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Worktown Collection (1937-40)

Box 65: Plans for Britain Revisited

65/A Britain Revisited

Untitled document, ms, 143pp, THH, draft cut and paste of 1930s and 1960s for book

65/B Research material for Britain Revisited

"Part of Britain Revisited - Blackpool", ms/ts, 85pp, and index cards (7)

65/C Britain Revisited

Untitled document, ms/ts, 84pp, THH/CF

65/D BritaIn Revisited

Untitled document, ts, 78pp

65/E Questionnaires, guidelines for observers and lists, Bolton and Blackpool

"Doctors Q.Q. Indirects", ts, 1p

"Draft questions on savings and trade", ts, 1p, 17.1.39, (3 copies)

"South Lancashire Survey - Savings", ts, 1p, 7-point questionnaire, (3 copies)

"Savings Questionnaire", ts, 1p, 12.2.40, HJN, 4-point questionnaire

"Budget Questionnaire (for housewives only)" ts, 14-point questionnaire, (4 copies)

"Firday (sic) .... The Housewife", ts, 2pp, 47-point questionnaire, (3 copies)

Untitled document, ts, 2pp, 1.1.40, THH, questionnaire to test methodological problems, (2 copies)

Untitled document, ts, 2pp, 14-point questionnaire about Christmas, (3 copies)

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 6-point questionnaire about following the news, (2 copies and index card)

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 7-point questionnaire in letter form about pubs, drinking and temperance

"Feb. 12. Bog graphiti"(sic), ts, 1p, (2 copies and index card)

"Life History", ts, 1p, 5-point questionnaire, about religion, (3 copies)

"Religious Questionnaire", ts, 1p, 33-point questionnaire, (3 copies)

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 14-point questionnaire for the Ministry of Food, (3 copies)

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 6-point questionnaire about the structure of trade unions and membership, (3 copies)

"Bolton", ts, 10pp, lists of material on topics researched

"Bolton - Special area (SA)", ts, 1p, list of material

"General description of Blackpool pre-war material in 2 boxes", ts, 1p, list

"General description of Blackpool pre-war material relating to observers and interviews ...", ts, 3pp

Untitled document, ts, 3pp, list of material

"Bolton Industry and History", ts, 1p, list of material

65/F Commentary and notes on 1937 material

Untitled document, ms/ts, 35pp, RH

65/G Revisiting Bolton

"Report on the housing survey and the general condition in the Parish of Ribby-with-Wrea", ts, [27.3.50], 5pp, H. Graham, Chief Sanitary Inspector

Observer accounts

"Report made at Worktown on July 9th 1960", ts, 14pp, incorporating reports by HS/THH/FH/

"A day spent in Worktown", ms/ts, 29pp, 13.7.60, RA, slum housing

65/H Typed transcripts of reviews of Britain Revisited (1961)

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 27.3.61, The Financial Times, Mark Abrams

Untitled document, ts, 1p, Manchester Evening News, David Brett

Untitled document, ts, 1p, Yorksshire (sic) Post, Leeds

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 26.3.61, Sunday Pictorial, Alan Fairclough

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 27.3.61, Lancashire Evening Post, JFC

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 1.4.61, Newcastle Journal, John O'London's, 20.4.61, and Lancashire Evening Post, 8.4.61, DLW

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 7.4.61, Bolton Journal and Guardian

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 15.4.61, The Tablet, W.J. Igoe

Untitled document, ts, 2pp, 21.4.61, The Tribune, Raymond Williams and Bolton Evening News, response to review by THH

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 28.4.61, Church Times, and Romford Recorder, 21.4.61, GHH

65/I THH pieces 1960

"Personalities", ts, 1p, 5.7.60, THH, about changes in famous personalities, 1935-1960

Untitled document, ts, 1p, 5.7.60, CM, about Willmott and Young's book Family and Kinship in East London

"Further "Times" Report on Dr. Abrams", ts, 3pp, 5.7.60, THH

"Sociological gaps", ts, 2pp, 5.7.60, THH

"Report on the Bolton Museum", ts, 24pp, 12.7.60, THH, incorporating a report on Bolton cemeteries, Bolton intellectuals, the Pleiades Society, television at Bolton and Borneo and comment on novel by Frank Singleton, 1948

Untitled document, ts, 9-14.7.60, 10pp, [incomplete lacks pp1-10]

"Second note on television in Worktown", ts, 2pp, 19.7.60, THH

"Bolton and religion: two points of view", ts, 1p, 22.7.60, THH

"The Pleids Society and Intellectuals in Bolton", ts, 12pp, (2 copies)

Misc, ts, 2pp

2pp torn from book

Mass-Observation Studies 1937-55

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