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Shoreditch Park community excavation report
www.molas.org.uk/projects/annualReviews.asp?aryear=2005&guid=29
This site report, by Ros Aitken and Faye Simpson, is extracted from the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) Annual Review 2005. It provides a short account of the excavation carried out by MoLAS during the summer of 2005.

A brief update on the further small excavation carried out in August 2006 can be found here.

24 Hour Museum
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
The 24 Hour Museum is the official guide to over 3,000 museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK, providing news, listings and features. These are two of their reports on the Shoreditch Park excavation:
Local children muck in to dig up WWII bomb site in London park by David Prudames
National archaeology week: digging the past with David Lammy by Richard Moss

Remembering the Blitz
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/blitz
This online exhibition looks at what it was like to live through the Blitz in London and at how we remember it now. It incorporates a wide range of personal stories and memories, photographs, artwork, facts, figures, background information and reproductions of objects from museums and other sources. Between 7 September 2000 and 11 May 2001 – exactly 60 years afterwards – visitors to the online exhibition were invited to contribute their own memories. Those memories now form part of the exhibition itself.

Imperial War Museum
http://london.iwm.org.uk
The Imperial War Museum website contains a wealth of information about all aspects of war, including its impact on civilians, the home front during the second world war and the London Blitz. The museum's permanent 'Blitz Experience' exhibition is a carefully researched reconstruction of an air raid shelter and a blitzed street in 1940. Appropriate sights, sounds and smells evoke for visitors a sensation of being caught in the bombing of London during the Second World War. Special school visits can be arranged to the Blitz Experience and the website provides teaching packs and other resources.

Eyewitness to History: the London Blitz, 1940
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/blitz.htm
Ernie Pyle was one of the second world war's most popular correspondents. His journalism was characterised by a focus on the common soldier interspersed with sympathy, sensitivity and humor. He witnessed the war in Europe from the Battle of Britain through the invasion of France. In 1945, he accepted assignment to the Pacific and was killed during the battle for Okinawa. In an article reproduced on the Eyewitness to History website he describes a night raid on London in 1940.

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