It is 80 years since the Dig for Victory campaign, a war-time Ministry of Agriculture initiative to help to keep the population healthy during rationing following the naval blockade that saw food ...

Wounded soldiers recuperate by digging the grounds of a Surrey hospital, as part of the Dig For Victory scheme, on May 10, 1941 The campaign rapidly caught on, sending the number of allotments ...

In 1942 the Government brought out a theme 'Dig for Victory' which was intended to encourage everyone to grow their own vegetables. In our back yard there was a piece of land with a large plum ...

John Raeburn, who died on July 9 at 93, was the agricultural economist who, as head of the Agricultural Plans Branch of the Ministry of Food, set up the “Dig for Victory” campaign that fed Great ...

The Dig for Victory campaign destroyed the British countryside, a landowner has claimed, after finally making her family farm pay by taking it back to its pre-war state.. Writer Isabella Tree and ...

He wrote a memoir for a local publication in 2005 on war-time Doncaster with Dig for Victory as the slogan." Jane Garner. Jane Garner: "My mum, Jean Garner (née Durbin), in Birmingham, 1942 or 1943.