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The Home Front in World War Two

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by Susie Hodge

Conscientious objectors

  Conscription

  Council for the Encouragement of

  Music and the Arts (CEMA)

  Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Margot

  Country Life

  Coupons

  Clothing

  Food

  Household

  Petrol

  Coulsdon, Vivien

  Coventry

  Crime

  Crompton, Richmal

  Cunningham, John ‘Cat Eyes’

  D

  Daily Express, The

  Daily Mirror, The

  Daily Telegraph, The,

  Daily Worker, The

  Dalton, Hugh

  Dance halls

  Dandy, The

  Defence bonds

  Derbyshire

  ‘Dig for Victory’

  Disney

  Doodlebugs

  Dorman-Smith, Sir Reginald

  Douglas-Hamilton, Lady David

  Drake, Susan

  Dried (or powdered) eggs

  Driver, Betty

  Du Maurier, Daphne

  Dunne, Sheila

  E

  East Anglia

  Easton, Joan

  Edgware

  Education Act

  Embleton, Edward J.

  Emergency Medical Service (EMS)

  Enigma machine

  Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA)

  Evacuation

  Evans, Peter

  Evening Chronicle

  Evening Standard

  F

  Factor, Max

  Famous Five, The

  Farms

  Fields, Gracie

  First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)

  Five O’Clock Tales

  Food Control Committees

  Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)

  Fox, Pat

  Fuel saving

  G

  Gardens

  Gas Identification Squads

  Gas masks

  Gert and Daisy

  Gibbons, Stella

  Gilan, Yvonne

  Girls’ Crystal

  Glasgow

  Gloag, John

  Good Housekeeping

  Government Code and Cipher School

  Green Park

  Guernica

  H

  Hackney

  Handley, Tommy

  Harper’s Bazaar

  Hartnell, Norman

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hoare, Sir Samuel

  ‘Holidays at Home’

  Hollings, Mary

  Home Guard

  Home Service

  Hospital Saving Association (HSA)

  Hubbard, John

  Hudson, Rob

  Hull, Mirrie

  Hull

  Humber, River

  Hyde Park

  I

  Identity cards (ID cards)

  J

  Japan

  Johnson, Amy

  Johnson, Peggy

  Jones, Peter

  Jorgensen, Marion

  Joyce, William

  K

  Kangaroo cloak

  Kensington

  Kent

  Kidlington

  King, Betty

  King George VI

  King’s Cross Station

  Knight, Dame Laura

  Knitting

  L

  Labour Party

  Lebus, Herman

  Lend-lease Agreement

  Lidell, Alvar

  Lincolnshire

  Liverpool

  London

  London County Council

  ‘Londoners’ Meals Service’

  ‘Lord Haw-Haw’

  Loughborough

  Luftwaffe

  Lynn, Vera

  Lyon’s Corner House

  Lyttleton, Oliver

  M

  MacDonald Fiona

  Manchester

  Make Do and Mend

  Make-up

  Maltby, Anne

  Maltby, John

  Marchioness of Reading

  Mass Observation

  Matthews, Barbara

  Merchant Navy

  Mickey Mouse

  Middlesex

  Middleton, Cecil Henry (Mr Middleton)

  Milne-Watson, Lady

  Milroy, Peggy

  Ministry of Agriculture

  Ministry of Food

  Ministry of Health

  Ministry of Home Security

  Ministry of Information

  Ministry of Labour

  Ministry of Supply

  Ministry of War Transport

  Ministry of Works

  Morrison, Herbert

  Morrison shelter,

  Morrison, William

  Morton, Digby

  Mosley, Oswald

  ‘Mr Chad’

  ‘Mrs Sew and Sew’

  N

  National Council for Social Service (NCSS)

  National Fire Service (NFS)

  National Health Service (NHS)

  National Milk Scheme

  National Salvage Drives

  National Savings

  National wheatmeal loaf

  Nazis

  New Mills

  New Towns Act

  News Chronicle

  Northamptonshire

  Novello, Ivor

  Nutrition

  O

  O’Donnell, Audrey (please see plates)

  ‘Operation Pied Piper’

  Orwell, George

  P

  PACs

  Palmer, Christine

  Palmer, Grace

  Paper

  Parachutes

  Parsons, Pat

  Patchwork

  Pathé news

  Patten, Marguerite

  Patterson, William

  Penzance

  Petrol

  ‘Phoney War’

  Picture Post, The

  Pink, Jean

  Pink, Kitty

  Plaistow

  Plymouth

  Prefabricated housing (prefabs)

  Princess Elizabeth

  Princess Margaret

  Propaganda

  Prostitutes

  Public Information Leaflets

  Punch

  Q

  Queen Elizabeth

  Queuing

  R

  Radar

  Radio (wireless)

  ‘Radio Allotment’

  Radio Doctor, The

  Radio Times, The

  Ramsay, Nora

  Raeburn, John

  Railway pudding

  Ration books

  Rationing

  Reading, Lady

  Reckitt’s Blue

  Red Cross Society

  Roberts, Daphne

  Ronaldson, Margaret

  Royal Air Force (RAF)

  RSPCA

  Rubber

  Rural Pie Scheme, The

  Russell, Gordon

  S

  Salvage

  Salvation Army

  Samuels, Eleanor

  Savings Certificates

  Savings Weeks

  Savoy Hotel

  Senate House

  Sewing

  Shelton, Anne

  Simpson, Janet

  Siren suits

  Sizing systems, clothes

  Snoods

  Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen’s Help Society

  Somers Rosalie

  Special Operations Executive (SOE)

  Spencer, Stanley

  Spies

  ‘Squander Bug, The’

  St John’s Ambulance

  Standard clothes sizing

  Star, The

  Stewart, Maggie

  ‘Stitchcraft’

  Stockings

  Sunny Stories

  Supply Pressed American Meat

  (Spam)

  Swapping

  Sykes, Audrey

  T

  Tangee

  Theatre
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  Thomas, Diana

  Thorpe, Audrey

  ‘Tilbury Arches,’ Stepney

  Times, The

  Tower of London

  Townswomen’s Guild

  Toy exchanges

  Traffic lights

  Trains

  Tredegar, Wales

  Turner, Jean

  U

  U-boats

  Underground, London tube

  Upwell, Norfolk

  Upton House

  Utility clothing

  Utility Furniture Catalogue

  Utility household goods

  V

  V1s

  V2s

  Victory in Europe

  Victory in Japan

  ‘Victory ‘V’ Meals’

  Vitamin Welfare Scheme

  Vogue

  Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)

  W

  Wales

  Walker, Maisie

  Wallace, R

  War Agricultural Committee

  War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC),

  War Cookery Leaflet

  War Weapons’ Weeks

  Wardens

  Warren, June

  Wartime spirit

  Watkins, Eileen

  Watson, Jackie

  Weddings

  West, Rebecca

  Whitechapel

  Wimbledon

  Windows, protection of

  Windsor

  Wings for Victory Weeks

  Winters, Rosemary

  Woman and Home

  Woman’s Own

  Woman’s Weekly

  Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)

  Women’s Auxiliary Fire Service

  Women’s Auxiliary Police Corps

  Women’s Institute (WI)

  Women’s Land Army (WLA)

  Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF)

  Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS)

  Women’s Voluntary Service for Defence (WVS)

  Woolton, Lord

  Woolton Pie

  ‘Worker’s Playtime’

  World War One

  Y

  Yardley

 

 

 


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