The United states is still feeling the effects of wartime rationing, even 80-plus years later. It's most apparent in the food ...

Britain rationed many foodstuffs during World War II, but extended rationing to bread only in the lean years immediately after. Bread remained rationed until 1948, and some food rationing continued ...

The last of British wartime rationing, in effect since World War II began in 1939, will disappear next month: household coal, used in millions of living-room grates to add warmth, cheer and smog to ...

A rare “natural experiment” from 1950s UK sugar rationing reveals that lower sugar exposure in the first 1,000 days of life may lead to healthier hearts and fewer cardiovascular events decades later.

When the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941, virtually every American became part of the war effort in some way. More than 16 million Americans served in the military, millions of civilians ...

When Wandsworth Prison opened in south-west London in 1851, its Victorian architects thought it was fit for 1,000 inmates. Today it hosts 1,600. The conditions are worse than Dickensian: cells ...