Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Meals For Working Families in England 1912

 This chart shows the average weekly diet of one working class family from Oxfordshire in England, in 1912. It was included in the book “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem” by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, published in 1917. 


Source: Services Archaeology and Heritage Association

 

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous11:46 am

    If that's the menu ad nauseam, I'd be welcoming death by clogged arteries at the age of 45....

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