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“We who remember the long-drawn-out agony of the last war feel ourselves crumble somewhere inside at the thought of what lies ahead.” Nella Last, British housewife and mother, penned these words in her Mass–Observation diary on Thursday, 14 September 1939, the day before her youngest son Cliff left for active duty in the Second World War. Those who had served and suffered on the battlefields of World War One, and those who had served on the home-front, survived to share in the disastrous effects of modern warfare in post-war Britain. Amputations, maimed bodies and faces from the burn of poisonous gases, the trauma of “shell shock” as well as personal and national financial impoverishment had failed to teach world leaders that war begets war. Disillusionment, and a feeling of profound personal loss plagued the generation who had fought World War One. They had discovered the war that had been promised “to end all wars” had in truth been a breeding ground for the rise of totalitarian regimes that would ignite another world war, once again to claim the lives of sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends, and lovers. The Mass-Observation project that Nella and over four-hundred British citizens participated in was first initiated in 1937 by anthropologist Tom Harrisson. The objective of the movement stated by its founder was to create a study of Britain, to observe and record the opinions, attitudes, and activities of the people. Initially, Tom Harrisson conducted an ethnographic study in the town of Bolton, England. Harrisson acted as a participant-observer among the citizens of the town; observing and recording their behavior as well as collecting information from the study group through interviews. After the war began participants responded to survey questions posed by Harrisson and analyzed by trained specialists. In the final phase of the study people were asked to volunteer to make personal

Nella Last’s War Diary: The Silent Witness of Self-Therapy and the Emergence of Self-Identity and Independence through Writing and Volunteerism