Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - In: European Review of Economic History 17 (2013) 1, pp. 71-94
We reassess the changes in British working-class diets through the First World War. The 1918 Sumner Committee's work on this was limited by a lack of consistency across household surveys. Our rediscovered 1904 data allow a cleaner comparison. Although calorie intake was maintained, we find a...