Love, Work and Wartime Secrets (with Lucy Worsley) | Wartime Women (Part 2)

Lucy Worsley returns to discover her grandmother's dramatic Second World War secrets...

By 1939, Edna Bourne is a young working woman in a Britain preparing for war once again. Her days in a Birmingham boot shop unfold against air‑raid drills, rationing, and uncertainty. But behind the everyday routines lie private complexities: a whirlwind marriage, a pregnancy under the pressures of wartime morality, and a truth hidden in the marriage register that carries legal and emotional weight.

Join host and genealogist Jen Baldwin and her guest, historian Lucy Worsley, as they bring the records to life, revealing how women navigated respectability, secrecy and survival in a world where war upended everything.

Host and Researcher: Jen Baldwin

Guest: Lucy Worsley

Editor: CM87Edits

Script Editors: Niall Cullen, Daisy Goddard, Madeleine Gilbert, and Ellie Ayton

Producers: Madeleine Gilbert and Ellie Ayton

Designer: Michael McCosh

Executive Producers: Helen Kaye and Steve James

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