163 - British Wartime Industry
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The expansion of British industry to cater for war production began to be put in place in the 1930s. But still with the outbreak of war Britain needed to stretch every sinew to harness, coordinate and maximise its resources. Firstly to defend itself and then to help liberate Axis-occupied countries.
In this episode, I'm joined by Neil Storey.
Neil is an award-winning social historian and lecturer specialising in the impact of war on twentieth-century society. His new book is Wartime Industry.
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| 0:31.5 | This country is at war with Germany. We shall go on to the end. |
| 0:38.8 | I remember the sheets of planes came up and almost blinded us for my guns. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War Two podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | Hi, my name is Wallace. We're on the home front for this episode of the podcast. |
| 0:59.2 | The expansion of British industry to cater for war production began to be put into place in the 1930s. |
| 1:06.3 | But still, with the outbreak of war, Britain needed to stretch every sinew to harness, |
| 1:11.9 | coordinate and maximise its resources. Firstly, to defend itself and then to help liberate, |
| 1:17.2 | access occupied countries. In this episode, I'm talking to Neil's story. |
| 1:22.8 | Neil is an award-winning social historian and lecturer, specialising in the impact of war |
| 1:29.2 | on 20th century society, and his new book is War Time Industry. |
| 1:35.3 | Neil, thanks for joining me. So I thought I would start by taking his back to the first |
| 1:41.3 | war. When Britain went to war in 1914, the government's response to the economy was business as |
| 1:47.1 | usual. But by 1916, they stated, encroached on every aspect of industry and manpower to |
| 1:54.1 | control production. Now, I wonder if those lessons had been learnt from the First World War, |
| 2:01.3 | and plans put into place during the interwar years for if the country ever went to war again? |
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