Happiness in a Northern Town
Carson, Jerome / McHugh, Sandie
We all aspire to happiness, but why happiness in Bolton?
In the late 1930s, the Mass Observation Happiness Project turned its attention to Bolton (anonymised as Worktown). The extensive research papers from this exercise are still available and provide a superbly vivid insight into the joys and the disappointments of ordinary people in Bolton at that time.
This book looks at how have changes since then have affected the aspirations of Bolton...