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• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  A Civil Defence Warden inspects bomb damaged buildings in Holborn, London.

• SCENES AT A DEMOBILISATION CENTRE IN BRITAIN, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  A demobbed soldier selecting a shirt at a demobilisation centre.

• SYNTHETIC PRODUCTION OF PENICILLIN

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  Professor Alexander Fleming, holder of the Chair of Bacteriology at London University, who first discovered the mould Penicillin Notatum. Here in his laboratory at St Mary's, Paddington, London.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  Mrs Shadwell, a housewife, doing needlework in the sitting room of her home in the village of Freefolk, Hampshire.

• WOMEN AT WAR 1939 - 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  Auxiliary Territorial Service: Princess Elizabeth, a 2nd Subaltern in the ATS, wearing overalls and standing in front of an L-plated truck. In the background is a medical lorry.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  Close up of the Minister of Aircraft Production, The Rt Hon Colonel J J Llewellyn, MP, at his desk.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  The Minister of Aircraft Production, The Rt Hon Colonel J J Llewellyn, MP, at his desk.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PERSONALITIES

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  The Minister of Aircraft Production, The Rt Hon Colonel J J Llewellyn, MP, at his desk.

• WOMEN AT WAR 1939 - 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  Women’s Auxiliary Air Force: A member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force checks equipment on an Air Sea Rescue launch before it is handed over for operational duties.

• VISIT OF FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS, PRIME MINISTER OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, 21 OCTOBER 1942

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Official photographer

  Interior view of the House of Commons during an address by Field Marshal Jan Smuts. Left to right at the table: Captain E A Fitzroy, Speaker of the House of Commons; Mr Winston Churchill; Viscount Simon, Lord Chancellor; Lloyd George is behind Field...