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This dataset comprises data from the 58 surviving BIPO polls conducted between 1938 and 1946.

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Questions cover domestic, foreign and military affairs, including: - appeasement - the progress and prosecution of the war - whether to sue for peace with Germany, Italy and Japan - satisfaction with the government's conduct of the war - attitudes towards Churchill and other leading politicians, including Halifax, Eden, Atlee, Bevin, Morrison - the persecution of the Jews - the opening of a second front - attitudes to the USSR and the USA as allies - the dropping of the atomic bomb - morale, optimism and pessimism - rationing and other war-time controls - air-raids and bomb damage - the Beveridge Report, equal pay, post-war reconstruction. Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

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