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In 1939 and 1940 defeatism was very much in the air in Britain and the goverment acted to stamp it out. This resulted in some absourd incidents. One evening in a London public house a woman overheard what she believed were pro-German opinions expressed...

The evacuation programme revealed that many women from poorer urban areas had few domestic skills. One young housewife from the East End dropped an egg into a pot of boiling warter and stirred it round for a while. Eventually, in exasperation, she she...

In 1939 during the evacuation of children from the big cities one country woman tried to persuade her evacuee child to wash himself. As she said, ´If you will wash your hands I will give you a penny, and if you wash your face as well I will give you tuppence.`...

At the opening of the Second World War the evacuation of women and children from the big cities into the countryside was not always a happy experience. A householder who lived alsone in Datchet found that the authories billeted a woman and her eight children...

during the interwar years public attitudes toward nudity on American beaches reached a severity never known before or since. In one such case at Atlantic City a woman was arrested and sentenced to a month in jail for removing her stockings and sunbathing...

Some childeren were so young when their fathers went to war, in 1939 that they only remembered them from the framed photographs their mothers kept. One little girl was just four when her father came back from the war. Her mother had taken her to Cambridge...

Nurse Edith Cavell was shot by the Germans in 1915 for helping Allied prisoners escape and subsequently became a metional heroine. When the war ended a statue of Nurse Cavell was erected outside the National Portrait Gallery in London. At the unveiling...

Wir waren zurück gelassen. Zum Glück war mein Opa da. Ansonsten würde wohl hier wirklich niemand mehr leben. Im Gegensatz zu uns hatte er keine Angst und war wie immer die Ruhe in Person. Wir fingen an Lebensmittel zusammen zu tragen. Niemand außer uns...

Jetzt habe ich euch nun schon alle meine Freunde vorgestellt und abgesehen von unserem Meister gibt es hier auch keine anderen Menschen mehr die ich vorstellen könnte. Es gab mal eine zeit in der es hier ein reges Leben gab. Ich erinnere mich kaum noch...

Nun endlich als letzten meiner Freunde möchte ich euch Simsa vorstellen. Draìocht ist Gälisch und heißt Zauber und auch Simsa hat finde ich etwas magisches. Simsa ist wohl der eingizge hier der wirklich Freude am Kräuterkundeunterricht hat. Meistens verbringt...