Wartime Britain

Portrait of Juliet Gardiner for BBC History Magazine

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History explorer: the Second World War home front

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Escaping the Blitz and recording the First World War

Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

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The Library D-Day for God?

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The aftermath of the Second World War

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Video: Keith Lowe on the aftermath of the Second World War

Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images)

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The Library The world in flames

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

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The Library “Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War

German scientists Dr Carl Eisenmann, Dr Mersch, Dr Trabat and Dr Stocklin. (Express/Getty Images)

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The intelligence war for German scientists

A woman at a floral tribute to Neville Chamberlain at a florist in Ludgate Circus, London, 1938. In the wake of the Munich agreement, the prime minister was understood to be a hero of women everywhere. (Photo by Harry Todd/Getty Images)

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The Library Guilty women?

English soldiers in the ruins of Palmyre in charge of taking over the Syrian Territory occupied by Vichy’s France. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The untold Second World War

Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Hitler’s secret weapon

Schoolchildren helping workmen construct a new estate of pre-fabricated houses in Watford, Hertfordshire in 1946 following the devastation of the Second World War. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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Postwar squatters: a very British uprising

British ordinance workers put the final touches to anti-aircraft gun barrels, c1940. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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A colossus at war

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Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing

Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming (later head of the British Secret Service), Professor Redwood and Bernard Redwood at the Motor Yacht Club Reliability Trials on Southampton Water, 1907. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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First World War spooks