KEY SOURCES

MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES The British Newspaper Archive britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Local and national papers are full of articles and letters documenting the way in which our ancestors’ lives were affected by the standardisation of time and daylight saving. Read them online here, or at findmypast.co.uk, or on microfilm at public libraries. Frenchay Village Museum 1 Begbrook Park, Winterbourne, Bristol BS16 1SZ

frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk It’s worth checking out your local history museum for records, diaries and oral histories that reveal how Britain’s changing times affected local communities. Frenchay’s digitised school logs, for example, record that poor attendances followed daylight saving in 1916. The Clockmakers’ Museum Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD

sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_ your_visit/exhibitions/clockmakersmuseum The history of watch and clock-making in London is traced through the world’s oldest collection – from 1600 through to the present day. The Royal Observatory National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF rmg.co.uk/ royal- observatory This is the home of Greenwich Mean Time. Here you can find out about its history and see the first clock ever to display GMT directly to the public. WEBSITES Timeanddate.com timeanddate.com/time/uk/time-zonebackground.html A concise summary of all the changes British time has undergone since 1880, incorporating plenty of useful links. The British Sundial Society sundialsoc.org.uk Everything you want to know about sundials: their history, how they work, and where to find one near you. BOOKS

Saving the Daylight: Why We Put The Clocks Forward by David Prerau (2005) An entertaining book telling the story of how daylight saving time has been adopted all over the world.