Wartime Britain

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World War Two spies and an extraordinary naturalist

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The Library The History Essay: How Europe rose from the dead

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Criminals of the Blitz: how the German bombings created a golden age of crime

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North Sea oil and the Blitz

Women wearing unrationed shoe soles during the war

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Dressed for war: fashions of the Second World War

Huts in Lambeth built for bombed-out families, 1945. (Getty)

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Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory

Soldiers guard England's south coast behind a bank of banned wire on 2 September 1940

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Britain’s fight for survival: Fortress Britain 1940

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10 tips for surviving on the home front during the Second World War

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