1. To what extent does source F accurately explain life during the Second World War? (6)
Source F: From an interview with a member of the public
by Mass Observation. (Mass Observation started in 1937
and looked at everyday life in Britain using untrained
volunteer observers who kept diaries, answered
questionnaires and interviewed members of the public)
In just one short walk I counted 48 official posters ... on
hoardings, shelters, buildings, including ones to tell you to eat
National Wholemeal Bread, not to waste food, to keep your
children in the country, to know where the rest centre is, how
to behave in an air raid shelter, to look out in the blackout, to
look out for poison gas, to carry your gas mask always, to join
the ATS, to fall in with the fire bomb fighters, to register for
Civil Defence duties, to help build a plane, to recruit for the Air
Training Corps, to save for Victory.