. Sport thus provided a lens to examine whether, in what ways, and to what extent the Second World War was a people's war that unified the nation at a time of great threat. The book is organized thematically, with seven chapters analysing everything from state interventions into sport, the difficulties faced by clubs, and sport and the radio. These chapters cover a range of sports including popular games such as football, rugby, and cycling, but also less commonly discussed competitions including greyhound and horse racing. In each chapter, Taylor eschews any top-down analysis. Indeed, his work shows that the British government had a range of different views about sports – different ministries were more or less favourably disposed towards different sporting practices. Athletes and sporting officials also fought to help define what appropriate sport during the wartime might be and what value sports can bring to a country at war. Greyhound racing faced a possible ban. School children learned resilience through games. The War Ministry worried about football stadiums being bombed. Factory workers preserved their morale playing on Sundays. Newspapers reported on Civil Defence teams using too much petrol travelling to matches. Taylor's narrative includes the sporting activities of groups typically marginalized within histories of sport and wartime. Every chapter covers the ways that British women's sport expanded and faced challenges, unevenly, during the war as sportswomen across the country asserted their right to play to the state, businesses and local clubs. Taylor also covers the sporting activities of children, foreign soldiers, and colonial subjects in the metropole. His final chapter, “Sport, War and Nation,” offers the most compelling case for how British sport contributed to national unification during the war. In an era where Britain was beset by friends and foes, British sport provided a means of bringing people together. While frictions remained – notably over who could play sport and sporting life changed due to the deprivations of the war – British sport remained resolutely British and a way for British people to understand their sacrifices and to define themselves against their allies and enemies. Taylor's rich account of wartime British sport will be required reading for scholars interested in Britain during the Second World War, British sport, and will open doors for additional research into local sport in the United Kingdom across the war years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

New Books in Sports

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 68:33

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2022). In our conversation, we discussed why studies of British sport histories have frequently neglected the Second World War, how various arms of the British state attempted to mobilize sport during the conflict, and how and why ordinary people included sport in their everyday life despite the deprivations of the era. In Sport and the Home Front, Taylor uses a range of historical sources, including state documents, newspapers, diaries and memories, and most especially reports from Mass Observation, in order to better understand why and how people played sport in Britain during the Second World War. He shows that sport was both more commonplace and more meaningful than previous historians have assumed. Sport thus provided a lens to examine whether, in what ways, and to what extent the Second World War was a people's war that unified the nation at a time of great threat. The book is organized thematically, with seven chapters analysing everything from state interventions into sport, the difficulties faced by clubs, and sport and the radio. These chapters cover a range of sports including popular games such as football, rugby, and cycling, but also less commonly discussed competitions including greyhound and horse racing. In each chapter, Taylor eschews any top-down analysis. Indeed, his work shows that the British government had a range of different views about sports – different ministries were more or less favourably disposed towards different sporting practices. Athletes and sporting officials also fought to help define what appropriate sport during the wartime might be and what value sports can bring to a country at war. Greyhound racing faced a possible ban. School children learned resilience through games. The War Ministry worried about football stadiums being bombed. Factory workers preserved their morale playing on Sundays. Newspapers reported on Civil Defence teams using too much petrol travelling to matches. Taylor's narrative includes the sporting activities of groups typically marginalized within histories of sport and wartime. Every chapter covers the ways that British women's sport expanded and faced challenges, unevenly, during the war as sportswomen across the country asserted their right to play to the state, businesses and local clubs. Taylor also covers the sporting activities of children, foreign soldiers, and colonial subjects in the metropole. His final chapter, “Sport, War and Nation,” offers the most compelling case for how British sport contributed to national unification during the war. In an era where Britain was beset by friends and foes, British sport provided a means of bringing people together. While frictions remained – notably over who could play sport and sporting life changed due to the deprivations of the war – British sport remained resolutely British and a way for British people to understand their sacrifices and to define themselves against their allies and enemies. Taylor's rich account of wartime British sport will be required reading for scholars interested in Britain during the Second World War, British sport, and will open doors for additional research into local sport in the United Kingdom across the war years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sports

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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

New Books in Irish Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 68:33

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2022). In our conversation, we discussed why studies of British sport histories have frequently neglected the Second World War, how various arms of the British state attempted to mobilize sport during the conflict, and how and why ordinary people included sport in their everyday life despite the deprivations of the era. In Sport and the Home Front, Taylor uses a range of historical sources, including state documents, newspapers, diaries and memories, and most especially reports from Mass Observation, in order to better understand why and how people played sport in Britain during the Second World War. He shows that sport was both more commonplace and more meaningful than previous historians have assumed. Sport thus provided a lens to examine whether, in what ways, and to what extent the Second World War was a people's war that unified the nation at a time of great threat. The book is organized thematically, with seven chapters analysing everything from state interventions into sport, the difficulties faced by clubs, and sport and the radio. These chapters cover a range of sports including popular games such as football, rugby, and cycling, but also less commonly discussed competitions including greyhound and horse racing. In each chapter, Taylor eschews any top-down analysis. Indeed, his work shows that the British government had a range of different views about sports – different ministries were more or less favourably disposed towards different sporting practices. Athletes and sporting officials also fought to help define what appropriate sport during the wartime might be and what value sports can bring to a country at war. Greyhound racing faced a possible ban. School children learned resilience through games. The War Ministry worried about football stadiums being bombed. Factory workers preserved their morale playing on Sundays. Newspapers reported on Civil Defence teams using too much petrol travelling to matches. Taylor's narrative includes the sporting activities of groups typically marginalized within histories of sport and wartime. Every chapter covers the ways that British women's sport expanded and faced challenges, unevenly, during the war as sportswomen across the country asserted their right to play to the state, businesses and local clubs. Taylor also covers the sporting activities of children, foreign soldiers, and colonial subjects in the metropole. His final chapter, “Sport, War and Nation,” offers the most compelling case for how British sport contributed to national unification during the war. In an era where Britain was beset by friends and foes, British sport provided a means of bringing people together. While frictions remained – notably over who could play sport and sporting life changed due to the deprivations of the war – British sport remained resolutely British and a way for British people to understand their sacrifices and to define themselves against their allies and enemies. Taylor's rich account of wartime British sport will be required reading for scholars interested in Britain during the Second World War, British sport, and will open doors for additional research into local sport in the United Kingdom across the war years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

New Books in British Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 68:33

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2022). In our conversation, we discussed why studies of British sport histories have frequently neglected the Second World War, how various arms of the British state attempted to mobilize sport during the conflict, and how and why ordinary people included sport in their everyday life despite the deprivations of the era. In Sport and the Home Front, Taylor uses a range of historical sources, including state documents, newspapers, diaries and memories, and most especially reports from Mass Observation, in order to better understand why and how people played sport in Britain during the Second World War. He shows that sport was both more commonplace and more meaningful than previous historians have assumed. Sport thus provided a lens to examine whether, in what ways, and to what extent the Second World War was a people's war that unified the nation at a time of great threat. The book is organized thematically, with seven chapters analysing everything from state interventions into sport, the difficulties faced by clubs, and sport and the radio. These chapters cover a range of sports including popular games such as football, rugby, and cycling, but also less commonly discussed competitions including greyhound and horse racing. In each chapter, Taylor eschews any top-down analysis. Indeed, his work shows that the British government had a range of different views about sports – different ministries were more or less favourably disposed towards different sporting practices. Athletes and sporting officials also fought to help define what appropriate sport during the wartime might be and what value sports can bring to a country at war. Greyhound racing faced a possible ban. School children learned resilience through games. The War Ministry worried about football stadiums being bombed. Factory workers preserved their morale playing on Sundays. Newspapers reported on Civil Defence teams using too much petrol travelling to matches. Taylor's narrative includes the sporting activities of groups typically marginalized within histories of sport and wartime. Every chapter covers the ways that British women's sport expanded and faced challenges, unevenly, during the war as sportswomen across the country asserted their right to play to the state, businesses and local clubs. Taylor also covers the sporting activities of children, foreign soldiers, and colonial subjects in the metropole. His final chapter, “Sport, War and Nation,” offers the most compelling case for how British sport contributed to national unification during the war. In an era where Britain was beset by friends and foes, British sport provided a means of bringing people together. While frictions remained – notably over who could play sport and sporting life changed due to the deprivations of the war – British sport remained resolutely British and a way for British people to understand their sacrifices and to define themselves against their allies and enemies. Taylor's rich account of wartime British sport will be required reading for scholars interested in Britain during the Second World War, British sport, and will open doors for additional research into local sport in the United Kingdom across the war years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

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Matthew Taylor, "Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45" (Routledge, 2020)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 68:33

Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2022). In our conversation, we discussed why studies of British sport histories have frequently neglected the Second World War, how various arms of the British state attempted to mobilize sport during the conflict, and how and why ordinary people included sport in their everyday life despite the deprivations of the era. In Sport and the Home Front, Taylor uses a range of historical sources, including state documents, newspapers, diaries and memories, and most especially reports from Mass Observation, in order to better understand why and how people played sport in Britain during the Second World War. He shows that sport was both more commonplace and more meaningful than previous historians have assumed. Sport thus provided a lens to examine whether, in what ways, and to what extent the Second World War was a people's war that unified the nation at a time of great threat. The book is organized thematically, with seven chapters analysing everything from state interventions into sport, the difficulties faced by clubs, and sport and the radio. These chapters cover a range of sports including popular games such as football, rugby, and cycling, but also less commonly discussed competitions including greyhound and horse racing. In each chapter, Taylor eschews any top-down analysis. Indeed, his work shows that the British government had a range of different views about sports – different ministries were more or less favourably disposed towards different sporting practices. Athletes and sporting officials also fought to help define what appropriate sport during the wartime might be and what value sports can bring to a country at war. Greyhound racing faced a possible ban. School children learned resilience through games. The War Ministry worried about football stadiums being bombed. Factory workers preserved their morale playing on Sundays. Newspapers reported on Civil Defence teams using too much petrol travelling to matches. Taylor's narrative includes the sporting activities of groups typically marginalized within histories of sport and wartime. Every chapter covers the ways that British women's sport expanded and faced challenges, unevenly, during the war as sportswomen across the country asserted their right to play to the state, businesses and local clubs. Taylor also covers the sporting activities of children, foreign soldiers, and colonial subjects in the metropole. His final chapter, “Sport, War and Nation,” offers the most compelling case for how British sport contributed to national unification during the war. In an era where Britain was beset by friends and foes, British sport provided a means of bringing people together. While frictions remained – notably over who could play sport and sporting life changed due to the deprivations of the war – British sport remained resolutely British and a way for British people to understand their sacrifices and to define themselves against their allies and enemies. Taylor's rich account of wartime British sport will be required reading for scholars interested in Britain during the Second World War, British sport, and will open doors for additional research into local sport in the United Kingdom across the war years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

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The Psychographic Turn

Stories from the Space Between

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 53:40

In this episode Megan Faragher talks about her new book, Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature: The Psychographic Turn (Oxford University Press, 2021). She shares stories about what she calls "pollmindedness" in the 1930s, its roots in Victorian occultism, and its relevance today. We discuss the writers Celia Fremlin, Naomi Mitchison, and H.G. Wells as well as the work of Mass Observation and the British Institute of Public Opinion (BIPO). Megan is Associate Professor of English at Wright State University - Lake Campus. Her research and teaching interests center on British literature between the world wars, and the intersection between technology, information, and culture. Her scholarship has been published in Textual Practice, The Space Between Journal, and Literature & History. She has also contributed essays to the collections Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor (Routledge 2019) and Twenty-First Century British Fiction and the City (Palgrave 2018).

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Israel destroys Gaza tower housing foreign media

Newshour

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2021 48:35

Israel's military says the tower block housed assets belonging to the Hamas militant group, which has been denied by the building's landlord. In addition, at least 10 people, including eight children, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Gaza, officials say. We hear from a neighbour of the family killed in the strike. Hamas responds by firing dozens of rockets at cities in Israel, killing one man near Tel Aviv. We also hear from the international spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces. Also on the programme: Myanmar's National Unity Government, made up of politicians opposed to the military coup, calls for outside intervention in the small town of Mindat in Chin State, where a local armed opposition group is fighting the army; and the British sociological study known as Mass Observation which asks people to record a diary entry for one day a year - May the twelfth - putting down their thoughts and feelings however they choose. (Picture: Mourners carry bodies of Palestinians including members of the Abu Hatab family killed during airstrikes, near the remains of a building destroyed at the Beach refugee camp Credit: Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

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Who's watching whom? Mass Observation by Tarik O'Regan

In Unison

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 82:57

On this week’s episode of In Unison, we focus our discussion on a specific composition and its premiere performance: the remarkable “Mass Observation” by composer https://www.tarikoregan.com/ (Tarik O’Regan), premiered in 2017 by the https://smtd.umich.edu/chamber-choir-and-percussion-ensemble-perform-world-premiere-of-mass-observation/ (University of Michigan Chamber Choir and Percussion Ensemble), under the direction of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Blackstone (Jerry Blackstone). http://www.inunisonpodcast.com/episodes/s02e09#transcript (Episode transcript) Music Excerpts https://open.spotify.com/track/4hFqtaxM6eDJvTUk4TQIGB?si=_sL3CAM8SICL7tixUnRkxQ (Mass Observation), by Tarik O’Regan, performed by the University of Michigan Chamber Choir and Percussion Ensemble under the direction of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Blackstone (Jerry Blackstone.) Episode references https://www.tarikoregan.com/ (Tarik O’Regan) “https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/04darius-milhaud-preview03/ (Oresteian Trilogy),” by Darius Milhaud http://www.massobs.org.uk/about/mass-observation-project (British Mass Observation Program) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kathleen-raine (Poet Kathleen Raine), “http://www.emmanuelmusic.org/notes_translations/translations_motets/t_o'regan_threshold.htm (Threshold of Night)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon (Panopticon) “https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/35453/The-Ecstasies-Above--Tarik-O'Regan/ (Ecstasies Above),” by http://www.tarikoregan.com (Tarik O’Regan) https://www.blackstonedoc.com/ (We Are the Music Makers) https://www.yaleclubdc.org/upcoming-events (Yale Club of D.C. Events) https://philharmonia.org/about/richard-egarr/ (Philharmonia Baroque & Richard Egarr) https://choralsinging.org/ (Choral Singing in America) (documentary) https://www.facebook.com/theslapbook/about/ (Slapslap) https://www.instagram.com/tanner_tanyeri/?hl=en (Tanner Tanyeri) Theme Song: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mr-puffy/1457011536?i=1457011549 (Mr. Puffy) by Avi Bortnik, arr. by Paul Kim. Performed by http://www.dynamicjazz.dk/ (Dynamic)

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Security and effectiveness of a digital census

Adam Stoner

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support March 21st is census day in England and Wales and an important milestone because the 2021 census is the first mostly-digital census ever conducted here. A digital census has its obvious benefits, namely that statistics can be gleamed immediately on the available data. What interests me is not the results of the census but the data security and privacy implications that a digital census inherently has and whether, considering we already share so much of ourselves anyway, a census is fit for purpose. ONE: Conducting a digital census and storing sensitive information Concern around data privacy and government surveillance has increased in recent years. The revelations of Edward Snowden, Christopher Wylie and other whistleblowers have all come to light since the last census and knowledge that the data we provide companies is being used to profile and sell us is hardly secret. In July 2019, the Information Commissioner's Office conducted a survey that revealed that the public has a ‘low level of confidence in companies and organisations storing and using personal information' mostly thanks to concerns about data theft, data misuse, and that data being sold. The Open Data Institute and YouGov in October 2019 discovered that less than a third of citizens trust central government or local authorities with their data. More 25 to 34 year olds trust credit card companies than they do our elected leaders. I have completed (and you should complete) the census especially when failure to do so is punishable with a £1,000 fine. Despite such a heavy financial penalty, I suspect we may see record non-compliance this decade thanks to this distrust, social media conspiracy theories, and protest. And the reality is that a lot of this distrust is actually well placed: data breaches happen all the time and their scope and impact are increasing in size as we share more data with more outfits. All of this has a surprisingly positive impact (unless you work for the census office). People are becoming more reluctant to share their personal information. The number of people willing to share their home address fell from 41% to 31% from 2018 to 2019 and only 54% of respondents to one survey said they were willing to share their email address. Data from the census is consumed in two key ways. The first is instant and is available to statisticians as soon as you begin submitting information; the second features a time-delay of 100 years. Anonymised, aggregated statistics such as population and demographic. Your individual data point is featured here but you are not individually identifiable. Personally identifiable information. Information specific to you available for public consumption after 100 years, including your address, religion, sexuality and more. Where any data is concerned, you've got to trust: The security of the person who is submitting data; that their computer or telephone is free from anything that may leak or compromise their data The security of the staff working with the data (and there are as many as 30,000 of them) The security of staff equipment; their computers, telephones, and data storage techniques The security of company infrastructure the data is stored on centrally; servers and networks The security of any third-party companies it's shared with; the people who own the servers and their staff and all of their equipment and infrastructure The Census 2021 website says that ‘everyone working on the census signs the Census Confidentiality Undertaking' and that ‘[i]t's a crime for them to unlawfully share personal census information' but the law didn't prevent the release of 3.2 billion records from data breaches in the first two months of 2021, so why it would be a deterrent here I do not know. What I'm alluding to is that sooner or later, 2021 census information may suffer a data breach and end up somewhere it shouldn't. There are simply too many possible attack vectors. Let's not underestimate how valuable of a weapon this information actually is. Ex-Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser described their data modelling as a ‘weapons-grade communication technique' and claimed that because it was so dangerous, it was export-controlled. Information warfare is the new-norm and raw data on the entire population of a country could be a very alluring dataset for a foreign power or a shiny trophy for a black-hat hacker. Someone associated with an online hacker group claimed to have laid their hands on 2011 census data pretty immediately thanks to the ‘security-illiterate UK government' and posted what appeared to be an entire dataset for public viewing on Pastebin before it was taken down. Of course, I am assuming here that a bad actor is the cause of all data breaches, which isn't entirely true. Since the last census, the government themselves have managed to simply lose or misplace at least the following: 3,000 patient records after a computer used by the NHS was sold on eBay without being properly wiped Records on 600 maternity patients and their newborn children, lost by misplacing unencrypted USB sticks Over 1,000 records containing details of witnesses with links to serious criminal investigations after an unencrypted USB stick was stolen from a home 32,000 physical pages of text and 81 tapes of audio regarding an investigation of BAE Systems 114 files linked to 1980s Westminster paedophile ring allegations 2.5GB of data containing complete security information for Heathrow airport including badges, maps, and CCTV camera locations Is it any surprise two-thirds of people distrust authorities with their data when their track record of keeping it safe is so abysmal? Those conducting the census would refute this stating on their website that they have a ‘security regime that follows government standards'. Judging from their track record, those standards aren't great. All this said, digital censuses are more undoubtedly more robust and arguably immutable than paper ones: 1931 census returns were completely destroyed in a fire in Middlesex where the census was being stored which is a terrible shame. Could we one day see a blockchain census? TWO: Is a census fit for purpose? The question isn't whether censuses themselves are good or bad – I actually think they're very valuable historic tools, which is why you should definitely fill yours out – but whether the methodology is correct and whether they're necessary to reflect on current times. The census asks several questions but they fall into three categories: What and where you are: Your address, your biological birth sex, your age Who you identify as: Your gender, your sexuality, your religious beliefs How you live: Homeowner or renter, how many cars you own Due to World War II, the 1941 census wasn't taken but the National Registration Act 1939 established a National Register ‘for the issue of identity cards' and took a population count on 29 September 1939. Forty million people were registered in some 7,000 transcript books providing a viable census substitute, recording nearly the same information. A census is remarkably useful, representing in solid statistics changing behaviours and outlooks but I'd also argue it's not the business of anyone what sexuality you are, what God you might want to believe in, nor what the relationship you have with the people in your household is. The rest – where you live, how old you are, and whether you own a car or rent a home – is already available from HMRC, the DVLA, and more. Photographer Noah Kalina reflected on this idea stating that a photograph is worth more many years after it's taken and I think that sentiment is applicable here too. A census, or something like the Mass Observation diary project, is potentially our best way of measuring the past but we have many better ways of measuring the present. As a matter of fact, censuses are so useless at measuring ‘right now' that people are already calling for a second ‘emergency census' in 2026 given the impact coronavirus and the UK's exit from the European Union has had on our lifestyles. Again (and because I really don't want to be sued) you definitely should fill out the census, but arguably it's the people who don't that unwittingly reveal the most about society.

Episode 63: The Kitchen Sink #111 on Eardrumbuzz Radio

Elizabeth Klisiewicz's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 183:57

Three hours of hazy, loud, and always melodic music featuring the best of new shoegaze, psych, post punk, and dream pop. Jane Weaver – Lux (from forthcoming Flock, out in March, UK dream pop) Broadcast – Black Cat (Tender Buttons, 2005, UK experimental pop fueled with references to the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Ennio Morricone or John Barry. Lead singer Trish Keenan passed away in 2011) Beautify Junkyards - Deep Green (Cosmorama, 2021, Portuguese psych folk with Allison Brice of Lake Ruth on vocals and who wrote the lyrics) Lake Ruth – The Inconsolable Jean Claude (s/t single, NYC baroque pop) Mass Observation – From Honey to Ashes (Hewson Chen from Lake Ruth/The New Lines, Davis White from Lorelei/The New Lines, from the Mass Observation EP) Peel Dream Magazine – It’s My Body (Agitprop Alterna Deluxe Edition, 2020, NYC psych pop) The New Lines – Love and Cannibalism (Love and Cannibalism, 2016, NYC baroque pop) Break 1 Flower Girl – Cheap Star (single, Geneva power pop, featuring Remi Vaissiere, Jon Auer of Posies, Brian Young from FoW/Posies, and Matthew Caws from NS) Thousand Yard Stare – Sleepsound (The Panglossian Momentum, UK indie rock, new) Lower Heaven – A Day Without Yesterday (Pulse, 2014, LA psych) The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Bed of Roses (Screaming Trees cover, Dahlias and Rain EP, DIY kitchen pop project of Glenn Donaldson of Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums) The Electorate – If I Knew (You Don't Have Time To Stay Lost, new, Sydney indie pop) Bored At My Grandmas House – Showers (lead single from Sometimes I Forget You're Human Too EP, new, Leeds dream pop) NewDad – I Don’t Recognise You (new single, Irish indie pop) Mo Dotti – Glow In the Dark (Blurring EP, new, LA shoegaze) Break 2 Still Corners – A Kiss Before Dying (The Last Exit, new, London dream pop from Tessa Murray and Greg Hughes) Soft Blue Shimmer – Dream Beam Supreme (Nothing Happens Here EP, 2019, LA dream pop) Auld Spells – That’s The Way It Goes (single, Edinburgh psych, Thomas Alexander Danbury from Lower Heaven) There’s Talk – Golden (Great Falls EP, new, Oakland dreamgaze) todavia – Loverboy (Orange Faint of Sky, new, LA dream pop) Vicious Blossom – Slowdown (You Breathe Inside of Me, Lancaster PA dream pop, new) STOMP TALK MODSTONE – End of My Bed (Linger In Someone's Memory With A Lurid Glow, new, Japanese shoegaze) The Besnard Lakes – Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again (The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, new, psych rock from Montreal) Break 3 The Harrow – Beyond Stars (new single, NY cold wave) Mint Julep – Black Maps (In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep, Portland OR dream pop, featuring composer Keith Kenniff (Helios, Goldmund) and his wife Hollie) R. Missing – Placeholder for the Night (new, Placeholder for the Night EP, NY dark wave) Moon Cowboy – Bliss Radio Edit, DKFM Remaster (new, Lisbon dream pop) VV & The Void – Replicant (new, Elevator to the Unknown, Berlin dark wave) Russian Blood – Nocturnal Gift (new single, Sintra Portugal cold wave) Mirror of Haze – Drifting Into the Void (The End Is the Beginning, new forthcoming on February 15th, Norwegian dark wave) Beesqueeze – Lost at Sea (new single, Maltese psych pop) Habitants – Morgen (new single, Dutch dark wave) Break 4 Radio Supernova – Tammikuu (January, from Takaisin, new, Finnish shoegaze) Life on Venus – Everything Ends Here (Moscow shoegaze, new single) Submotile – Exit Cracks (Italian-Irish shoegaze, new single) Total Drag – Honey (new Hunny EP, Costa Mesa dream pop) The Meeting Places – Sink Into Stone (Numbered Days, LA shoegaze) To the Wedding – til the end (new single, Brooklyn shoegaze) Blackout Transmission – Portals (new, Sparse Illumination, LA neopsych) Beach Towels – We’re Gonna Run Away (new single, Edmonton Alberta shoegaze) Mother of Gund – Zemplet (new, UK shoegaze) Tombstones In Their Eyes – Happy (LA psych, Collection best of) Break 5 Matthew Sweet – Hold On Tight (Catspaw) The Sensible Gray Cells – A Little Prick (Get Back Into the World) Bob Mould – All Those People Know (Distortion box set)

BLITZ SPIRIT compiled by Becky Brown from the Mass-Observation Archive - audiobook extract

HodderPod - Hodder books podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 3:06

Becky Brown mines the Mass Observation Archive for wartime experiences of 1939-45 to show how the lives of people now generations away have relevance to our twenty-first century experience - living amidst a global pandemic. For today's listener, who is living through our biggest social dislocation since the Second World War and witnessing a crisis of unprecedented proportions, Blitz Spirit is a book written to gently invite comparison and provoke questions about our place in history. Becky Brown has selected extracts from the Mass Observation Archives to anthologise the voices of everyday people as they deal individually and collectively with the crisis of the Second World War. The diarists themselves have been selected from every level of society - from warehousemen to widows, soldiers to farmhands, WRENs to architects. The extracts have been chosen to both uplift and to ground; to remind readers that nothing is new, that everything can be weathered and perhaps even made better. After all, World War II saw the birth of the NHS.

Robin Rimbaud - Scanner

Electronic Music

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 27:38

Chapters00:32 - Personal History and storing memories01:28 - Tape recorders capturing birthdays and school trips02:59 - Ambient football on cassette03:46 - Discovering John Cage04:31 - Scores of Stockhausen05.18 - Live music05:52 - David Tudor07:39 - Modular Synth discovery09:23 - In the Studio playtime, Modular Synths, Gesture Arcade11:24 - Lorre-Mill Keyed Mosstone, Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 211:53 - Lorre-Mill Double Knot, Eventide H913:16 - Macumbista Benjolin17:38 - Morphagene17:57 - Musique Concrète20:41 - Teac Reel-to-Reel21:16 - Tape Loops22:30 - Dinner for Two24:59 - Avoiding the screen25:16 - Going in a loop26:04 - How nothing has changed27:01 - OutroRobin Rimbaud BiogScanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. To date he has scored 65 dance productions, including the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba Narnia, Qualia for the London Royal Ballet, and the world's first Virtual Reality ballet, Nightfall, for Dutch National Ballet.More unusual projects have included designing sound for the Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012 and the new Cisco telephone system used in many offices around the world. His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris whilst Vex, the residential house by Chance de Silva architects, featuring his permanent soundtrack, won the RIBA London Award 2018.Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Torres, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.http://www.scannerdot.comHis latest album, An Ascent, was recently released on the DiN Records label - https://din.org.uk/album/an-ascent-din63Where To Get The KitGesture ArcadeLorre-Mill Keyed MosstoneCiat-Lonbarde CocoquantusLorre-Mill Double KnotMacumbista BenjolinMorphagene

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Chemins d'histoire (Radio Clype)-Faire une thèse d'histoire, avec trois docteurs, 12.01.20

Chemins d’histoire

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2020 62:46

Seizième numéro de Chemins d'histoire, l'émission d'histoire de Radio Clype, émission réalisée par Margot Leutard, animée par Luc Daireaux Émission diffusée le dimanche 12 janvier 2020 Thème : Faire une thèse d'histoire aujourd'hui, conditions, sources, méthodes, pratiques Invités : Romain Guicharrousse, docteur de l’université Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (thèse intitulée Les étrangers au sein de la communauté athénienne, Ve-IIIe siècle avant notre ère, 2017), Ariane Mak, docteure de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales et maîtresse de conférences à l’université de Paris (ex-Paris-Diderot, thèse intitulée En grève et en guerre. Les mineurs britanniques au prisme des enquêtes du Mass Observation (1939-1945), 2018), Valérie Schram, docteure de l’École pratique des hautes études, attachée temporaire d’enseignement et de recherches au Collège de France (thèse intitulée L’arbre et le bois dans l’Égypte gréco-romaine, 2018). Tous les trois ont reçu des prix de la chancellerie des universités de Paris, en décembre 2019.

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608. The Mass Observation (with Mum)

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2019 76:52

608. The Mass Observation (with Mum) Listen to my mum talk about a social history project focusing on the lives of everyday people in the UK. Includes discussion of things like protests, plastic, identity, sex education, loneliness, and milk! Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9XW italki offer https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/talk

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Episode 8: The Alarm for solo bass voice

Inner Chamber: A New Music Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2019 53:48

In conjunction with Musiqa's concert with Houston Chamber Choir, Mass Observation (taking place in Houston on April 13), Emma Wine interviews conductor and founder Robert Simpson and bass Patrick Schneider about their experiences with Houston Chamber Choir and how they found the world of choral music. Then, the three of them complete the "Speed-Creating Challenge," where they collaborate to write a piece in 15 minutes. Including: The Alarm by Patrick Schneider, Robert Simpson, and Emma Wine *WORLD PREMIERE Soundtrack: Gu Wei: Cadence Factory JS Bach: Gigue from Fugue in G Major BVW 577 Carl David af Wirsén: Sommarpsalm performed by The Real Group and Eric Ericson Pierre Villette: Hymne a la Vierge performed by Houston Chamber Choir Tomás Luis de Victoria: Gloria performed by Houston Chamber Choir Dominic DiOria: I Am performed by Houston Chamber Choir Maurice Duruflé: Notre Père performed by Houston Chamber Choir Frank Loesser: Slow Boat to China performed by Houston Chamber Choir Wayne Oquin: O Magnum Mysterium performed by Houston Chamber Choir Antonia Estévez: Mata del Anima Sola performed by Houston Chamber Choir

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The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

Backlisted

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2016 58:56

Novelist, editor and critic Erica Wagner joins the Backlisted team to discuss one of her favourite books - The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell. Revolt Into Style, George Melly's groundbreaking discourse on pop culture, and Exmoor Village, a Mass Observation publication from 1947.

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James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

New Books in Popular Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 61:42

In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. This exploration reveals the transformations of working-class communities, and of the changing notions of femininity, masculinity and leisure that occur in this period. To do so, Nott navigates us skillfully between the perspectives of the dance hall owners, dance teachers and innovators. He them leads us to consider the point of view of enthusiastic jiving individuals. Finally, we take our place on the sidelines with the onlookers and killjoys alarmed by this ‘craze.’ This kaleidoscope of voices and images illuminates the role of the dance hall as a social space. It is argued that the dance hall brought together men and women in search of fun, but also provided them with a safe space to try out identities and behaviors. Nott claims that the spread and success of the dance hall reached the whole country. He situates it within the democratization process of British culture that was led by commercialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and even more so after the Second World war. Nott points to the American origins of the music and dances that dominated the dance hall. But also suggest that a national style was forged on the dance-floor and via the business models and publicity methods of the institution. Consequently, he maintains, a uniquely British space was born. The story of the rise and fall of the dance hall is constructed through its economic history. Its financial success and decline are analyzed with sources from the day’s trade press, the archives of individual companies and the regulation and licensing records of towns and cities. The cultural role of the dance hall is revealed through its representation in local and national press. Oral interviews, contemporaneous social surveys and Mass Observation reports are woven together to construct the experience of going to the palais. The result is a superb analysis of gender and race relations, as well as a fascinating look at an industry that had once rivaled cinema as an ultimate pastime. Dr James Nott is a social and cultural historian at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Music for the People: Popular Music and dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 62:20

In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. This exploration reveals the transformations of working-class communities, and of the changing notions of femininity, masculinity and leisure that occur in this period. To do so, Nott navigates us skillfully between the perspectives of the dance hall owners, dance teachers and innovators. He them leads us to consider the point of view of enthusiastic jiving individuals. Finally, we take our place on the sidelines with the onlookers and killjoys alarmed by this ‘craze.’ This kaleidoscope of voices and images illuminates the role of the dance hall as a social space. It is argued that the dance hall brought together men and women in search of fun, but also provided them with a safe space to try out identities and behaviors. Nott claims that the spread and success of the dance hall reached the whole country. He situates it within the democratization process of British culture that was led by commercialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and even more so after the Second World war. Nott points to the American origins of the music and dances that dominated the dance hall. But also suggest that a national style was forged on the dance-floor and via the business models and publicity methods of the institution. Consequently, he maintains, a uniquely British space was born. The story of the rise and fall of the dance hall is constructed through its economic history. Its financial success and decline are analyzed with sources from the day’s trade press, the archives of individual companies and the regulation and licensing records of towns and cities. The cultural role of the dance hall is revealed through its representation in local and national press. Oral interviews, contemporaneous social surveys and Mass Observation reports are woven together to construct the experience of going to the palais. The result is a superb analysis of gender and race relations, as well as a fascinating look at an industry that had once rivaled cinema as an ultimate pastime. Dr James Nott is a social and cultural historian at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Music for the People: Popular Music and dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

New Books in British Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 62:08

In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. This exploration reveals the transformations of working-class communities, and of the changing notions of femininity, masculinity and leisure that occur in this period. To do so, Nott navigates us skillfully between the perspectives of the dance hall owners, dance teachers and innovators. He them leads us to consider the point of view of enthusiastic jiving individuals. Finally, we take our place on the sidelines with the onlookers and killjoys alarmed by this ‘craze.’ This kaleidoscope of voices and images illuminates the role of the dance hall as a social space. It is argued that the dance hall brought together men and women in search of fun, but also provided them with a safe space to try out identities and behaviors. Nott claims that the spread and success of the dance hall reached the whole country. He situates it within the democratization process of British culture that was led by commercialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and even more so after the Second World war. Nott points to the American origins of the music and dances that dominated the dance hall. But also suggest that a national style was forged on the dance-floor and via the business models and publicity methods of the institution. Consequently, he maintains, a uniquely British space was born. The story of the rise and fall of the dance hall is constructed through its economic history. Its financial success and decline are analyzed with sources from the day’s trade press, the archives of individual companies and the regulation and licensing records of towns and cities. The cultural role of the dance hall is revealed through its representation in local and national press. Oral interviews, contemporaneous social surveys and Mass Observation reports are woven together to construct the experience of going to the palais. The result is a superb analysis of gender and race relations, as well as a fascinating look at an industry that had once rivaled cinema as an ultimate pastime. Dr James Nott is a social and cultural historian at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Music for the People: Popular Music and dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 61:42

In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. This exploration reveals the transformations of working-class communities, and of the changing notions of femininity, masculinity and leisure that occur in this period. To do so, Nott navigates us skillfully between the perspectives of the dance hall owners, dance teachers and innovators. He them leads us to consider the point of view of enthusiastic jiving individuals. Finally, we take our place on the sidelines with the onlookers and killjoys alarmed by this ‘craze.’ This kaleidoscope of voices and images illuminates the role of the dance hall as a social space. It is argued that the dance hall brought together men and women in search of fun, but also provided them with a safe space to try out identities and behaviors. Nott claims that the spread and success of the dance hall reached the whole country. He situates it within the democratization process of British culture that was led by commercialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and even more so after the Second World war. Nott points to the American origins of the music and dances that dominated the dance hall. But also suggest that a national style was forged on the dance-floor and via the business models and publicity methods of the institution. Consequently, he maintains, a uniquely British space was born. The story of the rise and fall of the dance hall is constructed through its economic history. Its financial success and decline are analyzed with sources from the day’s trade press, the archives of individual companies and the regulation and licensing records of towns and cities. The cultural role of the dance hall is revealed through its representation in local and national press. Oral interviews, contemporaneous social surveys and Mass Observation reports are woven together to construct the experience of going to the palais. The result is a superb analysis of gender and race relations, as well as a fascinating look at an industry that had once rivaled cinema as an ultimate pastime. Dr James Nott is a social and cultural historian at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Music for the People: Popular Music and dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

New Books in Dance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 61:42

In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. This exploration reveals the transformations of working-class communities, and of the changing notions of femininity, masculinity and leisure that occur in this period. To do so, Nott navigates us skillfully between the perspectives of the dance hall owners, dance teachers and innovators. He them leads us to consider the point of view of enthusiastic jiving individuals. Finally, we take our place on the sidelines with the onlookers and killjoys alarmed by this ‘craze.’ This kaleidoscope of voices and images illuminates the role of the dance hall as a social space. It is argued that the dance hall brought together men and women in search of fun, but also provided them with a safe space to try out identities and behaviors. Nott claims that the spread and success of the dance hall reached the whole country. He situates it within the democratization process of British culture that was led by commercialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and even more so after the Second World war. Nott points to the American origins of the music and dances that dominated the dance hall. But also suggest that a national style was forged on the dance-floor and via the business models and publicity methods of the institution. Consequently, he maintains, a uniquely British space was born. The story of the rise and fall of the dance hall is constructed through its economic history. Its financial success and decline are analyzed with sources from the day’s trade press, the archives of individual companies and the regulation and licensing records of towns and cities. The cultural role of the dance hall is revealed through its representation in local and national press. Oral interviews, contemporaneous social surveys and Mass Observation reports are woven together to construct the experience of going to the palais. The result is a superb analysis of gender and race relations, as well as a fascinating look at an industry that had once rivaled cinema as an ultimate pastime. Dr James Nott is a social and cultural historian at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Music for the People: Popular Music and dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 61:42

In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. This exploration reveals the transformations of working-class communities, and of the changing notions of femininity, masculinity and leisure that occur in this period. To do so, Nott navigates us skillfully between the perspectives of the dance hall owners, dance teachers and innovators. He them leads us to consider the point of view of enthusiastic jiving individuals. Finally, we take our place on the sidelines with the onlookers and killjoys alarmed by this ‘craze.’ This kaleidoscope of voices and images illuminates the role of the dance hall as a social space. It is argued that the dance hall brought together men and women in search of fun, but also provided them with a safe space to try out identities and behaviors. Nott claims that the spread and success of the dance hall reached the whole country. He situates it within the democratization process of British culture that was led by commercialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and even more so after the Second World war. Nott points to the American origins of the music and dances that dominated the dance hall. But also suggest that a national style was forged on the dance-floor and via the business models and publicity methods of the institution. Consequently, he maintains, a uniquely British space was born. The story of the rise and fall of the dance hall is constructed through its economic history. Its financial success and decline are analyzed with sources from the day’s trade press, the archives of individual companies and the regulation and licensing records of towns and cities. The cultural role of the dance hall is revealed through its representation in local and national press. Oral interviews, contemporaneous social surveys and Mass Observation reports are woven together to construct the experience of going to the palais. The result is a superb analysis of gender and race relations, as well as a fascinating look at an industry that had once rivaled cinema as an ultimate pastime. Dr James Nott is a social and cultural historian at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Music for the People: Popular Music and dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

music american university politics british britain dancing classes oral honour oxford university press st andrews cultural history second world british history nott oxford up dance halls mass observation james nott cultures essays people popular music interwar britain oup ross mckibbin oup

James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2016 61:42

In his new book Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2016), cultural historian James Nott charts the untold history of dancing and dance halls in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. This exploration reveals the transformations of working-class communities, and of the changing notions of femininity, masculinity and leisure that occur in this period. To do so, Nott navigates us skillfully between the perspectives of the dance hall owners, dance teachers and innovators. He them leads us to consider the point of view of enthusiastic jiving individuals. Finally, we take our place on the sidelines with the onlookers and killjoys alarmed by this ‘craze.' This kaleidoscope of voices and images illuminates the role of the dance hall as a social space. It is argued that the dance hall brought together men and women in search of fun, but also provided them with a safe space to try out identities and behaviors. Nott claims that the spread and success of the dance hall reached the whole country. He situates it within the democratization process of British culture that was led by commercialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and even more so after the Second World war. Nott points to the American origins of the music and dances that dominated the dance hall. But also suggest that a national style was forged on the dance-floor and via the business models and publicity methods of the institution. Consequently, he maintains, a uniquely British space was born. The story of the rise and fall of the dance hall is constructed through its economic history. Its financial success and decline are analyzed with sources from the day's trade press, the archives of individual companies and the regulation and licensing records of towns and cities. The cultural role of the dance hall is revealed through its representation in local and national press. Oral interviews, contemporaneous social surveys and Mass Observation reports are woven together to construct the experience of going to the palais. The result is a superb analysis of gender and race relations, as well as a fascinating look at an industry that had once rivaled cinema as an ultimate pastime. Dr James Nott is a social and cultural historian at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Music for the People: Popular Music and dance in Interwar Britain (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of Classes, Politics and Cultures: Essays in British History in Honour of Ross McKibbin (OUP, 2011).

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Mass Observation and Leisure History

Sport and Leisure History seminar

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 52:22

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Katherine Hayles - 19 March 2015 - A Theory of the Total Archive

CRASSH

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2015 46:44

Katherine Hayles - A Theory of the Total Archive: Infinite Expansion, Infinite Compression, and Apparatuses of Control Keynote / Public Lecture from the conference The Total Archive Conference Summary Conveners Boris Jardine (University of Cambridge) Matthew Drage (University of Cambridge, PhD candidate) Ruth Horry (University of Cambridge) Summary The complete system of knowledge is a standard trope of science fiction, a techno-utopian dream and an aesthetic ideal. It is Solomon’s House, the Encyclopaedia and the Museum. It is also an ideology – of Enlightenment, High Modernism and absolute governance. Far from ending the dream of a total archive, twentieth-century positivist rationality brought it ever closer. From Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum to Mass-Observation, from the Unity of Science movement to Isaac Asimov’s Encyclopedia Galactica, from the Whole Earth Catalog to Wikipedia, the dream of universal knowledge dies hard. These projects triumphantly burst their own bounds, generating more archival material, more information, than can ever be processed. When it encounters well defined areas – the sportsfield or the model organism – the total archive tracks every movement of every player, of recording every gene and mutation. Increasingly this approach is inverted: databases are linked; quantities are demanded where only qualities existed before. The Human Genome Project is the most famous, but now there are countless databases demanding ever more varied input. Here the question of what is excluded becomes central. The total archive is a political tool. It encompasses population statistics, GDP, indices of the Standard of Living and the international ideology of UNESCO, the WHO, the free market and, most recently, Big Data. The information-gathering practices of statecraft are the total archive par excellence, carrying the potential to transfer power into the open fields of economics and law – or divest it into the hands of criminals, researchers and activists. Questions of the total archive engage key issues in the philosophy of classification, the poetics of the universal, the ideology of surveillance and the technologies of information retrieval. What are the social structures and political dynamics required to sustain total archives, and what are the temporalities implied by such projects? In order to confront the ideology and increasing reality of interconnected data-sets and communication technologies we need a robust conceptual framework – one that does not sacrifice historical nuance for the ability to speculate. This conference brings together scholars from a wide range of fields to discuss the aesthetics and political reality of the total archive.

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Joe Moran, “Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV” (Profile Books, 2013)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2014 48:42

The social and cultural historian Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK is interested in the everyday moments between great events. In his books Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, On Roads: A Hidden History and now Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV (Profile Books, 2013) he documents the mundane activities that make up our lives. In Armchair Nation Moran surveys the history of television watching in Britain from the technology’s first demonstration in a department store in 1925 and up to today. Moran’s engaging narrative progresses through major milestones in the medium’s history. To document how watching television had become a daily habit for a multitude of individuals, Moran uses an assortment of sources such as newspaper reviews, listings and interviews, diaries, and Mass Observation entries. While Moran hesitates to treat the consumption of television as an act of community building, he does frame it as a communal and meaningful act that binds millions together. Therefore, for Moran, the analysis of television consumption is also a meditation about the characteristics and challenges of collective memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Joe Moran, “Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV” (Profile Books, 2013)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2014 48:42

The social and cultural historian Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK is interested in the everyday moments between great events. In his books Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, On Roads: A Hidden History and now Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV (Profile Books, 2013) he documents the mundane activities that make up our lives. In Armchair Nation Moran surveys the history of television watching in Britain from the technology’s first demonstration in a department store in 1925 and up to today. Moran’s engaging narrative progresses through major milestones in the medium’s history. To document how watching television had become a daily habit for a multitude of individuals, Moran uses an assortment of sources such as newspaper reviews, listings and interviews, diaries, and Mass Observation entries. While Moran hesitates to treat the consumption of television as an act of community building, he does frame it as a communal and meaningful act that binds millions together. Therefore, for Moran, the analysis of television consumption is also a meditation about the characteristics and challenges of collective memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Joe Moran, “Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV” (Profile Books, 2013)