New Exhibition Shows how British Public Adapted to a World of Food Shortages

LONDON.- Seventy years ago the wartime government announced the introduction of food rationing – a control that was to remain in force for the next fourteen years. To mark this event Imperial War Museum London opened The Ministry of Food, a major new exhibition to show how the British public adapted to a world of food shortages by ‘Lending a Hand on the Land’, ‘Digging for Victory’, taking up the ‘War on Waste’, and being both frugal and inventive on [...]