Take our quiz and guess which of these quotes about Europe are from letters sent to the Mass Observation Archive in 1982, and which are quotes from letters sent to the archive in 2016. The Mass Observation Archive isowned by the University of Sussex and held at The Keep.
1982 or 2016? Take our quiz.
The British have always had a lot to say about Europe. Can you tell whether these statements are from 1982 or 2016?
"Most people do not know enough to converse or pass opinion on c.market (like me). They find it a bore. Something one tolerates, like Arthur Scargill or the Buckingham Palace gang. "
1982
2016
"I don’t like all these wine and butter mountains. It’s all jobs for the boys."
1982
2016
"We are a small country in an interconnected networked world. The ‘glory days’ of the Empire and our dominant role in world affairs are long past, and there is no prospect, in the current environment, of us ever regaining anything like the influence on our own as we would have as part of the EU."
1982
2016
"I feel if anyone should come out of the market it is France. They seem to dislike everybody. They won’t have our lamb but flood us with apples."
1982
2016
"It seems anything scarce or in short supply temporarily is always blamed on the CM regulations. Whatever happened to BEEF SUET?"
1982
2016
"I don’t like the downgrading of our Parliament."
1982
2016
"It is important that we should regard ourselves as being inhabitants of the world and not just British or even English."
1982
2016
Better luck next time!
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Below are some more quotes from the Mass Observation archive, being read by University of Sussex drama students Harry Mackie, Belle Johnson and Joe Egan. Can you guess whether these are from 1982 or 2016?
The answer is that all the quotes in these videos are from letters sent to the Mass Observation Archive in 1982.
