The War at Home (WW2)
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Loans Box : 16 The War at Home (WW2)
KS 2
Subjects: History, Science, Technology
Although it was mainly men who went off to fight the war, the families left behind at home also had a part to play. The Home Front is the description given to the huge effect of the war on people’s everyday lives, both hardship and real danger as war came, for the first time into virtually every city in Britain.
Contents:
| News Chronicle 1944 |
| The People 1945 |
| Daily Telegraph 1940 |
| National Animal Register Leaflet |
| Chart of War Gases |
| Dig For Victory Postcard |
| Replica ID Card |
| Aluminium Flask |
| ARP Bicycle Lamp |
| 4 Replica ARP Armbands |
| Car Headlight Cover |
| Air Raid Warden Helmet |
| Counties of England Card Game |
| Fireside Football Board Game |
| Replica Gas Rattle |
| Replica Gas Mask in canvas bag |
| Quartermaster’s Handbook |
| Home Guard Pocket Manual |
| Cadet’s Pocket Song Book |
| Home Guard Fieldcraft Manual |
| Home Guard Handbook |
| Small Arms Manual |
| Manual of Street Fighting |
| Combat Without Weapons |
| How to Keep Well in Wartime |
| Simple Cookery for the People |
| Francatelli’s Cookery Book |
| Tin Dried Eggs |
| Gas Mask in Box (do not try on) |
| 1947-48 Ration book |
| 1941 Ration Book Supplement |
| Piece of Blackout Material |
| WW2 Teacher Pack (book plus 20 images) |
| NES Diary and Handbook 1941 |
| The Little Red Book 1940 |
| Poppies |
| Make do and Mend Leaflet |
| Home companion |
| CD Horrible Histories – The Woeful Second World War |
| Cotton Hankie |
| Book : Blitz Boys |
| Wartime Women |
| Airmail Booklet |
| Morse code-Practice toy |
| Hand Knitted Cardigan |
| Proggy mat |
| The War Papers part 9 |
| 3 posters |
| Photocopy master to make your own ration book |
| Laminated photograph of boys wearing gas masks |
| Available on request at no extra charge |
| Women’s Civil Defence Corps Uniform |
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