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Wartime Memories

Living through a food-system overhaul

Part of the research for my second book on food policy has involved interviewing people who lived through World War II Britain.  My research assistant and I have had the honour and pleasure of meeting personally with many women and men who generously shared their personal experiences of war and of how Britain's sweeping food initiatives affected them. Enjoy this selection of their stories (plus one from World War II Denmark)!  

  • Evocative posters

    Evocative posters

    Posters like these were just one of the ways the British government engaged citizens in...
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  • Margaret Jackson

    Margaret Jackson

    War Taught Conservationist Values
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  • Pat Marshall

    Pat Marshall

    Wartime in Working-Class Walsall, England
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  • Helen Melville (Smith) Young

    Helen Melville (Smith) Young

    Scottish Schoolchildren Bring In The Harvest
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  • Derek Glazer

    Derek Glazer

    Sharing Fairly Under Fire
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  • Shirley (Rushton) Shebbeare

    Shirley (Rushton) Shebbeare

    World War II Food-System Overhaul Made Britons Healthier
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  • Gordon Weetman

    Gordon Weetman

    Finding Safety and Food Security in a Smaller Community
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  • Louise Mardon

    Louise Mardon

    Ingenuity and Imagination were Key Ingredients
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  • Olwyn (Wynne Finch) Wake

    Olwyn (Wynne Finch) Wake

    Wartime Food System Provided 'Perfectly Adequate' Diet
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  • Grethe (Wissing) Jacobsen

    Grethe (Wissing) Jacobsen

    A Danish Farming Family During World War II Occupation
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  • Audrey Ostrom

    Audrey Ostrom

    The Wartime Food System Improved Our Diets
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