For all classes, British eating habits changed dramatically in the long nineteenth century. Volume two offers a collection of sources that shed light on what people ate and cooked at home, and also while they were out and about. Cookery books are an obvious primary source, and these range from popular books aimed largely at servants responsible for providing meals to middle- and upper-class families to less lavish recipes contained in books intended for school cookery classes which would then be prepared at home.
VOLUME II DIET AND HEALTH Series Preface General Editors’ Introduction Volume II Introduction PART 1: Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Diet 1 A Sketch of the Hours of Labour, Mealtimes, &c &c &c in Manchester and its Neighbourhood 2 The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester J. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH 3 The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 F. ENGELS 4 Distress in Manchester: Evidence of the State of the Labouring Classes in 1840–42 J. ADSHEAD 5 London Labour and the London Poor Volume One: The London Street Folk H. MAYHEW 6 London Labour and the London Poor Volume Two: The London Street Folk H. MAYHEW PART 2: Stomachs, Digestion and Indigestion7 Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion W. BEAUMONT 8 Through St. Martin’s Window 9 How is Digestion Carried On? 10 Bacchus: An Essay on the Nature, Causes, Effects and Cure of Temperance R. B. GRINDROD 11 Dr Abernethy’s Code of Health and Long Life with the Cause and Cure of Indigestion; Everyone His Own Physician J. ABERNETHY 12 Memoirs of a Stomach S. WHITING 13 Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration Volume One PART 3: Nutritional Science 14 Liebig’s Extract of Meat 15 Food for Infants: A Complete Substitute for that Provided by Nature J. VON LIEBIG 16 Liebig’s Extract of Meat E. SMITH 17 Practical Dietary for Families, Schools and the Labouring Classes E. SMITH 18 Food of the People: A Letter to Henry Fenwick, Esq. M.P. J. BROWN PART 4: Adulteration19 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons F. ACCUM 20 Adulteration of Food, Drink and Drugs being the Evidence taken before the Parliamentary Committee 21 Adulteration of Food: A Fearful Prospect 22 Adulteration of Bread 23 Adulteration of Food: Drink and Tobacco 24 Dreadful Poisoning at Bradford: Thirteen Persons Dead 25 The Poisoned Lozenges at Bradford 26 The Bradford Poisoned Lozenge Case 27 The Adulteration of Bread 28 Leeds Grocers and Tea Dealers on Adulteration 29 The Adulteration Prosecutions PART 5: Infant Mortality and the Milk Supply 30 Observations on the London Milk Supply H. H. RUGG 31 The Municipalization of the Milk Supply 32 Infantile Mortality and Infants Milk Depots G. F. MCCLEARY 33 A Report on the Milk Supply of Large Towns: Its Defects and their Remedy VI: Sterilised and ‘Humanised’ Milk for Infants in England PART 6: Excessive Tea Drinking34 A View of the Nervous Temperament T. TROTTER 35 Tea and Coffee: Their Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effects on the Human System W. A. ALCOTT 36 Tea and Tea Drinking A. READE 37 Tea-Drinking 38 Tea and Tea Drinkers 39 Editorial, Coffee Public House News and Temperance Hotel Journal PART 7: Making Water Safe 40 The Dolphin or Grand Junction Nuisance: Proving that Seven Thousand Families in Westminster and its Suburbs are Supplied with Water in a State Offensive to the Sight, Disgusting to the Imagination and Destructive to Health 41 An Investigation of the Properties of Thames Water W. LAMBE 42 Memoir on the Organic Analysis or Microscopic Examination of Water A. H. HASSALL 43 The Wonders of a London Water Drop 44 Water and Alcohol: The Two Great Rivals Considered Physiologically and Chemically E. R. H. UNGER Bibliography Index
Dr. Ian Miller is Senior Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University. He has authored seven books on the history of medicine and food. Of particular relevance are Ian’s book-length studies on the force-feeding of hunger strikers (2016), Irish dietary change following the devastating Famine (2013) and the surprisingly interesting history of the Victorian stomach (2011).
