I hope this site will be of interest to anyone who would like to start thinking about some of the issues that writing for the Mass-Observation Project raises.  But of course, I also hope it will be interesting to anybody who is curious about issues connected to writing in general.

Interview with Bob Rust by Anna Green at the Mass-Observation Archive, 11.2.2000
The interview was around 50 minutes long, covering a range of different topics relating to Bob's Mass Observation Project writing.  The interview tape and transcript are available for consultation at the Mass-Observation Archive on request. Please read essay on editorial decisions below.

The Mass-Observation Archive
Details about the Mass-Observation Archive and the Mass-Observation Project have been gathered from information sheets, booklets and other resources held at the M-OA. 

Information provided by Bob Rust specifically for this site
Information on the "About Bob Rust" page was provided by Bob specifically for this project.

However, correspondents are of course free to "come out" as Mass-Observers if they feel comfortable with doing so.  Bob Rust is one such correspondent who has given his full permission to be named on this website as a Mass-Observation Project writer. 

Permission to use parts of his directive responses and personal correspondence with the archive has been given by the Mass-Observation Archive trustees.

It is important to stress that any researcher hoping to use Mass-Observation material or indeed interview a Mass-Observation correspondent can only do so at the discretion of the archive trustees, following the strict procedures set out in the Mass-Observation Archive's "Conditions of Access".