The National Kitchens movement in Devon
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 ...
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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...
Bread and Primroses
Edward Taylor’s 1917 diary is an account of everyday life in Swindon seen through teenage eyes. For a 21st-century reader, it’s remarkable for what it doesn’t mention (see The War that Wasn’t There)....
The First World War in Biscuits
The Minories Galleries, 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE Exhibition open Saturday 16 May to Wednesday 15 July 2015 Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Admission is free. www.theminories.org.uk tel: 012...
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...
Research in Brief – The Great War in the Irish Kitchen: Women’s ...
by Fionnuala Walsh, Irish Research Council-funded PhD Student, Trinity College, Dublin. In March 1915 a woman was removed from a recruiting meeting in Ballina, County Mayo, after interrupting to ask ...
Food and the First World War
Food and the First World War Contributed by Rachel Duffett The First World War was a total war: the home front became the frontline and unprecedented levels of commitment to the nation’s war e...