Category Archives: Material Culture
Newcastle Champion Ales: the Beers that Swept the Board at the Brewers Exhibition, 1928
Newcastle Brown Ale was originally created by Lieutenant Colonel James (‘Jim’) Herbert Porter (b. 1892, Burton upon Trent), a third generation brewer at Newcastle Breweries in 1927. Porter had refined the […]
The Little Newcastle Brown Ale Book
‘The Little Newcastle Brown Ale Book’ by Scott Dobson and Jim Merrington, Geordieland Press (1977)
Newcastle Brown Ale 1927 advert
‘Entirely New Newcastle Brown Ale’ advert, re-printed in a rare publication of ‘The Little Newcastle Brown Ale Book’ by Scott Dobson and Jim Merrington, Geordieland Press (1977)
The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective by Igor Kopytoff
Particularly useful article by Igor Kopytoff, informing object biographical methods: Kopytoff_CulturalBiography
Geordie Jeans
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