ABSTRACT
Thecircumstances in which this book was prepared made impossible any exhaustive or scientific observation of the campaign. There was no staff of field-workers, no organized mass-observation of the kind that has recently been employed by Messrs. Harrisson and Madge with interesting and valuable results. We were able to watch the development of three local campaigns, those of Oxford City, the Abingdon Division of Berkshire, and the Henley Division of Oxfordshire. Shortly before nomination day Miss Readman set off on a tour of a few northern constituencies. She visited Huddersfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Liverpool, and Crewe. She was able to spend only two, or at most three, nights in each place. Her impressions of the campaigns in these cities were perforce fragmentary and incomplete.
