The morale factor
Dr Simon Trew highlights the importance of certain battles for their impact on national morale, that is vital in the pursuit of victory
Do you carry your gas mask?
Government information film encourages public gas mask diligence...
Mobilising Britain
Prof Richard Overy looks at how Britain was able to mobilise its resources and workforce to cope effectively with wartime nee...
A wartime romance
A Salvation Army singer meets an American GI on the streets of wartime London and love blossoms...
Music while you work
Johnny Roadhouse recalls how music could motivate, and sometimes disrupt, vital war work....
Home guard
Contemporary report of the preparations made by volunteer Home Gauard units to repel German invaders...
Jonny Roadhouse finds a bomb
Jonny Roadhouse remembers getting uncomfortably close to a German bomb during the Manchester Blitz...
Evacuation recollections
Evacuated schoolgirl Jean Scott remembers how homesickness persuaded her to return to the dangers of wartime Dover...
Mobilise your scrap
Government film encourages recycling to aid the war effort...
Land girls for Scotland
Volunteer Land Girls take the places of agricultural workers called up to the fighting forces...
Care for clothes and win the war
Propaganda film encourages civilians to support the war effort by avoiding waste...
The officer's ball
WAAF volunteer Sybil Frostwick remembers the day she was swept off her feet and whisked to the officers’ ball...
Air raid victim 1940
Spirited response from a victim of a German bombing raid during the Blitz...
Air raid victims' funeral
Silent footage of funerals from victims of German air raids...
Home defence 1940
Review of Home Guard defenses in 1940...
Home Front heroes 1940
Recognition of civilian heroes from the Blitz and recipients of the George Medal...
Class on the home front
Prof Richard Overy points out that the British class system didn't stop functioning just because there was a war on, and also...
Last stand of the Home Guard
Dr Duncan Anderson reveals Churchill's plan for the Home Guard - to bleed the German army white in an attritional, desperate ...
The morale factor
Dr Simon Trew highlights the importance of certain battles for their impact on national morale, that is vital in the pursuit ...
Guernsey Christmas
Ruth Walsh remembers how in 1944 the German occupation of Guernsey almost caused Christmas to be cancelled...
US forces training in England
Shoolgirl Jean Parnell remembers the excitement and upheaval when preparations for D-Day invaded her quiet village in Devon...
Lancaster Bombers
A government information film on the production of RAF Bomber Command's new weapon, the Avro Lancaster...
