May 9, 2024 | Social history, Stories
There is a massive number of old survey results from the last 50+ years which are included and easily accessible in the Archive of Market and Social Research. Above all, these serve to show how much we have changed as a people in that time: highlighting a few...
Feb 23, 2024 | Advertising and media, Brands, Stories
In the late fifties ICI was Britain’s only truly global conglomerate and in its Paints Division there was already a free-standing market research company, called Household Product Research Ltd. As management trainees there, four new graduates were put through the mill...
Jan 16, 2024 | Politics and government policy, Stories
With a general election likely to take place in 2024 it is worth looking back at lessons to be learned from the past. The value of the Archive of Market and Social Research lies in its providing us with the longer-term view, and in particular it is exactly 50 years...
Dec 7, 2023 | Social history, Stories
An October 2020 poll by YouGov found that 67% of the British public wanted Britain to be a world leader on environmental issues. In February 2021, YouGov also found that 75% thought climate change was the result of human activity. Meanwhile, a report by Opinium in...
Nov 17, 2023 | Social history, Stories
Geoff Wicken acquired a vintage readership survey report for AMSR. It has much to tell us about a very different time… For anyone researching specific topics, the reports in the Archive provide insight into a huge range of subject-matter. Additionally some of the...
