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Workers' War : Home Front Recalled, a partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University, the Trades Union Congress and the National Pensioners' Convention to record and commemorate the role played by trade unions and workers on the Home Front during the Second World War. This learning resource is supported by the Big Lottery Fund as part of national activities to mark the 60th anniversary of the war. To see Tony Benn speaking at the launch of this website, click here. This website holds an exhibition of hundreds of digitised images and documents, oral testimony from those who worked on the Home Front during the war and contributions from historians. Choose your pathway into the website by clicking on one of the buttons below.

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