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GCSE History · key term
An individual’s description of their own experiences, recorded in forms such as a diary, letter, interview or memoir.
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Paper 1
Revise: Local and National Sources for WWII LondonPersonal accounts include diaries, letters and recorded interviews. They can explain what an air raid meant to someone living through it: interrupted sleep, fear for relatives, damage to possessions or the search for somewhere safe to shelter. A diary written during the war records experiences close to the time; an interview recorded afterwards contains remembered experiences.
Know all the source types: local newspapers, Mass Observation reports and memoirs are included, as well as photographs, personal accounts, council records, government records, national newspapers and newsreels.
Distinguish a wartime diary from a later memoir: both are personal accounts, but they were produced at different times.
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