VE Day Celebrations

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Interview with ex soldier on his duties as a guard at Buckingham Palace on VE day .

Interview with ex soldier, Ted Brown, on his duties as a guard at Buckingham Palace on VE day (Victory in Europe) at the end of the Second World War in 1945.
From: All Our Lives VE Day Special A Day to Remember
First broadcast : 07 May 1995

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 11-14

Subject : History

Topic : Twentieth century world

Keywords : Second World War, VE Day, Propoganda, Buckingham Palace

Notes : World War Two module, starter or plenary - VE Day. Use to assess how normal soldiers would feel about the end of war. Effects of wartime propaganda in the Second World War

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