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About Us
In September 1997
I began researching a dissertation for my history degree entitled 'Churchill, Roosevelt
and the Casablanca Conference, January 1943'. The title was suggested by my supervisor
Dr David Reynolds, an expert in Anglo-American relations during this period. After endless
reading, a number of trips to various archives, and a number of hours spent trawling the
web for background materials and images, the study was completed. In June 1998 I found out
that I got a 2:1 history degree, and that both markers of the dissertation had awarded it
firsts, so it played a crucial role in getting me a 2:1 overall, and was probably my
single best piece of work during my degree.
Hence this site. I hope historians and
students will find it a useful resource, even if it doesn't deal with their immediate area
of interest.
Anyone with a relevant site who wants a link
is welcome to submit the URL, if they'll link back to
SYMBOL.
Acknowledgements
The dissertation that is published on this
site would not have been possible without the help and supervision of Dr David Reynolds,
of Christ's College, Cambridge. His endless knowledge of World War II, and his own
contributions to the understanding of it, were the most important factors in determining
the quality of this study. His knowledge of the documents held at the Churchill Archive
Centre and the Public Record Office was also extremely useful. It is because of him that
this dissertation is of sufficient quality (I feel) to be published. The staff at the
Churchill Archive Centre were also extremely helpful.
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