Birth of Chocolate City. Life in Georgian York
Details:
- Author(s) Strevens, Summer
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2014
- Pages 96pp; illus
- Publisher Amberley
- Place Published Stroud
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the origins of York's chocolate industry in the 18th and early 19th centuries and its social impact on the city at a time of its general economic decline - eg standard of living, significance of Quakerism, middle class leisure, etc. Has sections 'Emerging chocolate city. In the beginning ...'; 'Mother of York's chocolate industry - Mary Tuke' [and Rowntrees]; 'Standards of living - fair and foul'; 'Leisure and pleasure in Georgian York'; 'A question of belief'; 'Chocolate city then and now'