The's some stuff on the WWI Home Front
here - not very detailed.
Brief interactive timeline
here - again, perhaps not detaled enough.
Good summary overview from
HistoryLearning.
More from the BBC here on
the Home Front, and a specific study of
Women in the Home Front.
A number of articles
here at Spartacus on different issues.
Some key dates here:
QUOTE
1914 - the government passed the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA).
1914 - the government set up the War Propaganda Bureau.
1914 - the German Navy shelled Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool.
1915 - Zeppelins attacked Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn and London
1915 - the ‘shell scandal’; Lloyd George was put in charge of munitions.
1916 - 2.5 million men had volunteered.
1915 - Rent Control Act
1916 - Military Service Act which introduced conscription.
1916 - the government formed the Royal Defence Corps (RDC) and merged it with the Volunteer Forces (VF) to form a kind of WWI ‘home guard’. The VF had 315,000 men in 1917, but they had to provide their own weapons and uniform.
1916 - Lloyd George replaced Herbert Asquith as Prime Minister.
1917 - women were able to enlist in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), to release men from administrative jobs to join the fighting, followed by Women's Royal Naval Service (1916) and the Women's Royal Air Force (April 1918).
1917 - Lord Beaverbrook (owner of the Daily Express) became Minister of Information
1917 - German Gotha bombers attacked Folkestone and London.
1917 - the German navy began ‘unrestricted submarine warfare’
1917 - food riots
1917 - the government set up the Women’s Land Army (16,000 women who went to work as farm labourers)
1918 - the Ministry of Food introduced rationing of sugar, meat and margarine.
