Rationing - this is one persons rations for a full week during WW2. Would you be able to survive on this?
A ration book in WW2
This is one persons ration for one week in ww2.
People queued for a long time for food.
People had to queue for rations.
People queued along the street.
Here is a shopkeeper wrapping up some rations.
Rationing This short film explains rationing in simple terms. The notion of rationing and food shortages offers a glimpse of a world that pupils may not be familiar with.
Rationing - A Soldiers DaughterSarah was a child in Bolton during World War Two. With family friend Tyler, she remembers the outbreak of the war and the effect that rationing had on family meals.
Interactive game - rationingFood rationing started in January 1940, four months after the start of World War Two. It ran for the next 14 years and changed our eating habits for more than a generation.
Horrible Histories®: Rotten Rationing Big Picture Show
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