A Family History Of... Wartime Women | Part 2 - Love, Work, and Wartime Secrets

Описание: Historian Lucy Worsley returns to delve deeper into her grandmother's life as another war reaches Birmingham.

By 1939, Edna Bourne is a young working woman in a Britain preparing for war once again. Her days in a Birmingham boot shop unfold against air‑raid drills, rationing, and uncertainty. But behind the everyday routines lie private complexities: a whirlwind marriage, a pregnancy under the pressures of wartime morality, and a truth hidden in the marriage register that carries legal and emotional weight. Join host and genealogist Jen Baldwin and her guest, historian Lucy Worsley, as they bring the records to life, revealing how women navigated respectability, secrecy and survival in a world where war upended everything.​

From growing up in First World War Britain to the heartbreaks and hard choices of the Birmingham Blitz, follow one woman’s journey through an era when life changed overnight. Across this three‑part series, host Jen Baldwin and her guest, historian Lucy Worsley, uncover the hidden pressures, sacrifices, and quiet acts of resilience that shaped a family — and a nation.

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Host and Researcher: Jen Baldwin
Guest: Lucy Worsley
Editor: CM87Edits
Script Editors: Niall Cullen, Daisy Goddard, Madeleine Gilbert, and Ellie Ayton
Producers: Madeleine Gilbert and Ellie Ayton
Designer: Michael McCosh
Executive Producers: Helen Kaye and Steve James

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