Historical roles and interpretation

Home Front Friends is the name Harry and Edna use when we perform our Edwardian and WW2 home front impressions.

We both have a huge interest in 20th Century social & military history and we enjoy sharing our passion.

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We offer an exciting series of historical living history scenarios, educational talks and workshops. We have been employed by museums, schools, living history events and television companies.

In this section of HFF's web site we describe some of our historical interpretation - roles we can offer. We like to mix facts and a little humour into our impressions which has proved a popular mix with event organisers.

We use the term 'edutainment' to describe our portrayed blend of social and military history.

When performing we use the names of Harry and Edna. These are not names we just created, they are the names of our Grandparents who lived through the entire length of the war on the home front.

Although they are no longer alive we feel a closeness to them, when we adopt their names.

"The past," the novelist LP Hartley famously wrote "is a foreign country". But to us it is different,the past is about our family, country and history.

We use the name Home Front Friends as although we only guarantee our own appearance we are often joined by other friends who have a passion for the 1930s and 1940s, thus our name Home Front Friends.

Gas, Hitler
will send
no warning


Beating fire
Bomb Fritz


Guarding the Home Guards home


The Children's
War


Wartime
Christmas

Harry & Edna are well known in the current retro 1940s scene and were featured in a Sunday Times article on retro lifestyles.

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