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Ready for Anything - Home Defences

Date released

8 Aug 1940

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1050

NoS ID

145948

Story no

7 / 8

Latest despatch from our men at the home front.

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First World War Remembered, The

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 60 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

Reminiscences of 31 men and women recounting their experiences of problems and conditions on the Western Front and on the Home Front in Britain.

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Diary for Timothy, A (1946 Film)

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Producer

Basil Wright

Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...

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Home Front constable on duties (archive recording) (1987)

Genre

Special

A Special Constable (not identified) on the Home Front during the Second World War describes his duties such as being on fire watch and assisting shipwrecked sailors. He lives in a seaside town but does not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Morning Call Archive No.11: Two major items: Home Front Exhibition; Linda Scotson on her brain-damaged son - nd [1985]

Morning Call Archive No.11: Two major items from Radio Victory’s Morning Call series, compiled as an archive reel by the station. TRACK 1- HOME FRONT EXHIBITION in D-Day Museum. Exhibition designed to show...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Film & History Conference

Date

28 Sep 2010, 09:49

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

Going to War 1939-45 Film, History and the Second World War 22-23 October 2010 Imperial War Museum, London This year the annual Winter Conference of the Institute of Historical Research focuses on the...

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Keep Calm and Carry on: News Reports from the British Home Front 1939-1945 (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 482 minutes), £19.99

Compilation of newsreels from the Second World War reporting on the activities on the Home Front. Among the eight hours’ worth of material are items on the evacuation of children, air raids, gas mask...

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First World War, The: Life on the Home Front in North West England (2014)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £12.00

Footage from the North West Film Archive showing life on the home front in North West England during World War I. Clips include the the Accrington Pals, the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment...

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Put That Light out! (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 70 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

First programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1940-42. Eyewitness accounts by ordinary British citizens tell how they coped with everyday life against a backdrop of air raid...

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Home Front 1939-1945, The

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 90 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

First-hand accounts from 15 men and women who lived in Britain during the Second World War including sections on the outbreak of war, evacuation, domestic conditions, war effort, air raids and VE Day.

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