Well, crikey, Happy New Year to one and all! Hope you had a glorious festive season.
We had one of those hectic run-ups to Christmas (three parts work, one part social), which is why things have been a bit quiet on here.
But between the turkey and the christmas pudding we did manage to dig through the archives, and tracked down a few fantastic bits of ephemera, including (rather ironically, given all the feasting) this Ration Book from The Ministry of Food, which belonged to Alistair's grandmother.
We hadn't realised that rationing went on so long (it finally ended in 1954), and can't help but wonder if a similar system will be necessary again one day; and if it does come back in, what form the rationing 'book' of the future might take.
Check out more scans from this, as well as a few other new bits and bobs, over at Alistair's Ephemera and Second World War ephemera Flickr sets.
