2025/10/17 by Michelle Walker · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/02684527.2025.2573607
openalex publication_date 2025/10/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14
In the early years of the Second World War, rising workplace discontent, perceived communist influence, and war weariness sparked a suite of investigations into civilian mood and behaviour in the volatile west of Scotland. This article examines three ways the general domestic population was monitored in Scotland’s industrial heartland: by the police, via a state-private partnership, and by a special interest group. In doing so, this article hopes to reshape knowledge of the domestic intelligence sphere in wartime Britain, and illuminate the extent to which Allied societies were subject to counter-measures to undermine perceived ‘subversive’ activities.