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Food

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Nottingham chip shop, circa 1920.
Nottingham chip shop, circa 1920.

(a)   Primary

  • Gervais Markham, The English housewife (1636) (NLSL). (paperback edition M Best 1994).
  • John Blackner, History of Nottingham (1816)
  • Some general non-Nottinghamshire related materials are possibly of some help:
    • Anon. A proper new booke of cookery,  c.1557. (hardback edition A Ahmed 2002). Very accesibe.
    • For the 17th century the writings of England’s first celebratory chefs William Rabisha, The whole body of cookery dissected and Robert May The accomplistsh’t cook. Both have now modern editions.
  • Nottinghamshire-specific – Records of the Borough of Nottingham has many food references.
  • Guerin M Urbain, Les Ouvriers des deux mondes (Paris 1891), selected chapters on Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, (Cambridge University Library)
  • CACM/ Nottingham Corporation Committee minutes (NAO)
  • CACM/ED/ Nottingham Corporation Education Minutes (NAO)
  • Annual Report of the School Medical Officer, Nottingham 1911-1913, 1926-1941, (NLSL)
  • Diets from the various Workhouses in Nottingham (NAO)
  • PRO MH12, Poor Law Union correspondence

(b)   Secondary

  • Diet manual (for use at General Hospital, Nottingham) (NU Greenfield Library)
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