Scottish Tillage Week Adverts for grow more food

Category

Library Item

Item no

30316

Title

Scottish Tillage Week - Have you made the resolution to till more ground?

Description

A page from a World War One scrapbook (vol 2) showing press cuttings from articles on Scottish Tillage Week, encouraging people to prepare more land for growing crops. The caption reads, 'In 1914 it was Men; Now in 1918 it is Food. The Nation looks to YOU!'
The resolution encouraged was:
'I resolve that this year I will till every yard, and produce every ounce of food I possibly can for the sake of the Men at the Front and the Women and Little Ones at home'.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1917

Size

27.5 x 23.5 cm

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Part of the campaign to encourage the population to grow more food even in small gardens.

This image is taken from the 2nd of 2 scrapbooks compiled during World War One by the Thomson Family who were living at Glengyle Terrace in Edinburgh. Most of the items pasted into the scrapbooks are press cuttings, leaflets and ephemera but a couple of articles, such as letters and a ration book, give personal details and an indication of the impact of war on the family. Many of the letters of correspondence are sent to Thomas Thomson. Thomas Davidson Thomson was only 3 years old at the outbreak of war and so, his parents must have collated and maintained the scrapbooks, which span the full period of the war, on his behalf.

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