03/01/2018

World War Two

Spies and Sabotage:

Part 1 – Meet a Special Operations Executive agent as she goes through her training and learn what life was like preparing to go into occupied France as a secret agent.
Part 2 – An SOE takes you behind enemy lines and describes what life was like in Occupied France.

Kindertransport – based on eye witness accounts this moving piece addresses issues of occupation and aggression towards Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe

Rationbooks, air raids and rivets – life on the homefront during WWII

What did you do in the war mummy? – hear the story of how women managed to live with rationing, evacuations and make do and mend as well as ‘doing their bit’ during WWII.

I only joined for the hat! – a member of the Women’s Royal Navy gives you an insight into Navy life and how women joined the Navy to ‘free a man for the fleet’.

The Warcos – War correspondents in WWII

Meet the home guard!

One lump or two – a history of tea with a 40s twist

Also able to deliver lectures and talks on SOE based on relevant PhD studies.