The 1950s were polished on the surface, but daily life was packed with practices that would draw raised eyebrows today.

MUSKEGON: On Saturday, July 5, the Muskegon Heritage Museum of Business and Industry invites visitors to step back into the 1940s and experience life on the home front during World ...

A lifelong Guildford resident has shared her experiences of rationing after the Second World War came to an end. While May 5 marked the 80th anniversary of the war's end in Europe, many are mistaken ...

Rationing during the Second World War lasted for 14 years, from 1940 until 1954. Ration books were issued by the Ministry of Food. Petrol was the first commodity to be rationed followed by just ...

The Ministry of Food was responsible for overseeing rationing. Every man, woman and child was given a ration book with coupons. These were required before rationed goods could be purchased.

A delicious cake in one hand, a page of rationing stamps in the other. Swans Down cake flour was a product of the Igleheart Brothers Mills of Evanston, Indiana created in 1894.

Farmer shares 'ration books' fear as Rachel Reeves could kill 'over half of British farms' The Chancellor's inheritance tax could force a huge amount of family farms to go out of business, experts ...

Soon every U.S. citizen will have his first wartime rationing book: a folder of 28 stamps, each good for one week's ration (probably ¾ Ib.) of sugar. Housewives will get their books at ...

Fact File : Ration Books Introduced. 8 January 1940 Location: Britain Players: Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food Outcome: National expenditure could be diverted to the war effort and food could ...