WW2: The Forgotten Blitz
Warfare
History Hit
4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When you think of the Blitz, you think of the Blitz on London. The two are synonymous, and not without reason. Over 57 consecutive nights and days, Luftwaffe raids left tens of thousands dead in Britain's capital in late 1940.
But the truth is that the heavy bombardment of the UK involved so many towns and cities across the country: from Plymouth in the southwest, to Swansea in Wales, to Belfast in Northern Ireland, to the Clydebank in Scotland and all up the northeast coast of England from Hull to Newcastle.
In this episode James is joined by Dr Stephen Moore to learn about the Blitz of the east coast, helping us understand why cities like Newcastle were targeted by the Luftwaffe & why they have become oft forgotten, marginalised histories.
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| 0:00.0 | No matter where you are in the world, when you think of the Blitz, you think of the Blitz on London. |
| 0:04.8 | The two are synonymous and not without reason. |
| 0:08.8 | You know, you go back to September 7th, Black Saturday in 1940. |
| 0:13.0 | And Lufwaite left 430 people dead and 1,600 injured. |
| 0:18.8 | And this was just the start of 57 consecutive nights and days of bombardment. |
| 0:25.0 | So it's understandable why when we think of the Blitz we think of London. |
| 0:28.0 | But the truth is that the heavy bombardment of Britain |
| 0:32.0 | involved so many towns and cities across the country from |
| 0:36.1 | Plymouth in the south to Swansea in Wales to Belfast in Northern Ireland the Blitz of |
| 0:42.4 | Belfast to Cly Clybank in Scotland or all up the |
| 0:46.0 | East Coast from Hull to Newcastle, there was bombing by the Lufwaifah for throughout the entirety of the Second World War. I'm fascinated by these forgotten |
| 0:56.4 | blitzes, and so I headed up to Newcastle to speak with an expert on the |
| 1:02.6 | Blitz of the East Coast. |
| 1:05.0 | Now I'm your host James Rogers. This is the warfare |
| 1:07.5 | podcast and in this episode we speak to Dr Stephen Moore. |
| 1:11.7 | Stephen helps us to understand why cities like Newcastle in the north of England |
| 1:16.5 | were bombed and targeted by the Luftwaffe, but he also helps us to understand why they are forgotten marginalized histories. Enjoy. Hi Stephen, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How you doing? |
| 1:42.6 | Thanks for me, James. |
| 1:43.6 | Not a problem at all. We are in person. |
| 1:46.1 | This is always what I love doing and I get to talk about a topic that I'm so |
| 1:49.8 | incredibly passionate about and that is the Second World War |
| 1:53.7 | bombardment of the UK and we're here we are in Newcastle. I have been |
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