Beef – before the war, we imported beef chilled – expensive but tasty. In war, beef was processed before being imported to ...

By the time you’re an adult, you usually have 24 movable vertebrae (instead of 33) and the rest of the bones are fused together. While most people have a straight spine, some people have additional ...

George and his family are facing their biggest air raid yet. The air raid sirens blare, and they rush to their Anderson Shelter – a cold, damp and cramped and half buried iron shelter that, like many ...

At Paddington Station, the Blitz Kids are saying goodbye to their parents, and even though George is with his friends, he’s nervous about what’s ahead. Peter is heading to Wales and Robbie to ...

Meet the Blitz Kids. They’re a group of friends who as children grew up in wartime Britain, experiencing the challenges, dangers and changes brought by World War II. When the war began in 1939, they ...

Life is changing fast. The cinemas are shut, and even football matches are cancelled so players can join the army. Everyone ...

December 1938 - The Blitz Kids are reflecting on life in the late 1930s, and whilst there’s talk of a Europe-wide war, home ...

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, nicknamed “Monty”, was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the ...