Food Hawkers. Selling in the streets from antiquity to the present
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- Author(s) Calaresu, Melissa, & Danielle van den Heuvel (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2016
- Pages 243pp; illus
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Ten collected essays providing a multi-disciplinary international coverage from early times, exploring dynamics and impact. Three essays touch on different aspects of the English experience: Deborah L Krohn, 'Quodlibets and fricasses - food in musical settings of street cries in early modern England'; Ivan Day, 'Street cries on the frozen Thames - food hawkers at London frost fairs, 1608-1814'; Danielle van den Heuvel, 'Food, markets, and people - selling perishables in urban markets in pre-industrial Holland and England'