Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II

This is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45.

For a narrative history and bibliography of the home front see United Kingdom home front during World War II, as well as history of Scotland § Second World War 1939–45 and history of Northern Ireland § Second World War.

[1] For the military story see military history of the United Kingdom during World War II for foreign affairs, diplomatic history of World War II.

For the government see Timeline of Winston Churchill's first premiership.

1939 · 1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945 3 June 1939 24 August 1939 25 August 1939 30 August 1939 1 September 1939 2 September 1939 3 September 1939 7 September 1939 23 September 1939 27 September 1939 1 October 1939 6 October 1939 November 1939 January 1940 8 January 1940 May to June 1940 7 May 1940 10 May 1940 12 May 1940 14 May 1940 22 May 1940 10 June 1940 19 – 28 June 1940 30 June 1940 July 1940 3 July 1940 6 July 1940 9 July 1940 10 July 1940 21 July 1940 25 August 1940 28 August 1940 August–October 1940 7 September 1940 18 September 1940 31 October 1940 14 November 1940 12 December 1940 24 November 1940 20 December 1940 22 December 1940 21 January 1941 13 and 14 March 1941 20 April 1941 10 May 1941 27 May 1941 1 June 1941 18 December 1941 23 January 1942 5 March 1942 23 April 1942 1 July 1942 15 November 1942 1 December 1942 The Ministry of Labour reports that 1942 strikes cost 1,527,000 working days, as compared with 1,079,000 in 1941.

One of a series of Ministry of Information propaganda posters, comparing industrial workers to members of the armed forces. This one paraphrases Lord Nelson's famous signal; " England expects that every man will do his duty ".
Evacuee schoolchildren leave Stepney in London at 5 am on 1 September 1939.
Newspaper vendor holding stack of newspapers and sign announcing the state of war
Identity Card – 1943
A government poster urging mothers not to bring their evacuated children back to vulnerable urban areas.
Local Defence Volunteers receive rifle instruction, Surrey 1940.
Looking down the River Thames towards the London Docks , 7 September 1940.
Coventry Cathedral and the city centre in ruins, 16 November 1940.
Londoners shelter from an air raid in an Underground station.
Civilian rationing: A shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a British housewife's ration book in 1943
A recruitment poster for men to work in coal mining . The shortage of miners was solved from December 1943 by conscripts being chosen by ballot to be Bevin Boys .
Civil Defence rescue teams search a large pile of rubble following a V-1 flying bomb attack in Upper Norwood , London.
Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on Victory in Europe Day , 8 May 1945.
Demobilised troops disembark at Dover , 1945.