Since May, the Home Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Information has been preparing daily reports on the state of British morale: what people are talking about, what they are worried about, what they are happy about, and what are thought the government should do. A wide variety of sources is used for this, both […]
Today we’re reading The Times. London was again menaced by German bombers last night, though it seems bombs fell only on the ‘outskirts’ (4), in particular ‘one bomb’ hit ‘a building in the outskirts of London’. Folkestone was much harder hit by a daytime raid in which ‘German bombers swooped out of the sun […]
Since yesterday’s Observer was actually put to bed on Saturday night, it missed out reporting the German raid on London in the following hours. Of course, most of London would have already known of it thanks to the alerts and the explosions, while the rest of the country would have heard about it on the
These are the headlines from the Observer (5). Yesterday was another good day for the RAF, which on Air Ministry figures shot down 45 German aircraft with 10 of its own missing. There were ‘Battles all day long’: Until mid afternoon the attacks were concentrated on aerodromes in East Kent. Then large numbers of German
Tomorrow I’ll start post-blogging 1940. My starting point will be 25 August 1940 (the day after the first bombs fell on central London, one of the starting points of the Blitz) and will take it through to some point in October. As usual, I’ll be presenting the view from the press, using daily newspapers like
Follow the events of 1940 day by day and week by week, seventy years later: Airminded – 7 October 1940 Battle of Britain Day by Day – 31 October 1940 Days of Glory – 31 October 1940 Duxford Operations Blog – 31 October 1940 Nick Cooper’s Random Blog – 31 October/1 November 1940 Orwell Diaries
Recently, Martin Waligorski contacted me to see if I’d like to collaborate with him in his post-blogging project, Battle of Britain – 70 Years. I had been thinking about doing some sort of post-blogging this year to mark the 70th anniversary of 1940, but probably not until later in the year, and for the Blitz
