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January 2020 DISCOVER Issue 13: January 2020 DISCOVER The University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts and Special Collections INSIDE: New Year Blues, Georgian Delights, Completion of MRI project Recipe for a rich great cake in Elenor Welcome Spotlight Mundy’s recipe book, 1728. MS 86 Venison was served in well-to-do eighteenth century houses, with goose to sobriety, so for many years the diary common for the slightly less well off. entries tail off after several months. Turkey became a popular addition Given that he repeatedly makes similar to the menu in wealthy Victorian Festive foods… promises to himself, it seems William households. As one turkey was Introduction is no better at keeping his New Year enough to feed the average Victorian resolutions than the rest of us. Welcome to the latest edition of Discover, The University of Christmas and New Year has always family it became widespread Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections’ Newsletter. been a time for (over) indulgence amongst the middle classes, The fad diet is no modern creation As I write this, a new regional organisation for archives has in food and company. Although replacing other meats served until either. Undertaker William Banting was just been launched, to replace the East Midlands Regional it has become the quintessential an early advocate of a low-carbohydrate Archives Council. Archives Connected East Midlands is a much of what we think of as a Christmas food. diet, based on his own experiences of obesity and weight-loss. By his mid-60s, new network, which aims to provide a strong regional voice traditional Christmas – Christmas As well as meat, a typical Banting weighed over 200lbs (just over for archives. It welcomes both individuals and organisations, tree, roast turkey, and Christmas Georgian Christmas feast included 14 stone or 90kg) and was struggling with no matter their size, working in archives and record keeping cheese, soups, gingerbread cards – is Victorian, the Georgians stairs and tying his shoelaces. In his Letter in the region. It will organise training and networking events (ginger was one of the cheaper on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public, he and work on partnership projects. So if any readers are could certainly have given them a spices), and mince pies which did, wrote of his unsuccessful dieting, fasting and interested in joining please contact as the name suggests, contain actual minced meat run for their money when it came to spa regimes he had tried. Some of it seems [email protected]. mixed with the dried fruit and spices. In the early nineteenth a little naïve to our modern, healthy-eating attuned eyes: celebrating the festive season. century meatless versions started to appear, and by the end This issue marks the successful end of our Wellcome funded Banting was surprised to learn that beer, sugar and bread may of the Victorian period, they had become the default. MRI project. The project team are to be congratulated on And a ‘season’ it was: Christmas and New Year have contributed to his weight. Eventually he and Dr William celebrations spread over twelve nights. Most of the their achievements: over 5,000 catalogue entries have been Currants, dates and citrus fruits were readily available and Harvey, who was researching low carbohydrate diets and population was rural and agrarian, and at this time of created; 250 boxes of archives repackaged and preserved; easy to preserve, so it is not surprising that they feature diabetes, worked out an eating plan consisting of four meals year there was both less work to do in the fields, and less 17,000 slides digitised and 8 blog posts published. A Research prominently in many festive foods. It’s likely that most people a day of meat or fish, vegetables, excluding potatoes, and useful daylight in which to do it. Christmas Day wasn’t an workshop will be held on 9 January 2020 to introduce the reading this have eaten Twelfth Night cake, but probably not fruits. He also avoided sugar, beer, bread and dairy products. official public holiday but in the pre-industrial era, many collections to researchers and encourage discussions around on Twelfth Night. The 5th January (in the Church of England; Banting missed hot buttered toast and milk in his tea, but the businesses opted to keep shorter hours during the festive potential research projects. other denominations calculate it differently) was the end six glasses of wine and the tumbler of brandy allowed each period. day probably helped him cope. The MRI project has also lead to the identification and of the twelve day Christmas period, and was marked with another round of celebrations. A rich fruit cake was baked acquisition of further records relating to the development There were church services, gift-giving (more commonly After losing 35lbs, he published his booklet, Letter on with dried peas or beans inside, and whoever found them in of MRI at Nottingham. Similarly, a very useful bi product of on New Year’s Day than Christmas Day itself) and Corpulence, Addressed to the Public, at his own personal their slice was crowned King or Queen and led the festivities our exhibition programme is the acquisition of additional socialising that ranged from sedate to raucous, but the expense. It proved enormously popular and went through for the rest of the day. Gradually, as the celebrations became records relating to the subject of the exhibition. Therefore, I key ingredient was food. Foods were prepared weeks or multiple editions. It established ‘banting’ as a word for truncated, Twelfth Night cake became Christmas cake and am delighted that the Fully Fashioned exhibition has brought months in advance, with the intention of using up winter dieting, especially involving cutting out carbohydrates (it the tradition of adding a choking hazard-cum-prize was taken in further donations of material relating to the textile industry. stores and giving people something to look forward to in has nothing to do with ‘banter’). Many modern low-carb diet up by the Christmas pudding instead. We are always interested to hear about any collections of the cold, dark depths of December. books acknowledge Banting’s contribution, although sadly archives which readers might know about. the official government advice is to drink no more than six Food, especially meat, was used to display wealth …and New Year Blues glasses of wine per week, not per day. We continue to work on our Digital Preservation project and and social status at festive gatherings. In A Way To I am pleased to announce that we have acquired Preservica Get Wealth by Gervase Markham, the list of foods for After all that food, it’s not surprising that well-intentioned as our Digital Preservation system. Staff are now undertaking a great feast or banquet runs to two pages. Even for resolutions to eat and drink less are not a modern William Banting’s, A Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public (1864). Medical Rare Books training and beginning to implement the software. This will more modest feasts Markham suggests several courses, phenomenon. William Parsons was one of the sons of Pamphlet WD210 BAN, barcode 6200423722 mean that for the first time we will be able to acquire and including brawn (a cold terrine of meat from a pig’s Parsons & Sons Solicitors of Nottingham and kept a series of properly preserve born digital archives. head set in jelly) diaries from 1830 until 1871. In January William Parson’s with mustard, boiled 1831 he was an unmarried young man diary, 1831. MS If you would like to find out more about any aspect of our beef, roasted capon, of about 21, with a large social circle 489/2 work please do not hesitate to contact me. Meanwhile I hope chewets (minced meat and a disposable income. And, like the that you enjoy reading this edition of Discover and I would or fish combined with generations before and after like to send you best wishes for the New Year. fruit and spices), and him, he made the most of it a custard for dessert. at night and bitterly regretted it in the morning. He begins 1831 determined to avoid Gervase Markham, idleness, to avoid unwholesome A Way to get Wealth company and work hard. By the (1683). Special 7th of January he has broken Collection, S509.M2 his resolution in the first of many barcode SC2475. instances. His heavy drinking occasionally causes him to miss Mark Dorrington work and gamble more than he Keeper of Manuscripts and Special Collections ought, which he hides with varying degrees of success from his family, fiancé and friends. Unfortunately his commitment to his diary was not much greater than his commitment 2 3 Spotlight Christmas Day); days when rents were due, servants were In the 1500s a solution was arrived at which involved hired and new school terms started. Until 1752 Lady Day was removing some leap years. The new calendar was called From Lady Day to also the first day of the New Year. If we take the year 1750 as the Gregorian calendar, after Pope Gregory, who ruled an example this meant that in March the dates would run as that it should come into force in 1582. By then the Julian New Year’s Day, follows: 23rd March 1750, 24th March 1750, 25th March 1751. calendar had added ten days too many, because of its over-correction, and it was necessary to skip ten days When looking at documents created in England and Wales with the 4th October 1582 being immediately followed by or Julius Caesar before 1752 it’s important to remember this difference in 15th October 1582.
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