How did bread reflect relationships between people and environments? How and why did those relationships change in the 19th century?
How did bread reflect relationships between people and environments? How and why did those relationships change in the 19th century?
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History 114, Fall 2020
“A Biography of Modern British Bread” Reading Worksheet
1. What was the significance of bread in the Victorian diet?
2. How did white bread and brown bread differ? What were the causes of this difference? Why did people generally desire white bread over brown?
3. What was the Assize of Bread? How did it work, how was it an example of the “moral economy,” and why was it significant in the history of British bread?
4. How did British bread change in the centuries between the Assize (the 13th century) and the 19th century?
5. How did bread reflect relationships between people and environments? How and why did those relationships change in the 19th century?
6. How did “modern” British bread differ from older forms of bread?
7. What challenges and opportunities did globalized, imported wheat present to British millers and bakers? How did they meet those challenges?
8. How was cultural significance and meaning linked to bread? How did bread’s cultural meaning change?
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