(“I guessed in a moment that the queen bee had evidently mistaken my Huck Finn hat for a suitable hive.”) By contrast, there’s endless whingeing about the government, to say nothing of anti-semitism.
There’s lots of humour, especially from Herbert Brush, who attracts a storm of bees while digging potatoes. Charles, a gay antique dealer Maggie Joy Blunt, a single woman fed up with her office job Herbert Brush, a Pooteresque pensioner who never wins the allotment competition George Taylor, a grumpy accountant and Edie Rutherford, trying to reconcile her middle-class assumptions with her socialist conscience. Mass Observation, anthropologist Tom Harrison’s project to collect, in diary form, the thoughts and observations of ordinary people, was begun in the late Thirties (and revived in the 1980s at the University of Sussex, from where current projects are run, Here, Simon Garfield mines the Mass Observation archive for the diaries of five people: B. The momentous post-war years, though, surely deserve attention. Our Hidden Lives: the everyday diaries of a forgotten Britain 1945-1948 By Simon Garfield Ebury Press pound 19.99 The national curriculum’s “Britain Since 1930” is too often taken to mean just the home front in the Second World War.
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