A comprehensive timeline of popular culture, news events, war, football, television, cinema, fashion and pop music from England in the late 1930s and 1940s. This unique publication contains 278 pages of non-stop memories and nostalgia for people that lived in England between 1935 and 1949. From the pre-war days of prime-minister Stanley Baldwin, footballer Alex James, band leader Jack Hylton and black-shirts’ leader Sir Oswald Mosley, through to the post-war days of prime-minister Clement Attlee, footballer Stanley Matthews, singer Vera Lynn and mass murderer John Christie… this book recaptures thousands of events, sights and sounds of everyday life in the 40s and transports the reader straight back to those long gone days. A quick run through of events, from January 1935 to Christmas 1949… A pint of mild costs thruppence ha’penny, Arsenal are football champions, Fred Perry wins at Wimbledon, Mosley leads his ‘black-shirts’, Stanley Baldwin is prime-minister, An Austin Seven motorcar costs £ 125, A gallon of petrol costs 1s/5d, King George V dies, Amy Johnson is ‘Queen of the Skies’, Golden Miller, New-fangled Television, Jarrow March, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, Abdication of the King Edward VII, Metroland, The Road to Wigan Pier, Coronation of King George VI, Dixie Dean’s last goal, Arthur Askey, George Formby, Young Stanley Matthews, The Lambeth Walk, Joe Davis is snooker champion, Noel Coward, Young Len Hutton scores 364 runs, Peace in our time, Air-raid shelters, Gas masks, Children evacuated to countryside, Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, BSA Gold Star motorbikes, Keep Calm and Carry On, There’ll always be an England, Hitler invades Poland, It’s War! Air raid sirens, German U-boats, Two million men called up, Vera Lynn, We’ll Meet Again, Churchill takes over from Chamberlain, Hitler invades France, Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain, Spitfires and Hurricanes in dog-fights with Messerschmitts, The Blitz, Coventry destroyed, Gone With the Wind, Rationing, Dried Eggs Build You Up, Black Cat cigarettes, It’s That Man Again - Tommy Handley on the wireless, Ark Royal sinks, Flanagan & Allen, Denis Compton, Gracie Fields, Pearl Harbour, Dig for Victory, Loose lips might sink ships, Bomber Harris, Women of the Land Army, Monty and his Desert Rats, Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca, Bing Crosby, American G.I.s, Beveridge Report, The Dam Busters, Operation Mincemeat, Allies invade Sicily, Allies invade Italy, Bevin Boys down the pit, Jane Russell (38-24-36) on the silver screen, Tommy Trinder on the wireless, Lassie Come Home, The Andrews Sisters, Doodlebugs, The D-Day Landings, Paris liberated, Brussels liberated, Glenn Miller goes missing, V2 rockets strike southern England, RAF bombers destroy Dresden, The Battle of the Bulge, Allies take Cologne, Hitler retreats to his bunker, Soviets take Berlin, Hitler commits suicide, Knees Up Mother Brown, V for Victory! Churchill stands on balcony at Buckingham Palace, Sports Days, Jamborees, Labour for prosperity, Clement Attlee is prime-minister, Atomic bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Traitor Haw-Haw hanged, Bush DAC90 wireless-sets, Alvis Fourteen motorcar, Ferguson TE20 tractor, Derby County win FA Cup, Dick Barton on the wireless, BBC television resumes, Muffin the Mule, National Coal Board, Freezing temperatures, Deep snow, Tanganyika Ground Nut Scheme, Liverpool are football champions, Tom Finney for England, Butin’s holiday camps, Princess Elizabeth marries Prince Philip, Ted Heath and his Music, Railways nationalised, Here Come the Huggetts, National Health Service, Vincent Black Shadow motorbikes, Morris Minor motorcars, Brylcreem, Mrs. Dale’s Diary, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, Conscription begins, Vauxhall Velox, Pompey are football champions, Wolves win FA Cup, Bob-a-Job, Wakey! Wakey! - the Billy Cotton Band Show, Passport to Pimlico, Noddy Goes to Toyland, A pint of mild costs 1s/2d