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VE Day: First Days of Peace

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VE Day: First Days of Peace: 11/05/2015

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Kate Williams explores how the nation's transport system resumed after the war.

Historian Kate Williams explores how the nation's worn out transport system resumed after the war, just as it was set to be nationalised by a new Labour government.

Historian Kate Williams boards postwar trains, buses and lorries to explore how the wheels of the nation got going again. What was it like to swap the seat in the cockpit of a Spitfire for one in a bus cab? All at a time when a worn out transport system was set to be nationalised by a new Labour government.

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