Site Information

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Notice and Takedown Policy

Content added to our webpages and digitised collections is added in “good faith” and after copyright checks have taken place, however, we do recognise that content can still be published and be in breach of copyright. If you are concerned that there may have been a breach of your intellectual property rights, you can email library@londonmet.ac.uk.Please include the following information:

Your name and contact details, the URL and description of the content you wish to challenge,evidence that you are the rights holder or their authorised representative, the reason for your request.

On notification of a possible breach of copyright, the work in question will be suppressed from public access, and then further examined in response to the enquiry. We will acknowledge receipt of your complaint by email. Once further checks have been performed to assess the validity of the case, the claimant will be contacted with a response.

Contents

This site consists of three resources:

Voices from the Home Front
Oral history interviews documenting the working lives and trade union experiences during the Second World War.

Images & Documents
Documents, photographs and other images illustrate the lives of Home Front Workers and uncover the role of the trade union movement during the Second World War.

Historical Perspectives
Historians specialising in this period have written a series of learning narratives to place in context the images and oral testimony that you will find on this website.

Technology and Processes

This site is driven by EMu, a content management system developed by KE Software (UK) Ltd. Information (or metadata) about each image is recorded on this database and queries posted by the user on the website are sent here to be processed. If a match is found then the digital image and metadata are returned to the screen.

Digitisation work has been carried out by a variety of agencies including the University´s own Media Centre. Two images are created of each photograph or document - a high resolution TIFF file, and a smaller lower resolution JPEG file for delivery on the website. These high resolution files are kept in storage but may be utilised in the future as internet connections become faster.

Help with searching

For searching images throughout the whole site, use the Search box in the top right hand corner of the Home page. The Voices from the Home Front, Images and Documents, and Historical Perspectives can be searched there or on their own pages. Note that search results will be returned in ascending date order by default.

The following operators can be used to aid your search:

Phrase searching. Use double quote marks to narrow down your search, e.g. "coal industry". This will find records where the two words are used together.

~ Stem search. This will find all variations of that word, e.g. ~social will find Socialist and Social Insurance.

@ Sounds Like. This will find words that sound like the one you want. e.g. @Bessant will find all references to Annie Besant.

* Wildcard. This will find words that have any letter or character after the ones you entered. Use this especially for searching dates, e.g. 192* will find all references to the 1920s.

For a more sophisticated search, go to the Advanced Search page.