Come to Summer School in Rhos-on-Sea 28/- all inclusive for a week = £ 1.20 = approx US$ 1.85 Choice of 2 locations – select your dates. Original postcard in our – Ernest Bell Library Collection – more. Oops – too late – the date has passed – it was held in 1910 – here are some of the participants. Click on the photo below to see them all. Front Row Centre…
Draped in loose flowing garments and with long hair they worked in the gardens and fields, built spartan timber cabins and found relaxation in dancing and naked bathing, exposing their bodies to light, air, sun and water. Their diet excluded all animal foods and was based entirely on plants, vegetables and fruit. Joseph Salomonson – plant eater & ‘dietician’ Salt is the first link in a chain of modern evils.…
HappyCow Directory UK – 1881 In 1881 the entire UK had just 20 lacto-ovo vegetarian eating places & 22 food stores. The first title is ‘tongue in cheek’, HappyCow started in 1999, this ‘Directory’ is 118 years older, it is from the December 1881 issue of The Dietetic Reformer & Vegetarian Messenger – more discussion below. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
The ‘Alpha’ Restaurant There are now almost 110,000 reviews published on HappyCow. This is the earliest vegetarian restaurant ‘review’ which we have yet found – it was published on Feb. 7, 1880 – a Saturday. The ‘Alpha’ opened in London, UK in 1879 & promoted itself as London’s “First Food Reform Restaurant”. The ‘Alpha’ was the project of a ‘highly controversial’ couple – Thomas Low Nichols (1815–1901) & Mary Gove Nichols (1810 – 1884) . More…
Much more from Dan Piraro – here. Can you imagine living without salads? In the 1500s Queen Catherine (Catherine Parr – 1512–1548 – sixth wife of Henry the Eighth of England), would send a servant by boat from London, down the River Thames & across the English Channel, to France – to get a ‘take-away salad’ & bring it back to her! ~ The simple fact of the introduction of the…
Végétalisme historique / Historical Veganism The French were 20+ years ahead of the British in creating the names – le végétalisme – végétalien – végétalienne – ……for what Dorothy & Donald Watson termed – veganism – vegan – in 1944. Here we will give some tasters of French veganism going back to the early 20th Century. Most of the links in this blog post go to French sources. We will also present Jean…
‘..abandoning all animal food..’ = consuming nothing which has an animal source = 100% vegetarian = vegan Some Very Pleasant History Discussions of Vegan Advocacy from the 1840s An 1851 Article by R. T. Trall Russell Thacher ‘R. T.’ Trall’s – autographed 1860s Carte de Visite. The original is in the Ernest Bell Library. The article appeared in an Almanac published in London, UK in 1851 – by the London, UK based vegan, William Horsell. …
A wonderful vegan recipe book tainted by an old story. Un merveilleux livre de recettes vegan entachée par une vieille histoire. A source of the annoying – ‘Hitler was a vegetarian’ rumor – countered by Rynn Berry – see below. Ernest Bell Library item – Maïa Charpentier. – La Bonne Cuisine végétalienne. 500 recettes pratiques. Préface de Prosper Montagné. Editions La Caravelle & Imprimerie d’Art “Le Croquis”, 6, rue Bezout,…
The Ernest Bell Library is holding 2 original copies of the book – ‘The Logic Of Vegetarianism : Essays And Dialogues’ / by Henry S. Salt. London : Ideal Publishing Union 1899 Physical description vi, 119 p. ; 19 cm. See the images below. I will firstly focus on one key section of the book, from page 11 – it is copied & transcribed below – Part of an 1899 discussion…
We could add many more links & notes to this blog piece. Vegetarianism, early veganism, the dawn of the animal rights movement, the roots of socialism, humanitarianism, the anti-vivisection movement, the suffragette movement, the anti-child labor movement & closely related causes, in 1880s & 1890s London, are most interesting topics to study. Probably 20% of our Ernest Bell Library collection is related in some way to these movements / causes…
Beans, Logic & Consistency The Roots of Veganism When reading these old texts, please remember that there were very few vegetarian / vegan eating places in those days. London’s first vegetarian restaurants opened in the 1870s. Gradual change was often advised in books / journals – firstly giving up eating the meat of land animals – then giving up eating fish – then leaving dairy & eggs. Intensive factory farming was not yet…
A popular item in our Ernest Bell Library – the book – Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war. By Louise “Lizzy” Lind-af-Hageby – 1917 Lizzy was a member of the original Humanitarian League. She worked closely with Henry S. Salt, Ernest Bell, Jessey Wade & the other active members. Our collection of Lizzy’s books, journals, photographs, medals & pins is rarely ‘put away’ – it…
Not 2, not 3 but 10.9 a week! A ‘bowels-oriented’ post Ernest Bell Library item – a 1907 postcard, indirectly insulting us British veg[etari]ans – ……but (as always) we get the last laugh – our vegan bowels / bellies / guts / innards / interiors / intestines / recesses…… call them what you will …… – are (on average) as clean as whistles & in (well above average) working order. Vegetarian: “I don’t…