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Blitz spirit: how ordinary people coped with WW2

Blitz spirit: how ordinary people coped with WW2

Jonathan Boff explains how ordinary people coped with the privations of World War II and considers what parallels can be drawn with the current Coronavirus crisis

Published: March 23, 2020 at 4:02 PM

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At a time when Britons are being asked to revisit the ‘Blitz spirit’, historian Jonathan Boff explains how ordinary people coped with the privations of World War II and considers what parallels can be drawn between the 1940s and the current Coronavirus crisis

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Read a transcript of the podcast interview here