{"id":80497,"date":"2023-06-08T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=80497"},"modified":"2023-06-07T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:52:18","slug":"1954-the-end-of-rationing-bbc-news-classic-news-report-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/1954-the-end-of-rationing-bbc-news-classic-news-report-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1954: The END of RATIONING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PSQ4W3y88eo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BBC Archive<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 5 Mar 2023<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ration book has done its job. It&#8217;s been a long job. Indeed, children up to school-leaving age have never known life without the ration book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the fourth of July, the rationing of meat in Britain came to an end, the final step in dismantling Britain&#8217;s whole wartime system of food distribution. After fourteen long years, Britons can at last tear up their ration books. <\/p>\n<p>Richard Baker looks back at some of the key moments in the story of rationing and de-rationing.<\/p>\n<p>Originally broadcast 5 July, 1954.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-09-51-37-1954-The-END-of-RATIONING-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-09-51-37-1954-The-END-of-RATIONING-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-82671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-09-51-37-1954-The-END-of-RATIONING-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-09-51-37-1954-The-END-of-RATIONING-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-09-51-37-1954-The-END-of-RATIONING-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-09-51-37-1954-The-END-of-RATIONING-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Archive Published 5 Mar 2023 &#8220;The ration book has done its job. 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Indeed, children up to school-leaving age have never known life without the ration book.&#8221; On the fourth of July, the rationing of meat in Britain came to an end, the final step in dismantling Britain&#8217;s whole wartime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,74,7,230],"tags":[108,89],"class_list":["post-80497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-economics","category-food","category-history","category-ww2","tag-coldwar","tag-rationing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-kWl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82672,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80497\/revisions\/82672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}