CREES

Further information about the Symposium can be found in the forthcoming ICREFH Newsletter for Spring 2008. To request a copy if you are not normally on the ICREFH mailing list, please email:
p.j.atkins@durham.ac.uk

Papers may be offered in one of the four following sub-themes. To stimulate discussion at the Symposium, contributors should address one or more of the following research questions in their papers. Papers should not only describe the development of particular topics, but should also assess the short and long term consequences which affect nutritional habits of today.

(1) Food allocation, food shortages and rationing in time of war:
How was food allocated for the civilian population
during twentieth-century European wars?
How did government strategies differ in Europe?
Were the armed forces given priorities in food
allocation? What food was considered necessary for the fighting man?
What rations were allocated to the armed services and
civilians? What role did nutritional sciences play in these decisions?

(2) Alternative strategies for consumers:
Did food control and food shortages alter consumer
behaviour during European wars in the twentieth century?
Did governments provide recipes and nutritional
information for civilians?
Did the black market have a significant effect on food
supply during wartime?

(3) The social and health implications of wartime food consumption:
Did war change patterns of eating and eating behaviour
in either the short or long term?
Were governments stimulated to develop food and nutrition policies by
war? Did these policies persist in the post war era in the long term?
Were food-related diseases present in wartime Europe?

(4) Innovations in food supply and technology during war time:
Did war accelerate innovations in food processing and
preservation?
What "inventions" were made and how and where were they implemented?
Did technological change persist to influence postwar
food consumption?