The Second World War Experience Centre

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Our mission: To collect and encourage access to the surviving testimony of men and women who lived through the years of the Second World War and to ensure that different audiences share and learn from the personal recollections preserved in the collection.

Saving personal experiences of wartime in World War Two

The Centre’s new leaflets, kindly sponsored by Maria Mallaband Care Group, are now available. To find out more about how we preserve and share wartime memories, CLICK HERE for a general information leaflet. There are many ways you can help us: by donating memories of wartime life, becoming a volunteer or making a financial gift to support our urgent work

Don’t miss our BBC Radio 4 appeal!

You can hear Jonathan Dimbleby make an appeal on behalf of the Centre on the Radio 4 Website.

The Centre is a Registered charity. To make a donation to help us secure the future of these valuable memories, please go to
FINANCIAL APPEAL

Latest Issue of the Journal: Normandy
Print-friendly PDFs of personal experience in World War Two:

The hazardous operations of the Russian Convoys - July 1942
A selection of British propaganda posters donated by Kenneth W. Rendell.
Operation Pedestal - August 1942 urgent but dangerous convoy to deliver vital supplies to beleaguered Malta.
The North East of England during Wartime.

Key Stage Two World War Two Education Pack: 'What Was It Like For Children In The Second World War'

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The Second World War Experience Centre is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales, number 3613847.
Registered Office: 2 Feast Field (off Town St), Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS18 4TJ

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