This page brings together materials related to Second World War diarist Lorna Beatrice Lloyd (1914-1942), her Diary of the war, and two academic research projects: Platform to platform (P2P) and Heritage organisations and podcasts: scoping study (HOPSS).

Lorna Lloyd wrote the entries of her diary of the war in this exercise book

The Diary of the war

• Read the diary on Blipfoto, starting with the first of Lorna Lloyd’s diary entries dated 1st September 1939. Additional material in the Blipfoto journal includes footnotes to the diary entries (e.g. explanations of references, links to further reading) to other outputs by Lorna Lloyd (art work, poetry and other writing), outputs by other Lloyd family members, family photographs, family history and the emerging story of its discovery, and audience comments on the Blipfoto entries.
  
• Listen to the podcast series, starting with Episode 1 and the BBC’s announcement of Germany’s invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939, with Lorna Lloyd’s reaction to the news. Additional material in the podcast series includes broadcast and print news stories that tie to Lorna Lloyd’s commentary on the war, and music that she enjoyed.

Blog posts related to Lorna Lloyd, P2P, and HOPSS published at hazelhall.org 2021-

• May 8th 2025: Marking the 80th anniversary of VE day with a contribution to The Conversation
• January 31st 2025: ‘Podcasting the archive: an evaluation of audience engagement with a narrative non-fiction podcast series’ published
• October 31st 2024: Lorna Lloyd at Girton College Cambridge: evidence from the Girton archive
• September 2nd 2024: Article accepted by ‘Archives’ on audience engagement with podcast series
• July 30th 2024: Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’ features in the ‘Their finest hour’ archive
• August 4th 2023: Platform to Platform project: 2022/3 review; 2023/4 preview
• June 26th 2023: HOPSS project presentation at ‘Shaking the archive’
• May 16th 2023: An evening at Lambeth Palace for the 2022 Janette Harley Award ceremony and the 2023 Maurice Bond Memorial Lecture
• February 13th 2023: The power of audio – presenting archives via podcasts: submission accepted for Shaking the archive conference, Edinburgh, June 2023
• January 16th 2023: National award recognises the Platform to Platform project: British Records Association Janette Harley Prize 2022 runner-up
• October 4th 2022: Platform to Platform project presentation at the Creative Informatics showcase
• September 23rd 2022: Spreading the word of Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’ podcast series at #ARA2022 and #BBCat100
• September 14th 2022: Case study on the creative use of digitised archives: presentation on Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the War’ podcast series at #BBCat100
• September 2nd 2022: How does engagement with an archive differ depending on its digital format? Preview of presentation on Lorna Lloyd’s Diary of the war at #ARA2022
• July 18th 2022: The creative use of digitised archives: roundtable to be presented at the BBC at 100 Symposium
• June 18th 2022: Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’ podcast series launch event: review and resources
• April 11th 2022: Lorna Lloyd’s Diary of the war podcast series launch event, Malvern, Tuesday 24th May 2022: registrations open
• April 5th 2022: Paper acceptance at the 2022 Archives and Records Association conference for Edinburgh Napier team #ARA2022
• March 7th 2022: Platform to Platform project progress March 2022
• January 29th 2022: Richard Godden joins the Platform to platform team
• December 5th 2021: Introducing ‘Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats’

Other resources

• Lorna Lloyd pages on the web site of the Malvern Museum of Local History
• Blipfoto journal entitled ‘LornaLPodcast’, which charted the progress of the Platform to platform project from February 2nd 2022 to August 4th 2023
• Selected poems by Lorna Lloyd, compiled and edited by Bruce Ryan and Hazel Hall in 2022 (ISBN-13: 978-1-3999-2417-7)