These short films are suitable for teaching history at KS2 in England ... A collection of video and audio clips from the BBC archive, including news reports on the blitz and popular songs of ...

'I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note, stating that unless we heard from them ...

There are 279,000 children still in London…and whilst I'm sure they're not all here, quite a number are, down here on the platforms of the famous Piccadilly tube in the heart of London's West End.

This clip offers a specially-created montage of air-raid sounds, including an air-raid siren sounding the warning, the sound of aircraft and bombing, and ending with the 'all clear' siren. It is ...

Luckily the station escaped…and they were all moved off in trains to get food and drink. A BBC reporter describes fires out of control in central London. The main targets for air raids outside ...

Olive Shapley of the BBC interviewed these evacuees near Manchester for a programme broadcast in September 1939 called 'We have been evacuated'.

Suitable for teaching history at KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 2nd Level in Scotland. This short film could also can be incorporated into different subjects as part of a cross ...

'People of Western Europe: a landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This landing is part of a concerted United Nations' plan for the ...

The air raid warning system was developed in 1938/9. The sound of the 'warning' signal and the 'all clear' would become very familiar to people living in large cities in Britain. Air raid sirens ...

Suitable for teaching history at KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 2nd Level in Scotland. This short film could also can be incorporated into different subjects as part of a cross ...

These short films are from the BBC series, Children of World War Two. Suitable for teaching KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Second level in Scotland. Sarah was a child in Bolton ...