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Child's ration book. 1 January – World War II: Britain calls up 2,000,000 19- to 27-year-olds for military service. 3 January – Unity Mitford, daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and fervent admirer of Adolf Hitler, having attempted suicide, returns to England from Germany (via Switzerland); she is carried down the gangplank of the cross-channel ferry at Folkestone on a ...
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31 March – Britain pledges support to Poland in the event of an invasion. [6] 4 April – the Royal Armoured Corps is formed. 11 April – the Women's Royal Naval Service is re-established. [7] 27 April – the Military Training Act (coming into force 3 June) introduces conscription; men aged 20 and 21 must undertake six months military ...
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Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 (81 P) Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 (90 P) Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 (138 P)
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The role of women in society was, for the historical era, relatively unconstrained; Spanish and Italian visitors to England commented regularly, and sometimes caustically, on the freedom that women enjoyed in England, in contrast to their home cultures. England had more well-educated upper-class women than was common anywhere in Europe. [12] [13]
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