These were required before rationed goods could be purchased. In this video, Dan Snow experiences some of the food options for those on the home front in Britain during the Second World War.

Food rationing had to be introduced in 1942 because ... 300,000 British soldiers were killed in the Second World War, and 15,000 of those were Welsh. One of the main impacts of the Blitz was ...

‘The arrival of the food parcel was a red-letter day in our family. Much of the contents I had never heard of before let alone eaten. There was tinned peaches, coffee, tea, chocolate, tinned beans and ...

But a re-examination found it to be "the extremely rare assault rations of the Second World War", the museum said. Its contents include chocolate, biscuits, tea and four pieces of toilet paper.

In Lee, director Ellen Kuras brings to life the world of British Vogue in the late ... will survive even margarine coupons… You cannot ration a sense of style.” Indeed, even at the height of the war, ...

Most war correspondents don’t become household names, but as the Second World War raged ... surviving on cold rations for weeks, piloting an aircraft through flak day after day after day.

Sugar rationing during and after the second world war seems to have improved the health of people conceived in the UK at the time, cutting their risk of developing type 2 diabetes and high blood ...

tell the story of the women’s resourcefulness and artistic capacities in the face of the war’s rationing and shortages. During the Second World War, Canadian women made an estimated 400,000 ...