BOOKS BY CATHERINE PEARSON
Museums in the Second world war: Curators, culture and change with suzanne keene
broomfield in world war two with neil wiffen (available from st mary’s church, broomfield, Essex)
Review by Heather Falvey for The Local Historian, November 2025
the united states army air force in essex:
e.j. rudsdale’s contemporary account
To mark the 80th anniversary of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) in Essex in the run-up to D-Day in 1944, Dr Catherine Pearson was invited to write a blog post for Essex Record Office, based on the diary entries of E.J. Rudsdale, about relations between the Americans and the local Essex people.
Essex Record Office also recorded an edited version of E.J. Rudsdale’s diary entry for the events of D-Day in Essex on 4 June 1944.
(Photo: American servicemen on Colchester Castle Walls with Harold Poulter, Curator of Hollytrees Museum, 1944
(ERO D/DU 888/27/4 p.590)).
Catherine Pearson 