England’s Reliance on Imported Food
Many of the documents relating to the food supply in time of war crisis indicate that a central concern was England’s reliance on imported food. One newspaper clipping suggests that Britain would be ...
Grow your own wheat!
Amongst the pamphlets relating to England's food supply during war is a cutting ‘reprinted from the Sussex Daily News’ dated Monday March 2nd 1903 entitled ‘Our Food Supply in Time of War’. The reprint ...
Inflation causing Starvation
A pamphlet entitled ‘Our Food-Supply in Time of War’ by Rear Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald reprinted from Blackwoods Magazine in February 1903 indicates that inflation caused by a dearth in imported ...
Prohibition on Illegal Butter
Amongst the papers relating to England’s food supply in time of war are pamphlets refering to a Parliamentary Bill ‘to amend the law with regard to the sale of adulterated butter’.
The Bill appears ...
The Mansion House Committee and the Controversy over Corn
Many of the newspaper cuttings and booklets relating to England’s food supply concern imported Corn, particularly the ‘abolition of registration fees on imported corn’.
One document from the Leicestershire ...
What can the Documents tell us about Public Opinion of the Food Supply Crisis?
Documents in the Sutherland Collection suggest that concern over England’s food supply in time of war was a prominent public issue in the early twentieth century.
The pamphlet above entitled ‘Labour ...
Why did the Duke establish an association concerned with food supply?
The documents relating to the work of the Association provide a detailed insight into the motivation behind its foundation. A booklet about the Association states that following ‘the War in South Africa’:
‘recent ...