Teaching about the Home Front

Interested in livening up your teaching of the Home Front during World War Two? A new website can help!

Using original sources from the Archives of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service you do get a different perspective, and a clearer understanding, of the difficulties of everyday life on the Home Front during World War Two. Over 1 million volunteer members of the WVS played a key role in among other things evacuation; in bombed towns and cities; in salvage and in providing help and nurseries for mothers with small children. By going back to original sources and monthly reports a rather different picture often emerges to that in our textbooks.

There are lots of activities based on these original sources for both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 on the website ‘The Army That Hitler Forgot' at www.wrvs.org.uk/schools