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What were we reading in 1956?
Geoff Wicken acquired a vintage readership survey report for AMSR. It has much to tell us about a very different time… For anyone researching...
Do sunshine breaks pile on the stress?
A recent (August 2023) survey for the Office of National Statistics among 2,000 UK adults found that overall 34% had travelled abroad in the...
Are cricket fans bowled over by new formats? 2023 original
An Ashes series between England and Australia is for many cricket fans as good as it gets. But the sport’s administrators and followers are...
AMSR Summer event 13th June 2023
Archives exist to keep things safe – but not secret On a hot summer evening we gathered on the stylish top floor of King’s College in Bush House by...
Researching the public: Post-war policy, politics and polling – a review by Paul Edwards
This is the third book of essays drawing on the wealth of data in the Archive of Market and Social Research. As the title suggests this booklet...
How popular were the royals 50 years ago?
Recent reports have commented on how the monarchy’s popularity has fallen in recent years – to just 55%, according to one poll. A dip into the...