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Nottingham chip shop, circa 1920. |
Printed
Primary
- Gervais Markham, The English housewife (1636) (NLSL). (paperback edition M Best 1994).
- John Blackner, History of Nottingham (1816)
- Some general non-Nottinghamshire related materials are possibly of
some help:
- Anon. A proper new booke of cookery, c.1557. (hardback edition A Ahmed 2002). Very accesibe.
- For the 17th century the writings of England’s first celebratory chefs William Rabisha, The whole body of cookery dissected and Robert May The accomplistsh’t cook. Both have now modern editions.
- Nottinghamshire-specific – Records of the Borough of Nottingham has many food references.
- Guerin M Urbain, Les Ouvriers des deux mondes (Paris 1891), selected chapters on Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, (Cambridge University Library)
- CACM/ Nottingham Corporation Committee minutes (NAO)
- CACM/ED/ Nottingham Corporation Education Minutes (NAO)
- Annual Report of the School Medical Officer, Nottingham 1911-1913, 1926-1941, (NLSL)
- Diets from the various Workhouses in Nottingham (NAO)
- PRO MH12, Poor Law Union correspondence
Secondary
- Diet manual (for use at General Hospital, Nottingham) (NU Greenfield Library)