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Old Cooking Utensils
How we equip and use our kitchen has changed irrevocably over the centuries, the twentieth century has seen far-reaching technological and social changes making their mark; the kitchen fire, for many a century the focal point of the house, has given way to electricity and gas. David J. Eveleigh looks at the kitchen that centered on the open hearth or range and surveys the equipment used for storing and preserving, preparing, boiling, roasting and baking food. This is an intriguing topic, shedding light on how the routine of our lives can be influenced by new inventions and on how we are continuously driven to concieve of new technology in an attempt to ease life's chores.
Bogs, Baths and Basins
Covers the early primitive sanitation devices such as cesspits and urban dung heaps. From Roman times up to modern-day luxury, this book leads us chronologically through the story of sanitation. It also describes the advances that came with the onslaught of technology from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. With first hand accounts and evidence from diaries and contemporary records, David Eveleigh traces the history of inventions that have affected everyone throughout history, told with a lively combination of human interest and drama.
Bristol
This collection of photographs brings together David Eveleigh's previous two books on this well loved city. He has gathered together a collection of archive photographs which present a record of Bristol from 1850-1969. A world port and a major industrial centre, the historic city still had picturesque streets, ancient churches and colourful civic traditions. Tremendous changes have taken place over this period, including the rise of the motor car, electrical supply to people's homes and vastly improved standards of living. Bristol's experience of this time is illustrated here, along with comments on home life, leisure time and the impact of war on civilian life.
Privies and Water Closets
Although Thomas Crapper is most commonly associated with the invention of the flushing toilet, his models were in fact the result of a long line of improvements to earlier designs which date back to ancient times. This book is an ideal introduction to the history of the toilet, tracing its development from the primitive - and very smelly - privy maiden to today's one-piece, all-ceramic WC. Illustrated with superb photographs, this book tells the intimate story of the lavatory.
Escaping Suburbia
Born into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination with the past. With a vivid eye for detail and boundless childhood curiosity for everything from steam trains to 'My Old Man's a Dustman', his account documents the uneasy relationship between worlds old and new. Featuring unique photographs and authoritative observations on architecture, social and local history based on forty years' work in museums and heritage conservation, Escaping Suburbia offers a different view of the 'swinging' sixties.
Bristol, 1920-1969
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A History of the Kitchen
History of the Kitchen
The Last Taboo
Except in schoolboy jokes, the subject of human waste is rarely aired. We talk aboutwater-related diseases when most are sanitation-related - in short, we don‘t mention the shit. A century and a half ago, a long, hot summer reduced the Thames flowing past the UK Houses of Parliament to aGreat Stink thereby inducing MPs to legislate sanitary reform. Today, another sanitary reformation is needed, one that manages to spread cheaper and simpler systems to people everywhere. In the byways of the developing world, much is quietly happening on the excretory frontier. In 2008, the International Year of Sanitation, the authors bring this awkward subject to a wider audience than the world of international filth usually commands. They seek the elimination of theGreat Distaste so that people without political clout or economic muscle can claim their right to a dignified and hygienic place togo. Published with UNICEF
The Culture of the English People
This wide-ranging book, first published in 1994, traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age to the eighteenth century.
Town House Architecture
The architectural history of Britain's towns is a rich tapestry of changing styles and materials that gives each place a unique character. From the classically inspired architecture of the Georgians, through the Victorian gothic revival, to the stark lines of the 1960s, British buildings have undergone many changes of style, and each of these is expertly introduced and explained in this highly illustrated account.
