Originally posted on Outset Publishing:
After the six years of the Second World War, when sport of any kind was certainly limited, and at times and in certain places, non-existent, the cessation of hostilities brought fans of every sport flooding back into stadia. The archetypal English game of cricket saw its first full season in…
Category Archives: Post war Britain
A new shopping experience
Originally posted on Outset Publishing:
The food shopping experience of the 1940s was very different from that of today. Customer making a purchase in a grocery shop during the Second World War. Interior view of a grocer’s shop with goods piled high on and behind the counter. The grocer offers a product to a woman…
When will the snow melt?!
Originally posted on Outset Publishing:
Nowadays we are familiar with severe weather events – climate change has altered our seasons resulting in populations across the world experiencing forest fires, floods and droughts. But back in 1940s Britain such dramatic weather was unexpected. What’s more, there was little in the way of weather forecasting available for…
What a show!
Originally posted on Outset Publishing:
Perhaps it was the darkness of the war years that drew people to the lightness and creativity of British theatre. Although what some have called a period of ‘modernism’ started years before the 1940s – in fact, elements of modernist approaches to art, design and theatre can be traced to…
Dreaming of the ‘mother country’
Originally posted on Outset Publishing:
In June 1948 the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury Docks bringing hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean who were hoping for a new life in Britain. During the Second World War, thousands of Caribbean men and women had been recruited to serve in the armed forces. Some had been to…
Isabella Muir 