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Domestic Soldiers

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by Jennifer Purcell


  Nicholas, Sian. The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC, 1939–1945 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996)

  Nicholas, Sian. ‘The People’s Radio: The BBC and its Audience, 1939–1945’, in Nick Hayes and Jeff Hill, eds., ‘Millions Like Us’? British Culture in the Second World War (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999)

  Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia (New York: Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt, 1980)

  Priestley, J.B. Postscripts (London: W. Heinemann, 1940)

  Rubinstein, David. The Labour Party and British Society, 1880–2005 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006)

  Sheridan, Dorothy, Brian Street and David Bloome. Writing Ourselves: Mass-Observation and Literacy Practices (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000)

  Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990)

  Shirer, William L. The Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1939–1941 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)

  Smith, Harold L. ‘The Effect of the War on the Status of Women’, in Harold L. Smith, ed. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986)

  Smithies, Edward. Crime in Wartime: A Social History of Crime in World War Two (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982)

  Soames, Mary. Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills (New York: Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt, 2001)

  Sperber, Ann M. Murrow, His Life and Times (New York: Fordham University Press, 1996)

  Summerfield, Penny. ‘Mass-Observation: Social Research or Social Movement?’ Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 20, no. 3 (July 1985), pp. 439–52

  Summerfield, Penny. Reconstructing Women’s Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998)

  Summerfield, Penny and Corinna Peniston-Bird. Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)

  Taylor, Fred. Dresden, Tuesday February 13, 1945 (New York: HarperCollins, 2004)

  Waller, Maureen. London: 1945, Life in the Debris of War (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2004)

  Walton, Mary and Joseph Lamb, Raiders Over Sheffield: The Story of the Air Raids of 12th and 15th December 1940 (Sheffield: Sheffield City Libraries, 1980)

  Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina. Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939–1955. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

  INDEX

  11-plus examination 1

  1941 Committee 1

  abdication crisis (1936) 1, 2, 3

  Aberdeen 1

  Acland, Sir Richard 1, 2, 3

  Air Raid Precautions (ARP) 1

  air raids

  air-raid wardens 1

  Baedeker raids 1, 2

  Blitz 1, 2, 3

  civilian casualties 1

  ‘nuisance raids’ 1, 2

  V-1 and V-2 bombs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Algeria 1

  amateur dramatics 1, 2

  American GIs 1, 2

  Amery, Leo 1, 2

  Anderson shelters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Anglesey 1

  anti-aircraft fire 1, 2

  Anzac Day 1

  appeasement policy 1

  Argentina 1

  Arromanches 1

  Athenia, sinking of 1

  Atkinson, Margaret 1

  Atlantic Wall 1

  atomic bomb 1, 2, 3

  Attlee, Clement 1, 2, 3, 4

  Azad Hind 1

  ‘baby blitz’ 1, 2, 3

  Badoglio, Marshal 1, 2

  Baedeker raids 1, 2

  Bankhead, Tallulah 1

  Bardia 1

  Barrow-in-Furness 1, 2, 3

  Basic English 1

  Bath 1, 2

  Battle of Britain 1, 2, 3, 4

  Battle of France 1, 2

  Bayeux 1

  BBC 1, 2

  see also individual programmes

  Beaverbrook, Lord 1

  Belgium 1, 2, 3

  surrender of 1

  Belsen 1, 2, 3

  Berlin

  Allied capture of 1

  RAF bombing raids 1, 2

  Bevan, Aneurin 1

  Beveridge, William

  and coal rationing 1, 2

  and National Health Service 1

  and social insurance 1, 2

  loses seat at the election 1

  Beveridge Report 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bevin, Ernest 1, 2, 3

  Bevin Boys 1

  Bingley, Nancy 1

  Birkenhead 1

  Birmingham 1

  air raids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  war production plants 1

  Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) 1, 2

  black Americans 1

  black market 1, 2, 3, 4

  black propaganda 1

  blackout 1

  cover for romance 1, 2

  penalty fine for not obeying rules 1

  restrictions lifted 1

  Blackwell v. Blackwell 1, 2, 3

  Blitz 1, 2, 3

  baby blitz 1, 2, 3

  Blitzkrieg 1, 2, 3

  blood donors 1

  Board of Trade 1, 2

  Boer War 1

  Bore War see Phoney War

  Bourneville Utilities 1

  Bradley, General Omar 1

  Brains Trust 1, 2

  bread

  National Loaf 1

  rationing 1, 2

  Brest 1

  Bridges, Alice 1, 2

  and air raids 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  on the atomic bomb 1

  attends psychology discussion group 1

  background 1

  on bombing of German cities 1

  on Churchill 1

  on D-Day 1

  dressmaking business 1

  on education reforms 1

  and the end of the war 1, 2, 3

  and evacuation 1, 2, 3

  flirtations 1, 2, 3, 4

  and the general election 1, 2

  on the German people 1

  on the Holocaust 1

  ill health 1, 2, 3

  on keeping up appearances 1

  marital troubles 1

  marriage, view of 1

  on means-tested public assistance 1

  on the Beveridge Report 1

  and the outbreak of war 1, 2, 3

  post-war years 1

  on threatened German invasion 1

  war work 1, 2, 3, 4

  widowed 1

  Bridges, Jacqueline 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Bridges, Les 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Brighton quickie 1

  Bristol 1

  British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1, 2

  British Restaurants 1

  British Union of Fascists (BUF/BU) 1

  Buchenwald 1, 2

  bureaucracy 1, 2, 3

  Burma 1, 2, 3, 4

  Burma Road 1

  Butler Act (Education Act) 1, 2

  by-elections (1943) 1

  calorie intake 1

  Canterbury 1

  Cardiff 1

  ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ propaganda 1

  Casablanca conference (1943) 1

  central heating, ban on 1

  Chamberlain, Joseph 1

  Chamberlain, Neville 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Channel Islands

  evacuation of 1

  occupation of 1

  Chiang Kai-shek 1

  children, evacuation of 1, 2, 3, 4

  Christmas Days 1, 2

  Churchill, Clementine 1

  Churchill, Winston 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  on America’s entry into the war 1

  and the Basic English project 1, 2

  and the Beveridge Report 1, 2

  and D-Day 1

  and the Dunkirk evacuation 1

 
on equal pay 1

  on fall of Singapore 1, 2

  on fall of Tobruk 1, 2

  Four Years’ Plan 1, 2, 3

  on Gandhi 1

  and the general election 1

  Gestapo speech 1, 2

  ill health 1

  on the Italian campaign 1

  oratory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  out of office 1

  public discontent with 1, 2

  cigarettes 1, 2, 3, 4

  cinema 1, 2, 3

  Civil Defence and Anti-Aircraft duties 1

  civil defence injuries 1

  Clark, Lieutenant General Mark 1

  class issues 1, 2, 3

  coal

  poor quality 1, 2

  rationing 1, 2

  shortages 1, 2, 3

  coal-mining

  Bevin Boys 1

  pay structures 1, 2

  strikes 1, 2, 3

  wartime conditions 1

  coalition government 1, 2

  Cold War 1, 2

  Cologne, bombing of 1

  Common Wealth Party 1, 2

  Communal Feeding Centres 1

  communism 1, 2

  compensation for injuries 1

  concentration camps 1

  conscription 1

  Constantine, Learie 1

  cookery 1

  see also domestic management

  Cooper, Gary 1

  cosmetics 1

  cost of living 1

  ‘Coventration’ 1

  Coventry

  destruction of 1

  IRA bomb 1

  Coward, Noël 1, 2, 3, 4

  crime 1

  black marketeering 1, 2, 3

  careless talk, criminalization of 1

  defeatism, prosecutions for 1

  evacuation system abuses 1

  insanity defence 1

  looting 1

  sale of coupons and ration books 1

  waste, criminalisation of 1

  workplace theft 1

  Cripps, Mrs (housekeeper) 1, 2, 3

  Cripps, Sir Stafford

  and Indian independence 1

  on the Beveridge Report 1

  Czechoslovakia 1, 2

  German invasion of 1

  D-Day

  misinformation campaign 1

  Normandy landings 1, 2

  preparations for 1

  Dachau 1

  Daily Herald 1

  Daily Mirror 1

  Daily Telegraph 1

  Daily Worker 1

  defeatism 1, 2

  prosecutions for 1

  Denmark, fall of 1, 2

  Dieppe raid 1, 2

  Digging for Victory 1

  Dimbleby, Richard 1

  disability benefits 1

  divorce 1, 2

  costs of 1

  grounds for 1

  ruses 1

  statistics 1

  dole see unemployment insurance

  domestic management 1, 2, 3

  doodlebug see V-1 bomb

  Dover 1

  Dresden, bombing of 1

  dried eggs 1

  Dunkirk evacuation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  East Bengal (Bangladesh) 1

  Eastbourne 1

  economic boom 1, 2

  Eden, Anthony 1

  education reform 1, 2

  Edward VIII, King 1, 2, 3

  Egypt 1

  Eire, neutrality 1

  Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 1

  El Alamein 1, 2, 3

  Eliot, T.S. 1

  Elliott, Dorothy 1

  entertainment tax 1

  equal pay issue 1

  Esperanto 1

  Ethiopia 1

  evacuation schemes 1, 2, 3, 4

  boarding allowances 1

  mistreatment of evacuees 1

  overseas destinations 1

  system abuses 1

  Exeter 1

  ‘fair shares for all’, principle of 1

  family allowances 1

  fascism 1, 2, 3, 4

  fashion 1

  fifth columnists 1, 2, 3, 4

  Finland, fall of 1

  fire watching duty 1, 2, 3

  compulsory for women 1

  moral concerns 1

  First World War 1, 2

  casualties 1

  Folkestone 1

  food

  eating out 1

  overcharging for 1

  parcels 1

  rationing 1

  scarce commodities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  subsidies 1

  football stadiums, closure of 1

  Forbes, Rosita 1, 2

  Forward March Movement 1

  Four Years’ Plan 1, 2, 3

  France

  fall of 1, 2, 3

  Franco-British union, proposed 1

  Normandy landings 1, 2

  Franco, General Francisco 1, 2

  friendly societies 1

  fuel shortages 1

  Gallacher, Willie 1

  Gandhi, Mahatma 1

  assassination 1

  hunger strike 1, 2

  non-violence stance 1

  on the Cripps Offer 1

  Quit India Movement 1, 2

  Garson, Greer 1

  gas masks 1

  Gellhorn, Martha 1

  general election (1945) 1, 2, 3

  General Strike (1926) 1

  George VI, King 1, 2, 3

  Germany

  Allied bombing campaigns over 1, 2, 3, 4

  Battle of France 1

  British attitudes to German civilians 1, 2

  civilian morale 1, 2, 3

  declares war on US 1

  Italian campaign 1, 2

  North African campaign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Gibraltar 1

  Glasgow 1

  Goebbels, Joseph 1, 2, 3

  Good Housekeeping 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Gort, Lord 1

  Gour, Sir Hari Singh 1

  grammar schools 1

  Grant, Irene 1, 2, 3

  and air raids 1

  on the atomic bomb 1, 2

  on the Beveridge Report 1

  on the bombing of German cities 1, 2

  on Churchill 1, 2, 3, 4

  on Cripps 1

  on education reform 1

  and the general election 1, 2, 3

  on the German people 1, 2, 3

  on the Holocaust 1

  house-hunting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  ill health 1, 2

  on Indian situation 1

  on means-tested public assistance 1

  on the miners’ strikes 1

  on the Mosleys 1

  on the National Health Service 1

  and the outbreak of war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  post-war years 1

  on Priestley 1

  on rationing 1

  on Roosevelt’s death 1

  socialist views 1, 2, 3, 4

  on threatened German invasion 1

  Grant, Marjorie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Grant, Rita 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Grant, Tom 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Great Yarmouth 1

  grey market 1

  Guernica, bombing of 1

  Haldane, J.B.S. 1

  Hamburg, bombing of 1, 2

  Handley, Tommy 1, 2

  Harris, Sir Arthur 1

  Haw-Haw, Lord 1

  health insurance 1

  Heath, Ambrose 1

  Henson, Herbert Hensley 1

  Hertzog, J.B.M. 1

  Hiroshima 1, 2

  Hitchcock, Alfred 1

  Hitler, Adolf 1

  assassination attempt 1, 2, 3

  death of 1

  and the Munich Crisis 1

  orders Baedeker raids 1

  plans invasion of Britain 1, 2, 3

  triumphal entry into Paris 1

  Hobart, Major General Percy 1

  Hogg, Quintin 1

  Holocaust 1

  Home Guard 1, 2

  homelessness 1

  Hong Kong
, surrender of 1

  house prices 1

  housekeeping money 1

  housework, men and 1

  housing shortage 1, 2

  Hull 1

  Hulton, Edward 1

  Huxley, Julian 1

  imperial losses 1, 2, 3, 4

  incendiary bombs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  incomes 1

  India 1, 2, 3

  Cripps Offer 1

  East Bengal famine 1

  nationalism 1

  Indian National Congress 1, 2, 3

  industrial action see strikes

  infidelities 1, 2, 3

  financial penalties 1

  impetus for 1

  moral panics 1

  see also divorce

  International Labour Party (ILP) 1

  internment 1

  invasion of Britain, proposed 1, 2, 3, 4

  Irish Republican Army (IRA) 1

  Isle of Man 1

  isolationism 1

  Italy

  armistice 1

  declares war on US 1

  Gothic Line 1

  Italian campaign 1, 2

  North African campaign 1

  surrender of 1, 1976

  Japan 1, 2

  Allied bombing of 1

  Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1, 2

  Manchurian invasion 1

  occupation of Burma 1, 2, 3

  surrender of 1, 2

  takes Hong Kong 1

  takes Singapore 1

  threaten India 1, 2

  jingoism 1, 2

  Jinnah, Mohammed Ali 1

  Kitchen Front 1

  knitting projects 1, 2, 3

  Kristallnacht (1938) 1

  Labour Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  landing craft 1

  Last, Arthur 1, 2, 3, 4

  Last, Cliff 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Last, Nella 1, 2

  and air raids 1, 2

  on the atomic bomb 1, 2

  on the Beveridge Report 1

  on Churchill 1, 2

 

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