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Websites to support Research
  Select your topic below: (remember other websites on this list may be of use to you)

After the War
 		 Agriculture Air Raids A Child's Perspective

Dunkirk
 		 Evacuation The Home Front Rationing

Role of Media/Propaganda
 		 VE Day Women at War Found a good website? Share it with other War Detectives here.

ERS Guide to World War II

*new websites

After the War

 History Essentials - Life in Britain since the war - background to how things changed.
Britain since 1930 - changes in technology and transport - from Digitalbrain website.
Britain since 1930 - lives of people at different levels of society - a look at home life and employment.
Home Life - from Digital Brain talks about life after the war.
ERS Guide to the Fifties and Sixties - look at the changes in those decades.
Life in Britain since the war - population changes.*
Post War Ration Book*
Post War Agriculture*

 

Agriculture
HOLNET - London at War 1939-1945 - Daily life - select Dig for Victory.
Home Sweet Home Front - select your topic from the list at the left-handside.
The National Archives Learning Curve | Home Front - Women's Land Army.
The Women's Land Army - even more information.
 Veterans' Reminiscences - Women's Timber Corps (Lumber Girls) from Scots at War website.
WTC - more interviews with the Women's Timber Corps.
Food Rationing in World War 2 - scroll down to 'Dig for Victory'.
 Dig for Victory - and other wartime posters.

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Air Raids

 Air Raids - important facts from Scots at War website.
Air Raid Shelters world war 2 the refuge room - also Morrison, Anderson, school and trench shelters.
The Blitz world war 2 - the affects of the bombing on London.
 Home Sweet Home Front - select your topic from the list at the left-handside.

 

A Child's Perspective

 4L - History Essentials - World War Two children - general background information.
 Oral History Project - Fairview Junior School - interviews with people who were children during the war.
The Home Front - Interviews with veterans from world war 2 - from North West Learning Grid.
Living during the second world war - from Scottish primary school.

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Dunkirk

  BBC NEWS | In Depth | Dunkirk - including reminiscences.
BBC - WW2 People's War - Dunkirk - timeline of events.
BBC - History - WW2 Movies: Dunkirk - Dunkirk.
BBC - History - Animated Map: The Fall of France (Dunkirk) - animation of events.

 

Evacuation

 Home Sweet Home Front - select your topic from the list at the left-handside.
BBC - WW2 People's War - Evacuation - background and important facts.
The National Archives Learning Curve | Home Front - evacuation timeline.
The National Archives Learning Curve | Onfilm | Film Archive, Home Front 1939-45, Evacuation - videoclips*
Evacuation - from Snaith primary website.
Evacuation Camps - information from Scots at War website.
BBC - WW2 People's War - Childhood and Evacuation Category - Evacuees' experiences.
BBC - Children of World War 2 - Evacuee's letters - an insight into their experience.

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The Home Front

The National Archives Learning Curve | Onfilm | Film Archive, Home Front 1939-45, Everyday Life - videoclips.*
History of the Home Guard - find out about the origins of this organisation.
Home Sweet Home Front - select your topic from the list at the left-handside.
BBC - Children of World War - A Wartime Home - virtual tour of a house during the war.
1940's Wartime Wedding Photographs - some wartime memories.
BBC - WW2 People's War - A Wartime Wedding - read one couple's story.
Sing as we Go - wartime music.
BBC - WW2 People's War - Classical Music in Wartime - changes in music.
1940's Sounds & Music - hear some tunes of the day.
A GI's Trip to London, 1944 - more wartime memories.

 

Rationing

 Home Sweet Home Front - select your topic from the list at the left-handside.
Rationing it Out - Snaith primary website.
HOLNET - London at War 1939-1945 - Daily life - select rationing for food rationing and clothes rationing.
Food Rationing in World War 2 - including the Battle of the Atlantic and food inspectors.
BBC - Children of World War 2 - Rationing Challenge - try this interactive activity.

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Role of Media/Propaganda

 The National Archives Learning Curve | Snapshots | The Home Front - questions to ask about propaganda posters.*
British Propaganda Posters of the Second World War - Background - the importance of these posters.
Propaganda - poster and their messages.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The art of propaganda - British posters.
Dig for Victory - and other wartime posters.
Home Front Museum - WWII posters - even more posters!
BBC - History - Nazi Propaganda - German posters.
Powers of Persuasion - poster art from WW2, National Archives from America.

 

VE Day

 BBC - WW2 People's War - VE Day - background and important facts.
BBC - History - Victory in Europe Day - more indepth look at events.

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Women at War

Women in War - Snaith Primary website.
Women at War Website - women in army, navy, industry and entertainment.
The National Archives Learning Curve | Onfilm | Film Archive, Home Front 1939-45, Women - videoclips.*
HOLNET - London at War 1939-1945 - Daily life - women at war.
The National Archives Learning Curve | Home Front - Women's Auxiliary Services.
Veterans' Reminiscences - Women's Timber Corps (Lumber Girls) from Scots at War website.
BBC - WW2 People's War - Ardeer Munitions Factory and the Bombing of Kilmarnock - WW2 People's War.
Women At War - from the Living Archive website.
 Home Sweet Home Front - select your topic from the list at the left-handside.

 


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