Oxfordshire in the Second World War

Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Stephen Barker’s talk will look at the war’s impact on and connections to Oxfordshire. The talk evaluates the ‘home front’ and also significant events in which Oxfordshire people were involved abroad. It touches on evacuation, POWs, airfields, refugees, everyday life, rationing, war work, as well as the evacuation of Dunkirk, Arnhem and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.