Who Do You Think You Are?

A housewife's diary, 1938-1941

During the Second World War, everyday life for millions of people around the world was turned upside down. In Britain, many of our ancestors faced hardship on the home front, from air raids and rationing to worries about family members fighting with the armed forces. Many ordinary people's experiences during the war are preserved in the accounts they left behind, via the Mass Observation Project (massobservationproject.amdigital.co.uk) and others.

Bedfordshire Archives holds the diary of one woman during the war – a housewife called Henrietta Argenti. County archivist Pamela Birch tells us more about what the diary

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