Add to ORKGWhile the history of food on the home front in wartime Britain has mostly focused on rationing, this book reveals the importance and scale of nation-wide communal dining schemes during this era. Welcomed by some as a symbol of a progressive future in which 'wasteful' home dining would disappear, and derided by others for threatening the social order, these sites of food and eating attracted great political and cultural debate. Using extensive primary source material, Feeding the People in Wartime Britain examines the cuisine served in these communal restaurants and the people who used them. It challenges the notion that communal eating played a marginal role in wartime food policy and reveals the impact they had in advancing nutritional ...
Themes of rationing, scarcity and frugality have become increasingly prominent in UK food discourses...
Public awareness of food poisoning developed significantly in Britain in the 1940s with a rise in re...
This thesis provides a narrative history of the story told about food consumption, food waste, and f...
In the latter stages of the First World War a vast network of state-sponsored communal restaurants h...
In the latter stages of the First World War a vast network of state-sponsored communal restaurants h...
The practice of controlling food supplies has existed since ancient times—driven by urbanization, th...
This thesis explores ways in which Second World War food shortages, rationing, and propaganda affect...
Cookbooks have been used to impart domestic advice and nationalism to their readers for centuries. A...
In 1917, with warfare disrupting food imports, the British government opened a network of centrally ...
In 1917, with warfare disrupting food imports, the British Ministry of Food announced the opening of...
This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first ...
This dissertation is about the movement for food reform in Great Britain before and during the First...
Rationing measures in force in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the Second World War in Dece...
This project argues that British women writers of the 1930s and 1940s adapted state-supported discou...
This dissertation explores on three levels the meanings of food and women\u27s experiences with food...
Themes of rationing, scarcity and frugality have become increasingly prominent in UK food discourses...
Public awareness of food poisoning developed significantly in Britain in the 1940s with a rise in re...
This thesis provides a narrative history of the story told about food consumption, food waste, and f...
In the latter stages of the First World War a vast network of state-sponsored communal restaurants h...
In the latter stages of the First World War a vast network of state-sponsored communal restaurants h...
The practice of controlling food supplies has existed since ancient times—driven by urbanization, th...
This thesis explores ways in which Second World War food shortages, rationing, and propaganda affect...
Cookbooks have been used to impart domestic advice and nationalism to their readers for centuries. A...
In 1917, with warfare disrupting food imports, the British government opened a network of centrally ...
In 1917, with warfare disrupting food imports, the British Ministry of Food announced the opening of...
This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first ...
This dissertation is about the movement for food reform in Great Britain before and during the First...
Rationing measures in force in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the Second World War in Dece...
This project argues that British women writers of the 1930s and 1940s adapted state-supported discou...
This dissertation explores on three levels the meanings of food and women\u27s experiences with food...
Themes of rationing, scarcity and frugality have become increasingly prominent in UK food discourses...
Public awareness of food poisoning developed significantly in Britain in the 1940s with a rise in re...
This thesis provides a narrative history of the story told about food consumption, food waste, and f...