Food in Wartime: An International Perspective on Food Supply in World War I (Germany workshop)

On 26-28 July 2019, members of the ELIW Centre team participated in ‘Food in Wartime: An International Perspective on Food Supply in World War I’ in Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop built on Everyday Lives in War’s ‘Food in Wartime, 1914-1920’ event in Hatfield, UK, the previous year.

Participants from Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, Germany and the UK shared and compared research on the Great War and its aftermath, including material on soldiers’ food; experience in occupied and neutral countries; and food deprivation, which was a common denominator.