This is an excellent video of John Allpress, an evacuee's experience in the Second World War, courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.

S.S City of Benares Evacuation from Britain's major towns and cities was undertaken in the first 4 days of the war, nearly 3 millio...

Image from  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B90s74JIIAEs_-6.jpg This is my first attempt at writing some fiction. I have always been a fan...

Am writing a short story on  a bomber crew, whilst doing some research I found this excellent propaganda film from the war. I never real...

Image found at  http://images.esellerpro.com/2486/I/313/8/coaster-ration-book.jpg In Great Britain rationing food was essential to...

Image found at: http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/images/jpeg/hshf_img_lady.jpg The blackout in Great Britain began on September...

Probably the first thing most people heard after Chamberlain's famous speech on the outbreak of war in September 1939 was the air raid ...

Joy Division - not the band, or a film about the band, is an excellent film about a young German boy in the last days of Nazi Germany. It ...

Lord St, Liverpool, found at: http://liverpoolblitz70.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/lord-street-blitz-1.jpg One gets the impression t...

Freedom of speech. Is this going to be a thing of the past? What is wrong with putting opinions onto paper and distributing them? Ithink t...