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GRAB programme When you arrive at the University you will find the GRAB chocolate theme used in various ways. There will be a variety of engaging and exciting GRAB events, which we hope you will find interesting and useful. n GRAB events featuring special guests; Sir Dominic Cadbury and the author of Chocolate Wars, Deborah Cadbury, will provide an insight into the topics covered within the GRAB book. n You will have the opportunity to become a chocolate taster, attend one of our GRAB cocoa evenings, as well as participate in other interesting events and activities, such as discovering which exotic plants are used to make our food and where they come from around the world. n You can also attend a series of engaging specialist lectures covering a range of topics from the ethics and psychology of chocolate to Quaker capitalism. Dates and times for these events will be publicised to students throughout the first year. For more information about GRAB please visit our website www.birmingham.ac.uk/welcome/grab Information about events and activities that you can get involved in Edgbaston, Birmingham, when you arrive at the University will be available on our Welcome B15 2TT, United Kingdom website www.birmingham.ac.uk/welcome www.birmingham.ac.uk 7038 © University of Birmingham 2012. Chocolate Wars is the 2012 Great We have chosen Chocolate Wars because through the story of a Welcome to the Read at Birmingham book. All incoming Birmingham landmark, Cadbury’s, and the nation’s favourite sweet, chocolate, it provides insights into topics as diverse as ethical University of undergraduates receive the same book, capitalism, food manufacturing technologies, poverty reduction, whatever your degree course or subject. urban development, and the history of religion. Birmingham We know that the first months at university are very busy. If you The Great Read at Birmingham is part of your welcome to our want to sample rather than devour your book of chocolate, here academic community. GRAB reflects our belief that attending a leading are some suggestions. Chocolate Wars, by Deborah Cadbury, is a University, like Birmingham, is not only about studying deeply in your chosen field, but also about becoming an educated person who can Chocolate entrepreneurship: the stories of Cadbury and Hershey present to you from the University. This book engage with and find interest in many different subjects. Cadbury: Chapters 1, 2 and 5; tells the story of Birmingham’s home town Hershey: Chapters 8 and 13 chocolatier Cadbury’s from its origins as a During Welcome Week and throughout your first year, you will find GRAB themes and topics used in different ways, sometimes inside Quakerism: religion and business struggling tea, coffee, and cocoa distributor and sometimes outside the classroom. A programme of events is Chapters 1, 3, 5 and 9 in the early 19th Century, to its emergence as available on the overleaf. a leading brand and model employer, through Ethics and chocolate: the problem of slavery This book is yours. It is not an assigned text, but we do hope that you Chapters 12 and 14 to its controversial purchase by Kraft in 2010. will read and enjoy it. This book and GRAB are one part of your rich university experience. The development of chocolate: production and products Chapters 4, 6, 10, 11, 13 and 16 Health and chocolate in the nineteenth century: temperance and food purity Chapters 3, 5 and 10 The chocolate industry and social reform: responsible capitalism and Bournville Chapters 7, 9, 11 and 13 Changing times: World Wars, ethics versus profit, the purchase of Cadbury by Kraft Chapters 15–19.

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