Spanish Civil War Interview Series 6: British Public and the Civil War with Harry Taylor
History of the Second World War
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The Slow Down of Aid and Relief in the 1930s
The initial enthusiastic response, like I say, starts to wear off after three years. Britain itself isn't in the best situation economically. One of the most surprising and kind of heartwarming things that I've discovered in researching this is that actually in a lot of cases it was people who had the least who gave the most. Some of the most successful areas up and down Britain where these eight groups asked for donations were working class areas.
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