'A feminist perspective on the experiences and reminiscences of female Manx residents in relation to the Second World War'
Date(s): 1999
Scope & Content: Dissertation submitted for a Diploma in Manx Studies to the University of Liverpool (Centre for Manx Studies). The author comments on the content of five oral history interviews with named women, transcripts of which are appended. Her interviewees are Mrs M Maggs of Laxey, Mrs A Kinvig of Castletown, Mrs J Corlett of Port Erin, Mrs J Radcliffe of Douglas and Mrs I Jackson of Port Erin. Subjects covered include women's contribution to the war effort, National Saving Stamps, rationing, garden allotments ('Dig for Victory'), Anderson shelters, gas masks, identity bracelets and cards, curfew, blackout, Lord Haw-Haw, 'Careless talk costs lives', Homeguard, ATS, ARP, evacuees, internees - German, Austrian, Italian nationals, aliens and POWs. Includes transcripts of interviews.
Language: English
Extent: 1 volume
Item name: dissertation
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: MS 10268
Record class: Private
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Museum:
- Women's experiences in the Isle of Man during the Second World War, assessed from an oral history interview with Mrs Mary Kaye and other primary and secondary sources (dissertation)
- Interview with woman from Laxey about her childhood experience of the Second World War (cassette tape)
- Interview with Joan Radcliffe about her service and experience of the Second World War (cassette tape)
- Interview with Manx woman from Port Erin about her experience of the Second World War (cassette tape)
- Interview with Joyce Corlett from Port Erin talking about her experience of the Second World War and later role in helping found the Port Erin Arts Centre (cassette tape)
- Interview with Mrs Betty Beale from Cornwall about her evacuation to the Isle of Man in the Second World War (cassette tape)
- Interview with Manx woman from Port Erin about her experience of the Second World War (cassette tape)
Archives:
- Interview with Joan Radcliffe about her service and experience of the Second World War
- Interview with woman from Laxey about her childhood experience of the Second World War
- Women's experiences in the Isle of Man during the Second World War, assessed from an oral history interview with Mrs Mary Kaye and other primary and secondary sources
- Interview with Mrs Betty Beale from Cornwall about her evacuation to the Isle of Man in the Second World War
- Interview with Joyce Corlett from Port Erin talking about her experience of the Second World War and later role in helping found the Port Erin Arts Centre
- Interview with Manx woman from Port Erin about her experience of the Second World War
- Interview with Manx woman from Port Erin about her experience of the Second World War