Domestic Life in Rural Suffolk

Description

A dissertation which analyses continuity and change in domestic customs and traditions in rural Suffolk, in the fifty years to 1982. The first of four chapters focusses on the housewife, and contains sections on basic food preparation (bacon and ham curing, butter and cheese, vegetables and fruit, beer and wine, bread, preserves), recipes and clothes washing. The second chapter concentrates on the husband and his everyday routine and recreational activities (pub games, quoits, step and broom dancing). The third chapter describes Suffolk customs associated with birth, death, harvest, Christmas and Easter. The final chapter concerns household furnishings and utensils, and contains photographic and line-drawn illustrations. Some of the information presented in the dissertation was gathered from interviews with five informants.

Metadata

Identifier p9q682nw
IRN 410119
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/083
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p9q682nw
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Niccolls, Sharon
Date 1982
Size and Medium 53 unbound typed leaves; 6 b/w photographs.

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