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During the First World War (1914 to 1918), queues for food became dangerously long. Consequently, a Ministry of Food was created in 1916 to help with the home front food situation. Rationing was introduced starting with sugar in December 1917, then with meat and butter in February 1918. The...
Germany in the nineteen fifties was being quickly reconstructed, unlike London, which was still awaiting repair. Although cities like Köln were still devastated, much was underway elsewhere. Unlike England, where food rationing was still a recent memory, eating out was a real treat, particularly ...
for that regiment, on disbandment at the conclusion of the War of 1812, established a settlement at Richmond near Ottawa. From the sons of these ex-soldiers the 100th Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian Regiment was recruited at the time of the Indian Mutiny. The Regiment had its depot in C...
The hostile natives refused to sell food. Weeks grew into months. The faithful fellows realised they were carrying Livingstone to his grave. At last they reached a friendly village, where they built a hut for their master. One night they saw him on his knees beside his rough bed. The next...
The House of Industry store was initially placed within a stone building abutting the entrance gate of the LJS compound, opening out towards the main street which proceeded into the Old City from Jaffa Gate (Fig.5). Marketing itself as the “L.J.S. Industrial Depot”, the hand-painted si...
The Ministry of Food also created secret food depot warehouses throughout the country in which it stockpiled food in the event of invasion. This was unknown to the wider population. Reliance on allies for food supplies A food commodities report from mid-1943 shows the reliance of the wartime ...