{"id":22928,"date":"2023-03-12T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=225360"},"modified":"2023-03-12T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T11:35:08","slug":"britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Dan Todman answers your top questions surrounding Britain\u2019s Second World War home front, from evacuees and black market deals to sheltering from bombs in the London underground <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Good\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 12 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>As the Second World War raged across the world, what was life like for those back home in Britain? How did families make it through the terror of bombing raids? How many people took part in black market dealings? And what was it like to open up your home to an evacuated child? In our latest \u201cEverything you wanted to know\u201d episode, Professor Dan Todman speaks to Lauren Good to answer listener questions about Britain\u2019s home front during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-225360-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/03\/everythingww2homefront-111a80f.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/03\/everythingww2homefront-111a80f.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/03\/everythingww2homefront-111a80f.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Want to know more about Britain\u2019s home front? <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/08\/BBC-History-Revealed-essential-guide-Home-Front-4d28234.pdf&quot;\">Download <em>BBC History Revealed<\/em>\u2018s essential guide here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dan Todman answers your top questions surrounding Britain\u2019s Second World War home front, from evacuees and black market deals to sheltering from bombs in the London underground <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":22929,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/britains-ww2-home-front-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Dan Todman answers your top questions surrounding Britain\u2019s Second World War home front, from evacuees and black market deals to sheltering from bombs in the London underground","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/22928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}