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The Importance of Domestic Science in the Second World War
As a child, you did lessons with your mother and then the rest of the time, what were you up to? I remember that very clearly. We didn't have any water. That had to be pumped up. And no electricity, had oil lamps and candles. So it seems like really a different world to the one that we're living in now. Yes. People can't envisage it, I think. Perhaps even you can't, I don't know. But then I decided that when I got a bit older that I wanted to do domestic science, so I went to show spree. This was the beginning of the war. A lot of us felt that we were wasting our
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