Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

We watched this interesting programme this afternoon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000sm7s/blitz-spirit-with-lucy-worsley Lucy Worsley takes a historians look at what happened from the time war was declared to London Blitz and how the general public reacted. It is seen through the eyes of a series of people involved in helping and gathering information. One aim was to try and discover whether there was such a thing as "Blitz Spirit" Reporting of the facts was strictly controlled and even the famous photograph of St Paul's at the height of the Blitz was actually edited so that it didn't give a true representation of the damage nearby. One interesting snippet is the the "Keep Calm and Carry On Poster" which was never used in the war and we only know about it because a copy was discovered in the 1970's!!!

One thing that struck me in watching the programme was the similarities between the Blitz and the COVID crisis in terms of how some sections of the community have been treated. 

David