They created a machine, the British Bombe, which could read secret Enigma coded messages used by the enemy in World War II. Image caption ... code and coding with BBC Bitesize and the BBC micro ...

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 ...

The destruction of housing caused by bombing presented urban communities with some basic health and hygiene challenges. In this recording from November 1940 Ministry of Information loudspeaker ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The evacuation of British children is going on smoothly and efficiently. The Ministry of Health says that great progress has been made with the first part of the government's arrangements.

Jack Buchanan (1891 - 1957) was a singer, actor, producer and director who was particularly popular during the War years. With so many men drafted into the Armed Forces many factories and heavy ...

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 ...