Catering and Hospitality Trade Press Periodicals: Their Emergence, Their Memories, Their Preservation
Mansey, C.J. (2024) Catering and Hospitality Trade Press Periodicals: Their Emergence, Their Memories, Their Preservation. In: The 7th International Biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, 28-29 May 2024, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
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Abstract
In Victorian England, cultural, industrial, technological, and financial flows led to two industries being subject to processes of professionalisation: catering and hospitality, and the independent press. As such, a new form of media emerged, the trade press, which catered for those working in the catering and hospitality industry. This press content documents not only the industry’s operations, but also the aspirations and attitudes of employees, their employers, and other key stakeholders. This allows for us to glimpse into past lifeworlds and extract forgotten memories. We are able to witness how ethnoscapes characterised the trade, but also led to integration conflicts. Hence, uniting, while segregating those involved in the rise of restaurant dining with varying consequences. Nationalistic voices clash with cosmopolitan ideals in the pages of these periodicals. Yet, these sources remain underutilised, while endowing historicity. The reasons for this may be because of issues with archival cataloguing and the scale of this material, as Shattock and Wolff (1982) have suggested. To add to this, I propose that this is due to the exigent nature of locating appropriate titles, which are often hardcopy, and the limited scholarship published on the topic of working with such sources. Accordingly, this paper seeks to not only supply details of these periodicals and their value, but calls for their preservation, via digitalisation, so that those interested in the history of food, now and in the future, might engage with and learn from these rich resources.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Catering, hospitality, trade press periodicals, journalism, professionalism, Victorian, Edwardian, London, immigration, nationalism. |
| Divisions: | School of Social Science |
| Depositing User: | Carina Mansey |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2024 09:56 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2024 09:56 |
| URI: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1152 |
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