V H Mottram’s (1932) gives recipes to help families economise: For the “really poor”, ingredients include white and brown bread, suet white flour, rice, tapioca, sago, potatoes, dates, currants and figs. For the “merely poor”: butter, parsnips, raisins, milk, sweet biscuits, some pork and beef. Those on a ‘moderate income’ could turn to (1937), with twelve menus for breakfasts, luncheons and dinners for all four seasons. Recipes included salmon mayonnaise, roast fowl, asparagus with cream sauce, oysters , fillets of Beef a la St Aubyn, roast partridge and all kinds of fish – fresh, saltwater and shellfish.

See this film footage of Churchill visiting Scotland on 31 October 1940, inspecting Polish troops and a naval depot ship; ‘we all have a very good opinion of him’ https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/zPZD8NwZeVk...

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The Battle of Mers-el-Kebir (‘Operation Catapult’); a battleship – either the ‘Dunkerque’ or the ‘Strasbourg’ – coming under fire during Operation Catapult...

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Keep cool, men! This will be interesting for my paper!

I know there are vast numbers of Jews serving with our Forces ... but it seems to me indeed appropriate that a special Jewish unit, a special unit of that race which has suffered indescribable torments from the Nazis, should be represented as a distinct formation amongst the forces gathered for the final overthrow.

There’s been much heated debate about Churchill’s alleged culpability in the deaths of thousands of Indians during the Bengal Famine of 1943 Some say he denied vital food supplies to India...

Here Churchill inspects a ‘Tommy gun’ during his visit to Hartlepool on 31 July 1940 to inspect costal defence positions (you can see from his engagement card for July, opposite, that...