S2 HISTORY UNIT 3 - INVESTIGATION

THE HOME FRONT IN WORLD WAR TWO

This is a list of suitable web sites for your investigation.  Just click on the blue hyperlink to gain access to these sites.  Have fun exploring what life was like during the Second World War!

http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/

What was life like in the Second World War?  This excellent web site from the Imperial War Museum covers such topics as -

Air raid shelters   Blackouts   Christmas at home   Home Guard   Evacuees   Land girls

http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/30/women/secondww.htm

A good site for investigating women at war.  Women at home and Women at work are especially interesting.  From the Imperial War Museum.                                       

http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/homefront/default.htm

Home Front 1939-1945.  Produced by the Public Record Office.  Most useful topics for your investigation could include:

Preparations for war.   Evacuation.  Everyday life.  Women at war.

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/wwar.htm

Web site from the pupils of Snaith Primary School.  Describes the lives of those who stayed behind at home.  Looks at:

Children at war.   Rationing.   Women in war.   Messages of war.

www.channel4.com/history/microsites/0-9/1940house/home_text/episode6.htm

From Channel 4's 1940's House TV series.  Join the modern-day Hymer family as they experience life in wartime Britain.  See how the family copes with rationing, blackouts and air-raids.

London at war 1939-1945.  From the history of London web site.  Read how Londoner's coped with:

 Air raids.  Daily life.  Children at war.  Shelter.

http://www.nutrition.org.uk/home.asp?siteId=43§ionId=440&subsectionId=321&parentsection=299&which=1#1091From the British Nutrition Foundation.  Good account of wartime rationing.

www.1940.co.uk/history/history.htm

Web site of the 1940's Society.  Take a look at:

1940's Sound Archive (for entertainment - war time music of the 40's).  Articles on the 1940's (for clothing and fashion).  The Online Museum (to see what was in use during wartime).

www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/warslj/home_01.shtml

A History Trail from the BBC.  Quite a difficult web site!  Covers:

Air raids.   Rationing.   Evacuees.   Daily life.   Home guard.

www.battleofbritain.net/

Very detailed information from the Battle of Britain Historical Society.  Click on the box marked 'Royal Air Force Fighter Command - Battle of Britain 1940'. On the next page click on 'Phoney War - page 1.  Britain prepares.'

Evacuation.   Rationing.   Shelters.   Black-outs.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/as/ww2/

From the BBC.  Scotland during the Second World War.

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/nettsch/time/war.html

From the pupils of Nettlesworth Primary School.  Britain at War.  Best to look at:

Daily life.  Fun and games.   Rationing.

http://www.johndclare.net/wwii1.htm

Ignore the worksheets, and you’ll find some basic information on evacuation and rationing.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/homefront.htm
The History Learning site has links to the Home Guard, Rationing, The Women’s Land Army, Food and evacuation.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Britain.html#Raid

Easy-to-use web site.  Covers rationing, evacuation, blackouts, women at war, air raid shelters and much more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml

Information on Operation Pied Piper and articles from the Daily Mirror.

http://www.home-guard.org.uk

Web site dedicated to researching the Home Guard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/index.shtml

What life was like for children in the Second World War.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/ww2-music-uk.html

This site gives you the hit music and songs of the time!

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/wcontent.htm

Easy to use web site.  Children at war.  Rationing.  Women at War.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWhome.htm

 There is a large selection of topics available on this website to click on. It is short and easy to use information on all aspects of the home front.

Updated and revised 07/03/2008