Authors: Julie Summers
Milburn, Jack
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Ministry of Agriculture
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Ministry of Food
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Ministry of Health
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Ministry of Information
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Ministry of Supply
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Ministry of Transport
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Mobberley WI
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Moore, Betty
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Moore, Miss (
Home & Country
editor)
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Morland and Newby WI
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Morris, Hilary
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Muller Rowland, Mrs
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Munro, Miss
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Murphy, Mrs
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National Executive
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National Federation of Women’s Institutes
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Women’s Institute (WI)
National Gallery
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national insurance
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National Savings Scheme
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Netherbury WI
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Netley Marsh WI
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Neville-Smith, Mrs
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Ningwood and Shalfleet WI
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Norcott, Sybil
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Norfolk County Federation
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Norman, Mrs
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Northumberland County Federation
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Norton and Lenchwick WI
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Norway
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Nugent Harris, John
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Nugent Harris, Mrs
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Old Felixstowe WI
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Old Warden WI
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Oliver, Linda
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onion growing
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Operation Barbarossa
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Operation Pied Piper
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overseas evacuation
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Oxford Medicinal Plants Scheme
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Oxfordshire County Federation
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paper
rationing
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waste paper collections
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Parfree, Peg
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Pearl Harbor
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Perkins, Miss C.
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Personal Service League
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petrol rationing
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black market petrol
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civilian allowances
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impact on WI markets
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user categories
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WI key worker allowances
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Pick, Mrs
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Pilgrim Trust
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Plymouth
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Post Office
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potash
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potato dishes
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poultry-keeping
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Prance, Anne
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Pratt, Edwin
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Preston Patrick and Preston Richard WI
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prisoners of war
escape kits
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local POWs
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parcels
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Produce Guild
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Puddephats Farm, Hertfordshire
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Pulborough
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Pulborough WI
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Quaker members
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Quarry WI
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rationing
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clothes
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clothes rationing
end of
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evacuees and
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food
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food rationing
paper
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petrol
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ration books
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restrictions on production of non-essential goods
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ratting
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Reading, Dowager Marchioness of
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Rearsby WI
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reconstruction, planning for
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Reculver WI
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Red Cross
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Redlynch and District WI
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Reeves, Mrs
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refugees
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Richardson, Geoffrey
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Richardson, Peter
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Ridgeway, Jean
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Ringmer WI
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Robertson Scott, J.W.
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Rockcliffe, Stephen
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
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rosehip collections for rosehip syrup
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Royal College of Nursing
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rural Britain
agricultural depression
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cooperative agricultural societies
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housing survey
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living standards and conditions
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resistance to change
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wartime pressures on
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water and sewerage
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Rural District Pie Scheme
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Rural Housing (Hobhouse) Committee
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rush work
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Sackville West, Vita
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St Catherine’s WI
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salvage collection
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bone salvage scheme
Sambrook WI
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Sargent, Malcolm
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Saunders, Miss
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Schofield, Stella
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schools
boarding schools
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evacuation
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rural schools
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school leaving age
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uniforms
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water and sewerage supplies
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education
Scott Report
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Scottish Rural Women’s Institute
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Seamen’s Missions
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Second World War
Battle of Britain
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Blitz
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Blitzkrieg
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civilian casualties
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D-Day landings
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Dunkirk evacuation
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end of
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fall of France
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invasion threat
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mobilisation
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Operation Barbarossa
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outbreak
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Pearl Harbor
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Phoney War
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return of servicemen and women
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Singapore, fall of
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secret ballots
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Sevenhampton WI
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sewing
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knitting and sewing
Sharnbrook WI
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Sheffield
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Shere WI
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Shrewsbury market
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Shropshire County Federation
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Simpkins, Joan
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Sims, Mrs
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Singapore, fall of
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Singleton WI
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Sitwell family
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Sixpenny Handley
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Skimming, Mrs
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Smethcote
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Smethcote WI
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Smokes for Wounded Soldiers and Sailors Society
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social class boundaries
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social half-hours
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Somerset County Federation
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Spatch, Ronnie
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spinning
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Spitfire Fund
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Staffordshire County Federation
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Stamford, Countess of
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stamp collections
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Stapleforth, Eileen
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Stapleton Cotton, Mrs
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Stevens, Mrs
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stockings
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Stokenchurch WI
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Stoney Creek WI
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Stotfold WI
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string gloves
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