THE LOST DECADE: RELATED WEBSITES
BBC Links
1950s Style
How we decorated our houses 50 years ago
BBC 7
Listen to the best comedy old and new
Cambridge Spies (h2g2)
Add your thoughts on Donald McLean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt
Election Battles
BBC coverage from the archive including the 1945, 1950, 1951 and 1955 election battles
History of the BBC
History including audio and video clips from post-war programmes
Historical Broadcasts
Audio clips including the Coronation and Suez crisis
John Wyndham (h2g2)
Profile of the Day of the Triffids author
On This Day: Attlee Resigns
Video clips of Attlee's resignation in 1955
People's War
Share your memories of World War II both abroad and on the home front
Saucy Seaside Postcards (h2g2)
Overview of the seaside phenomenon that you contribute to
External Links
Advertising Archive
Great gallery of print ads from the 1940s and 50s
The British Library: Chronology of Modern Britain
Potted history of the decades, with audio clips
Evacuees Reunion Association
Group for former evacuees and those who cared for them
How We Used to Eat
The Food Standards Agency look back to 1950s tastebuds
Imperial War Museum
Exhibits on World War II and the years that followed
Mass-Observation Archive
A brief history and list of holdings, which include diaries that Our Hidden Lives was based on and the 'Little Kinsey' papers
Royal Festival Hall
History of the South Bank Centre buildings
Spiegel Online: My Personal VE day
The British World War II obsession from a German perspective
Whirligig
Nostalgia site dedicated to 1950s television
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