Joe Moran is a social and cultural historian who has written about everyday life, especially British everyday life from the mid-twentieth century until the present day. Moran studied international history and politics at

Leeds University , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

before doing an MA in English literature and a DPhil in American studies at

Sussex University , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

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" ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', 5 January 2007. Accessed 28 February 2009. The Mass-Observation Archive at Sussex was what aroused his interest in studying the everyday; Moran credits his own interest in taking note of what normally goes unnoticed to the I-Spy booklets he consumed as a young boy. Quoting Doreen Massey, Moran says that despite every generation's emphasis on change, "much of life for many people 'still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes'"; he describes himself as "trying to find a critical language to talk about these empty, purposeless moments of daily life, filled with activities such as commuting and office routines, that we generally take for granted but that take up so much of our lives."The Value of Trivial Pursuits
. ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', 2 March 2007. Accessed 28 February 2009. Moran describes himself as influenced by

Mass-Observation Mass-Observation is a United Kingdom social research project; originally the name of an organisation which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the University of Sussex. Mass-Observation originally aimed to record everyday ...

and a new French ethnography of the quotidian or ''infraordinary'', exemplified by works by

Georges Perec Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holoc ...

Marc Augé Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, ''Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'' (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to s ...

and François Bon. Moran's book ''Queuing for Beginners'' is a chronological account, from breakfast to bed, of a normal British day and how it has changed since the nineteenth century and more particularly since the 1930s; the book received favourable reviews. As of August 2013, Moran is a Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He has written for ''

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''.List of contributions
to ''The New Statesman''. Accessed 28 February 2009.

Books by Moran

*''Star Authors: Literary Celebrity in America.'' London: Pluto Press, 1999. .
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*''Interdisciplinarity.'' London: Routledge. Hardback: 2001; . Paperback: 2002; .
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*''Reading the Everyday.'' London: Routledge, 2005. Hardback: . Paperback: .
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*''Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime.'' Hardback. London: Profile Books, 2007. . Paperback. London: Profile Books, 2008. . *''On Roads: A Hidden History.'' Hardback. London: Profile Books, 2009. . *''Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV.'' Hardback. London: Profile Books, 2013. . *''First You Write a Sentence. The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.'' Penguin. 2018. * *''If You Should Fail: A Book of Solace.'' Hardback. London: Viking Books, 2020.

References

External links

Joe Moran's blog
("On the Everyday, the Banal, and Other Important Matters").

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