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Peter Brears Archive
1650-2024
Peter Brears is a British food historian, curator, author, illustrator and consultant to organisations such as The National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces and English Heritage. He has consulted on the ...
Consultancy Files
c.1980-2024
Peter Brears worked as a consultant for many historic houses and museums, assisting with the redisplay of historic service areas, helping source appropriate objects and artefacts for the rooms, writin...
Research Files
c.1962-2018
This series contains files and documents compiled during research for artiles, books and consultancies. Some files contain research on particular topics such as 'Stoves' or 'Water Supplies' and some f...
Original Research Material
1744-1950
Historical recipe books, diaries, documents and artworks collected by Peter Brears for research purposes.
Artworks by Peter Brears
c.1970-c.2015
Artworks created by Peter Brears during various consultancies, also includes artworks and illustrations for books both written by Brears and by other Authors.
Professional papers
c.1970-c.2010
A series comprising of files related to various aspect of Peter Brears professional life, including files of text for books he authored, diaries cuttings providing an overview of his career and person...
1 Royal Crescent, Bath
2008-2014
Photographs, plans, drawings of ovens and other kitchen items for the renovation of the kitchens of 1 Royal Court, Bath. Also contains an architectural report, inventory of artefacts and correspondenc...
16 New Street, St Helier, Jersey
2006
Correspondence and drawings of the kitchens. This material was collected during a consultancy to assist in the redisplay of the service rooms.
59 Rodney Street, Liverpool
2005
Drawings of the house, drawings of the volunteers, a visitor route map. This material was collected during a consultancy to create graphics for the interpretation of the building.
Aberdour Castle, Fife
2016
Photographs, drawings and correspondence relating to a query about a dough trough in the castle, a report was never published on this work.
Ashby [Dela Zouch] Castle, Leicestershire
2006
Correspondence, research notes and transcription of inventories. Also includes a guidebook and some sketches done by Peter Brears. This material was collected as research for am unpublished report on ...
Attingham park, Shrewsbury
2006-2008
Sale catalogues (1827 and 1824), extracts from an inventory, floor plans, an article written by Peter Brears on Attingham park. This material was collected during a consultancy to assist in the redisp...