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Description

A file of documents relating to special investigations by Home Intelligence on public attitudes toward the war and post-war reconstruction. Subjects covered in the file include a study from a University College London psychologist about public reactions during the war, including a study of the books that feature public accounts; expense claims for investigators, including the costs of travel, office equipment, and books; interviews concerning life during the war and the prospect for reconstruction; and further interviews concerning attitudes toward news-reporting, including news about the war, the home front, and domestic problems. Other subjects discussed include the exhibition of newsreels in cinemas; an investigation of attitudes toward education; and attitudes toward issues of reconstruction, including the British economy, social welfare provisions, education, housing, central government, international relations, and military affairs. Documents in the file include a report about the work of German and American psychologists concerning the impact of war.

Keywords

administration, agriculture, air raids, airfields, Beveridge Report, blackout, books, British economy, cinemas, civil defence, clothing, coal, coastal areas, conscription, Conservative Party, crime, demobilisation, disease, domestic work, education, employment, evacuation, factories, family, film, finance, fire services, flying bombs, food preparation, food shortages, food supplies, former servicemen, fuel, gardens, grants, healthcare, hot water, housing, identity cards, industry, infrastructure, intelligence, interviews, Irish nationals, labour shortages, labour supply, laundry, local authorities, looting, maps, military operations, motor vehicles, newspapers, offences, overseas trade, pensions, personal income, petrol, photography, postal communications, post-war planning, propaganda, prosecution, public health, public houses, public morale, public opinion, public transport, publicity, publishing, ration books, rationing, recreation, recruitment, rental properties, repair, rural areas, science, soldiers, sport, standard of living, surveys, taxation, textiles, transportation, unemployment, universities, voluntary organisations, wages, welfare, Winston Churchill, working hours, youths