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As part of a study carried out by the Wartime Social Survey in 1944, housewives were asked to check the size of food portions against a chart. D18844

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As part of a study carried out by the Wartime Social Survey in 1944, housewives were asked to check the size of food portions against a chart. D18844

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As part of a study carried out by the Wartime Social Survey in 1944, housewives were asked to check the size of food portions against a chart.
As part of another study carried out by the Wartime Social Survey, housewives were asked to check the size of food portions against a chart, visible on the kitchen wall of this British home. Various food items are covered on the chart, including bacon and other meat, and slices of cake. Here, a mother cuts a slice of bread for her child, checking it against the chart.

The UK Ministry of Information was established in 1939, at the outbreak of World War II. It was responsible for coordinating and controlling all government information and propaganda, both within the UK and abroad. The Ministry of Information was created to help the government communicate with the public and to ensure that important information was disseminated effectively. It was also responsible for managing the media and censoring certain types of information that might be harmful to morale or national security. The Ministry of Information played a crucial role in shaping public opinion during the war, and it worked closely with other government departments to develop and implement a range of propaganda campaigns. The Ministry of Information was dissolved in 1946, following the end of World War II.

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