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.
[|1939]
3 June 193924 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 19408 January 1940
May to June 1940
7 May 1940
10 May 1940
12 May 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
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 194113 and 14 March 1941
20 April 1941
10 May 1941
27 May 1941
1 June 1941
18 December 1941
[|1942]
23 January 19425 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 194319 February 1943:
7 April 1943
12 April 1943
29 July 1943
23 September 1943
14 December 1943
20 December 1943
[|1944]
21 January 194410 March 1944
22 to 28 April 1944
12 June 1944
July to September 1944
8 September 1944
17 September 1944
22 September 1944
3 December 1944
[|1945]
1 February 194527 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