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‘Ministry of Food’ exhibition at the Imperial War Museum: part 1

I’m a bit of an early bird by all accounts but springing out of bed at 4am is not an every day occurrence.  Neither was the invitation that prompted it:  the chance to attend the press event for the new ‘Ministry of Food’ exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.  The exhibition opens to the public today to mark the 70th anniversary of the introduction of food rationing in wartime Britain and explores the stories of ordinary men, women and children who supported the war effort by growing their own vegetables, reducing waste and being resourceful in the kitchen.

‘This is a food war.  Every extra row of vegetables in allotments saves shipping… the battle on the kitchen front cannot be won without help from the kitchen garden. (Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, 1941)

If you enjoy reading about my gardening exploits, culinary experiments and the people on my plot I’ve no doubt you’ll be inspired by a visit to the exhibition.  My camera is full of photos, my notepad full of scribbles but I don’t know where to start with picking out highlights to share from the exhibition.  So I’m going to leave the telling of the story of the exhibition to the experts for now (anyway, I wouldn’t be posting at all if I didn’t think it was brilliant).  The Museum’s Ministry of Food blog is a treasure trove of gardening and cooking tips from the 1940’s, archive film clips and posters from the original ‘Dig for Victory’ and ‘Kitchen Front’ campaigns.  And here’s Richard Moss’s press review of our morning at the museum!

Was it favouritism or envy that kept drawing me back to the 1940’s greenhouse?

Housewives queued daily at Greengrocers shops like this to get their food rations .  ‘‘It is hysteria for some people – whenever they see a long queue they just join on the end” (Mass Observation Report, Hull 1941)

Advice for ‘growing your own‘, as relevant today as 70 years ago and encouragement for staying healthy on a more frugal vegetable based diet.

‘Cabbage does remarkable work in clearing the complexion, making cheeks pink, lips red and infusing you with fascinating vitality‘. (Ministry of Food ad, Sept 1944)

If you’d like to visit The Ministry of Food exhibition you have plenty of time.  It’s open until 3 January 2011 and it’s well worth making a day of it to look round the rest of the museum (who’s been wondering what to do with the kids in half-term next week?).  I didn’t get to see everything but I particularly enjoyed nosing around the reconstruction of an entire 1940’s house, was surprised by how small the air raid shelters were and crept my way through the dark and terrible trenches! 

ps. more to follow about war time stories gathered from some lovely people I met at the museum and thrifty ways to feed your family.  We were also treated to some nibbly recreations of war time recipes using the beloved potato to replace rationed ingredients.  Daniel, the Chef from Company of Cooks who are running the museum’s Kitchen Front Cafe for the duration of the exhibition, kindly talked me through the making of mock goose so have a read for the recreation of a wartime cook up in our house.

© images used with permission from the Imperial War Museum

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25 comments

  • Gillie
    February 12, 2010

    What a wonderful exhibition! If I get home this year it will be on my list. Brought back many memories of visiting the Museum on my lunch hour – I worked just up the road in Lambeth in the FCO during the sixties!

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  • miss m
    February 12, 2010

    Oh, I love this stuff ! The exhibition looks been fab. Is it worth a plane ticket, do you think ? 😛

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  • Jules
    February 12, 2010

    Looks like a wonderful exhibition. I’m glad it’s on so long so hopefully I’ll get to visit.

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  • Matron
    February 13, 2010

    I particularly liked the Womens Land Army uniform! That was like it was new, someone had taken great care of that. It brought all those black and white photos to life to see it in full colour! If I was around then I would have loved to have been a ‘land girl’!

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  • Ann
    February 13, 2010

    Very interesting, I enjoyed this post and find anything about the war time kitchen and garden/allotment fascinating. Maybe I’ll get to go and see it for myself. I was making a model of a wartime kitchen, perhaps I’ll get it finished this year.

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  • Nip it in the bud
    February 13, 2010

    Gillie – glad to have filled you with happy thoughts of home x

    Miss M – London certainly would be for all it’s fantastic free museums. And my allotment would be worth it {grin} – be sure to visit Gloucester if you get on a plan bound for Englang :o)

    Jules – you won’t regret it

    Matron – the pictures of artefacts alongside action photos was really moving. I really wanted to post a couple but didn’t fancy the Getty bill for breaching copyright if I did! Kids with carrots ring a bell?

    Ann – I’m pleased you enjoyed it. I have some pictures of the replica 1940s kitchen I can send you. I shall think of you when I write the next few posts about the wartime recipes we sampled.

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  • Johanna GGG
    February 13, 2010

    I am sorry to say I never visited this museum on my visits to london – I wish I could see this exhibit but I doubt I will be there during the time is is on display. Ah well it is good to see your post at least – I love the quote about queuing – is that an insight into the british psyche 🙂

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  • Bilbo
    February 13, 2010

    Great post, glad you felt better and were able to attend. Although the greenhouse is lovely, I don’t think you would have liked all the chemicals which were considered essential back then.

    No such thing as coincidence? This week Mrs Pao sent me some goodies including a “Doctor Carrot” card.

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  • Jasmin
    February 13, 2010

    So pleased you made the visit. It looks like a really well thought-through exhibition. At the moment it looks like I’ve been stealing everyone else’s rations so I’ll save this for the Summer I think! x

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  • Mrs Green @ myzerowaste.com
    February 13, 2010

    Sounds absolutely wonderful. I really miss the Robert Opie collection that used to be in GLoucester. The photos of your tins remind me of that 🙂

    Glad you had a good time.

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  • Tom Hayward
    February 13, 2010

    That is the time in America when we were all using DDT as an insecticide in our gardens. Come to think of it (bird population withstanding) it is still probably the best insect control ever invented.

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  • maria v
    February 14, 2010

    looking forward to seeing this soon!

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  • mangocheeks
    February 14, 2010

    Wonderful, insightful and colourful post Nic.

    If I head in that direction before January 2011, it will be high on my list to dos.

    Thank you so much for sharing. I look forward to reading the more 😀

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  • maria v
    February 15, 2010

    i forgot to ask – are you allowed to take photos and post them (i would like to do this myself during my visit)

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  • Nip it in the bud
    February 15, 2010

    Johanna – queuing is definitely in the British blood!

    Bilbo – I can imagine. The most ardent fans of industrial bug killer on our allotment site are the old boys.
    I do love a tale of synchronicity

    Jas – it’s well worth a visit. You and your bump are allowed extras although babies these days are probably glad not to have cod liver oil poured down their neck

    Mrs Green – it was a real shame when the collection moved. I think I saw it as a child but probably didn’t appreciate it’s historical value then.

    Tom – the vanishing of the bees film I posted about recently suggests strong chemicals such as pesticides is the primary cause of CCD in bees. Sadly chemicals are not very discerning when it comes to destroying insect foes or friends in the garden.

    Maria – we were allowed to take photos but some of the artefacts in the collection do not belong to the museum so I ran my photos past Lisa the museums press officer before posting. There are some amazing black and white Getty images and I was particularly gutted not to be able to post one of them. I’ve since seen it on someone else’s site but I didn’t fancy the bill that would follow if found to be breaching copyright! I’ll ask Lisa to post a comment in response to your question too.

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  • Jesse
    February 16, 2010

    Great post, Nic, and thanks for the kind comments everyone!

    You can definitely take photos of the exhibition for personal use. If you’re planning on putting those photos online or publishing them in print, we ask that you please check with the Press Officer at IWM London first. Her name is Lisa Glanville, and she can be reached at 020 7416 5311 or lglanville [at] iwm [dot] org [dot] uk. Thanks!

    Jesse, IWM Web Editor

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  • maria v
    February 16, 2010

    thanks awfully – i am simply interested in getting a feel of the place ratehr than photographing specific images

    looking forwward to reading part 2 of your visit (shall be there in about four weeks time)

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  • Choclette
    February 18, 2010

    Fantastic post Nic, really interesting. This has even tempted me into thinking of a London trip AND that is something. So glad you had a good day.

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  • john
    September 13, 2010

    Anyone know when Dr Carrot first appeared on the scene?

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    • Nip it in the bud
      September 13, 2010

      Hi John, the Ministry of Food campaigns came into play with the introduction of food rationing on 8th January 1940. Doctor Carrot, the children’s best friend, wasn’t introduced until January 1942 though when there was a surplus of carrots (100,000 tonnes) to shift. If you were hoping for a more definitive date than that The Imperial War Museum may be able to help you.
      Otherwise there’s not a lot you don’t know about carrots judging by a little browse around your website!

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      • john
        September 13, 2010

        Thanks, I am going tomorrow! clearly there are some discrepancies because The Times had Dr Carrot adverts appearing in 1941. I think you will find it was tons of carrots.

        Thanks for the compliment, it’s the result of 10 years work!

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  • Nip it in the bud
    September 13, 2010

    the 100,000 tonnes figure and date was from the Ministry of food cookbook that was launched with the exhibition (p.146). You’ll be in the right place to check it out tomorrow then. Enjoy the exhibition if you’ve not been before.

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  • john
    September 14, 2010

    Sadly there are several incorrect “facts” in that publication.
    The UK did not use tonnes in 1945.
    No, not been to the exhibit before but really visiting to take the opportiunity to spend a couple of days in the archives and try nail this one. My real investigation is associated with the Disney cartoons. Walt Disney sent a Dr Carrot (amongst others) but I beliieve Lord Wooltin had already dreamt up that one.

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    October 12, 2013

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My dear friend @karon_therapies will be working this weekend at LFW gifting her care and love in her massages and I know what a treat the models are in for. 
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If you'd like to try skin food body butter or any other products I look forward to hearing from you.  You don't have to buy a whole jar if you'd like to #trybeforeyoubuy - I have sample sachets here.  If you already know how much you love SF body butter I can order for local friends or you can buy online here 
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https://www.weleda-advisor.co.uk/shop/nicmoorey/product/106061/Skin+Food+Body+Butter+150ml
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Postage is free over £45 and when your basket reaches £60 a free Love shower wash worth £8.25 will automatically be added.  Happy browsing x
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#weledalove #skinfoodie #skinfoodbodybutter #LFW #loveyourskin #naturalingredients  #organicskincare
I'm full of cautionary tales at the moment! After I'm full of cautionary tales at the moment!  After last week's food poisoning story, my example this week of putting knowledge into practice is with burns.  I'm sharing this not so much to sing the praises of the products I use but in the hope that you may never need to use them by not getting burned in the first place! 
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I was having a lovely bath last night with candles lit in glass jars while reading my book.  After about an hour I was just thinking about getting out when I heard a pop and crack and a scorching hot piece of glass landed on me.  I shot up and it fell into the water and I realised one of the candle glasses was broken.  I hadn't noticed that the wax inside was pooling on one side so the heat from it was in direct contact with the glass.  It obviously got too hot for the glass to handle. 
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I leapt into action to first cool the skin but it's not so easy to run your torso under a tap for 10 minutes like you would a hand!  So I got dressed and used a wrapped ice pack.  I applied lavender essential oil to the burn and took the homeopathic remedy Cantharis.  I went to bed with my ice pack and applied the lavender oil a couple more times in the night when I woke.  In the morning I applied combudoron ointment which is a blend of arnica and nettles to help with the sting and heat.  Today I've hardly noticed it - it's only sore if I touch it so I'm not!  I don't think it's going to blister and I'm happy the skin beneath is intact.  I'm supremely grateful it's a burn I'm dealing with and not a cut from flying glass. 
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Have you heard of using lavender essential oil to treat burns?  It's one of only two essential oils you can apply to the skin neat (the other is tea tree) and it's where the art of aromatherapy is said to begin.  In 1910 a French chemist called Gattefosse was badly burned on his hands when a glass flask he was using exploded.  He saw miraculous healing of his burns, with no subsequent scarring, when he applied lavender oil.  He became even more resolved to continue his experiments extracting essential oils.  Thank goodness he did so that we have amazing knowledge of how plant oils can heal.
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#aromatherapyoils #naturalfirstaid
We've been married for 23 years and have never rea We've been married for 23 years and have never really gone in for celebrating Valentines Day.  We've always chosen time together over gifts. As we get older and couple time is more rare I completely love the unconditional love of small gestures.  Like running the bath for me and knowing what I like added to it.  Making me a cup of tea.  Getting me ice packs to relieve a migraine.  All love tokens that cost nothing but mean so much
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I know some people put a lot of care into coming up with new gift ideas each year which is beautiful.  For others buying something they know their partner already loves is the ultimate "I love you and I know you love this so I don't want you to run out". 
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If I can help with any gift ideas do let me know.  I have beautiful Weleda oils and lotions in stock from our signature ranges of wild rose, pomegranate, seabuckthorn and citrus.  I have wellbeing vouchers for Aromatherapy treatments and can put together gift sets according to your budget with a mix of Weleda products and Tisserand or Amphora Aromatics aromatherapy gifts. 
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ps. I know Valentines Day can be hard for people without someone to share it with, if that's what they'd like.  I'm sending you love and have samples I'm happy to gift you if you'd like to give yourself some love this week x
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#valentinesgifts #loveyourself #loveyourbody #practicingselfcare #naturalwellbeing #galantines #weledawellbeingadvisor
I'm planning dates for wellness circles in March a I'm planning dates for wellness circles in March and what better time than in National Feet Week. Would you like to join me?  If you've been before you're always welcome again - bring a friend this time 💚
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I'd you've not been before, what can you expect? 
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💚 a relaxing foot bath using Weleda's arnica muscle soak or soothing epsom salts
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💚 a guided meditation while soaking feet
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💚 TLC for feet using birch scrub and organic body washes followed by reflexology massage using organic body oils
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💚 Soothing hard working dry areas on feet with cooling foot balm
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Fancy it?  Gift yourself an hour (+30 mins to chat over a cuppa) and let me know which day you are free.  Sessions have worked best in the past straight from school run 9.30-11am so you still have the rest of the day.  An afternoon pre school run option is also available from 1.30-3pm if there is demand for it.  If enough people are interested I am willing to chill with you for the whole of National Feet Week (Mon 7th - Sat 12th March)! 
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#nationalfeetweek #naturalwellbeing #holistichealth #wearenature #mindbodyspirit #tlcforfeet
I'm beginning to feel a bit more human after poiso I'm beginning to feel a bit more human after poisoning myself with way-past-it mushrooms yesterday!  I'm so grateful for my  natural remedies in times of need.  And especially thankful for this simple homeopathy guide when my head is too fuzzy from sickness to think straight! 
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I was so sick yesterday and while nausea can make you really sensitive to smells, particularly food ones, I always find comfort in the fragrances I know and love.  So as I turned in for bed I still massaged a little wild rose oil into my neck and shoulders. My peppermint oil supported me through the drilling headache. And this morning's bath was accompanied by my Reiki incense.  Aromas are so evocative and soothing in times of need! 
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What helps you when you're sick? 
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#naturalremedies #homeopathicfirstaid #weledalove #wearenature
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