Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley: a Timely Revision of Britain in Crisis

Published on: 25th February 2021

During WWII, German planes dropped 32,000 tonnes of bombs on British cities, an eighth-month-long assault known as the Blitz. It is a period well known to us – not only familiar ground in most school history lessons but recent enough that many who experienced it are still alive today. And yet, how much of what we ‘know’ is true? This is the question that Lucy Worsley sets out to answer in Blitz Spirit, a documentary that peels back the myth of the unshakeable British morale.... (read more...)