Home Front Life
Everyday life in the towns, villages and countryside
Scotland, Inverness: Restricted Areas
Why did you need your papers to go to Inverness in WW1?
Nancegollan, Cornwall: Recruitment March
The Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry’s only VC winner leads a county recruitment drive
City Hospital, Nottingham: Parks and Public Spaces Become Makeshift Allotments
By 1917 more than a thousand allotments were created in Nottingham for the war effort
Reading, Berkshire: Boosting the Spirits of War Wounded
Volunteers provide care and comforts for the wounded in Reading’s War Hospitals
Wantage Hall, Reading: Pilots Lodged in Trees
Fuselages were lodged in trees at Wantage Hall to train WW1 fighter pilots
Fort Paull, East Yorkshire: Defending the Humber Estuary
Protecting a coastline in a self-sufficient fort
Maryport, Cumbria: Potato Riots
The housewives who boycotted farmers after a hike in potato prices
Hallsands, Devon: The Woman who Saved a Sailor in a Sea Storm
A heroic young woman who went on to receive one of the first OBEs
Great Bidlake Farm, Bridestowe: The Farm Run by Women
Women, farming and feeding the home front
Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells: The Launderette to Curb Prostitution
Laundry for soldiers often returning battle-worn and ragged from the front
Nanpantan, Leicestershire: Boy Scouts
The pivotal role Leicestershire scouts played in the war effort
Mabley Green, Hackney: Home of the National Projectile Factory
The modern day open public space was a hectic place 100 years ago
Hartest, Suffolk: The Mystery Coins
Discovering why men heading to war left these coins behind
Barden Lane, Lancashire: Burnley Lads Club
The club established to keep local young men on the straight and narrow
Bebington Oval, Wirral: The Short Regiment
Rejection for their height didn’t hinder the patriotism of these determined men
Wadhurst, Sussex: A Village Changed Forever by War
Twelve families lost two sons, two families lost three, changing this village forever.
Waterloo Road, London: Wartime Tattooist
Tattoo parlour clientele including royalty, soldiers and even a child
Sheffield, South Yorkshire: Workers Revolt
Unrest after steel works working environment reverted back to pre-war conditions
Walcot Street, Bath: The ‘German-Sounding’ Company
The company taunted for its name
Waterloo Station, London: The Free Buffet
Serving free food to more than eight million servicemen
Hastings, East Sussex: The Hotel that Became Home to the RFC Cadet School
An exciting place to train for war
Compton Road, Wolverhampton: Girl Guide with German Heritage
The girl guide who went against the odds following discrimination
Flintham, Nottinghamshire: Life During the War
Research into village life during the Great War
Sheffield University, Sheffield: The Pals' Battalion
Two years in the making. Ten minutes in the destroying.
