'make Do and Mend' in Britain during the Second World War HU36215
"make Do and Mend" in Britain during the Second World War Remnants and oddments of material being sold by the pound at Kennard's store, Croydon, London.
Agriculture in Britain, 1941 HU63735
Agriculture in Britain, 1941 A farmer, with two dead rabbits hanging from his shotgun over his back. In wartime, rabbits were invaluable as an extra meat supply.
Air Raid Damage FX255537
Air Raid Damage A dog working with a civil defence volunteer to discover victims after an air raid.
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War HU36161
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War ARP wardens and nurses cover up the bodies of children killed in an air raid on a school in Ardgowan Road, Catford, London. Thirty eight children and six t... More
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War HU36188
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War In the aftermath of a bombing raid, a bus lies in a crater in Balham, South London.
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War HU36220
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War Standing out of the flames and smoke of surrounding blazing buildings, St Paul's Cathedral during the great fire raid in London.
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War HU87916
Air Raid Damage in Britain during the Second World War Air raid damage: Liverpool
Air Raid Damage in Britain- Manchester HU49833
Air Raid Damage in Britain- Manchester Firemen directing hoses on burning buildings in the city of Manchester.
Air Raid Damage in Britain- Middlesborough HU36194
Air Raid Damage in Britain- Middlesborough A railway engine and coaches seriously damged at Middlesborough station after a German air raid.
Air Raid Damage in London during the Second World War HU36185
Air Raid Damage in London during the Second World War The scene of devastation after a V2 rocket had fallen on Smithfield Market, London.
Air Raid Damage in London, 1940 HU36206
Air Raid Damage in London, 1940 Women salvaging prized possessions from their bombed house, including plants and a clock.
Air Raid Damage PL4511A
Air Raid Damage Children searching for books among the ruins of their school in Coventry after a night raid, 10 April 1941.
Air Raid Precautions in London, 1939 HU102273
Air Raid Precautions in London, 1939 Sandbagged petrol pumps at West Hill, Wandsworth, London.
Air Raid Precautions in the UK, 1940 HU104543
Air Raid Precautions in the UK, 1940 A Stretcher Party of Air Raid Precautions (ARP) workers read copies of the Picture Post while listening to a wireless as they await a call out to an air raid incident on 2 M... More
Air Raid Precautions in the UK, 1940 HU104545
Air Raid Precautions in the UK, 1940 Air Raid Precautions (ARP) signage on a lamp post in central London at the junction of Calthorpe Street and Gray's Inn Road, March 1940. One advertises the direction of a t... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU103756
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 Firemen tackle a blaze during a large-scale Air Raid Precautions (ARP) exercise in the south coast towns of Portsmouth, Gosport and Southampton on 25 February 1940. An imitation Luft... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104523
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 A 'casualty', tied to a wooden ladder, is lowered from a rooftop by Air Raid Precautions (ARP) workers during a training exercise at Rustington, Sussex, 16 February 1940. The rescue ... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104524
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 A 'casualty' is lowered from the top floor of a building by means of ropes and a stretcher during a training exercise for a rescue squad of Air Raid Precautions (ARP) workers who nick... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104525
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 The plotting room at Nottingham Regional Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Headquarters on 22 February 1940. The Control Officers move indicators around a map of the city to show where inci... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104526
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 An Air Raid Precautions (ARP) control room in Chelsea, London, on 24 February 1940. The Duty Officer moves the indicators to keep the control room up to date with the current deploym... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104527
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary, examines hosing equipment used by the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) in Southampton, 25 February 1940. His visit coincided with a large-scale Air... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104528
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 A Rescue Party in Rochford, Essex, save a dummy casualty during an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) training exercise on 13 February 1940.
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104529
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 A Rescue Party save an 'injured' man (with pipe in mouth) during an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) training exercise in Rochford, Essex on 13 February 1940.
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104531
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 An imitation Luftwaffe aircraft is moved into position to allow an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) exercise to commence, 24 February 1940. Various other ARP exercises took place in the so... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104532
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 Soldiers play dead and injured during a large-scale Air Raid Precautions (ARP) exercise in the south coast towns of Portsmouth, Gosport and Southampton on 25 February 1940. The label... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104533
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Marines based at Grimsby, move a stretcher case 'casualty' between vessels during a training exercise in assisting 'victims' of air raids off the coast of B... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104534
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Marines based at Grimsby, who include one woman amongst their number, look out to the River Humber on 23 February 1940.
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104535
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 A central Air Raid Precautions (ARP) control room with female workers monitoring air raid incidents in the capital city on 24 February 1940. The large maps are used to plot, by the m... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104542
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 Female ambulance drivers knit and listen to a wireless while they await a call out to air raid incidents on 2 March 1940.
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104544
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 Air Raid Precautions (ARP) illuminated shelter sign on Fleet Street, central London, March 1940. These electrically operated, internally illuminated light boxes had overhanging tops t... More
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 HU104546
Air Raid Precautions, 1940 An Air Raid Precautions (ARP) worker plotting incidents on a map of the Western District of Dundee on 16 March 1940.
Air Raid Shelters, 1940 HU104530
Air Raid Shelters, 1940 A London County Council communal brick street air raid shelter in Hornsey, London, 28 February 1940.
Air Raid Shelters, 1940 HU104547
Air Raid Shelters, 1940 Female laundry workers in a basement air raid shelter at their place of work in Southend-on-Sea, 1 March 1940. They look into a periscope that rises up 45 feet giving a view of the stre... More
Air Raid Victims during the Second World War HU36224
Air Raid Victims during the Second World War Mourners at the graveside during the burial of schoolchildren killed in air raids.
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1943 HU69095
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1943 Handley-Page Halifax 'G for George', an aircraft bought for the Royal Air Force by the people of Ceylon, with its typically mixed Bomber Command crew of British, Canadians,... More
An air-raid warden sounds a gas alert with his rattle during an exerci...
An air-raid warden sounds a gas alert with his rattle during an exercise, 14 March 1940. A practise warning being sounded on a gas rattle in case of a gas attack.
Animal Mascots in the Royal Navy during the Second World War HU45273
Animal Mascots in the Royal Navy during the Second World War Barbara, a polar bear at the Royal Navy's zoo at Whale Island, greeting old shipmates. Rescued as a cub from drifting ice off Greenland, Barbara was ... More
Australian Troops in England, 1940 HU69089
Australian Troops in England, 1940 Troops of the Australian 6th Division, part of the Anzac force diverted to Britain in June 1940, march across Westminster Bridge, London.
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1940 HU104550
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1940 Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) taking part in a rollerskating lesson at a Northern Command depot, 1 March 1940. Their Army instructors keep the line stea... More
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1940 HU104553
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1940 Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in an Eastern Command depot undertake fencing instruction, 1 March 1940.
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1940 HU104556
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1940 Inspection of members of the 1st Cornwall Company, Auxiliary Territorial Service, of by Company Commander, Mrs Blair, on 1 March 1940.
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 HU104538
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 Mechanical instruction for members of an Auxiliary Territorial Service Motor Transport unit, 14 January 1941.
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 HU104554
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 Miss Lillian Brownlow at the wheel of an army vehicle during her service with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), 30 January 1941.
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 HU104555
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) members in conversation beside two of the vehicles they are trained to drive, 28 January 1941.
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 HU104557
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1941 Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in a pay queue, 29 January 1941.
Avro Lancaster - Waddington - Royal Australian Air Force in England, 1...
The Royal Australian Air Force in England, 1944 The veteran Avro Lancaster bomber 'S for Sugar', of No 467 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, is prepared for its 97th operational sortie at RAF Waddington, Li... More
Bomb Damage in London 1939 - 1945 HU59004
Bomb Damage in London 1939 - 1945 St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth which was badly damaged in an air raid during September 1940.
Bomb Damage in London 1939 - 1945 HU59005
Bomb Damage in London 1939 - 1945 St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth which was badly damaged in an air raid during September 1940.
Bomb Damage in London during the Second World War HU36157
Bomb Damage in London during the Second World War Office workers making their way through debris as they go to work after a heavy air raid on London.
Bristol Blenheim - Filton - RAF Bomber Command HU104771
RAF Bomber Command Bristol Blenheim Mk IV L4842 being flown by test pilot Bill Pegg near Filton, 29 May 1939. The aircraft served with No. 53 Squadron and was shot down on 17 May 1940 over France.
Bristol Blenheim - Martlesham - RAF Fighter Command 1940 HU104651
RAF Fighter Command 1940 Blenheim Mk IFs of No. 25 Squadron at Martlesham Heath, 25 July 1940. The foreground aircraft is equipped with AI Mk III radar. The squadron was used for night fighter operations.
Bristol Blenheim - Martlesham - RAF Fighter Command 1940 HU104652
RAF Fighter Command 1940 Blenheim Mk IFs of No. 25 Squadron at Martlesham Heath, 25 July 1940. The foreground aircraft is equipped with AI Mk III radar. The squadron was used for night fighter operations.
Bristol Blenheim - Martlesham - RAF Fighter Command 1940 HU104653
RAF Fighter Command 1940 Blenheim Mk IF of No. 25 Squadron taxying at Martlesham Heath, watched by air- and ground crews, 25 July 1940. The squadron was used for night fighter operations.
Bristol Blenheim - Wattisham - RAF Bomber Command 1940 HU104641
RAF Bomber Command 1940 A Bristol Blenheim Mk IV of No. 110 Squadron running up its engines at Wattisham, August 1940.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945 HU36248
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945 A London child repairing his toy car in the street completely unmoved by the sign "Unexploded Bomb" behind him.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Air Raid Damage HU36253
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Air Raid Damage Firemen, weary but undaunted, hang a Union Jack on a lamp-post after the two night attack on Plymouth.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Barrage Balloon Construction HU36241
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Barrage Balloon Construction Looking down on the factory floor at the Dunlop Balloon Factory, Manchester, where barrage balloons are being constructed.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Civil Defence HU36143
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Civil Defence Mothers and children in a working class area of Swansea have tea and sandwiches from a mobile canteen after a night's bombing.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Civil Defence HU36144
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Civil Defence People queueing up for air raid shelters in London. Many are carrying bundles of pillows and blankets.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Civil Defence HU36145
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Civil Defence Early morning workers leaving a public air raid shelter in the City of Westminster, London, after the "All Clear" had been sounded following an air raid.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Conscientious Objectors HU36259
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Conscientious Objectors Conscientious objectors attending a course in mechanised agriculture at an agricultural school in Essex, under the Ministry of Agriculture's labour trai... More
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Conscientious Objectors HU62359
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Conscientious Objectors The scene during the sitting of a tribunal for Conscientious Objectors. On the left are the members of the tribunal, left to right: Judge E H Longson (c... More
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Non-combatant Corps HU36258
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Non-combatant Corps Men of the Non-Combatant Corps undergoing training at a camp on the East Coast. The Corps includes men not physically fit for combatant service and conscien... More
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Postal Services HU36261
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Postal Services A postman wearing a steel helmet, making his rounds in a bombed area of London. Letters addressed to bombed houses are marked accordingly and returned.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Roof Spotters HU86169
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Roof Spotters Journalist roof spotters scanning the horizon through binoculars on the roof of a Fleet Street newspaper office during an air raid warning in London.
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Women Working in Shipyards HU36242
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Women Working in Shipyards Women shipbuilders giving the signal for the lifting of steel girders at a shipyard in Britain.
Britain's Wartime Defences 1940 HU81686
Britain's Wartime Defences 1940 Anti-invasion defences: digging tank traps on a golf course.
Britain's Wartime Defences 1940 HU85532
Britain's Wartime Defences 1940 Anti-invasion defences: baths and water troughs being placed across the fairways on a golf course to prevent enemy aircraft from landing.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU48187
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Minister for Food between April 1940 and 11 November 1943, Lord Woolton, receiving a cup of tea from a mobile canteen.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU57228
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Churchill Coalition Government 11 May 1940 - 23 May 1945: The Deputy Prime Minister, Clement Attlee; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Anthony Eden; and the P... More
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59482
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Churchill Coalition Government 11 May 1940 - 23 May 1945: A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty from May 1940 to the end of the war, seated at his desk at the Admiralty.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59483
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Churchill Coalition Government 11 May 1940 - 23 May 1945: Sir John Anderson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, seated at his desk at the Treasury, the day before he ... More
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59484
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The 1945 General Election: Ernest Bevin addressing a mass meeting in the division of Central Wandsworth where he was a candidate.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59486
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The 1945 General Election: King George VI standing with the Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, London.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59487
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Attlee Administration 1945 - 1951: The newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr Hugh Dalton, at his desk in the Treasury.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59722
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The 1945 General Election: Winston Churchill giving his final address, during the election campaign, at Walthamstow Stadium, East London.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59765
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Attlee Administration 1945 -1951: Emanuel Shinwell, the Minister for Fuel and Power, in his office at the Ministry of Fuel.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59766
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Attlee Administration 1945 -1951: The Minister for Food, Sir Ben Smith coming ashore at Southampton from the QUEEN ELIZABETH liner after visiting the United States ... More
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59767
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Attlee Administration 1945 -1951: Wilfred Paling, the Minister for Pensions, on his way to the first Cabinet meeting of the new Labour Government.
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59768
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Attlee Administration 1945 -1951: Lord Pethwick-Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India and Burma, arriving at No 10 Downing Street for a meeting.
Calling British Forces in India, 1942 HU42135
Calling British Forces in India, 1942 Mothers of men in HM Forces serving in India are seen in a BBC studio during this programme when they sent messages to their sons. Mrs Chambers of Exeter is reading out her... More
Canadian Forces in Normandy, July 1944 HU69102
Canadian Forces in Normandy, July 1944 A Canadian motorcycle despatch rider on a Norton 16H seeks directions in a Normandy village.
Charles de Gaulle et Georges Bidault
The Liberation of Paris, 25 - 26 August 1944 General Charles de Gaulle and his entourage set off from the Arc de Triumphe down the Champs Elysees to Notre Dame for a service of thanksgiving following the city's... More
Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century HU55581
Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century The Second World War: The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, carrying his gas mask while inspecting men of the Parliamentary Home Guard, Palace of Westminster, London.
Churchill Coalition Government - 11 May 1940
British Political Personalities 1936-1945 The Churchill Coalition Government 11 May 1940 - 23 May 1945: The Churchill Coalition War Cabinet: standing, from left to right, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Mr A V Alexande... More
Civil Defence - Britain's Wartime Defences, 1940 HU49250
Civil Defence - Britain's Wartime Defences, 1940 A signpost in Surrey being dismantled as part of a campaign to remove everything which may prove of value to the enemy, should invasion occur.
Civil Defence - Stretcher Parties, 1940 HU44873
Civil Defence - Stretcher Parties, 1940 Members of the depot all smiles this morning following their narrow escape.
Civil Defence in Britain 1940- the Home Guard HU83770
Civil Defence in Britain 1940- the Home Guard Home Guard practice exercises in Leicester. Picture shows: A Leicestershire Home Guard anti-tank section capture their first "Nazi" Whippet tank.
Civilian Bravery Awards during the Second World War HU55451
Civilian Bravery Awards during the Second World War Twenty-five year old Belgian woman Mlle Andree de Jongh, who saved the lives of many British airmen and soldiers, pictured after visiting Buckingham Palace to... More
Damage Caused by V2 Rocket Attacks in Britain, 1945 HU88803
Damage Caused by V2 Rocket Attacks in Britain, 1945 Ruined flats in Limehouse, East London. Hughes Mansions, Vallance Road, following the explosion of the last German V2 rocket to fall on London, 27 March 1945.
Dover during the Second World War HU86164
Dover during the Second World War An ARP worker searching amid the debris on the exposed upper floor of a house in Dover, which was damaged by shells fired from German guns on the French coast.
Dunkirk 1940 HU41241. Warship photograph collection
Dunkirk 1940 Three of the armada of 'little ships' which brought the men of the BEF from the shores in and around Dunkirk, to the safety of British warships and other vessels.
Dunkirk 26 - 29 May 1940 HU41240
Dunkirk 26 - 29 May 1940 British soldiers wade out to a waiting destroyer off Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104600
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 British troops embarking onto ships during the evacuation from France, June 1940.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104601
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 French troops and sailors on the deck of a destroyer during the evacuation from France, June 1940.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104602
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 French sailors on the deck of a destroyer during the evacuation from France, June 1940.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104603
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 French troops and sailors on the deck of a destroyer during the evacuation from France, June 1940.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104604
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 A paddle steamer, seen from the deck of another vessel, reaches safety at an east coast port during the evacuation from Dunkirk, 2 June 1940.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104605
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 A paddle steamer towing some of the 'little ships' used during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 3 June 1940.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104606
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 A Royal Navy destroyer sailing at speed for Dunkirk, 3 June 1940.