Exeter Project – Everyday Lives in War

More About William Dunning and the Two ‘Bennetts’ in 1916 and 1918...

November 24, 2016

William Dunning, the Dartmoor farmer whose life I am researching for a book, mentions a Methodist preacher called ‘Bennett’ (sic) several times in his wartime diary, and this caused me some headaches...

Wartime recipes – Lessons from World War One

November 21, 2016

Whilst researching food on the home front in World War One, it was interesting to find that some of the recipes were used in the Second World War. Elizabeth Craig, (1883 – 1980) prolific writer on fo...

History of Dawlish Violets

November 21, 2016

Dr Julia Neville is an Honorary Fellow in the History Department at Exeter University, and serves on the Council of the Devon History Society. The Strand Centre in Dawlish have published a leaflet...

The Preacher and the Conscientious Objector

April 18, 2016

Dr Jacqueline Sarsby is a social anthropologist, oral historian and photographer. She was a full-time lecturer at the University of Kent before going free-lance. Among other books, she is the author ...

First World War cookery – Trench cake and frost bitten potatoes

March 28, 2016

Dr Paul Cleave is a freelance researcher. His current research at the University of Exeter focuses on the social history of twentieth century tourism in the United Kingdom. He is also interested in t...

Miss Calmady-Hamlyn remembers…

March 12, 2016

Authored by Julia Neville Discussions at the February meeting of the Devon First World War Food and Farming Group started off with a look at the part women played in farming during the war. One of th...

The National Kitchens movement in Devon

February 4, 2016

Dr Julia Neville is an Honorary Fellow in the History Department at Exeter University, and serves on the Council of the Devon History Society. In 1917, as food shortages started to make an impact ...

‘Farming, Fishing and Food Supply in Devon during the First World War’...

January 6, 2016

This project is a research partnership that brings together the University of Exeter and Devon History Society, as supported by the AHRC-funded ‘Everyday Lives in War’ Engagement Centre at the Univer...