Social History, People, World War Two, pic: 1944, A Northampton woman saving water in a small tin bath as water restrictions bite during a drought.
Sergeant Jim Ford's wife telephones her friends to tell them that her husband has returned home. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1953 - How To...
Councillor AJ Blake, Chairman of the Wartime Allotments Committee holding a megaphone and a sack of onions before launching an allotment exhibition...
Jubilant Londoners dancing in Piccadilly Circus on VE Day, 8th May 1945. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1991 - This Was VE Day In London - pub....
German woman who has returned to Berlin from the evacuation area only to find her house has been destroyed, sits with her son and weeps in despair.
Israeli police and soldiers from the Home Front Command, cordon off an area around the location where shrapnel fell after the interception of a...
Martha Jean Kuhn shows a friend a letter from her boyfriend, an American airman stationed in Britain during World War II, Grafton, West Virginia,...
Residents of Links Avenue, Monkseaton, decided to construct their own communal air raid shelter shortly before the start of the Second World War....
Mother and daughter at a children's clothing exchange run by the Women's Voluntary Service , UK, October 1943. The exchange system is designed to...
Second World War air raid shelter in Coventry, West Midlands, circa 2010. In this photograph traces of a Second World War air raid shelter can still...
Local residents handing over scrap metal and waste paper during a wartime salvage collection in Hammersmith, London, circa 1943.
Woman looking at an electric sign on the New York Times building, the day after the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Detainees in their quarters at the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California, 1942. The camp is a temporary...
View east from the Temple area of London, after German bombing raids during the blitz, circa 1941. On the right are the Monument to the Great Fire of...
Company of National Volunteers from Boyle, County Roscommon drilling at Keash, County Sligo. The Irish National Volunteers objected to Irish...
Woman with a shaven head, accused of collaborating with the Germans during the German occupation of France, is marched away by a member of the French...
Nazi collaborator and sweetheart to SS leaders Madame Aldegonda Zeguers awaiting trial for luring a young Dutch patriot to his death.
Workers producing arms in the workshop of an underground factory in a Soviet city which has suffered heavy attacks by the Nazis.
Liberation of Normandy; French refugees living in a quarry near Fleury sur Orne. During the bombing in that area 20,000 refugees lived in these...
Women outside a Ministry of Labour van recruiting for war work. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1127 - Recruitment Van Draws Women To War Work -...
The scene just before six French militiamen, found guilty of treason, were executed in the public square of Grenoble, France.
Soldier leans out of a carriage window to kiss his wife goodbye at Paddington station in London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1133 - War-Time...
Two French patriots restrain a woman while another crops her hair after she has been accused of collaborating with the Germans during the occupation.
French patriots crop the hair of a woman they suspect of collaborating with the Germans during the occupation.
The mother of Madaleine Bazise is trying to protect her daughter at the door of their house against two French patriots in the village of La Eglise...
Young woman picks hairs off her shoulder after she has had her hair cropped by French patriots who accused her of collaboration during the German...
'We Can Do It!', a poster by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Electric, aimed at boosting morale among the company’s workers in the war effort. The...
Corporal Curtis, driver Howell and Private Baron, convalescing wounded British 2nd Army soldiers return from the Normandy front during Operation...
Year old Diana Holland rides a horse ahead of the volunteer Women's Observers from the village of Benhall as they go out on patrol to watch for...
The badly damaged Supermarine Spitfire V AD591 flown by Sgt Stefan Czachla of the No 306 Toru Polish Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Fighter...
War factory worker Miriam Highams welds the saddle of a 25 pounder gun, Britain, circa 1942. She was recalled into engineering work from the Women's...
Fitters make adjustments to the tailplane of Mosquito bomber HJ728 at the de Havilland factory, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Britain, 1943.
Mrs Judd, a Mosquito bomber fitter, prepares strips of wood to tack over gauze inside the hull of an aircraft at the de Havilland factory, Hatfield,...
Members of the L. D. V seen here completing a course of intensive training to prepare them as instructors in physical and bayonet training and...
Group of male students and members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service , the women's branch of the British Army, relax at a community centre for...
Two civil defence firewatchers of the Air Raid Precaution scan the sky with binoculars searching for German Luftwaffe bombers from the rooftop of a...
Nurses and staff from Guy's Hospital tend to their vegetable allotment garden as a part of the Dig for Victory war effort campaign on the reclaimed...
