The Ephemera of Food Packaging

Inspiration for using ephemera in your research and teaching

14.00 Introduction (Sue Walker)

14.10 The Brusson Company and baguette bags (Michael Twyman)

14.30 MERL Collections: milk bottles, Huntley and Palmer biscuit tins and more (Guy Baxter)

14.40 Health narratives on food labels 1850-1970 (Bodil Olsen)

15.00 Tea break

15.30 ‘The perfection of foods’: the marketing of cocoa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Julie-Anne Lambert)

15.50 What people respond to on food packaging (Alison Black)

16.00 Discussion