Product Features

Enhanced research tools

• Full-text searchable across the resource and within the image viewer
• Enhanced indexing, with metadata fields formulated in consultation with academics, to allow filtering and advanced search by:
  

• Document title
• Government Department
• Date
• Themes
• Document Types
• Civil Defence Regions
• Locations
• Organisations and Services
• Keywords

• User-generated keywords
• Easily trace connections across documents by clicking on any free-text field entry in the metadata, and discovering all other content in the resource indexed with the same metadata tag.
• Browse the collections through related and popular searches
• Save your searches and documents using the ‘My Archive’ feature

Teaching resources

• An interactive map of voices and stories from the Home Front
• Image gallery of propaganda advertising
• Editorial board essays
• Seminar packs and essay titles
• Downloadable lists of indexing terms to help begin searches
• Introductory videos from the Editorial Board