Jan 10, 2022 | Social history, Stories
Vegetarianism has come a long way since the 1990s, as this exploration of the Archive of Market and Social Research shows. Nowadays, famous chefs offer recipes for delicious vegetarian Christmas dishes (e.g. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s ‘Fab feast for vegan and...
Nov 1, 2021 | stories archive
(Article updated October 2021) A recent (October 2020) poll by YouGov found 67% of the British public want Britain to be a world leader on environmental issues. And in February this year, YouGov also found that 75% thought climate change was the result of human...
Sep 15, 2021 | Politics and government policy, Stories
Written 20 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and other US targets on 11 September 2001, this story asks what is there to be found in the Archive relating to those events? ICM conducted a poll for Retail Week just two weeks later, with...
Jul 20, 2021 | Social history, Stories
Hayfever is far more prevalent than it used to be. Data held within AMSR shows that it afflicts three times as many of us nowadays than in the 1970s. Just 8% of GB adults reported suffering from pollen or hayfever allergy in 1972; by 2019 this had climbed to 25%. The...
