Homefront Recall Project
Introduction
Like much of our work the Homefront Recall Project has brought together people of various ages and backgrounds. The core of the project was gathering in and recording the memories of those who lived through WWII on the Homefront, largely in Edinburgh.
These memories are not about the major battles of war but the everyday struggles of coping with rationing, the blackouts and evacuation. Many of these stories are about a wartime childhood.They convey for the most part a sense of normality and calm. The common answer to the question " How did you cope?" has been "We just got on with it"
All this material has been shared in a special way via drama workshops, scriptwriting and improvisation. The actors and technicians involved in this process were students and schoolchildren, as well as older and retired people.
Out of all this has come a play entitled "The Memory Bank" performed at Queen Margaret College's Theatre in Edinburgh, a series of workshops and a drama production at Trinity Primary School also in Edinburgh.
It's been a project people have enjoyed on so many levels. Particularly rewarding has been the reaction of those who gave their memories of the Home Front as the source material.
This website has further used their memories and stories.
Please read
and listen to these memories of ordinary folk in extaraordinary times.
Also have a look at the activities pages at the end of the "Air Raids and
Evacuation" and "Food and Rationing" sections. We hope you find them to
be both entertaining and allow you to think about what life was
like then.
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