The Good Life: 100 Years of Growing Your Own

This exhibition takes the current vogue for growing your own vegetables as its starting point, looking back through influential moments in the history of self-sufficiency such as John Seymour's 'The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency' and the sitcom 'The Good Life' in the 1970s, to the 'Dig For Victory' campaign during WWII, in which Britons were encouraged to plant their gardens with veg to assist the war effort, and the Allotment Act of 1908, which imposed responsibilities on parish, urban district and borough councils to provide allotments.