Dig for Victory! New histories of wartime gardening in Britain

Prompted by the curious fact that both progressive environmentalists and Conservative Party politicians have recently drawn on popular understandings of austerity associated with Britain’s wartime domestic gardening campaign, this article broadens the range of histories associated with Dig for Victory. It suggests firstly that far from simply encouraging self-sufficiency, the government conceptualised Dig for Victory as requiring the extension of order and control into the domestic sphere. Second, it shows how the ideal figure of a national citizen digging for victory elided differentiated gender and class experiences of gardening, and finally the article demonstrates that statistics of food production were more about fostering trust than picturing the realities of vegetable growing. By so doing the paper illuminates the particular ways in which present-day articulations of Dig for Victory’s history are partial and selective.     

胡宗宪《吕港帖》与乍浦之捷考

《吕港帖》是明代胡宗宪致沈良才的一封信。胡宗宪在向上级汇报抗倭作战情况的同时,明确了倭寇驻扎的时间、地点以及胡宗宪拟布置兵力的时间,并说明了作战将领的心理状态。作者就信中人物和事件进行考证,推论出信中涉及的是明嘉靖三十五年七月江浙总督胡宗宪指挥的一次抗倭战事,即胡宗宪撰《筹海图编·大捷考》一章中的"乍浦之捷"。作为个案,《吕港帖》也反映了尺牍丰厚的文献价值。     

Copper and other sheathing in the Royal Navy

The Royal Navy's use of copper and other sheathing on ships as a protection against'worm'is presented against a general background of the subject. Manufacturers', Admiralty and other marks found on metal sheathing are illustrated and identified as an aid to nautical archaeologists. © 2000 The Nautical Archaeology Society