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Roger Crab, English soldier, writer and vegetarianRoger Crab (1621-1680), English soldier, haberdasher, herbal doctor, writer and vegetarian. 17th century
Poster, The effects of over-cooking and keeping hot. Vitamin value, goodness, taste go up in smoke - result is waste. 1945
Poster, Cod Liver Oil and Orange JuicePoster, Don t forget Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice, Ministry of Food. circa 1948
Poster, Chart III, vitamins from your allotment, WW2Poster, Chart III, vitamins from your allotment - how to get enough Vitamin A and Vitamin C each day. 1940s
Poster, Chart IV, Vitamin C in cabbage, WW2Poster, Chart IV, Vitamin C in cabbage. 1940s
Empire Marketing Board milk posterPoster promoting milk for a " milk made complexion". Date: c.1928
Scene inside a British Restaurant, one of a number of communal restaurants during the Second World War providing a cooked meal, with dessert and a cup of tea, for around the cost of 1s.2d
Roman art. Italy. Fresco. Basket of figs. 1st century AD. Oplontis. Campania. Italy
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14 th century. Medieval handbook of healTacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man offering turnips. Miniature. Fol. 51 r
Empire Marketing Board milk posterPoster produced by the Empire Marketing Board encouraging children to drink more milk depicting a small girl and a baby in its pram holding their cup and bottle aloft to the toast the king
Roman. Spain. Empuries. Bowl of fruit. NutsRoman. Spain. Empuries. Bowl of fruit (nuts). Late Roman era. Episcopal Museum. Vic
Czech Republic. Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. Golden Gate. WrCzech Republic. Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. Golden Gate. Grid. Wrought Iron. Detail. Hay harvesting
Japanese history. Fruit seller. Colored engraving from 1882
Japanese family eating. Nineteenth-century colored engraving
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Woman cookingTacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval handbook of health. Woman cooking
Advertising sheet music, Plasmon biscuitsAdvertising sheet music, Plasmon cocoa and chocolate oat biscuits. A popular song, Humpty and Dumpty, by Charles Wilmott and Hermann E Darewski. 1907
Oxo advertisement, WWIAdvertisement for Oxo, an inestimable boon to the fighting forces at this time of the year. Advert is illustrated by two scenes showing British soldiers manning a machine gun on the front line
Hovis advertisementAdvertisement for Hovis bread with a young daughter embracing her mother who is holding a nourishing looking loaf. Date: 1922
WW1 Oxo advertisementAdvertisement for Oxo suggesting Oxo and potato cakes as a delicious (and economical) luncheon during the First World War. Date: 1918
Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916
Oxo advertisement with trench scene, WW1Advertisement for Oxo, for men at the Front and in training, with an excellent accompanying picture illustrating the grim conditions borne by soldiers in the trenches
Allinson wholemeal bread advertisement, WW1Advertisement for Allinson wholemeal bread from the First World War, a period when the nation was encouraged to eat wholemeal, rather than white, bread. Date: 1918
Advertisement for Savory & Moores Food 1914Advertisement for Savory & Moores Food for the Happy Baby. Showing a healthy looking baby holding Savory & Moores tin. 1914
Healthcare for children under five years 1947If your child is under five. Issued by the Ministry of Food. It isn t only the tiny baby, but the child right up to five years, who needs cod liver oil and orange juice every day
Advertisement for Savory & Moores Food for the Happy Baby. Showing a healthy looking baby drinking from a bottle. Date: 1914
Germany - The Eccentric Weisgarber FamilyThe Eccentric Vegetarian Weisgarber Family from Blankenburg (Harz) - a town and health resort in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, at the north foot of the Harz Mountains
Silhouette, An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor AwayAn Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away -- silhouette showing two schoolchildren, a girl and a boy, walking along eating an apple each
Healthcare for children under five years 1948Issued by the Ministry of Food, to make adults aware what food and drink to give their under fives, so they will grow healthy
Contemplating a nutritional advice poster in London, 1940sA woman and her little girl contemplate a large poster advising the British population to eat greens for vitality in an unidentified London street c. 1945. c.1945
Poster, Green Vegetables Keep You WellWartime poster, Green Vegetables Keep You Well. Prevention is better than cure. 1940s
Information poster, essential foodsInformation poster giving details of essential foods needed during wartime rationing. 1940s
Poster, Eat Plenty of Green VegetablesWartime poster, Eat Plenty of Green Vegetables and Keep Fit. 1940s
Such a Thirsty Maid by Muriel DawsonAn adorable little girl with a blunt bob and brown eyes, enthusiastically drinks a glass of milk
Manual of Workhouse Cookery, coverThe cover of a well used copy of the Manual of Workhouse Cookery, marked Matrons Use in the top left corner. The book was published in 1901 alongside a major revision of workhouse diets
Quakers aid refugees WWIIThe Quakers organised that each child on board the refugee steamer received a glass of milk twice a day
Children Eating SoupTwo children, neatly dressed, and with napkins around their necks tuck in enthusiastically to a steaming bowl of Campbells vegetable soup
Ralston Wheat Cereal AdTwo little boys combine muscles and it looks as if one hasn t been enjoying the healthy, nutritional benefits of Ralston Wheat Cereal
Campbells Veg SoupAdvert for Campbells canned condensed vegetable soup showing a trio of healthy young children indulging in a pillow fight
Santorios Balance C16Santorio (b.1561) weighed himself for 24 hour periods and proved that weight gain or loss varied according to the type of food consumed
