Description
Object description
Excellent ts journal (162pp) describing with almost daily entries her experiences of living and working in central London (September 1940 - February 1942), covering every aspect of her daily life including her employment by the Ministry of Home Security, her part-time work as a lecturer to the forces, her training as an emergency despatch rider, fire-watching, voluntary help at a local rest centre, the evening shelter routine, air-raids and the attitudes of her and her friends towards them, her participation in left-wing politics and the entertainment offered by London. Together with the journal are twelve ts articles (29pp) written and submitted for publication in 'The Washington Post' (September 1939 - November 1940) covering her first impressions of wartime London after arriving from a year in America, propaganda over the air waves (December 1939), the failure of the evacuation scheme (December 1939), morale (January 1940), London entertainment (February 1940), the Mass-Observation Social Research Organisation (April 1940), and Londoners' philosophy in face of the Blitz (September 1940).
Content description
Excellent ts journal (162pp) describing with almost daily entries her experiences of living and working in central London (September 1940 - February 1942), covering every aspect of her daily life including her employment by the Ministry of Home Security, her part-time work as a lecturer to the forces, her training as an emergency despatch rider, fire-watching, voluntary help at a local rest centre, the evening shelter routine, air-raids and the attitudes of her and her friends towards them, her participation in left-wing politics and the entertainment offered by London. Together with the journal are twelve ts articles (29pp) written and submitted for publication in 'The Washington Post' (September 1939 - November 1940) covering her first impressions of wartime London after arriving from a year in America, propaganda over the air waves (December 1939), the failure of the evacuation scheme (December 1939), morale (January 1940), London entertainment (February 1940), the Mass-Observation Social Research Organisation (April 1940), and Londoners' philosophy in face of the Blitz (September 1940).
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1995-08-02