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Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941 (2005)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (2005). Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The Economic History Review, 58(1), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00298.x

Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The introduction of school milk in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century was a relatively slow process. This article seeks to understand state and private sector... Read More about Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941.

The Milk in Schools Scheme, 1934-45: 'nationalization' and resistance (2005)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (2005). The Milk in Schools Scheme, 1934-45: 'nationalization' and resistance. History of Education, 34(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760042000315291

In October 1934 the National Government took over what had previously been a commercial initiative to encourage milk‐drinking in schools. By the outbreak of war the Milk in Schools Scheme had reached 87 per cent of elementary schools in England and W... Read More about The Milk in Schools Scheme, 1934-45: 'nationalization' and resistance.