Life in wartime
The Second World War was a total war. It changed everything:
Death - but a disaster?
The visions of masses of dead has obscured the other, liberating side of the First World War.
Building a post-war world
Touchstone of the Labour movement: but what was achieved by the Labour government of 1945?
Safe from harm
The sea has spared us from invasion for a thousand years, but everywhere is evidence of awareness that you can't take the sea's protection for granted. The coast has been altered in the line of defence.
Safe but isolated
The mass evacuation would have an effect on the social fabric of the UK after the war - just one side effect of children on the move.
A calculated victory
The ability to shift and analyse data has always been crucial in warfare - in the Second World War, that process became mechanised for the first time. It was the birth of modern computing.
Whose war was it anyway?
Sixty years on, how are we to judge the roles the nation played during the Second World War - was it really the people's war?
