Some Worthwhile Books
I am sometimes asked where I draw the material for my tweets from. Most of the photographs of victims come from the Human Face project on CAIN. The “On This Day” feature on the CAIN website has proved invaluable in terms of cutting down time on looking through books to discover who died on any given day. A drawback of CAIN is that it seriously underestimates the number of people murdered by the PIRA. For example, it does not attribute Kingsmill to the Provisionals even through they clearly were responsible. That said, it’s a remarkable resources and a wonderful idea very well executed, particularly given the limitations of its time. I have also used The British Newspaper Archive . A major gap in this otherwise excellent online resource which is easily searchable is the absence of Northern Ireland papers covering the post 1969 period so while it has proved very useful for checking details of soldiers from Great Britain it has been of limited use in other cases. Th...