Questionnaire

Questionnaire

What age are you?

Under 16 17-21 21-30 30-50 +50

What town do you currently live in? ________________________________________

What is your gender?

Male Female

1. Do you think its important to archive and learn our history?

Yes No

2. When you think of WW1 which of the following words do you think of?

Death, Power, Ignorance or Morality

3. How much do you think you know about WW1?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Nothing) (History PHD)

4. How much of an impact do you feel the war had on your life?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(No Effect) (Huge Effect)

5. In a documentary about WW1 what would you want to learn about?

Soldiers Trenches Home Front Political Figures

6. Do you know anything about your ancestors in the war?

Yes No

7. Did you Know that shoreham was home to a large army camp during the war/

Yes No

+

8. What do you think the maximum capacity of the camp was?

3000 30,000 50,000 +100,000

9. In a documentary about Shoreham Army Camp what would you want to learn about?

The Story Of The Camp The Story Of The Individuals

10. Would you be interested in watching a documentary about Shoreham Army Camp?

Yes No

Focus Group Results

Regularly Occurring Themes In The Focus Group Results

1) The majority of people believe that history is important.

People believe that we can learn from the mistakes of our past.

The minority that believe history is not important justified it by saying that culture and society is forever in a state of change and that the pasts lessons are not relevant to current events.

2) The regular 1 word reactions to the phrase “World War 1” were (Death, Power, Ignorance and Morality)

Majoritively people have negative connotations towards the war.

3) The majority of people felt that they know some knowledge about the war.

Most people know about the trenches, and the countries involved, However very few people know about the home front or the cause for the war.

4) The majority of people felt that the war did have an effect on their lives.

They thought that the immediate effects of the war (economic collapse) had long lasting effects on the current day.

5) The majority of people expect to learn about the lives of the soldiers and the trenches.

Nobody mentioned the home front or the political figures.

6 & 7) Everybody said they saw soldiers playing football, some knew that it was the Christmas truce.

On the second image people saw a soldier mourning the death of a friend.

On the third image most people knew it was a military poster encouraging people to sign up, few people knew it was Kitchener.

On the fourth image everybody saw that it was a quote by an old ww1 veteran.

8 & 9) On the first image the majority people felt uplifted and that bitter rivalry between politicians could not separate the men from enjoying their holiday.

On the second image people were shocked by the juxtaposition against the first image, the felt disheartened and realised that people did suffer great loss in this war.

The third image separated people equally, some people liked the poster and thought it was a good idea to promote peoples need to join the army, were as other people felt that they were tempting young men to their deaths on demand of politicians.

The final image persuaded the majority to believe the opinion represented in the quote.

10) A small minority knew about their ancestors, however they knew very little (names and jobs for example)

11) The majority of people in my focus groups were locals and nobody was aware that there was an army camp at Shoreham in the great war.

12) The majority of people were shocked to learn about the camp and they were eager to learn more.

13) The majority of people would expect to learn about the everyday life of the soldiers or the training they experienced. Some other people expected to learn individual stories and what they did after they left the camp.

14) Most people didn’t think they had any organised form of entertainment and just played card games and similar activities, a small minority believed that there were formalised events such as sports games.

15) There were three questions which more than one person would ask.

Why did you join the army?

What did you do at the camp?

Were you aware of what you were getting yourself into?