@UniofOxford @heritagefundUK crowdsourcing initiative. The online archive, released 6/6/24, contains 25,000+ newly uncovered #WW2 stories and digitised objects.
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The Oxford War Collections have now been viewed more than 1 million times!
It's good to know that people are still finding their way to the fascinating stories and objects that families shared between 2017 and 2024.
Learn more 👉war.web.ox.ac.uk/
📢NEW: Their Finest Hour Interactive Map is LIVE!
Follow 100 personal journeys through #WWII across Britain and the globe.
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Their Finest Hour retweeted
A powerful collection of wartime letters, diaries, and photographs – never before shared with the public – has been unveiled online today to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
#VJDay
"Collection of wartime letters unveiled to mark 80th anniversary of VJ Day" itv.com/watch/news/collectio… via @ITVX
Their Finest Hour retweeted
Couple's wartime love letters released for VJ Day bbc.in/4lvhNfh
Today, on #VJDay, we are honoured to launch the Watson Collection.
The collection includes 2,600+ previously unseen:
📨 Letters
📘 Diaries
📸 Photos
🏅 Artefacts
📰 Memoirs
…and more.
Now available at: theirfinesthour.english.ox.a…
@OxHumanities @engfac @UniofOxford
Thread 🧵
On VJ Day, May joins crowds in Trafalgar Square.
In October 1945, news arrives that Frank is safe in Australian hands.
His journey home takes him via Canada before they are finally reunited in Orpington.
The Watson Collection is now free to explore online.
Discover the letters, diaries, photographs, and artefacts that preserve a remarkable journey through the war: theirfinesthour.org
#VJDay #VJDay80 #WW2 #History_Destroyer_RSS
From: Their Finest Hour HQ
To: All Parties
On 15 AUG 45 + 80 YEARS, more than ████ previously unseen wartime materials will be released.
Contents include: ████, ████, ████, plus further material of interest to #WW2 historians & enthusiasts.
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In 2023 @RGSWorcester contributed to Their Finest Hour by holding a collection event.
Last week, the school's Head of History spoke about it at @KingsCollegeLon's #WW2: 80 Years On conf, showing how local stories can reshape what we know about the war.
rgsw.org.uk/worcester/rgs-ne…
Their Finest Hour was featured on BBC South Today as @matthewkidd85 spoke to @edwardjsault at Witney's #VEDay80 street party.
Matthew & Ed spoke about the archive and what it reveals about how people experienced and felt about 8 May 1945.
#VEDay #WW2
bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62xp202…
"OFFICIAL V.E. DAY Thank God
Half day off."
Diary entry written by Alan Drury, known as 'Ted'.
Ted joined the AFS in Ilford as a driver, then the Army in 1940. In 1941, he was sent to North Africa and later to Italy, serving at El Alamein.
🔗portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles…
#VEDay80
Geoffrey Julier grew up in Hackney during the Blitz, watching dogfights from the garden and seeing a Luftwaffe pilot parachute onto the Marshes.
This photo shows his street - Mayola Road, Hackney - celebrating VE Day in 1945.
🔗 portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles…
#VEDay80 #VEDay #WW2
This is 'Victory', a bear that was given to Roland John Farndon on VE Day, 1945.
Roland's father ran a farm and bakery near Nuneaton, supplied bread to Italian POWs, and once used a bread van in a surprise Home Guard exercise.
🔗portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles…
#VEDay80 #VEDay #WW2
On VE Day, Myfanwy James joined fellow WRENs on a victory march through Portsmouth.
Myfanwy had spent the war correcting naval charts for D-Day, drawing boom defence plans, and later tracking aircraft for the Fleet Air Arm across Britain.
#VEDay80 #WW2
portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles…
