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...
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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. ...
Foxhunters in khaki – foxhunting and the county Yeomanry during ...
Contributed by Nick Mansfield One hundred years ago, the British government for the first time introduced conscription for compulsory service in the armed forces; a response to the high battlefield c...
More About William Dunning and the Two ‘Bennetts’ in 1916 and 1918...
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...
Conscientious Objectors and Farmers
Contributed by Julie Moore Recently, whilst reading through the correspondence of Samuel Graveson, clerk to the Hertford and Hitchin Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, it struck me that there...
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 ...
A Taste of the Home Front – Arundel Museum
This project, exploring how food shortages during WW1 affected food availability in Arundel, West Sussex, is aimed at bringing people face-to-face with some of the lesser known facts on food and food...
From Volunteer to Conscript
Brian Thomson is a local historian with a particular interest in the story of Croxley Green and the wider Rickmansworth area. His most recent publication is Croxley Green in the First World War, whic...
Food and the First World War in Germany
Contributed by Dr Helen Boak In August 1916 a group of soldiers’ wives wrote to the Hamburg Senate demanding its support for a peace settlement: ‘we want to have our husbands and sons back from the w...
Farming in the First World War
Contributed by Julie Moore Sources to Consider and Questions to Ask The story of the impact of the First World War on farming is one which particularly benefits from research at the local le...