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Social Intercourse
1967-1972
This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to drinking and inns/public houses. This includes James Stevens Curl's article on gin palaces and their disappearance, extracted ...
The Farmer Cider-Maker in North and Central Somerset
Coleman, D N
1966
A thesis concerned with those Somerset cider-makers who combine cider-making with farming activities. The core of the study is the description of processes and equipment based on fieldwork carried out...
Somerset Cider Making
Gallon, K S
1966
An investigation of cider makers employing methods considered as within the West Country tradition of making, i.e. still sharing basic similarities with recorded descriptions of the methods used by si...
Theakston's of Masham: A Study of the Traditional Craft of Brewing
Halliday, Robert Wilson
[1973]
M.A. dissertation which contains a brief description of Masham, with an account of the history of the brewery and the Theakston family, and chapters on the process of making beer, the brewery premises...
The Role of the Public House in an Urban Environment
Hargreaves, Janet
1979
A study which examines the importance of public house visiting as a major leisure time activity, the pub as the centre of a community, and the customs and attitudes associated with the pub within an a...
Cider-Making and Brewing
1962-1975
This file contains items relating to brewing beer and cider-making, including a photocopy of Eric Sample's article on small breweries in Derby, from an unidentified issue of 'Derbyshire Countryside' (...
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 ...
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, West Yorkshire
Starkey, Helen
28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979
Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Ea...
Sound Recording, County Durham
Hargreaves, Lesley
December 1980
David Bennett and Olive Bennett, of Shotton Colliery, discuss foodways, domestic and occupational customs: Sunday dinner, Saturday mealtimes, Sunday tea, Christmas food, Easter food; food for special ...
Drinking Bottle
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
August 1966
Miner's drinking bottle, found at Old Gang Mines, Swaledale. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. caption and catalogue details in the hand of Werner Kissling.
The manner of making of coffee, tea, and chocolate : As it is used in most parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. With their vertues
Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre (1622-1687); Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio; Chamberlayne, John (1666-1723)
1685
The tracts on tea and on chocolate have special title-pages. Those on tea and coffee are tr. by John Chamberlayne from the French of Philippe Sylvestre Dufour; that on chocolate from the Spanish of A....