At the start of the war, German U-boats began to destroy merchant ships in the Atlantic and the British Government needed to take action to ensure the nation could survive in such times of shortages so that its armed forces and civilian population could continue to be fed.
It therefore introduced - Rationing.


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Jose Harris, ‘War and Social History: Britain and the Home Front during the Second World War’, Contemporary European History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1999), pp. 17-35.

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)