Diet and Health in Modern Britain

Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the problems of urban life were ameliorated.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures. Introduction. 1. Science and Practice in Arable Farming 1910-1950 Colin Holmes 2. The Impact of Modern Food Technology on Nutrition in the Twentieth Century Magnus Pyke 3. The Retail and Wholesale Meat Trade 1880-1939 Richard Perren 4. The Demand for Meat in England and Wales between the Two World Wars Forrest Capie 5. Changes in the Brewing Industry in the Twentieth Century John Mark 6. The Production and Marketing of Fruit and Vegetables 1850-1950 Peter Atkins 7. The Nutritional Importance of Fruit and Vegetables Arnold Bender 8. Infant Feeding, Sanitation and Diarrhoea in Colliery Communities 1880-1911 Ian Buchanan 9. Feeding the Hungry Schoolchild in the First Half of the Twentieth Century John Hurt 10. Local Prison Diets 1835-1878 Valerie Johnston 11. The Public House Reform Movement Robert Thorne 12. Rationing and Economic Constraints on Food Consumption Since the Second World War Dorothy Hollingsworth 13. Man's Demand for Energy Derek Miller 14. The Cost of Nutrients in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Pamela Mumford 15. The Founding Fathers of the Nutrition Society Alice Copping. Contributors.

About the author

Derek J. Oddy (1931-2018) was, at the time of original publication, Principal Lecturer in Modern Economic History at the Polytechnic of Central London, UK.
Derek S. Miller was, at the time of original publication, Research Fellow at the Department of Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, London, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: Derek S. Miller (Editor), Derek J. Oddy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.06.2025
• EAN: 9781041012443
• ISBN: 978-1-041-01244-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Food and Diet
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history