Category: The Home Front
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The Brown Family’s Four War Christmases cartoon
This cartoon by G M Payne, originally published in Sunday Pictorial on 23 December 1917, shows the changes experienced by a British family as the First World War progressed. It’s a great resource to use for the basis of a lesson about the effects of the war on the British Home Front, and to show how…
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The German naval bombardment of Scarborough in WW1
Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
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Why did British people volunteer for the Great War? (video clip)
A short video featuring interviews with British people who volunteered to fight in the First World War in 1914-15.
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Enlisting for the army in the First World War
A short video extract showing German and British attitudes to the outbreak of war, and how these influenced men to join the army.