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AMSR Summer Event review 2023

AMSR Summer Event 13th June 2023 Archives exist to keep things safe – but not secret. On a hot summer evening we...

AMSR Book 3 review

Researching the public: post-war policy, politics and polling. A review by Paul Edwards This is the third book of essays drawing on...

The AMSR at MRS Insight Alchemy conference – review

AMSR at Insight Alchemy 2023 What a great day for the AMSR at the MRS conference, Insights Alchemy, on Tuesday 14th March....

International Women’s Day – Women at Work

International Women's Day 2023 March 8th 2023 is International Women's Day. In recognition, the AMSR is making available an extract from one...

The AMSR at Insight Alchemy 2023

The AMRS at Insight Alchemy 2023 Isn’t it wonderful to have a have an in-person Conference once again? To meet face-to-face and...

Does the generation gap matter as much as we think?

Does the generation gap matter as much as we think? Are you a Boomer? Gen X? Gen Y? Do you know which...

Joint AMSR/Mass Observation webinar – NEW DATE!

Free webinar: 'Exploring the Archives: Researching the narrative of happiness and the history of feeling' This webinar has been rearranged for Wednesday...

New book references Archive source material

Fascinating new book on the British love affair with pets uses AMSR Archive as a source 'From pet economics to pet cemeteries,...

Jeremy Bullmore 1929-2023

1929-2023 Jeremy Bullmore 1929-2023 Advertising executive Jeremy Bullmore, former president of the Market Research Society and non-executive director at WPP, has died...

AMSR Summer Event, 26th May 2022 – report

AMSR Summer Event, Bush House, London Judith Staig reports from the AMSR's Summer Event, held on 26th May 2022 To be part...

MRS Impact Conference 2022

MRS Impact Conference 2022 Judith Staig reports for the AMSR on this year's virtual sessions Love them or loath them, industry conferences...

AMSR welcomes the Opinium Collection

The Opinium Collection The AMSR is delighted to welcome our first truly ‘modern’ collection, from Opinium – an agency founded in 2007,...

‘How We’ve Changed…’ Book Review by Paul Edwards

Review by Paul Edwards of the latest book in the AMSR's 'Showcasing the Archive' series First of all I have to declare...

Research Matters article: Phyllis Macfarlane explains the value of the AMSR

Phyllis Macfarlane, Chair of the AMSR's Content Committee, has written an article for the SRA's Research Matters magazine in which she takes...

John Bittlestone shares insights into the history of cinema research

Phyllis Macfarlane, Chair of the AMSR's Content Committee, recently had the opportunity to interview John Bittlestone about his life and experiences in...

AMSR plays leading role in AQR webinar ‘The Making of History’

On May 17th  2021 the AQR (Association for Qualitative Research) hosted a webinar for its members on the Making of History at...

Key AMSR supporters named ‘Research Heroes’ by MRS

MRS announces first 'Research Heroes', including AMSR names We're delighted to announce that Gill Wareing and Inger Christensen have been included in...

Phyllis Macfarlane is awarded the MRS Gold Medal

Phyllis Macfarlane is awarded the MRS Gold Medal Phyllis Macfarlane, AMSR Trustee and Chairman of its Contents Committee, has been awarded the...

The AMSR Specialist Collections

The AMSR Specialist Collections Until now we have focused mainly on the collection of paper based material since this was at the...

e-Book review by Paul Edwards

Post War Developments in Market Research Don’t be put off by the rather clinical title.  This little e-Book is actually 12 essays...

AMSR Anniversary Event – 2 March 2021

Paul Edwards reports from the Archive of Market and Social Research virtual event to thank donors, friends and supporters and to mark...

Connecting the Archive and Academia

It has long been thought by senior research practitioners that significant mutual advantages could be gained by improving their connections with the academic...

Latest AMSR newsletter posted

The latest quarterly newsletter from AMSR is now available on the website. Among the many fascinating contributions are coverage in the Letter...

Jane Frost appointed as AMSR Vice-Chairman

AMSR is delighted to have appointed Jane Frost, CBE and CEO of the Market Research Society (MRS) as its Vice-Chairman.  Jane brings...

Are you a Hoarder or a Chucker?

Updated 11/05/20: With people spending a lot more time at home at this time of coronavirus lockdown, the Archive of Market and...

BBC studies added to the Archive

AMSR has recently acquired some very rich material documenting research conducted for the BBC. Peter Menneer, who was Head of BBC Research,...

Record attendance at AMSR Friends Event

AMSR held its third prestigious Event at the IPA on 4 February, with a record attendance of 75 people. Once again, we...

Sir John Curtice gives keynote speech at latest AMSR event

“If you want people to think you are funny, don’t tell them you are a comedian, tell them a joke.” At the...

Professor Patrick Barwise is new AMSR Chairman

Due to ill-health Dr Liz Nelson OBE, has stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Archive of Market...

TGI data donated to the Archive

AMSR is very pleased to announce an important addition to the Archive.  Kantar, who own and operate the TGI (Target Group Index)...

The CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive collection

Industry legend Peter Cooper’s treasure trove of commercial and academic papers are added to the archive, providing valuable insights into the evidence-based...

Rory Sutherland gives keynote speech at AMSR event

Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of the Ogilvy Group UK, gave the keynote speech at AMSR’s IPA Event, highlighting the importance of the...

Ben Page and Jeremy Bullmore appointed Patrons of AMSR

The Archive of Market and Social Research (AMSR) is delighted that Ben Page and Jeremy Bullmore have agreed to be Patrons of…

Denise Lievesley is our president

We are delighted and very proud that Professor Denise Lievesley CBE has accepted the Trustees’ invitation to be the first President of…

The genesis of AMSR’s online archive

22 January 2018    Raz Khan writes: It’s very interesting how important nomenclature can be, especially when you move into an area outside…

Historic geodemographics materials coming to the archive

22 January 2018    Barry Leventhal writes: Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the MRS conference presentation that brought geodemographics to the…

Report on AMSR Reception at the IPA – 7 November 2017

6 December 2017    A reception was held by AMSR on 7 November, 2017, at the prestigious IPA offices in Belgrave Square.  The…