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LIST OF UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
For anybody researching and writing on the two world wars and other conflicts since 1914, the Imperial War Museum’s Department of Documents is a treasure trove of unpublished diaries and letters. In writing The Day We Went to War, I set myself the task of recording what people actually wrote and said at the time, rather than what people remember today of 1939. This task was greatly assisted by the fact that the Department had such a wealth of material from 1939.
The following collections have been the most useful in the preparation of the book. I was especially struck by the fact that so much excellent material was to be found in the diaries of ordinary people at home, the majority of whom were women, going through an extraordinary time. I am most grateful to them, and to their families, for their kind and generous permission to use and quote from them. The Museum’s Sound Archive is likewise a veritable goldmine for historians and researchers. It was fascinating to go through the collection hearing the sounds and voices of 1939. Because of the parameters I set myself, I have not included, in most cases, people’s recorded interviews in which they give their recollections of 1939, but the following were most useful:
Name
IWM Department of Documents
Catalogue Number
Mott Miss H P L
97/14/3
Gothard Mrs M
06/26/1
Carver Miss N V
90/16/1
Charlton Miss M
88/13/2
Thomas Miss G
90/30/1
Speed Miss F M
86/45/2
Strange Miss J C
96/13/2
Hall Miss V
DS/MISC/88 & 84/35/1A
Warren Miss E
87/14/1
Pope Major A A K
99/18/1
Rex Miss J M
87/14/1
Monk-Jones, Mr and Mrs A
Con Shelf & 01/50/1
Cox Mrs G
PP/MCR/C41
Lockwood F T
96/52/1
Paine N A
89/3/1
Hird A F
61/113/1
The R Wiley Collection of
Second World War memories
Misc 258/1-3 (3511)
Name
IWM Sound Archive
Catalogue Number
Schuhart, Otto
2358 Recorded 1960
Young, Walter
9405 Recorded 1986
Chilton, Thomas
27345 Recorded 2004
Fryett Walker, Pax
27335 Recorded 2004
Ouvry, John
9260 Recorded 1986
Lewis, Roger
8782 Recorded 1976
Richards, Brooks
9970 Recorded 1987
Hall, John
25935 Recorded 2003
INDEX
Adams, Alex (i), (ii)
Admiral Graf Spee (pocket battleship) (i), (ii), (iii)
scuttled (i)illus.
Agate, James (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus., (vi), (vii) see also civil defence in Britain
Animals Committee (i)
blackout (see blackout)
gas masks (see gas masks)
shelters (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv)illus., (v)illus.
wardens (i), (ii)
warning sirens (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv)
air war (i)
Ajax, HMS (cruiser) (i)
Allen, Peter (i), (ii)
Amery, Julian (i)
Amery, Leopold (i), (ii)
Anderson shelters see Air Raid Precautions (ARP)
Anderson, Sir John (i), (ii), (iii)
Anderson, Verily (i)
Andreas-Friederich, Ruth (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Anglo-French declaration (i)
Anglo-French military mission see
Anglo-French-Soviet
negotiations
Anglo-French-Soviet negotiations (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) (i), (ii)
Anglo-Polish alliance (1939) (i), (ii)
Anglo-Soviet relations (i)
appeasement/appeasers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)
Ark Royal, HMS (aircraft carrier) (i), (ii)
Askey, Arthur ‘Big-Hearted’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Athenia, SS (liner) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx)
torpedoed by U-boat (i), (ii), (iii)illus.
Australia (i), (ii)illus., (iii)
Barrington, Jonah (i)
Bartlett, Dorothy (i), (ii)
Bastille Day (France) (i)
Baxter, Beverley (i), (ii), (iii)
Bayles, William D (i), (ii)
Bayne-Powell, Nancy (i), (ii)
Bayne-Powell, Robert (i), (ii), (iii)
BBC:
Daily Service (i), (ii)
Home Service (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Christmas broadcast (i)
Television Service (i)
Beattie, Ed (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Beaverbrook, Lord (i), (ii)
Beck, Colonel Jozef (i)illus., (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
Beer Hall Bomb (i)illus., (ii)
Beer Hall Putsch (1923) (i), (ii)
Belgium: waiting for war (i)
Benes, Eduard (i)
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood see Wedgwood-Benn, Anthony
Berlin-Moscow pact see German-Soviet pact
Biddle, Anthony J Drexel, Jr (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Black, George (i), (ii)
Black Velvet (i)
blackout (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv), (v)
coping with (i)
regulations moderated (i)
Blitzkrieg (i)illus., (ii)
Boehmer, Dr Karl (i)
Bohemia and Moravia (i), (ii), (iii)
Bonnet, Georges (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix)
Bracken, Hugo (i), (ii)
Bremen (liner) (i)
Britain (i), (ii) see also Poland; ultimatum to Germany
civil defence preparations (see Air Raid Precautions (ARP); civil defence in Britain)
German air raids (i)
German interests, safeguarded by Swiss (i)
mobilisation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)illus., (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
pre-war mood (i), (ii), (iii)
reactions to declaration of war (i)
and war (i), (ii)
war budget (i), (ii), (iii)
warning note to Germans (i), (ii)
British Empire and Commonwealth (i)
Dominions Secretary (i)
Hitler’s guarantee (i)
support for Britain (i), (ii), (iii)
war charities across (i)
British Expeditionary Force (i), (ii), (iii)illus., (iv)illus., (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Christmas 1939 (i)illus.
British Union of Fascists and Na
tional Socialists (i)illus., (ii), (iii), (iv)
Brown House (Munich) (i)
Buergerbraukeller see Beer Hall Bomb
Butler, Ewan (i), (ii)
Butler, R A (i), (ii), (iii)illus.
Cabinet War Rooms (London) (i), (ii)
Canada:
enters the war (i)
troops (i)illus., (ii)
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm (i)
Carver, Nellie Violet (i), (ii), (iii)
Cazalet, Victor (i), (ii)
Chamberlain, Neville (i)illus., (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv)illus., (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx), (xxxi) see also invasion of Poland (‘Case White’); ultimatum to Germany
addresses the German people (i)
and German Soviet pact (i)
speech to Commons (i)
Channon, Henry ‘Chips’ (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Chaplin, Charlie: Dictators, The (i)
Charlton, Moyra: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)
Chatfield, Lord (i), (ii)illus., (iii)
Chevalier, Maurice (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv)
Chicago Tribune (i), (ii), (iii)
China (i), (ii)
Christiansen, Arthur (i), (ii), (iii)
Christmas 1939 (i)
Churchill, Winston (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)illus., (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)
addresses the House (i)
and leaflet drops (i)
and naval war (i), (ii), (iii)
return to Cabinet (i), (ii), (iii)
suggests moderations to blackout regulations (i)
Ciano, Count Galeazzo (i)illus., (ii), (iii)illus., (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
cinemas (i)
City of Exeter (liner) (i)
City of Flint (freighter) (i), (ii), (iii)
civil defence in Britain (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi) see also Air Raid Precautions (ARP); Home Front sandbagging (xii)illus., (xiii)
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