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West Sussex on the Home Front 1939-1945

Photo of soldiers by the seaside railings, which is protected with barbed wire. Two children are speaking with them as they are guarding the perimeter.

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ day, this episode of West Sussex Unwrapped explores the experiences of ordinary West Sussex residents on the Home Front in the Second World War. Photographs and documents from West Sussex Record Office will help to bring to life themes such as evacuation, rationing, air raids and the ever-present threat of invasion by sea whilst films from Screen Archive South East will show Home Guard training and activities, including the wrong and the right way of dealing with Nazi spies. The event will end with a compilation of films depicting the war-time experience and the end-of-war celebrations across the south-east.

Location: Online only – book free tickets at wsro.org.uk/events

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