{"id":9684,"date":"2021-12-01T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/cmda\/?page_id=9684"},"modified":"2022-09-04T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:27:57","slug":"norman-macdonalds-diary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/cmda\/index.php\/norman-macdonalds-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My Kind of Thirties&#8217; &#8211; Norman MacDonald&#8217;s Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extracts from <a title=\"Norman MacDonald's home page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/cmda\/participant_detail.php?fileRef=NM-92-005\">Norman MacDonald<\/a>&#8216;s 1930s journal (NM-92-005PW002) that relate to his regular trips to the cinema while he was studying Law at the University of Glasgow. He details the titles of, and his responses to, films he saw, and records a lively social life involving dinners and bridge sessions with friends, as well as enjoyable times spent with Molly, the young woman he later married.<\/p>\n<p> <a title=\"My Kind of Thirties - opens in new tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/cmda\/archive-data\/documents\/NM-92-005PW002.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i class=\"fas fa-file-pdf\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> <\/i> PDF version (67 MB)<\/a> | <a title=\"My Kind of Thirties - transcript\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/cmda\/archive-data\/document_transcripts\/NM-92-005PW002_DT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i class=\"fas fa-file-pdf\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> <\/i> Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Best viewed in full-screen mode if available.<\/em><br \/>\n<div class=\"_df_book df-lite\" id=\"df_9615\"  _slug=\"norman-macdonalds-diary\" 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