How the Pershore Plum Won the Great War (eBook)

Professor Maggie Andrews, Jenni Waugh (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | 1. Auflage
128 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6908-6 (ISBN)

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The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the lives of the people of Pershore and the surrounding district in wartime, drawing on their memories, letters, postcards, photographs, leaflets and recipes to demonstrate how their hard work in cultivating and preserving fruit and vegetables helped to win the Great War. Pershore plums were used to make jam for the troops; but ensuring these and other fruits and vegetables were grown and harvested required the labour of land girls, Boy Scouts, schoolchildren, Irish labourers and Belgian refugees. When submarine warfare intensified, food shortages occurred and it became vital for Britain to grow more and eat less food. Housewives faced many challenges in feeding their families and so in 1916 the Pershore Women's Institute was formed, providing many women with practical help and companionship during some of Britain's darkest hours in history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 1916 • belgian refugees • Boy Scouts • cultivating fruit • cultivating vegetables • eat less • Farmers • farming • First World War • food shortages • fruit and vegetables • grow food • Harvesting Fruit • harvesting plums • Housewife • housewives • irish labourers • JAM • |jam for the troops • jam for the troops, harvesting fruit, harvesting plums, labour, land girls, boy scouts, schoolchildren, irish labourers, Belgian refugees, submarine war, food shortages, grow food, eat less, housewives, housewife, 1916, pershore women’s institute, WI, womens institute, women’s history • jams • Labour • Land Girls • leaflets • Letters • Memories • pershore • pershore plums • pershore women’s institute • Photographs • Postcards • preserves • preserving fruit • preserving vegetables • Recipes • Schoolchildren • submarine war • The Great War • the home front • The home front, pershore, Worcestershire, wartime, memories, letters, postcards, photographs, leaflets, recipes, preserving fruit, preserving vegetables, preserves, jams, jam, recipes, cultivating fruit, cultivating vegetables, fruit and vegetables, farmers, farming, the great war, pershore plums, • wartime • WI • women in history, world war one, world war 1, world war I, first world war, ww1, wwi • women’s history|women in history • womens institute • Worcestershire • World War 1 • World War I • World War One • WW1 • wwi
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-6908-3 / 0750969083
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-6908-6 / 9780750969086