{"id":13927,"date":"2016-10-07T18:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2016-10-08T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:26:14","slug":"virtual-home-front-the-fictional-town-of-great-wharton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13927","title":{"rendered":"Virtual \u2018Home Front\u2019: the fictional town of Great Wharton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>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.<\/h3>\n<p>The National Archives writes:<\/p>\n<p>Following a\u00a0year in development, The National Archives launches its exciting new online platform, Great Wharton.<\/p>\n<p>The fully-responsive resource\u00a0brings together the more quirky and unusual side of the\u00a0British Home Front in the First World War, discoverable from a bird\u2019s-eye perspective\u00a0of the fictional\u00a0town of Great Wharton.<\/p>\n<p>With cases\u00a0taken directly from our records \u2013 including an \u2018egg train\u2019, ginger beer strike and school pupils making munitions \u2013 take a journey through the town and delve\u00a0into the lesser-known stories of the Home Front in this\u00a0resource launched as part of our First World War 100 programme.<\/p>\n<p>Start your journey to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/first-world-war\/home-front-stories\" target=\"_blank\">Great Wharton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/about\/news\/journey-back-to-the-home-front-with-new-online-resource\/\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0year in development, The National Archives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13927\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13928,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927\/revisions\/13928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}