Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II


This is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45.
For a narrative history and bibliography of the home front see British home front during [World War II], as well as history of Scotland § Second World War 1939–45 and history of Northern Ireland § Second World War. For the military story see military [history of the United Kingdom during World War II] for foreign affairs, diplomatic history of World War II. For the government see Timeline of Winston Churchill's first premiership.

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[|1939]

3 June 1939
24 August 1939
25 August 1939
30 August 1939
1 September 1939
2 September 1939
3 September 1939
7 September 1939
23 September 1939
27 September 1939
1 October 1939
6 October 1939
November 1939

[|1940]

January 1940
8 January 1940
May to June 1940
7 May 1940
10 May 1940
12 May 1940
File:The Home Guard 1939-1945 H1917.jpg|thumb|right|Local Defence Volunteers receive rifle instruction, Surrey 1940.
14 May 1940
22 May 1940
10 June 1940
19 – 28 June 1940
30 June 1940
July 1940
3 July 1940
6 July 1940
9 July 1940
10 July 1940
21 July 1940
25 August 1940
28 August 1940
File:London Blitz 791940.jpg|thumb|right|Looking down the River Thames towards the London Docks, 7 September 1940.
August–October 1940
7 September 1940
18 September 1940
31 October 1940
14 November 1940
12 December 1940
24 November 1940
20 December 1940
22 December 1940

[|1941]

21 January 1941
13 and 14 March 1941
20 April 1941
10 May 1941
27 May 1941
1 June 1941
18 December 1941

[|1942]

23 January 1942
5 March 1942
23 April 1942
1 July 1942
15 November 1942
1 December 1942
The Ministry of Labour reports that 1942 strikes cost 1,527,000 working days, as compared with 1,079,000 in 1941.

[|1943]

18 February 1943
19 February 1943:
7 April 1943
12 April 1943
29 July 1943
File:Join the Miners Art.IWMPST13975.jpg|thumb|right|A recruitment poster for men to work in coal mining. The shortage of miners was solved from December 1943 by conscripts being chosen by ballot to be Bevin Boys.
23 September 1943
14 December 1943
20 December 1943

[|1944]

21 January 1944
10 March 1944
22 to 28 April 1944
12 June 1944
File:Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 D21237.jpg|thumb|right|Civil Defence rescue teams search a large pile of rubble following a V-1 flying bomb attack in Upper Norwood, London.
July to September 1944
8 September 1944
17 September 1944
22 September 1944
3 December 1944

[|1945]

1 February 1945
27 March 1945
29 March 1945
2 May 1945
8 May 1945
9 May 1945
23 May 1945
16 June 1945
18 June 1945
5 July 1945
26 July 1945
15 August 1945