""London was ours from the hour the blacked-out night hid its beauty until the morning siren signalled the coming day."" Joan Bright Astley The German bombing raids on London from September 1940 to May 1941 - the London Blitz - supply us with some of the most dramatic and mythologised stories from the Home Front of the Second World War. But often overlooked in historical studies of the Blitz are the narratives supplied by Londoners themselves. In shelters, in kitchens and in offices, they wrote about their daily lives under duress, scribbling into diaries, notebooks and on the backs of...
""London was ours from the hour the blacked-out night hid its beauty until the morning siren signalled the coming day."" Joan Bright Astley The Ger...
Murder capital is a historical study of suspicious and unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where the crimes occurred, the book charts the importance of urban space to the investigation, classification and public perceptions of violent crime. The Second World War transformed violent crime in the capital, changing the pre-war pattern of killings committed within the family to one of murder committed by strangers in chance encounters, and...
Murder capital is a historical study of suspicious and unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century ...
