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I'm Ellie Corthorne. In response to the current COVID-19 crisis, here in Britain, we've been asked to replicate the quote, Blitz spirit. But what exactly was the blitz spirit? Our content director, David Musgrove, called Dr Jonathan Boff, a historian of modern warfare to find out more about where this idea came from, and what else we can learn from the public response to wartime crises.

Today I'm joined by Dr Jonathan Boff, who is senior lecturer in history at the University of Birmingham.

His current research focuses on the

British and German armies in the development of modern warfare 1914 to 45 and on the connection

between morale and military effectiveness. He also maintains a fascinating blog at jonathanboff.

com and one of the most recent entries there is entitled Crisis Management

for Beginners, where he talks about the government in Britain and its response to national

crises in the two world wars. Now, I came across this blog after Jonathan responded to one of my

tweets the other day about a feature we'd run on History Extra.com about the nature of the real blitz spirit.

And in the light of the invocations by our current politicians to be using the blitz spirit

to face up to the COVID-19 situation, I thought it would be good to interrogate the story

a bit more. Let's talk about how governments got the population on a war footing in the first half

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