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Food in Nineteenth-Century British History

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British culinary practices
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ethics
eugenics
fasting
historical food reform
industrialisation diet
meat production
nineteenth-century British eating habits
Prison and workhouse diets
Social Darwinism
social history of meals
special diets
Starvation
tastes
vegan
Vegetarianism
Victorian nutrition
workhouse food systems

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  • ISBN 9781032976297
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

A curious phenomenon occurred in British food writing from around the 1860s. Publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. Breakfast. Luncheons. Afternoon Tea. Dinners. Until this time, most cookbooks had been hefty tomes containing hundreds of pages of recipes, but the new recipe books were slimmer and more accessible, catering for a broader readership. The appearance of focused cookbooks reveals the growing influence of advanced printing technologies and rising literacy levels combined with changes in social life and class relations that coalesced around food, granting mealtimes great importance. The sources reprinted in this volume were produced in response to the changing social dynamics that accompanied industrialisation, urbanisation and socio-economic modernisation.
About
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).