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Food Vigilance Committees
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Food Vigilance Committees
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Saturday, 14 February 2026
One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 5 living through the Great War
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Our house in 2014 The centenary of the Progress Estate has long passed. Now we can lay claim to about thirty of those 100 years havin...
Saturday, 7 November 2020
Another side to life on the Home Front in Manchester during the Great War
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“This meeting views with grave concern the enormous rise in the price of foodstuffs and coal, which is equivalent to a considerable red...
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Burrowing deep into the Great War ................the War Emergency Workers National Committee
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Women munition workers Belsize works, Openshaw, 1918 Yesterday I was thinking back to one of those mornings which for me was pretty n...
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Thursday, 6 July 2017
Snapshots of the Great War nu 1 ..... “If a farmer or milk dealer was selling milk at 4d per quart on Nov 15 1914 is he entitled to charge 6d per qt now?”......
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During 1915 and into 1916 the cost of living continued to rise while some foods became in even shorter supply. In the February of 1916 ...
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