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

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...

6 June 1944 is one of the most memorable dates of the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the end of the conflict as Allied forces invaded...

The 1970s are noted as the decade of strikes, the winter of discontent and the three-day week. But is this the full story; what was it really like ...

The historian Carol Harris has collected together a remarkable series of accounts from the war''s darkest days, with heart-warming stories of survi...

Women at War 1939-1945