Vicky Cole

By October 1939 the government launched the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign, we explore what this meant for Britain.

When you think of an allotment, what picture comes into your mind? Gnarled older men leaning over their spades, examining their potato crop, cursing the caterpillars and slugs that have attacked their prized cabbages? Or maybe a young ‘eco-warrior’ attempting to create their own version of the Good Life?