Entertainments National Service Association

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Employer Naomi Jacob
NJ went to work, displaying the energy of five women,
qtd. in
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
162
as a Second World War lecturer with the Ministry of Information , awelfare supervisor with ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association , and a...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
In another memoir, Me and the Mediterranean, published in 1945, NJ wrote about working for ENSA Welfare in 1943-4 in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria), Italy, and Sicily. It was followed by...

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1940: Ernest Bevin and Basil Dean established the...

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1940

Ernest Bevin and Basil Dean established the Entertainments National Service Association (generally known as ENSA) to boost the morale of factory workers, allied servicemen, and civilians in underground air-raid shelters.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
37
Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.
101
Ziegler, Philip. London at War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
49

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