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The First World War: Sources for history
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm
Excellent website based on documents and other materials held by the National Archives. The section 'Britain and the war' is particularly relevant here.
Home Front
www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/wars/firstwwlinks/homefront.html
Compilation
of links to other relevant sites, on the SchoolHistory website.
Blighty: British society in the era of the Great War by Gerard
J DeGroot
(Longman, 1996) £15.99
A rich, scholarly overview of the Home Front, with an excellent use of
primary source material.
The Virago Book of Women and the Great War edited by Joyce Marlow
(Virago, 1998) £9.99
Contains fascinating fragments of diaries, letters, autobiographies and
newspaper reports illustrating women's lives.
The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914-1918 by
Trevor Wilson (Polity Press, 1986). Out of print; may be available from
libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Remains a voluminous classic.
Keep the Home Fires Burning by Kate Haste (1977). Out of print;
may be available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Provides an excellent introduction to propaganda on the Home Front.
The Worst Ordeal: Britons at Home and Abroad 1914-1918 by Peter
Liddle (Pen & Sword Books/Leo Cooper, 1994) £10.99
One of many books by this author to bring new documents, photographs and
testimony of a nation at war to light.
The Great World War 1914-45: Vol. 1: Lightning Strikes Twice.
Vol. II: Who won? Who lost? Edited by Peter Liddle, John Bourne
and Ian Whitehead (Collins, 2000) £24.99 each
Contains several useful and stimulating essays on the Home Front.
The Great War and the British People by J M Winter (Palgrave,
1987). Out of print; may be available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Contains much fascinating material and argument.
