Holidays at home in the second world war

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-89

  Sladen, Chris ^a  

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EID: 77952562202     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00220094020370011001     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. P. Addison, The Road to 1945 (London 1994), 281.
2. J. Walton, The British Seaside (Manchester 2000), 61.
3. A. Jenkins, The Forties (London 1977), 25.
4. Rebecca Lewis, 'The Planning, Design and Reception of British Propaganda Posters of the Second World War' (unpublished thesis). I am indebted to Ms Lewis, of King Alfred's College, Winchester, for advice on this part of the article.
5. Quoted in A. Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (London 1991), 109.
6. M-O A FR 715, 27 May 1941. C.I. Savage, Inland Transport (London 1957), 518-19.
7. PRO, INF 1/249, quoted in I. McLaine, Ministry of Morale (London 1979), 254-5.
8. PRO, LAB 26/45 and P. Inman, Labour in the Munitions Industries (London 1957), 253.
9. Ministry of Labour Report 1939-1946 (London 1947), 120.
10. PRO, LAB 26/45, Ministry of Labour and National Service No. 29, 30 April 1941.
11. J.P.W. Mallalieu, Passed to You, Please (London 1943), 158-60.
12. Presumably Mallalieu did not know that in nearby Sheffield, and in other towns, the capitalist Billy Butlin had been called in to advise local authorities on organizing Holidays at Home, a task he characteristically combined with the private purchase of a cut-price 'Switchback' ride (C. Ward and D. Hardy, Goodnight Campers! (London 1986), 72).
13. PRO INF 1/292, Home Intelligence Weekly Reports, 38, 39, 44.
14. Richard Broad and Susie Fleming (eds), Nella Last's War (London 1983), 166.
15. J. Davis, The Wartime Kitchen and Garden (London 1993), 210-11.
16. PRO, LAB 26/47, Making the Best of Holidays in 1942, passim.
17. PRO, LAB 26/46. Rossetti had also written one novel, The Darkling Plain (London 1936).
18. The Times, 25 June 1942. Holidays at Home formed only one part of CEMA's mission to bring the arts to village halls, schools, factory canteens and other venues. Its officials promoted opera, piano recitals and minority performing arts such as marionettes. They were less keen on brass bands or the Roger Quilter musical Love at the Inn which they thought derivative and not 'serious' (V & A archive, EL 3/28).
19. A. Russell, The Growth of Occupational Welfare in Britain (Aldershot 1991), 59-62.
20. N. Longmate, How We Lived Then (London 1971), 454-5.
21. [Swindon] Evening Advertiser, 1 July 1942, 29 July 1943. I am grateful to staff at Swindon Reference Library for help in identifying these and many other references.
22. Private letter from Cyril Gray, Chisledon, July 1999.
23. M. Graham, Oxfordshire at War (Stroud 1994), 162-3.
24. City of Oxford Council Reports 1939-1945 (Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, OXFO 352). By comparison, the City's scheme for growing vegetables on recreation grounds brought in £1200 in 1943.
25. Private letter from R.A. Daniel, Colchester, September 1999.
26. G. Scott Page, Recollections of a Provincial Dental Surgeon (Chester-le-Street 1984), 129. There was also dissent about proceeds of a Holidays at Home cricket match which the author wanted to go towards the upkeep of the park; other organizers favoured the Red Cross and other charities. My attention was drawn to this book by the author's daughter, Mrs Ann Revill.
27. Private letter from David Barton, Matlock, June 1999.
28. When Mass-Observation asked its correspondents 'Do you like dancing?' early in the war, 76 per cent of 'middle class', 86 per cent of 'working class' said they did: T. Harrisson and C. Madge (eds), War Begins At Home (London 1940), 222-5.
29. W.C. Berwick Sayers, Croydon and the Second World War (Croydon 1949), 306-7. Evans, a survivor of Scott's Antarctic expedition, was Regional Commissioner for London and visited blitzed areas in full Admiral's uniform, to the reported benefit of civilian morale.
30. and B. Beaven, J. Griffiths, Mass- Observation and Civilian Morale (Sussex 1998), 10; the authors' conclusion that 'There was a marked tendency for the middle class to retreat from their leisure activities in a time of crisis and the working class to increase their dependence on them' is interesting, but not fully supported.
31. NCSS, Holidays (London 1945), 52, original emphasis.
32. C. Griffin, 'Not Just a Case of Baths, Canteens and Rehabilitation Centres' in N. Hayes and J. Hill (eds), 'Millions Like Us?' British Culture in the Second World War (Liverpool 1999), 261-94.
33. G. Gibbon and R. Bell, History of the London County Council 1889-1939 (London 1939), 506-7.