Sensing Health and Wellbeing Through Oral Histories: The ‘Tip and Run’ Air Attacks on a British Coastal Town 1939–1944

This chapter explores how the immediacy and feeling of past times and places, and how they are important to health and wellbeing, might be conveyed through the humanities tradition of oral history. It reports on 17 oral history interviews conducted between 2005 and 2012 with senior residents of the town of Teignmouth, Devon, UK, who experienced the World War II coastal homefront first-hand, and in particular the numerous ‘tip and run’ air …