Bryce Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryce Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryce |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool Hope University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marks and Spencer and the changing face of staff dining culture in twentieth century Britain
In recent years - against a backdrop of public concerns around food poverty and diet-related disease in Britain - there have been calls from some for a return to a national ‘canteen culture’. This article seeks to explore this by scrutinising the wider historic impact on British staff dining culture of a giant of UK retail, Marks and Spencer, examining the company’s impact upon a key aspect of food culture in the twentieth century: the staff cant…
Introduction: Black Markets During the Second World War
Nadja Durbach, Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State
Nadja Durbach’s survey of food programmes initiated by the British government runs ‘from the workhouse to the welfare state’ but leaves many gaps along the way. In charting the ideological waves on which the politics of food were borne—from classic liberalism, through new liberalism, war socialism and finally welfare statism—the book spans 140 years. In line with Durbach’s determination to reject a ‘progressive or linear’ narrative, preferring to…
The National Kitchen in Britain, 1917–1919
This article provides the very first history of the ‘national kitchens’ of the First World War, which existed between 1917 and 1919, and argues that as one of several techniques for feeding Britain they formed a popular arm of British wartime food supply policy. It outlines how the Ministry of Food tried to position the new phenomenon of state-sponsored communal dining within national cultural parameters: culinary, social, and political. It explo…
Ireland during the Second World War: Farewell to Plato's Cave
Coercion in the Irish Countryside: The Irish Smallholder, the State, and Compulsory Tillage 1939-45
Coercion in the Irish Countryside: The Irish Smallholder, the State, and Compulsory Tillage 1939-45
Ireland during the Second World War: Farewell to Plato's Cave
The National Kitchen in Britain, 1917–1919
This article provides the very first history of the ‘national kitchens’ of the First World War, which existed between 1917 and 1919, and argues that as one of several techniques for feeding Britain they formed a popular arm of British wartime food supply policy. It outlines how the Ministry of Food tried to position the new phenomenon of state-sponsored communal dining within national cultural parameters: culinary, social, and political. It explo…
Nadja Durbach, Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State
Nadja Durbach’s survey of food programmes initiated by the British government runs ‘from the workhouse to the welfare state’ but leaves many gaps along the way. In charting the ideological waves on which the politics of food were borne—from classic liberalism, through new liberalism, war socialism and finally welfare statism—the book spans 140 years. In line with Durbach’s determination to reject a ‘progressive or linear’ narrative, preferring to…
Introduction: Black Markets During the Second World War
Marks and Spencer and the changing face of staff dining culture in twentieth century Britain
In recent years - against a backdrop of public concerns around food poverty and diet-related disease in Britain - there have been calls from some for a return to a national ‘canteen culture’. This article seeks to explore this by scrutinising the wider historic impact on British staff dining culture of a giant of UK retail, Marks and Spencer, examining the company’s impact upon a key aspect of food culture in the twentieth century: the staff cant…
History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · 1939-1945 (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Clothing (1 works)