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Archive Collection:
MS 1651

c.1883-2000

Includes 1 sheet of photographs; 1 sheet of typscript notes; 1 notebook belonging to Martha Ann Whitfield, containing recipes used in the bakery; 2 notebooks belonging to Harriet Heggs (née Barker); ...

Archive Collection:
MS 1686

1785-c.1900

Comprises: i) Accounts: September 1785 - February 1791; ii) Accounts: January 1787 - December 1788; iii) Day book: January 1787 - November 1813; iv) Letter book, 1814 - 1832; v) Index to letter boo...

Archive Collection:
MS 1794

1900-2006

Collection covering Michael Bateman's work as a journalist and writer. Journalistic work from the late 1950s up to 2003 is covered in a series of scrapbooks with press cuttings pasted in, and substant...

Archive Collection:
MS 2205

1960-2013

The collection comprises a series of cookery scrapbooks and a guest book compiled by Ann Sargent while cooking for her family and friends over several decades. The scrapbooks are full of cuttings co...

Archive Collection:
MS 2280

1689 - c.1750

Anne Hawtrey's recipe book. A cookery and medical recipe book from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries.

Archive Print Collection:
Chaston Chapman Brewing

Mr Chaston Chapman collected works for two libraries; his working library, based at his laboratory in London, and a private, historical collection. Subjects include brewing and the brewing industry, w...

Archive Collection:
SC MS Cookery

2500 BCE - 2000

Items cover cookery, household management, medicine and remedies, including ancient texts.

Archive Print Collection:
Cookery.

Principally made up from two separate collections. Blanche Legat Leigh, Lady Mayoress of Leeds, made a gift in 1939 of cookery books which included not only historical works published in Britain but a...