The Police as Ploughmen
Serious recognition was only given to Britain’s food crisis around September 1916, when an increasing number of ships carrying food supplies to Britain were sunk by German submarines. From 1913 Br...
Tag Archives: Food
A Taste of the Home Front – Arundel Museum
In June 2015 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant to Arundel Museum to explore the story of how the town of Arundel responded to the problems of keeping the town fed during the First World War. ...
Wartime recipes – Lessons from World War One
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
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...
“As good as Mother makes?” : Food, Family and the Western ...
‘Rachel Duffett has contributed to a series of podcasts entitled ‘Wartime Attachments’ organised by the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin. Rachel’s paper, R...
BATTLING ONWARDS: The Brixham Fishing Fleet 1914-1918
Samantha Little is part of the group researching Farming, Fishing and Food Supply in Devon during the First World War, led by Professor Henry French at Exeter University. She is the Writer in Residen...
The Preacher and the Conscientious Objector
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 ...
The impact of WW1 on a local York community – Clements Hall Loca...
A new local project is based at a community centre to the south of the city walls of York. Clements Hall Local History Group was awarded £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for their two year proj...
First World War cookery – Trench cake and frost bitten potatoes
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…
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...