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Child's ration book, used during the Second World War. Emergency supplies for the 4 million people expected to be evacuated were delivered to destination centres by August 1939, and 50 million ration books were already printed and distributed. [11] When World War II began in September 1939, petrol was the first commodity to be controlled.
Civilian rationing: A shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a British housewife's ration book in 1943 18 February 1943 The House of Commons votes, 335 to 119, against a Labour amendment demanding the creation of a Social Security Ministry and immediate implementation of the Beveridge report.
The Economics of World War II (Cambridge UP, 1998). Hughes, J. R. T. "Financing the British War Effort," Journal of Economic History (1958) 18#2 pp. 193–199 in JSTOR; Pollard, Sidney. The development of the British economy, 1914-1967 (2nd ed. 1969) pp 297–355; broad coverage of all major economic topics.
Rationing had become the norm in the U.K., and the royal family was not exempt. Determined to get her dream dress, Elizabeth, who was just a princess at the time, saved up clothing coupons in ...
A British Restaurant in Woolmore Street, Poplar, London, in 1942. British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 during the Second World War to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. [1] [2] In 1943, 2,160 British Restaurants served 600,000 very inexpensive meals a ...
Child's ration book. 1 January – World War II: Britain calls up 2,000,000 19- to 27-year-olds for military service. 3 January – Unity Mitford, daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and fervent admirer of Adolf Hitler, having attempted suicide, returns to England from Germany (via Switzerland); she is carried down the gangplank of the cross-channel ferry at Folkestone on a ...
Indeed, food rationing was a major success story in Britain's war. [ 4 ] In the dark days of late June 1940, with a German invasion threatened, Woolton reassured the public that emergency food stocks were in place that would last "for weeks and weeks" even if the shipping could not get through.
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