Civilian Front
- 1940
Civilian Front
It's all action on the home front with civilians on high alert to support the war effort.
"Dullness, darkness and boredom? No!" Instead it's action-packed on the home front with civilians on high alert to support the war effort - that's when they're not rediscovering parlour games or visiting the local library. The film's director, Mary Field, was a pioneering educational and natural history filmmaker in the 1920s and went on to head the Children's Film Foundation in the 1950s.
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Dig for Victory
Keeping the nation fed and healthy was the greatest priority of the Home Front. Women replaced absent farm workers, while ordinary Britons were exhorted to 'grow their own'.
'Dig for Victory' was perhaps the most successful official campaign of the Home Front. Britons in their millions picked up their trowels, and acre after acre of parkland, waste ground - even back gardens - was repurposed as makeshift vegetable plots. Just as the factories were constantly increasing their productivity, great efforts were made to increase agricultural yields, while the 'land girls' of the Women's Land Army enthusiastically took the place of farmworkers fighting overseas.
11 videos in this collection
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Civilian Front
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Cotswold Club
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Salute to Farmers
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Wartime Food Boredom
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Bampton Shows the Way
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Compost Heap
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The New Crop
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Storing Vegetables Outdoors
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VE/VJ Don't Waste Bread
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Greenford and Northolt Dig for Victory Campaign
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