[[A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr]] is highly recommended for an overview of the period; [[Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing]], provides earlier selections from the Mass Observation Archive; also recommended by Bookbag are [[Hellfire and Herring by Christopher Rush|Christopher Rush's Hellfire and Herring]] and [[Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London by Jennifer Worth]].