WW2: A Civilian in the Second World War

This blog posts extracts from E J Rudsdale's diaries of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War. Each extract was posted exactly 70 years after it was first written, marking the 70th anniversary of the Second World War between 2009-2015.

30th April 1941

Still no raids tonight. Went to the pictures this evening not so much to see a film as to sit in the warm and comfort for an hour or two. Bo...

28th April 1941

That glorious feeling of freedom which I always have when my parents are away! How wrong of me! Rang up the Health Office this morning, and ...

27th April 1941 - Wartime visit to Maidenhead

Dull and cold. To Maidenhead today by car, driven by a member of the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS), who turned out to be none other t...

26th April 1941

Weather a little better, fine and sunny, but not very warm with a cold E. wind. Much carting to Harry [Day's]’s this afternoon. He gave ...

25th April 1941

Still terribly cold. Miss Joanna Round, our chief’s daughter began voluntary office work today [at the Essex War Agricultural Committee Dist...

24th April 1941

Still very cold. Let Bob and Donkey out into the paddock today, to eat off the fresh spring grass, but only for an hour or two in order to a...

23rd April 1941

Bitterly cold weather. Three or four companies of soldiers came marching up East Hill this morning, headed by a band, and officers mounted, ...

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E J Rudsdale: Born on 14th February 1910 in Colchester, Essex. Began work at Colchester Castle Museum in 1928.

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