LEARNING ZONE SCOTLAND

A brief synopsis of the Falklands war and the experiences of the British troops.

An elderly World War One veteran reveals his reservations about the conflict. He gives an insight into his life after the war, including the 1926 strike and his education near Treherbert.

Volunteers from the West Indies who joined the RAF during World War II.

Volunteers from the West Indies who joined the RAF during WWII.

A visit to a cemetery in Belgium.

Winston Churchill announces that the second World War was over.

The contribution of women to the war effort, showing how the war gave many women a release from their restricted lives.

A range of medical developments brought about by war.

A brief review of the important part played by British women on the Home Front during the First World War.

The swift victory that the British people were led to believe in 1914 was to be replaced by a lengthy stalemate on the Western Front.

Review of Scotland’s post war industrial boom.

The recession and depression following the second world war.

how war comes in many guises and the overall theme of this piece is a celebration of change in the landscape and in mankind.

Agnes Greatorex remembers her brothers going off to fight in the First World War with the British Expeditionary Force and with it a first-hand memory of how lives were ruined by family losses during the war.

Differing experiences of war are portrayed through one upper class family and their servants.

A solider’s return to the trenches in Belgium.

The impact of shellshock during World War I on an individual and his family

A review of the main issues facing Tsar Nicholas II as he tried to maintain his autocratic rule over the Russian Empire during the First World War.

Recalling the influence a modern fashion-house had War clothing.

How memory of the First World War influenced British public opinion against war.

A look at the contribution made by women to the war effort.

The impact of World War One on medicine, focusing on the negative impact of war.

Simon Weston catches up with some former Bevin Boys who tell their vital, but often forgotten, role in the war effort.

Surviving the carnage in no-man’s-land and the rats in the Trenches

The story of two brothers from St. Lucia who died for Britain in the First World War.

What challenges did the Spanish Civil War pose for Britain?

A review of the different jobs carried out by British women on the Home Front during the First World War.

When Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany, ending the British government's appeasement policy.

Ypres in Belgium remembers the dead of the First World War with a service every day.

The lasting effects of the war are shown through the characters of one upper class family and their servants.

Through the testimony of Britain's oldest First World War veteran, Henry Allingham, can we undestand why men volunteered for War in 1914?

Looking back at the experience of ‘Black-Out’ during World War II and sheltering under the stairs during an air raid.

The conflicting views of the impact of World War One on medicine. It shows the 'official' government view versus the medics on the front line.

'Run Rabbit Run' was a popular war time song from the duo Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of war to the British people on 3 September 1939.

Surviving British veterans of World War I prepare to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the armistice.

70th anniversary of the Spitfire

Shell shock was such a difficult disease because there was no wound to be seen.

Did Hitler want war from the start or did he want revenge for Versailles.

News report about the Grosvenor Square demonstration and the Vietnam War.

The German bombing of Guernica gave military planners an example of the tactic of aerial bombing.

Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Holocaust who spent his life hunting Nazi war criminals interviewed in 1989.

Every year thousands of people visit the battlefields of Belgium, including many school children.

What it was like for women to work in an ammunition factory during the Second World War

1948. Physicist, Professor R E Peierls, describes the benefits and possible dangers of living in the nuclear age.

An American, Norah, living in Germany during the 1930s, describes the growth in German support for war.

Mini-drama about Mary Seacole and how she spent the years following the end of the Crimean War impoverished and unappreciated.

Speech made by Sir Winston Churchill on 18 June 1940, preparing the nation for the "Battle of Britain" to come.