Morale and unity in wartime Hampshire 1939-1945
My DPhil research is exploring the extent the famous wartime spirit of togetherness existed in Hampshire during the Second World War. I am consulting a variety of sources, such as diaries, letters, newspapers, home defence files, memoirs, Mass Observation material, Ministry of Information reports, parish magazines, audio files and much else. By conducting an in-depth study of Hampshire’s wartime society, my research intends to make an important contribution to a well-established, yet inconclusive historiographical debate.
Papers
‘The People’s War, Tom Wintringham and the 1945 General Election’ – CONTED Graduate School Research Seminar, Rewley House, University of Oxford, June 2025
‘The wartime diary of Eric Wyeth Gadd’ – English Local History Doctoral Research Seminar, University of Oxford, May 2023
‘Life in wartime Bristol, 1939-41’ English Local History Seminar, University of Oxford, April 2021
Dissertations
‘Unity and morale in wartime Bristol: 1938-41’ (2021) MSc in English Local History, University of Oxford
‘CONTEST: A counter-terrorism policy analysis of the Prevent Strategy in an English town’ (2017) MA in International Security Studies, University of Reading
‘Everyday life in Reading during the Second World War: 1939-45’ (2016) BA History, University of Reading
Departmental profile: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/dphil-students?subject=DPhil+in+English+Local+History&id=150