The Psychological Effects of the London Blitz

Historian Claire Barrett takes a post-revisionist assessment of the London Blitz through the track of study that considers the history of memory and emotion.

The “myth of the blitz” and its impact on British society has received extensive attention from historians. The narrative post-World War II was that the British civilians were collectively unmoved by the German barrage and that the country remained united throughout the war. Revisionist historians in the 1970s through the 1990s attempted to dismantle this and dubbed the myth that arose around Britain’s behavior a fallacy.

Barrett is a news and social editor at HistoryNet and a World War II researcher.

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