The Home Front in World War Two
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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