John Burnett
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Long before Jamie Oliver’s crusade, the provision of food in schools aroused passionate debate. John Burnett remembers one hundred years of school meals in Britain.
Published February 15 2006
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Jamie Oliver is the latest in a long line of food reformers. John Burnett looks at the campaign of the Reform Bread League to improve the nation’s loaf.
Published April 20 2005
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by Gillian Sutherland, in collaboration with Stephen Sharp
Published February 1 1985
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John Burnett compares two memoirs of life at the rough end of 19th and early 20th century Britain
Published July 31 1983
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Jeremy Seabrook Published March 31 1983
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The autobiographies of ordinary men and women are an important, though neglected, source of social history. John Burnett, Professor of Social History at Brunel University, has been collecting and studying these writings, many of them unpublished, for several years. This month and next, History Today is publishing an extract from the section on education in his book, Destiny Obscure.
Published October 1 1982
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