Authors: Virginia Nicholson
page 273.
‘Wrens like Ena Howes …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4162187.
pages 273–4.
‘Iris Ogilvie …’: see Cross and de Gex,
Unsung Heroines
; also obituary of Iris Ogilvie,
Daily Telegraph
, 10 January 2006.
pages 274–8.
‘QA Joy Taverner …’: JoyT/A; see also BBC/PW, article ID: A1096580 (reprinted with permission); excerpt from ‘Until Belsen’ in Powell, ed.,
Shadows of War
.
Chapter 9: No Real Victory
pages 279–80.
‘Miss Florence Speed …’: Florence Speed, Diary of Miss F. M. Speed, Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents, IWM 86/45/2.
page 280.
‘London is in a chastened …’: Hodgson,
Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 280.
‘the “up-for-the-day …” ’:MP-D/NY.
pages 280–81.
‘I don’t like these Bombs …’: in Campbell-Preston,
The Rich Spoils of Time
.
page 281.
‘As code-breaker …’: MB/A.
pages 282–3.
‘In 1943 ATS …’: DB/GIRLS.
page 283.
‘Horrible creatures …’: CM/MM.
page 283.
‘We all thought …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed.,
Our Longest Days
.
pages 283–4.
‘Swamped as she was …’: MB/NGS.
page 284.
‘Maggie Joy Blunt …’: MO; and see Simon Garfield,
Our Hidden Lives – The Remarkable Diaries of Post-war Britain.
page 284.
‘Barbara Cartland questioned …’: BC/YO.
page 284.
‘In summer 1944 …’: cited in David Kynaston,
Austerity Britain 1945
–
1951
.
page 285.
‘Writing in 1953 …’: Vera Brittain,
Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II
.
page 286.
‘What would you be doing …’: DB/GIRLS.
page 286.
‘I long for an excuse …’: MO.
page 288.
‘one smart lady …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2915705.
page 288.
‘We were a lot fitter …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4050749.
page 288.
‘Frances Faviell bicycled …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 288.
‘Don’t forget …’: JT/A.
page 289.
‘The public has been asked …’: MP-D/NY.
page 289.
‘Lady Clementine Beit …’: see Peggy Scott,
British Women at War
.
page 290.
‘When you feel tired …’: cited in Longmate,
How We Lived Then
.
page 291.
‘Constance Galilee …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2915705.
page 291.
‘I’ve hardly anything …’: MO.
page 291.
‘The thoughtful Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.
page 291.
‘One diarist described …’: MO.
page 292.
‘Phyllis Noble’s mum …’: PW/CAW.
page 292.
‘Frances Partridge was one …’: FP/PW.
page 292.
‘In September 1943 …’: Speed, Diary.
page 292.
‘For Sheila Hails …’: SH-J/A.
pages 292–3.
‘It took the war …’: NL/NLW.
page 293.
‘Our mums could cook …’: JT/A.
pages 293–7.
‘One of them was Margaret Herbertson …’: Mar.P/OI; Mar.P/A.
pages 297–301.
‘QA Joy Taverner …’: JoyT/A; JoyT/PP; JoyT/PW; excerpt from ‘Until Belsen’ in Powell, ed.,
Shadows of War
.
page 298.
‘A British reporter …’: transcript of Richard Dimbleby’s report given on
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW
.
page 301.
‘Maggie Joy Blunt could …’: MO.
page 301.
‘Anne Popham’s job …’: AP/A.
pages 301–2.
‘Maggie Joy Blunt was equally …’: MO.
page 302.
‘Joan Wyndham’s party spirits …’: JW/LB.
page 302.
‘Clara Milburn listened …’: CM/MM.
page 302.
‘Vere Hodgson shared …’: Hodgson,
Few Eggs and No Oranges
.
page 302.
‘Naomi Mitchison had witnessed …’: NM/NOTES.
page 302.
‘Sheila Hails, a pacifist …’: SH-J/A.
pages 302–3.
‘Frances Partridge, as usual …’: FP/PW.
page 303.
‘Thelma Ryder’s concerns …’: TR/A.
page 303.
‘There is no such thing …’: ‘September 1, 1939’, first published in book form in W. H. Auden,
Another Time
.
page 304.
‘In 2003 Joy Taverner’s …’: JoyT/PW.
pages 304–7.
‘Maggie Joy Blunt was appalled …’: MO.
Chapter 10: A Brave New World
page 308.
‘Mary Angove let rip …’: MD/A.
pages 308–9.
‘Verily Anderson and …’: VA/SPAM.
pages 308–9.
‘The German war …’: see
A Churchill Anthology
.
page 309.
‘Looking on, Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 309–10.
‘Marguerite Patten’s mother …’: MP/A.
page 310.
‘ “A magic night” …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2756351.
page 310.
‘Vere Hodgson recorded …’: Hodgson,
Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 310.
‘Like thousands …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A1951355.
page 310.
‘Teenager Anne Thompson …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A40575117.
page 310.
‘In Oxford …’: NB/TIME.
page 311.
‘Like many others …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed.,
Our Longest Days
.
page 311.
‘Muriel Green got drunk …’: cited in ibid.
page 311.
‘Joan Wyndham headed …’: JW/LB.
page 311.
‘One young woman …’: cited in Wicks,
Welcome Home
page 311.
‘Another woman …’: cited in Longmate, ed.,
The Home Front
.
pages 311–12.
‘Soldiers like Jack Clark …’: cited in Day-Lewis, ed.,
Last Letters Home
.
page 312.
‘By 1945 QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
pages 312–13.
‘Margaret Herbertson remained …’: Mar.P/OI.
page 313.
‘Widowed at the age …’: CW/A.
page 313.
‘Monica Littleboy …’: MS/MEM
.
pages 313–14.
‘Thelma Ryder didn’t …’: TR/A.
page 314.
‘The diarist Shirley Goodhart …’: MO.
pages 314–16.
‘On VE-day Jack Milburn …’: CM/MM.
pages 316–17.
‘Patrick Campbell-Preston …’: Campbell-Preston,
The Rich Spoils of Time
.
page 317.
‘Jean McFadyen was still working …’: JP/A.
pages 317–19.
‘Doris Scorer’s boyfriend …’: DW/DV.
page 319.
‘Frank was to prove …’: information from Roger Kitchen, Wolverton, and recorded interview with Doris White, Living Archive Online, Milton Keynes.
page 319.
‘Helen Forrester couldn’t help …’: HF/LIME.
pages 319–20.
‘WAAF driver Flo Mahony …’: FM/A.
page 320.
‘Flo Mahony’s friend …’: JT/A.
pages 320–22.
‘Still in Italy …’: Mar.P/OI.
page 322.
‘QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
page 323.
‘Zelma Katin had become …’: Katin,
Clippie
.
page 323.
‘Naomi Mitchison’s socialism …’: Naomi Mitchison to Tom Harrisson, 9 October 1944, cited in Jenni Calder,
The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison
.
page 323.
‘Vera Brittain had spent …’: see entry in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
page 324.
‘On VE-day Nella …’: NL/NLW.
pages 324–6.
‘The wife of a Surrey vicar …’: see entry in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
; also Paul Addison,
Now the War Is Over: A Social History of Britain 1945–51
; and
The Times
, 9 July 1946, 12 September 1947.
page 327.
‘Shirley Goodhart’s Mass Observation …’: MO.
pages 327–8.
‘The Oxford student …’: NB/TIME.
page 328.
‘The Labour manifesto …’: see Kynaston,
Austerity Britain
.
pages 328–9
‘Naomi Mitchison had mixed …’: NM/NOTES, and Calder,
The Nine Lives
.
page 329.
‘Britain was still living …’: see Kynaston,
Austerity Britain
.
page 329.
‘Nella Last couldn’t get …’: NL/NLW.