Using published archives to plan deeper research

Collections in Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cornwall, Oxford, Cambridge, and elsewhere compete for limited research time. Useful source names and descriptions help decide which files deserve priority. A printed documentary collection can reveal operations, units, and search terms before a visit, as the references to Operation Mo and the Independent Companies do here. It can also be read away from archive screens in short intervals. The volume gives naval historians and readers of government records campaign evidence and leads for deeper archival work.