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Vegetable substances used for the food of man
Knight, Charles (1791-1873); Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
1832
Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Calvert, Valerie E; Vickers, Emma
April 1961
Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions ...
Food in history
Tannahill, Reay; Wilson, C Anne
1973
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index.
Sound Recordings, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston
Calvert, Valerie E
April 1961
Peggy Meek describes egg customs - conkering, displaying decorated eggs, egg rolling on Easter Monday, ingredients for decorating eggs [informant is Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmorland Benevol...
Decorated Egg
[1960s]
A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.
Commentario de le più notabili et mostruose cose d’Italia et altri luoghi, di lingua Aramea in Italiana tradotto. Con un breve catalogo de gli inventori de le cose che si mangiano et beveno, novamente ritrovato
Landi Ortensio (1512-1553); Da Cloch Baron; Salvatori, Maria Paola Moroni
1553
First item in bound volume of 2 items. A commentary on the most notable and monstrous things in Italy and other places, translated from the Aramean language into Italian. With a short catalogue of the...
Sound Recording, [Norway]
Calvert, Valerie E
1961
[Announcement: results of a questionnaire issued by the Norsk Ethnological Institute]; male discusses Easter food and eggs in Norway - relates findings of survey - customary practices, egg consumption...
Traditional food east and west of the Pennines
Brears, Peter C D; Wilson, C Anne; Hunter, Lynette; Pollard Helen; Stead, Jennifer
1994
"First published in 1991 by Edinburgh University Press"--Title page verso. "Based on papers from The Third Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions, April 1988, with additional chapters. This i...
SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping responses Mas(k), Mash, Wet, and Soak. The map was created by Harold Orton.
Sound Recordings, Liverpool
Bond, Francis Keith
1973-1974
Interviews with Henry Glover of Melling [Tr. 4], and the grandparents of the collector, Mary Bickerstaffe and Robert Bickerstaffe [Tr. 5], resident in the Page Moss area of Liverpool. All discuss thei...
Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Bond, Francis Keith
[1973/1974]
Unidentified female talks about her experience of living in Liverpool during World War Two - air raid shelters, songs at school, gas masks, dockers' reminiscences, rationing, wartime spirit, life at s...
Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Bond, Francis Keith
[1973/1974]
Unidentified male informant talks about Army life during World War Two, rationing, and relates various humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 3] René Bond talks about her experience as a fourteen year old living...