Stories
- Podcast
Farmland
Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.
- Article
Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Books
Fruit & Health / by Haydn Brown.
Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.Date: [1924]- Pictures
Fruit against a blue sky; advertising the eating of fruit. Colour lithograph, 1943 (?).
Retail fruit trade federation.Date: [1943?]Reference: 679651i
- Ephemera
- Online
Fruit : bottling without sugar : four simple methods / Ministry of Food.
Date: [1951?]- Books
Fruit and veg : colouring zine / Stefan Alexander.
Alexander, StefanDate: [2019]
- Ephemera
- Online
Fruit bottling : illustrated / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
Date: 1947