Title details
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4862 |
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In Search of a Past, 1925-1983 |
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Fraser, R. |
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Principal investigator(s):
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Fraser, R.
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Subject Categories
Social history - History
Rural life - Society and culture
Social attitudes and behaviour - Society and culture
Child development and child rearing - Social stratification and groupings
Family life and marriage - Social stratification and groupings
Abstract
This oral history project explored the author's own childhood. Particular reference was made to relationships within his upper class family and household during the 1930s and 40s. This was achieved through interviews conducted with the traceable and surviving members of that family and household made during the 1960s and 70s. Most - but not all - were used in the subsequent publication. This unusual work is both intensely personal, being driven by the author's individual psychological journey to understand his own past, and historically illuminating, in its detailed examination of a particular sort of inter-war English country life and the changes to that way of life brought about by the Second World War.
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Main Topics:
Family life; households; childhood; childcare; parent-child relationships; siblings; psychoanalysis; servants; domestic workers; rural society; class; upper class; class differentiation; community life; oral history; world war; refugees.
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Coverage, universe, methodology
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Time period:
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01 January 1925 - 01 January 1983 |
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Dates of fieldwork:
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1967, 1979 |
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Country:
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United Kingdom
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Geography:
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Southern England
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Spatial units:
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No spatial unit
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Observation units:
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Individuals
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Kind of data:
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Textual
Numeric
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Universe:
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Subnational
Family, household members and employees of the Fraser family.
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Time dimensions:
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Cross-sectional (one-time) study
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Sampling procedures:
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Purposive selection/case studies
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Number of units:
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17
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Method of data collection:
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Face-to-face interview
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Weighting:
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Not applicable
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Keywords
Administrative and access information
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Date of release:
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First edition:
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11 April 2005
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Copyright:
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Copyright Ronald Fraser
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Access conditions:
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Host archive conditions apply
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Please note:
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Online documentation, prepared by the UK Data Archive, is available via the link below.
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Availability:
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These data are available from a service other than UK Data Service - National Social Policy and Social Change Archive. Albert Sloman Library Special Collections, University of Essex. Contact the UK Data Service in the first instance.
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Contact:
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Get in touch
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Documentation
Publications
Fraser, R. (1984) In search of a past, London: Verso
