{"id":11924,"date":"2022-03-16T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=202462"},"modified":"2022-03-16T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:47:10","slug":"carrot-conspiracies-digging-for-victory-feeding-britain-in-ww2","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/carrot-conspiracies-digging-for-victory-feeding-britain-in-ww2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrot conspiracies &amp; digging for victory: feeding Britain in WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Professor John Martin speaks to Emily Briffett about Britain\u2019s battle against starvation during the Second World War. 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