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World War Two and Wales

World War Two and Wales

What was it like to live through the Second World War in Wales? From taking in evacuees, to the increased production of the coal mines, life was to change for many people.

Children listening to the radio in 1939

When war broke out

When war broke out

Evacuees with gas masks

Gallery: September 1939

Kate Grainger

Capture Wales: Granny's War

Capture Wales: Granny's War

London children evacuees preparing to leave the capital

Evacuation

Weekly rations

Daily life

Bomb scene

Bombing raids

Welsh flag

Welsh identity during the war

Factory worker

Women in wartime

Bevin Boys at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Pontefract

Mining in wartime


From the archive

Women munitions workers

Munitions memories

Two women recall working at a munitions factory near Bridgend.

NE Wales

Women's Land Army workers

War at the door

Read stories about life in North East Wales during World War Two.

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