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Menu Card for Claridges Restaurant - just after WW2 with rationing still in force, however Lobster is (thankfully..) still on the menu!!! 11th March 1946. Date: 1946
Cartoon, The meat card, WW1Cartoon, The meat card. When a cook is unable to obtain seven cutlets for her employers seven dinner guests, they are all instructed to bring their own cutlet. Date: 1917
Cartoon, Playing cards, WW1Cartoon, Playing cards. Two old men at a table in a cafe play a game of cards (piquet) with their food rationing cards, which are normally used for buying meat, bread, coal and sugar. Date: 1917
Oatmeal on ScalesOatmeal is a valuable addition to your everyday diet. It may be used in place of a proportion of the flour in most of your favourite recipies, scones, pastry etc. Date: 1940s
Celanese Nightgown 1944A glamorous yet inexpensive nightgown in Celeanese artificial silk, makes good use of coupons. This model has a softly gathered bodice, gored skirt & ribbon bow trim Date: 1944
Cartoon, French street market, WW1Cartoon, French street market. A woman and stallholder chat about the war and food rationing while a stray dog steals a fish. Date: 1917
Modelling utility fashionsFour girls modelling utility fashions during the Second World War. Date: 1942
Utility travelling coat, 1941Advertisement for a Utility coat in Llama, camel or tweed, manufactured by Harris Cohen of Oxford Street and available from leading fashion stores around the country. Date: 1941
Celanese utility slip, 1943 - WWII fashionAdvertisement for Utility lingerie made from Celanese, 1943. Date: 1943
Utility floral coverall, 1943 - WWII fashionA Utility coverall from Peter Robinsons of Oxford Street, one of a variety available in many materials and colours. Coveralls protected clothing
Utility bib and braces, 1943 - WWII fashionA pair of bib and braces (dungarees) for women in navy drill, part of a range of Utility clothing available from Peter Robinsons of Oxford Street, procured for three coupons
Utility coat, 1942A coat of soft dove grey piped with scarlet featuring broad shoulders, loose sleeves and useful pockets - part of a number of examples of Utility models exhibition at the International Wool
Communal Kitchens, WWI by Will OwenCartoon by Will Owen, a humorous comment on the rise of the communal kitchen, introduced during the First World War as a way of providing war workers and the poor with nourishing meals
Wartime Hunting - a day with the suburban hounds (rationing)Humorous drawing by H. H. Harris commenting on rationing in Britain in 1918 using the metaphor of hunting. Lord Rhondda, who served as Food Controller, is Master of the Hounds
Food Economy Campaign, WWI - Canning ApplesWomen canning apples on the home front during the First World War. In 1917, prior to rationing, a food economy campaign urged the public to save food and cook frugally. 1917
Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks outCartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918
Ration cards belonging to the King and Queen during WWIRation cards belonging to King George V and Queen Mary during World War One Date: 1914-18
WW2 Christmas card, looking forward to peacetime. Date: circa 1942
WW2 Christmas card, clothes rationingWW2 Christmas card, comment on clothes rationing. Date: circa 1942
WW2 Christmas card, The Weeks RationWW2 Christmas card, showing a butcher in his shop, a reproduction of a painting entitled The Weeks Ration. The verse inside reads: When we queue for our chop in the butchers shop
WW2 Christmas card, wartime restrictionsWW2 Christmas card. Whats in the Post this Morning? Rationing and other wartime restrictions. Date: circa 1942
Romance - 1917 by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon" Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (Engaged). Cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing a couple locked in an embrace having agreed to get engaged
Graphic front cover - Sir Arthur YappSir Arthur Yapp (1869-1936), Deputy President of the YMCA and Director of Food Economy during the First World War. Responsible for encouraging the nation towards frugal
WW1 Oxo advertisementAdvertisement for Oxo suggesting Oxo and potato cakes as a delicious (and economical) luncheon during the First World War. Date: 1918
Mr Asquiths Wolseley Landaulette with gas container, WW1Ex-Prime Minister Herbert Asquiths Wolseley Landaulette motor car equipped with the Lyon-Spencer gas container on its roof
Typical menu at a communal kitchen, WW1A blackboard showing a typical menu at a communal kitchen in 1918. Communal and National Kitchens were established to help combat food shortages during the First World War by catering in bulk
Daily rations for enemy prisoners of war in England, WW1A table displaying the rations given to enemy prisoners of war interned in England during the First World War. The picture was taken at a POW camp in Leigh, Lancashire and shows 1 1/2 lb of bred
J C Vickery sugar boxes, WW1 rationingAdvertisement for J. C. Vickery and their silver sugar boxes, a convenient receptacle for taking sugar to restaurants and cafes when rationing came into force during the latter stages of the First
Rationing of Food, February 1918, WW1Page from The Sphere reporting on the introduction of food rationing of meat and butter in London and Home Counties on 25 February 1918
Restaurant restrictions during WW1Article from The Sphere demonstrating the new wartime lunch and dinner restrictions put in place in restaurants and hotels
The first National Kitchen, WW1The first National Kitchen in Britain, opened on 21 May 1917 by Queen Mary. The National Kitchens were opened during the First World War to provide one solution to food shortages
Great Food Demonstration on Embankment, London, WW1A procession organised by the National Union of Railwaymen who marched to Hyde Park in order to demonstrate against rising food prices during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
Food shortages, WW1London society finds that the only topic of conversation in 1918 is food, rationing and what there is available to eat. An illustration by Annie Fish to accompany the Letters of Eve gossip column in
Eve talks to Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, WW1Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine, lectures Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller during the latter part of the First World War, on the fact that his economy campaign
Society dinner party in wartime, WW1Illustration to accompany the Letters of Eve gossip column in The Tatler, showing a society dinner party, with guests wrapped in furs against the cold
Allinson wholemeal bread advertisement, WW1Advertisement for Allinson wholemeal bread from the First World War, a period when the nation was encouraged to eat wholemeal, rather than white, bread. Date: 1918
A week of food required for the German Army, WW1A scale drawing giving an impression of the volume of food needed to feed the German Army for one week during the First World War compared to the spires of Cologne Cathedral. Date: 1914
Lord and Lady RhonddaDavid Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda (1856-1918), Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who served at Food Controller at the Ministry of Food towards the end of the First World War
War Time Pudding with Oxo, 1918Advertisement for Oxo from the First World War, suggesting that the versatile stock cube could help out your meat ration. A new Oxo dish prepared by an unidentified celebrated chef
Baking your own bread, WW1First World War advertisement from the British Commercial Gas Association, suggesting that, with the reduction in the number of bakers throughout the country
The Food Problem, WW1 cartoon by FishProfessor of Economics (to Hostess): Pardon! - my bread, I believe. Polite society begin to squablle over portions as food shortages take hold in the latter part of the First World War. Date: 1917
Advert for Kooksjoie range cooker 1918Kooksjoie range cooker, from the London Warming and Ventilating Co. Ltd, a behemoth of a thing, whose manufacturers promise it consumes just half a ton of coal per month
Weekly food ration for one person 1946Weekly rationed food post Second World War in Britain. Bread and vegetables where unrationed, tins where obtained by points. Date: 1946
Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. DavisYour fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided
Petrol rations and oil tankers by G. H. DavisPetrol rations and oil tankers: an analysis for car owners during the Second World War. A diagrammatic explanation setting out the relative basic petrol allowances for private cars for August
Food rationing comparison by G. H. DavisFood rationing in Great Britain during the two World Wars: a comparison of the periods 1917-1920 and 1940-1946. The chief topic of conversation today -- food
Knitting pattern 1943Warm wool lies... Vest and pants for the long winter evenings. A 1940s knitting pattern providing instructions on how to make a womans vest and pants
Knitting pattern 1945A 1940s knitting pattern providing instructions on how to make a step in slip. With the onset of World War Two and the introduction of rationing