The National Archives has released an online portal which is designed to bring stories from the Home Front to life, using an animated interactive fictional town called Great Wharton.
The National Archives writes:
Following a year in development, The National Archives launches its exciting new online platform, Great Wharton.
The fully-responsive resource brings together the more quirky and unusual side of the British Home Front in the First World War, discoverable from a bird’s-eye perspective of the fictional town of Great Wharton.
With cases taken directly from our records – including an ‘egg train’, ginger beer strike and school pupils making munitions – take a journey through the town and delve into the lesser-known stories of the Home Front in this resource launched as part of our First World War 100 programme.
Start your journey to Great Wharton
View the press release
