Housekeeping and Associated Customs

Description

This subseries contains items on housekeeping and domestic customs. The subjects represented include general housekeeping and domestic arrangements, fires and ovens, lighting, milk foods (i.e. butter and cheese), cookery and meals, luxuries (such as drink, tobacco, sweets) and hygiene and sanitation. There are specific files on cidermaking and brewing, oatcakes and snuff. There are also papers relating to an undergraduate student exercise for the degree in Folk Life Studies, which consisted of a survey of domestic eating arrangements.

Metadata

Identifier gjj8hc9f
IRN 410624
Class Mark LAVC/FLF/3/8
Level Sub-series
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gjj8hc9f
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record B: Livelihood and Household Support
Date 1961-1982
Size and Medium 1 box [part] with 6 files of photocopied, typed and ms. papers, magazine extracts, pamphlets and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings., 0.41 linear metres.
System of Arrangement The files are retained in the original classification scheme order.

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