John Nichol

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Blitz Beyond London · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

But it was certainly something that was hyped up by the government at the time, which chose to, in many cases, the government didn't inform the people about many of the horrors that were going on in the bombing.

And they certainly weren't looking at some of those aspects either.

So the blitz spirit existed, but they were adjunct to that as well.

And if you go to London, St.

Paul's Cathedral, obviously an iconic image of the Blitz.

So St.

Paul's Cathedral, there's a famous image of St.

Paul's Cathedral with smoke rising in the background, but St.

Paul's Cathedral survived.

But if you know what to look for, so first of all, there's a couple of very small memorials in the grounds of

St.

Paul's Cathedral to the Blitz generation that I didn't know about until I went to look for them.

There's a memorial to the firefighters just across the road from St.

Paul's Cathedral.

And if you go around the back, you can look at the shrapnel marks

on the wall.

There are still World War II shrapnel marks spreading up the wall.

In our own church, I think you've been to St.

Clement Danes, the RAF church on the Strand, Dan.

So that was bombed and destroyed during the Blitz and rebuilt in the aftermath.

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