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Acknowledgements: Contacts

Argos: Online Catalogue- Lisa Billington-Dye (Media Controller) and Nicola Sweet (Reporting and Business Analyst) http://www.argos.co.uk

Pam Langdown: Collections Manager- The Design Collection, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Wallisdown, Poole, Dorset. http://www.arts-inst-bournemouth.ac.uk email- designcollection@arts-inst-bournemouth.ac.uk

Carol Sheppard at Shepwood Houses (Doll's House Supplier) 818 Wimbourne Road, Bournemouth, Dorset.

Back Issue Magazine and Newspaper Websites

History of Advertising Trust http://www.hatads.org.uk/collection.htm

Country Life http://www.countrylife.co.uk/home.htm

Good Housekeeping http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/

Web Sites

Collectors

Robert Opie Collection http://www.robertopiecollection.com

The Collectors Registry http://www.collectorsregistry.com/Ephemra

The Antique Sewing Machine Collector http://www.dincum.com

Alan Quinn's Treadles: Antique and Vintage Sewing Machine Gallery http://www.demon.co.uk/quinn/

Lee Maxwell's Antique Washing Machines http://www.oldewash.com/

Vintage Radio Museum http://www.users.waitrose.com/~bdxc/museums.html

Clothing

Patterns and Images from 1940-1949 http://www.sensibility.com/vintageimages/1940s/

History of Fashion 1940-1950 http://www.vintageblues.com/history4.htm

Beki's Sewing Patterns: Vintage Patterns http://www.vintagesewingpatterns.com/links.html

The Blue Gardenia: Vintage Sewing Patterns and Vintage Costume Jewellery http://www.thebluegardenia.com

History of Fashion, Food and Time http://www.members.aol.com/TeacherNet/FaFoTime.html

Rationing: Make do and Mend http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/meltingpot/oxford/330/mdm/mdm.html

The Costumers Manifesto: Early 20th Century- Fashion Links: 1940s http://www.costumes.org/pages/1940links.htm

Village Pattern: Lending Library http://www.vpll.org/index.html

Education

Britain Since 1930: Heinemann Explore http://www.heinemann.co.uk/heinemannexplore/nc/ks2/history/britaincd/bri.../pg000007.ht

Words Alive! Project 3 Children's Zone: Sunlight Soap http://www.blewa.co.uk/project5/children/C5-2.htm

Family Background: Advertisement for Persil (1959) http://www.4learning.co.uk/netnotes/dsp-series.cfm?sectionid=815

1940s House http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/0-9/1940house/index.html

Gardening

Museum of Garden History http://www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh/

Lifestyle Gardening http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening

Eden Project http://www.edenproject.com

Washday

Persil History http://www.persil.co.uk/services/history/html

Food

The Food Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Grandma's Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the way we cooked http://www.grandmaswartimekitchen.com

All That Women Want: Frugal Recipes from Wartime Britain http://www.allthatwomenwant.com/wartimerecipes.htm

Molly at The Home Front Kitchen: Swansea History Website http://www.swanseahistoryweb.org.uk/subheads/mollykit.htm

Domesticity

The Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood Defined http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/truewoman.html

Design

Technology Vacuum Cleaners: Invention and History by Mary Bellis http://www.inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvacuum.htm

Geffrye Museum http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk

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