Perspectives

Discover some different perpectives on the war:

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?

Listening to the past

Listening to the witnesses of history can provide a valuable counterpoint to official accounts. More than ever, we're valuing oral history.

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.

Evacuues from the BBC Cazalets adaptation

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.

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From bbc.co.uk/ww2

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A calculated victory

Safe but isolated

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