This recipe for wartime oat biscuits that are delicious and easy to make, even for little helpers

Why did we need to ration? Simply put rationing is a system of limiting the amount of something that a person is allowed to have. During the First World War there were shortages of many food items and Britain was afraid that the population would starve. Prior to the Second World War Britain imported a massive proportion of the food consumed. During the 1930s Britain imported a massive 55 million tons of food per month, this would drop down to around 12 million tons per month

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Eala traveller! Perhaps you have a Viking day at school and you want to look the part, or maybe you just think that the Anglo-Saxons are cool and you want to be like one, whatever the reason you will need to find out how they dressed in order to create your own costume. Watch the video below where Ottar the Northman and Aelfwyn the Saxon Woman tell about the type of clothing that they are wearing. Fashions did change over time for both the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons (

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