1. The Archive has been trawled by a number of historians over the years and extracts have appeared in a wide range of books and theses. Books which relate specifically to women's lives include:BraybonGailSummerfieldPenny Out of the Cage: women's experiences of two world wars by PandoraLondon1987SummerfieldPenny and Women Workers in the Second World War by RoutledgeLondon1989LangCaroline Keep Smiling Through: women and the Second World War by Cambridge EducationalCambridge1989MinnsRaynes Bombers and Mash: the Domestic Front, 1939-45 by ViragoLondon1980 My Country is the Whole World by the Cambridge Women's Peace Collective PandoraLondon1984
2. HarrissonTomWorking women in this war Industrial and Personnel Management 193921253
3. Stranger than Fiction, directed by Ian Potts for the British Film Institute (BFI) and Channel 4, was first shown on television in 1987 and is available for hire from the BFI. Researchers visiting the Archive may consult the video copy in the University of Sussex Library
4. The report which was based on Mollie Tarrant's research remains unpublished as File Report No. 1498: ‘Blaina: study of a coal mining town' (1942). It covers the history and development of the town, the working and living conditions of the miners and munitions workers with a section on women at work, their home life and domestic work and their leisure time
5. War Factory by Mass-Observation GollanczLondon1943Re-issued with a new introduction by Dorothy Sheridan in 1987 by Cresset Library, Century Hutchinson