Feature essay

Home front, 1939–1945

by Paul Addison

  • Planning and politics
  • Workers at war
  • Maintaining morale
  • The arts: CEMA and ENSA
  • A social revolution?

References

See also

  • Stella Isaacs (1894–1971)
  • (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)
  • John Allsebrook Simon (1873–1954)
  • Frederick James Marquis (1883–1964)
  • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
  • Sir (Alexander) Percival Waterfield (1888–1965)
  • Clement Richard Attlee (1883–1967)
  • Arthur William James Greenwood (1911–1982)
  • Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
  • Herbert Stanley Morrison (1888–1965)
  • (Edward) Hugh Neale Dalton (1887–1962)
  • William Maxwell Aitken (1879–1964)
  • Frederick James Leathers (1883–1965)
  • Oliver Lyttelton (1893–1972)
  • Wyndham Raymond Portal (1885–1949)
  • John Anderson (1882–1958)
  • Eric Morecambe (1926–1984)
  • Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley (1896–1980)
  • Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay (1894–1955)
  • Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower (1910–1947)
  • Amy Johnson (1903–1941)
  • Edith Clara Summerskill (1901–1980)
  • (Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969)
  • Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1872–1946)
  • Vera Mary Brittain (1893–1970)
  • Nellie Last (1889–1968)
  • Clara Emily Milburn (1883–1961)
  • Sir Ronald Forbes Adam (1885–1982)
  • George VI (1895–1952)
  • Elizabeth (1900–2002)
  • Charles Hill (1904–1989)
  • (Florence) Elsie Waters (1893–1990)
  • Doris Ethel Waters (1899–1978)
  • Richard Frederick Dimbleby (1913–1965)
  • Godfrey Walker Talbot (1908–2000)
  • (Lewis John) Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1908–1987)
  • John Boynton Priestley (1894–1984)
  • Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975)
  • Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (1891–1953)
  • Archibald Bruce Campbell (1881–1966)
  • Anne Shelton (1923–1994)
  • William Brooke Joyce [known as Lord Haw-Haw] (1906–1946)
  • Arthur Bowden Askey (1900–1982)
  • Thomas Reginald Handley (1892–1949)
  • Ian Murray Dalrymple (1903–1989)
  • Harry Raymond Egerton Watt (1906–1987)
  • (Frank) Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (1907–1950)
  • Sir Michael Elias Balcon (1896–1977)
  • Sir Alexander Korda (1893–1956)
  • Margaret Mary Lockwood (1916–1990)
  • Michael Latham Powell (1905–1990)
  • Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)
  • Laurence Kerr Olivier (1907–1989)
  • Sir William Turner Walton (1902–1983)
  • Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905–1998)
  • (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
  • John Charles Walsham Reith (1889–1971)
  • Sir (Henry) Walford Davies (1869–1941)
  • Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (1903–1983)
  • Sir Kenneth Ralph Barnes (1878–1957)
  • Henry Spencer Moore (1898–1986)
  • Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
  • Basil Herbert Dean (1888–1978)
  • Dame Gracie Fields (1898–1979)
  • George Formby (1904–1961)
  • Thomas Edward Trinder (1909–1989)
  • Eric Arthur Blair [pseud. George Orwell] (1903–1950)
  • William Temple (1881–1944)
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
  • Richard Austen Butler (1902–1982)
  • Sir (Leslie) Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957)
  • Friedrich August Hayek (1899–1992)
  • William Henry Beveridge (1879–1963)
  • Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland (1906–1990)
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