Author: Mike Brown

In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the hom...

The First World War was the first global war and when it broke out in 1914, the civilian population of Britain was exhorted to carry on with Busine...

On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sat tensely at a microphone, using radio to declare that this country is at war with German...

The 1960s, known as the Swinging Sixties, are recognised as a landmark decade both by those who lived through them and those who look back in awe a...

Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey just how vital gardening and growing food were to th...

With the advent of the World War ll, millions of men were torn from their homes and plunged into the impersonal surroundings of the barrack room. T...

The 1960s have gone down in history as the swinging sixties; when the permissive society swept the country in a haze of mini-skirts, psychedelic po...

The 1950s began in the shadow of War. In Britain, food was still rationed as the country strove to pay off the huge debts that were the legacy of w...

The outbreak of war in 1939 saw the disappearance of many traditional British celebrations. Guy Fawkes Night went immediately gunpowder production...

What was it like to live in Britain during the Second World War? What kind of house did the average family live in? How did people cope with the ev...

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a w...