Richard Broad is a retired TV director and producer now living in Ireland. He made over ninety documentaries mostly on historical, social and environmental subjects. He won an Emmy for Palestine, a series about British rule there between 1917 and 1948, and his seven-part series A People's War about the Home Front in the Second World War used the Mass-Observation Archive extensively, including material from the Nella Last diaries.Suzie Fleming is a mother of two and a historian of the women's movement. Her other published work includes Eleanor Rathbone, 'Spokeswoman for a Movement', which introduced the re-publication of Rathbone's classic The Disinherited Family in 1986, and traced the contribution of mothers to the creation of the welfare state.

A classic of wartime literature...highly engaging, very moving. All Home Front life is here, especially the kitchen sink

Richard Broad is a retired TV director and producer now living in Ireland. He made over ninety documentaries mostly on historical, social and environmental subjects. He won an Emmy for Palestine, a series about British rule there between 1917 and 1948, and his seven-part series A People's War about the Home Front in the Second World War used the Mass-Observation Archive extensively, including material from the Nella Last diaries.Suzie Fleming is a mother of two and a historian of the women's movement. Her other published work includes Eleanor Rathbone, 'Spokeswoman for a Movement', which introduced the re-publication of Rathbone's classic The Disinherited Family in 1986, and traced the contribution of mothers to the creation of the welfare state.

A classic of wartime literature...highly engaging, very moving. All Home Front life is here, especially the kitchen sink