The main role of Buxton in the Second World War was as a 'Safe Area' (the official term may have been 'Reception Area') and as such the town received an influx of evacuees of all types. The most ...

The Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) ... there is a tragedy or accident maybe — working voluntarily to help just as others did in so many areas during the Second World War. ...

It is 1940 and a heavily rationed, blacked-out and war-weary Britain spends every night bracing itself for the sickening wail of the air-raid siren. But in underground shelters across the country ...

What do these and other polls tell us? We’ve studied Russians’ self-reported willingness to sacrifice for their country, comparing Russians’ patriotic attitudes to those of people in other ...

Julie Summers' story of the WI in World War Two book has inspired a fascinating new four-part ITV drama about women and the WI on the Home Front.

The WVS in Hitchin ran a wonderful clothes shop during the Second World War. Parents would take the clothes that their children had outgrown and the shop assistants would award points according to ...

CHARLESTON — Seventy-five years ago, after a night of joyous celebration, West Virginia awoke to its first day of peace since the Japanese Imperial Navy launched its surprise air attack ...

By the time this photograph was taken he was an elderly man and died midway through the Second World War, in 1942. Colonel Seibert of the American Army, taken by JCA Redhead (1886-1954) during ...

For most of the Second World War and the following eight years up to 1953 thousands of pies were made each week and then sold to the public as cheap, ... (WVS). In 1943, ...

In September 1938, the WVS -- later re-named the WRVS after royal decree -- was established with 160,000 members by the time the Second World War started the following year. The women picked up ...

The Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) in Coleraine in WWII Organiser - Mrs. Florence Shaw M.B.E. My mother had always been involved in voluntary work in the years prior to the outbreak of WWII in ...