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90. TWA, MD-NC/276/3, ARP Emergency Committee, ‘Provision of Deep Shelters’, 9 Oct 1940; HO 207/664, Islington town clerk to London Regional HQ, 6 Nov 1940; Ministry Home Security to town clerk, 25 Nov 1940; Idle, War over West Ham, 70–71. See too Geoffrey Field, Blood, Sweat and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939–1945 (Oxford: 2011), 39–41.

91. Joseph Meisel, ‘Air Raid Shelter Policy and its Critics before the Second World War’, Twentieth Century British History, 5 (1994), 310–11.

92. TNA, INF 1/319, ‘A Call to the People: National Committee of the People’s Vigilance Movement’ [Sept 1940]; Andrew Thorpe, Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain (Oxford: 2009), 129, 201; Dietmar Süss, Tod aus der Luft: Kriegsgesellschaft und Luftkrieg in Deutschland und England (Munich: 2011), 324–5.

93. HHC, Edgar Young papers, DYO 2/31, People’s Convention papers, ‘Speakers’ Notes: No. 1’; ‘Memorandum on the tasks of the People’s Convention’, 26 Sept 1941. By the end of 1941 there were only 1,650 supporters countrywide. See too Thorpe, Parties at War, 159–60, 198–9.

94. TNA, MEPO 2/6354, Note for Metropolitan Police Commissioner, 27 Sept 1940; MHS to MP Commissioner, 30 Sept 1940.

95. TNA, PREM 3/27, Churchill to Anderson, 21 Sept 1940; Anderson to Churchill, 23 Sept 1940; Gregg, Shelter of the Tubes, 20–24.

96. TNA, HO 207/363, ‘Note on Condition of Tube at S. Kensington’, Oct 1940.

97. TNA, PREM 3/27, MacDonald to Churchill, 7 Oct 1940; Churchill to MacDonald, 9 Oct 1940. See too Juliet Gardiner, The Blitz: The British under Attack (London: 2010), 72–5.

98. TNA, PREM 3/27, Kingsley Martin draft, ‘The War in East London’, 1–4; Clementine Churchill note, ‘Shelters visited in Bermondsey’; Churchill to MacDonald, 10 Dec 1940.

99. UEA, Zuckerman Archive, OEMU/56/4, Zuckerman to Sir Leonard Parsons (Min of Health), 30 Sept 1940; ‘Notes on a discussion, Birmingham’, 9 Nov 1940. Solly Zuckerman, From Apes to Warlords: The Autobiography of Solly Zuckerman 1904–1946 (London: 1978), 133–8.

100. TNA, DSIR 4/366, summary of Building Research Laboratory work for Service Departments, 27 Mar 1939; List of Enquiries, Aug 1940–Nov 1941.

101. TNA, PREM 3/27, Edward Evans to Churchill, 24 Oct 1940; Ellen Wilkinson to David Robertson (MP for Streatham), 31 Oct 1940.

102. Idle, War over West Ham, 64, 99–100.

103. TNA, HO 186/608, report of the Regional Commissioner South, 14 Dec 1940, 1–2.

104. TNA, HO 186/608, ‘Brief Visit to Southampton, December 3 1940’, Ministry of Food to Sir George Gater, 5 Dec 1940.

105. Bernard Donoughue, G. W. Jones, Herbert Morrison: Portrait of a Politician (London: 2001), 284–7; Herbert Morrison, An Autobiography of Lord Morrison of Lambeth (London: 1960), 182–3.

106. TNA, HO 205/240, ‘Air Raid Shelter Health: Report by Horder Committee’, 18 Sept 1940; Lord Horder to Morrison, memorandum, ‘Air Raid Shelters’, 23 Oct 1940.

107. TNA, MH 76/555, ‘Model Shelter Byelaws’, 28 Sept 1940; Harold Scott (MHS) to all London Region Officers, 19 Dec 1940.

108. TNA, HO 207/386, London Civil Defence Region: Instructors’ Course for Officers Responsible for Shelters, June 1941, 3; United Synagogue Welfare Department to London Homelessness Commissioner, ‘Air Raid Victims – Special Jewish Facilities’, March 1941.

109. TNA, HO 186/927, ‘Departmental Reports on Preparations for Heavy Air Attacks Next Winter’, Aug 1941, 7–9; Morrison to Churchill, 19 Nov 1940.

110. Donoughue, Jones, Herbert Morrison, 290; TNA, HO 186/927, ‘Departmental Reports’, 8.

111. TNA, MH 76/491, London Civil Defence Region Report, ‘Public Shelters’, 31 Jan 1941; ‘Progress Report for May 1941’, App v.

112. TNA, PREM 3/27, memorandum from Morrison to Churchill, ‘Responsibility for Shelter Administration’, 23 Dec 1940; MacDonald to Churchill, 31 Dec 1940.

113. TNA, HO 207/363, ‘Report on Comfort and Amenities in Shelters’, 4 Dec 1940, 4–5.

114. TNA, HO 207/386, memorandum by M. A. Creswick Atkinson (Welfare Director), ‘Plan for Welfare in Shelters’, 5 Feb 1941; letter from J. Mooney to Creswick Atkinson, 4 July 1941; memorandum, ‘Welfare in Public Shelters’ [n.d. but Aug 1941]; Central Film Library, list of 16mm films for shelter controllers.

115. TNA, HO 207/386, LCC Education Officer to Creswick Atkinson, 25 Feb 1941.