Wartime Farm
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During World War Two Britain had to look to the land to provide the produce it had previously shipped in from abroad, meaning huge changes on both the agricultural and domestic scenes. Accompanying an 8-part BBC series and written by the three presenters who spend a year living on a…
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It wasn’t just the cities that felt the hard hand of self-imposed totalitarianism in the UK during World War II. Oh, no, the farms as well were brought into line, as they really had to be, to enable the British to eat without having reliable supplies coming by sea.
This book, which was also a BBC television series, involves three moderns, two men and a woman, all historians or archeologists, taking over an old and somewhat run-down farm and trying to run it using what was available, and enduring what was imposed, during the Second World War.
It is a…
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