The battle to keep the nation fed during the Second World War was waged by an army of workers on the land and the resourcefulness of the housewives on the Kitch

Mandatory food rationing during World War II significantly challenged the image of the United States as a land of plenty and collapsed the boundaries between wo

The rationing period during World War II was a difficult time, and yet it is remembered nostalgically as a time of unity and great sacrifice. Make Do and Mend f

In the First World War the supply of food to civilians became as significant a factor in final victory as success or defeat on the battlefields. Never before ha

The period of wartime food rationing is now seen as a time when the nation was at its healthiest and these Ministry of Food leaflets advised the general public