British Police and Home Food Production in the Great War

Mary Fraser is a social researcher based at the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, University of Glasgow, UK. She gained a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1995 and has been researching the history of the work of the British police for around 20 years. This is her second book on police history; the first, Policing the Home Front 1914-1918: The Control of the British Population at War, was published in 2019. She was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society in 2023.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Developing Food Crisis in World War One.- Chapter 3: Help for Farmers; No Stone Left Unturned.- Chapter 4: Horse and Mechanical Help for Farmers.- Chapter 5: The Importance of Increased Crop Production to Feed the Nation.- Chapter 6: Policemen in England Helped Farmers from March 1917 to the End of the War.- Chapter 7: Policemen in Scotland Helped Farmers from March 1917 to the End of the War.- Chapter 8: Release of Policemen in Birmingham and Glasgow: Two Case Studies.- Chapter 9: The Outcome for Britain of the Food Shortages of 1917.