Martin Cherrett

Martin Cherrett is a British blogger and historian. His site, World War II Today, features carefully collected and curated stories and images from every day of the Second World War.

Biography
Martin Cherrett is from United Kingdom.

World War II Today
Cherrett started his blog World War II Today in 2008. He writes one post per day. The post contains all the news, stories and pictures that happened on the same day more than 70 years ago. World War II Today's slogan is "Follow the war as it happened''.

Cherrett originally planned on researching World War II to write his own history book, searching archives on websites like Wikipedia and BBC and spending time in The National Archives in West London. He began posting some of his findings online to determine which aspect of the war to focus on, and, as he wrote on his blog, “since then the blog has developed its own life.”

Every day, Cherrett follows a strict research routine. To form the basis of the story, he first searches for an official account or a photograph. Then, he hunts down memoirs and personal accounts from key players and eyewitnesses during that event in order to provide perspective.

In a way, this historian’s job is similar to a reporter’s job, only instead of racing to the scene and interviewing bystanders, he’s heading over to the library and looking up journals.