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@fxuniarchives.bsky.socialWe don't permit food near our collections - but we love to explore it within our collections! 😋 Our Hypatia Collection of books by & about women includes cookery books, of which many contain evidence of use, including stains, clippings, handwritten recipes & even drawings! #WorldFoodDay #RareBooks
Show Post"Nearly all the housewives mention potatoes" In 1955 799 households described their 'meals in modern homes'. The published survey includes information about the types and times of food consumed, as well as the practicalities of living in a post-war home. #WorldFoodDay
Show Post#PhotoFriday Who can remember Newcastle before Eldon Square and the University's Claremont Tower building? Here are a few views of the city in 1966 showing the as it was 60 years ago. Can you spot anything else that's changed in these photographs from our University Archive? [NUA/045297]
Show PostWythnos yma yw Wythnos Pobi Yma gwelwn ddarn gwag o bapur â phennawd a gynhyrchwyd ar gyfer y ffatri bisgedi bu’n sefyll ar Moorland Road yn ardal Sblot, Caerdydd. Mae’r pennawd addurnol yn cynnwys darlun o’r ffatri, fel y bu yn rhan gyntaf yr 20fed ganrif.
Show PostThis week is National Baking Week Here we see a blank sheet of headed paper produced for the biscuit factory which once stood on Moorland Road in Splott in Cardiff. The decorative letter-head features a drawing of the factory, as it was in the early part of the 20th century.
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