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The Home Guard
(History)
The Home Guard was set up in May 1940 as Britain’s ‘Last Line of Defence’ against German invasion. Members of this ‘Dad’s Army’ were usually men above the age of conscription, boys or those unfit for front line military service. On 14 May 1940,...
About Churchill War Rooms
(Visitor Information)
The Cabinet War Rooms provided the secret underground headquarters for the core of the British government throughout the Second World War. The fear that London would be the target of aerial bombardment had troubled the government since the First...
Contemporary Conflict
(History)
The end of the Cold War did not bring an end to conflict. Issues such as nationalism, national self-determination, liberation and religion continued to trigger war and instability. In the Gulf War, 1990-1991, an international coalition was formed to...
The Cabinet War Rooms
(History)
From 1939 to 1945, a group of basement offices in Whitehall served as the nerve centre of Britain’s war effort. Known as the Cabinet War Rooms, the complex was occupied by leading government ministers, military strategists and Prime Minister Winston...

Awards of the George Cross 1940-2005
(Lord Ashcroft Gallery)
John Frayn Turner (Author) Pub Date: 21 Jan 2010 Paperback 192pp 16 Illustrations
Lost Voices of the RAF
(Air)
Gripping eyewitness stories from eighty years of British flying in war and peace. This moving collection of first-hand accounts of life in the Royal Air Force spans the period from 1918 to the present day. Max Arthur (Author) Pub Date: 11 Aug 2005...
The Holocaust - Lost Words
(Books, Children)
This title is interspersed with a variety of primary source material, including letters, diary entries, film extracts, song lyrics and official documents. Pub Date: 6 Oct 2005 Paperback 48pp Illustrations
Usborne Second World War
(Books, Children)
Stunningly illustrated with dramatic contemporary photographs, this is an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the Second World War. Internet-linked with its own website. Paul Dowswell (Author) Pub Date: 29 Apr 2005 Hardback 128pp...

Dog Bootees (Sniffer Dog)
(equipment)
Dog 'bootees', as worn in 2005 by explosives 'sniffer' dogs when working on anti-terrorist searches in London and elsewhere, to prevent injury to dog's feet and/or contamination of evidence
Dog Harness (Sniffer Dog)
(equipment)
Dog harness, as worn in 2005 by explosives 'sniffer' dogs when working on anti-terrorist searches in London and elsewhere
Letter sent to the Imperial War Museum, November 1918
(private papers)
Ms letter (3pp) written to the Imperial War Museum by Private G V Salisbury during his service with the 15th (Reserve) Battalion CEF, Bramshott, 6 November 1918, responding to the advert for the Museum placed in recent ration books and relating his sad...
badge, British
(uniforms and insignia)
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