Stories
- Article
The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
Catalogue
- Books
Food habits in change : the example of Europe / Eszter Kisbán.
Kisbán, EszterDate: 1986- Archives and manuscripts
'Food habits as a practical nutrition problem'
Date: 1968Reference: GC/145/D.44Part of: Clark, Frederick Le Gros- Books
Food habits as a practical nutrition problem / F. Le Gros Clark.
Clark, F. Le Gros (Frederick Le Gros), 1892-1977.Date: 1968- Books
Food habits of West Indian immigrants / by J.C. McKenzie and Pamela Mumford.
McKenzie, J. C. (John Crawford)Date: 1964?]- Books
Bourgeois influences on Polish popular food and eating habits : directions and periods of change / Zofia Szromba-Rysowa.
Szromba-Rysova, Zofia.Date: 1986