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WW2 > Victory in Europe Day / VE Day May 8, 1945

‘There was this explosion of light:

brightness was everywhere.

And excitement, laughter, joy.

The world would never be the same.’

Crowds celebrate in Piccadilly Circus, London

Photograph: Daily Herald Archive/SSPL

via Getty

VE Day was the spark for change.

Coronavirus could be too

I remember the euphoria of 8 May 1945,

and the push for a fairer society that followed.

The parallels today are striking

Fri 8 May 2020 06.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/08/
ve-day-coronavirus-1945

Winston Churchill

on the balcony of the Ministry of Health building

in Whitehall, London.

VE Day, May 1945, in London.

Photograph:

Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

Bettmann/Corbis

VE Day:

what the end of the war was like for those who were there

Friday 8 May 2015 10.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/
ve-day-what-the-end-of-the-war-was-like-for-those-who-were-there

Londoners celebrate

Photograph:

ANL/Daily Mail/REX/Shutterstock

Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in pictures

A selection of archive photographs

to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day

Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

Londoners celebrate

Photograph: Francis Reiss/Getty Images

Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in pictures

A selection of archive photographs

to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day

Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

Crowds celebrating VE day

on 8 May 1945, London,

the end of the second world war, in Europe

Photograph: Hulton Archive

VE Day 70 years on: share your photos and memories

Monday 20 April 2015 16.21 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/
ve-day-70-years-on-share-your-photos-and-memories

Women dance with US soldiers in a London street

Photograph:

Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in pictures

A selection of archive photographs

to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day

Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

A V-shaped table for a children’s party in south London

Photograph:

Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images

Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in pictures

A selection of archive photographs

to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day

Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html

VE Day, The Guardian, 8 May 1945.

See the full page:

https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2020/05/05/8_May_1945.jpg

VE Day: 'We have won the right to hope' - archive, May 1945

How the Guardian the reported wartime victory

and the ending of hostilities in Europe on 8 May 1945

Wed 6 May 2020 11.24 BST

Last modified on Thu 7 May 2020 11.18 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/may/06/
ve-day-stopped-onrush-of-evil-guardian-reports-1945

The Daily Mirror

8 May, 1945

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/frames.asp?
http%3A//www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
MOLsite/londonsvoices/veday/mainmenu.asp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ve-day

https://www.theguardian.com/world/secondworldwar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/veday_germany_01.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/8/newsid_3580000/3580163.stm

https://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html

https://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945_2.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/
never-give-up-never-despair-the-queens-ve-day-message

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/07/
magazine/ve-day-anniversary.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/08/
ve-day-coronavirus-1945

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/
we-should-remember-the-real-spirit-of-ve-day

https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/may/06/
ve-day-stopped-onrush-of-evil-guardian-reports-1945

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/
ve-day-churchill-feared-de-gaulle-would-declare-victory-early

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/apr/19/
the-second-world-war-in-colour-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/14/
ve-day-london-colour-amateur-footage-video

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/may/08/-ve-day-sketches-70-years

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/
ve-day-what-the-end-of-the-war-was-like-for-those-who-were-there

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/07/
guardian-view-europe-seventy-years-nazis-new-vision

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/ve-day-celebrations-second-world-war

https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/ve-day-60th-anniversary

https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0,8542,1476330,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22106,00.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/may/09/secondworldwar.queenmother

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Ministry of Food Posters

A new exhibition

at London's Imperial War Museum (Feb 12 to Jan 3 2011)

pays tribute to a nation's creativity and resourcefulness

in the face of wartime – and peacetime – food rationing.

Here is some of the eye-catching

British Government propaganda

used on the 'Kitchen Front' during that time.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7165696/
Vintage-Ministry-of-Food-posters.html

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were all used during the Second World War

to encourage austerity and stoicism

on Britain's home front.

They form part of an exhibition

at the Museum of Brands in London

entitled Make Do and Mend
(www.museumofbrands.com ;

020 79080880; 2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road,

Notting Hill, London W11 2AR).

The exhibition runs until November 29, 2010.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/
Waste-Not-Want-Not-wartime-posters.html

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