Source A This photo was taken on 9 October 1940. Fred Morely the photographer was frustrated by censorship which meant that few photographs were released. He got his assistant to pose as a milkman against the backdrop of firemen fighting to contain a blaze to ensure that his picture was published
When completing an enquiry using sources, you must remember to place the sources in their historical context using your own knowledge of the issues under investigation. You must respond critically to the sources, considering their provenance carefully, but also asking the kinds of questions that historians ask when researching. Sources do not exist in isolation and must always be considered and weighed as part of a body of evidence.
Harold Nicolson, parliamentary secretary and official censor at the Ministry of Information recorded this in his diary on 17 September 1940:
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