Thanks to Dr Catherine Pearson, Secretary of the Museums and Galleries History Group for bringing to my attention the fact that a fascinating site exists that gives an insight into the day to day life of a Colchester man during World War II.
The address for the blog is: http://wwar2homefront.blogspot.com and it shows extracts from Eric J Rudsdale's diaries of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War.
Eric Rudsdale (1910-1951) had kept a diary from the age of ten but the war years would prove to be his most prolific period of journal-keeping. Today his diaries provide a fascinating eye-witness account of what life was like in Colchester during the Second World War.
Catherine has edited Rudsdale's wartime journals and is publishing extracts from them on the blog to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. Each extract is posted exactly 70 years after it was first written, so the reader can follow events through the eyes of a witness to the war providing a unique opportunity to relive the events of the wartime home front in Colchester as they happened.
Permission to publish the extracts has kindly been granted by members of Eric Rudsdale's family and Essex Record Office.
