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.

29th June 1941

Cool and cloudy. Cycled over to Lawford. Sawed up tree trunks this afternoon, both Parrington and myself making ourselves quite exhausted. I...

E.J. Rudsdale Talk at Bourne Mill - 17th August 2011

Readers may be interested to know that I have been invited to give a talk on E.J. Rudsdale and his journals at Bourne Mill , the National Tr...

19th June 1941

Cycled over to the Belfields’ at Dedham tonight, to help Penelope cart hay. Hot. Made myself very, very tired, and felt ill on the way back....

18th June 1941

Gorgeous day. Very hot. Everybody gone to the Derby at Newmarket.

17th June 1941

Another beautiful day. Actually light until after 12 tonight. Had tea with Dolly S. Many planes going out tonight just before midnight.

15th June 1941

Dull, warm day. Went to Boxted this afternoon. Mrs. Rose has found rather a nice iron pothook in one of the cottage chimneys. The Sissons ca...

14th June 1941

Short alarm in the early hours of the morning. Think I heard a distant bomb. It is a curious thing that so often lately there have been merc...

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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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