Day 2 at the archives begins.

… Vivid. Grim. And somehow necessary. But hard to read except in small doses.

… Still, the College is a very amenable place. And the Archive Centre has an extraordinary collection. If challenging in its own way. Looking at unpublished accounts of the liberation of Belsen in 1945, transcripts of prisoner of war interrogations, etc…

… My family were from industrial south Wales: coal miners or steelworkers on both my father’s and my mother’s sides. To a man and a woman they were brought up to revile Churchill - and would boo loudly whenever he appeared in a cinema newsreel during wartime. Plenty of reasons why, as we know…

Thank you!

Very helpful list, thank you. Happy to be added if you think it appropriate

And Sunday evening cooling off at Seaford, Sussex

Ah thank you - I’ll listen!

sounds intriguing!

Welcome