1940s House provides a riveting history lesson on the second world war based on virtual experience as one modern family take on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's wartime home front. This unique time travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of the war in 1939 to Victory day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into nine weeks. While the military threat is blessedly metaphorical, it's not all tin hats and gas masks – other privations are real and the pressure creates tensions not existent in modern society. This enlightening series inevitably becomes a critique of modern materialism and complacency as the family travels back to a time when goodness and nobility brought more rewards than selfishness and greed.