HIST 150: WWII Britain: The People's War (Fall 2025)

• newspapers, try Internment AND aliens, limited 1941-1945
• film reels in British Pathe 
• internment AND aliens in in UK Parimentary papers, limited 1940-5
• brit* AND (internment OR "enemy aliens") in catalog, limited 1940-5

• London times search one 

  • narrow search 

• Guardian 

• Misc

• Possible autobiographies:

  • The Island of dread in the channel : the story of Georgi Ivanovitch Kondakov / Georgi Ivanovitch Kondakov;  Brian Bonnard 1991

  • Isle of the displaced : an Italian-Scot's memoirs of internment during the Second World War / Joe Pieri 1997

  • Prisoner of the British : diary of a suspected war spy / Frederick Hans Halpern 1991

  • Blind to misfortune : a story of great courage in the face of adversity / Bill Griffiths;  Hugh Popham 2005, 1989

  • Home is somewhere else : autobiography in two voices / Desider Furst;  Lilian R Furst 1994

  • Shadowline : the Dunera diaries of Uwe Radok / Uwe Radok;  Seumas Spark;  Jacquie Houlden 2022

  • The unsung years : my youth 1930-1945 / Lisbeth Fischer Leicht 1997

• Digital Collection online via national archives

  • national archives https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/second-world-war/second-world-war-propaganda-posters/

  • imperial war museum https://www.iwm.org.uk/learning/resources/second-world-war-posters

• depictions of british women in publications 1940-5, using out catalog
• filmstrips about working women in British Pathe, search for Women AND work*
• depictions in British Periodicals using women AND (worker* OR factor*)
  • use filter under document type to narrow further (Ex, adverts)
• Using secondary sources (other tab!) to find re-printed posters, etc)

• Magazine stories 

• Official publications by the government (Ex the uk ministry of food)

• "black Market" in British and irish women's letters and dairies

• Countrylife magazine. skim the article titles (Ex Hoarding)

• the guardian newspaper

• Illustrated london news 

• The Scotsman

• London times 

Psychological impacts of war

• narrow to specific aspect (anxiety, shell shock, depression)

  • try "Psychological" in british newspapers 

  • psychological publications in Britain  1940-5

  • using "Personal narratives" find published first-hand accounts about psychological suffering in ww2 among the british

Children of Black American GIs

• interviews 

• Published sources 

• contemporary studies

  • suggest using published sources to find keywords and sources

evacuated children to Canada

• using "personal narratives" finding books written by the children in worldcat 

• goverment reports in U.K. Parliamentary Papers and Hansard, children AND evac* AND canada

• Churchill papers search for evac* AND children AND canada

• proquest 

• GALE

• newspapers (search 2)  (search 3) (4)