Hasty pudding versus tasty bread: regional variations in diet and nutrition during the Industrial Revolution

• Published in: Local population studies Vol. 89; no. 1; pp. 9 - 30
• Main Authors: Horrell, Sara, Oxley, Deborah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Local Population Studies Society 01.11.2012

Using parish-level information from Sir F.M. Eden's The state of the poor (1797) we can identify typical diets for the counties of England. These diets varied considerably and afforded very different standards of nutrition. We compute a nutritional score for this diet, paying attention to the p...