Food Flash: Wartime Food Boredom
The Ministry of Information plays the guilt card to keep the home front from grumbling at mealtimes.
Shepherd's pie, stew, sausages, hotpot. What now reads like a typical gastro-pub menu are here used are the examples of everyday mealtime mundanity of the home front. If your parents ever conjured up starving kids in Africa when you were little to get you to eat your greens, then here is an example of the Ministry of Information employing a similar tactic.
Dig for Victory
Keeping the nation fed and healthy was the greatest priority of the Home Front. Women replaced absent farm workers, while ordinary Britons were exhorted to 'grow their own'.
'Dig for Victory' was perhaps the most successful official campaign of the Home Front. Britons in their millions picked up their trowels, and acre after acre of parkland, waste ground - even back gardens - was repurposed as makeshift vegetable plots. Just as the factories were constantly increasing their productivity, great efforts were made to increase agricultural yields, while the 'land girls' of the Women's Land Army enthusiastically took the place of farmworkers fighting overseas.
15 videos in this collection
Cotswold Club
Salute to Farmers
Wartime Food Boredom
Bampton Shows the Way
Compost Heap
The New Crop
Storing Vegetables Outdoors
VE/VJ Don't Waste Bread
Greenford and Northolt Dig for Victory Campaign
The Backyard Front
Brighton's Warship Week and Tank Week
Heronsdale Manor Harvest
Wartime harvesting
