Journey back to the Home Front with new online resource

6 Sep 2016 03:16 PM

Following a year in development, The National Archives launches its exciting new online platform, Great Wharton.

The fully-responsive resource brings together the more quirky and unusual side of the British Home Front in the First World War, discoverable from a bird’s-eye perspective of the fictional town of Great Wharton.

With cases taken directly from our records – including an ‘egg train’, ginger beer strike and school pupils making munitions – take a journey through the town and delve into the lesser-known stories of the Home Front in this resource launched as part of our First World War 100 programme.

Start your journey to Great Wharton: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/home-front-stories

The team behind Great Wharton will also be discussing the project at Voices of the Home Fronts, Friday 9 September.