9. Which was the most important to the maintenance of civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War: religion, radio, or cinema?

Primaries
J. Richards and D. Sheridan, Mass Observation at the Movies (London, 1987)
It’s That Man Again RAF Special (1943) – available free as a sample at http://www.otrcat.com/that-again-p-1420.html
Radio extracts at ‘The BBC at War’: http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/resources/ww2/index.shtml
Films: Went the Day Well (Cavalcanti, 1942), In Which We Serve (Lean and Coward, 1942), Millions Like Us (Launder and Gilliat, 1943), British Pathe newsreels at http://www.britishpathe.com

Secondaries
C. Field, ‘Puzzled People Revisited: Religious Believing and Belonging in Wartime Britain’, 20th Century British History 19, 4 (2008), 446-479
I. McLaine, Ministry of Morale: Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II (London, 1979)
S. Nicholas, The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC (Manchester, 1996)
A. Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, III: The War of Words (Oxford, 1970)
R. Mackay, Half the battle: civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War (Manchester, 2002),
M. Snape, God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars (Abingdon, 2005)
C. Brown, Religion and Society in Twentieth Century Britain (London, 2006)
N. Hayes and J. Hill, eds, Millions Like Us? British Culture in the Second World War (Manchester, 1999)
J. Richards, Films and British National Identity (Manchester, 1997)
A. Aldgate and J. Richards, Britain Can Take It: British Cinema in the Second World War (London, 2nd edn 2008)
A. Aldgate and J. Richards, Best of British: Cinema and Society, 1930-1970
F. Leventhal, ‘The Best for the Most: CEMA and State Sponsorship of the Arts in Wartime, 1939-45’ 20th Century British History 1, 3 (1990), 289-317
J. Chapman, The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda 1939-45 (London, 2000)

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