Children

Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …

scheme primarily centred around the care of school children. Its principal remit was to guide Local Education … scheme, including the communal feeding of school children, the provision of healthcare, makeshift arrangements … areas, and preparations for the resettlement of children following the winding up of the scheme. FO 371 … further provisions, the psychological conditions of children negatively affected by the experience of evacuation … promote the billeting and reception of evacuated children. ● Fuel economy and other campaigns against waste …

British Society 1939-1951 provides access to thousands of documents from the collections of eleven U.K. government departments, each responsible for dealing with and reporting on the domestic situation in Britain …

its implementation, and narrative accounts by children of their experiences. ● Man-power Committee meetings …

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

371/166023 69 Visual Cartoon about the easy life of children at pioneer camps in Hungary https://history-commons …

By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …

means that you have got to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save … market gardens where mothers could stay with their children, with some self-sufficiency in the event of food … organizing the evacuation of mothers and young children from the cities to less vulnerable areas, in smaller … some contribution to the maintenance of their children, and no financial assistance was available if … it was “undesirable” for adults to shelter with children.11 Meanwhile, the cost of maintaining an ARP organization …

When my students read the story “Careless Talk,” they often see the discussion of food as a sort of deceptively innocuous backdrop for the more serious matters in the story …

women who have had, or are about to have, babies; children; and invalids. Public suspicions about the necessity …

This essay gives you an introductory view of the topic of war and social change on the British Home Front by using the changing position of women as a case …

single women up to forty, married women without children became liable for conscription, and in 1944 the … to be called up were married women with older children (for a discussion of mobilization, see Summerfield … they worked as girls, if they could park their children.”21 In October 1940, there were only 14 nurseries …

Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …

Anna, her husband Christoph, a teacher, and their children.3 Although the party monitored every aspect of … the intelligentsia, it was unlikely that their children would be permitted to attend university “unless … the authorities threatened to take away their children or sentence them to long terms in prison.7 The …

A file containing documents relating to the B.B.C. and media coverage of Berlin. The principal subject covered in the file is an attempt by the B.B.C. to make use of …

and childrens' homes; we jointly run .Anglo-German Friendship days - fetes, carnivals and sporting fixtures etc.; we raise …

A file containing documents concerning the Soviet population. Subjects covered in the file include the declining rate of population growth; the unwillingness of people to migrate to areas of labour …

death rate, particularly among males (adults and children). The picture varies greatly in different parts … from many causes, including deaths of babies and children whose mothers are alcoholics. Smirnov gave an … anxious to ensure that each family had at least two children and would seek to encourage this. Incentives … both to encourage European families to have more children and to ensure that the traditionally larger Central … for third and subsequent children only. Now, it is payable for all children, but is relatively larger …

FREEDOM, AND MANY CIVILIANS, INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN, HAVE BEEN KILLED AND INJURED BY ATTACKS ON THEIR … FREEDOM, AND MANY CIVILIANS, INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN, HAVE BEEN KILLED AND INJURED BY 1 CONFIDENTIEL … freedom, and many civilians, including women and children, have been killed and injured by attacks on their …