All Outputs (93)

Cheesemaking in Cheshire 1550–1750 (2024)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. J., & Lamberton, A. (online). Cheesemaking in Cheshire 1550–1750. Northern History, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2024.2373777

This article supports a material turn in agricultural and food history by focusing on the utensils and equipment, along with the embodied practices involved in cheesemaking. The period of interest is the long seventeenth century when rich source mate... Read More about Cheesemaking in Cheshire 1550–1750.

Navy victuallers and the rise of Cheshire cheese (2022)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. J. (2022). Navy victuallers and the rise of Cheshire cheese. International Journal of Maritime History, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714221080256

In the 1990s Charles Foster claimed that a commercial Cheshire cheese trade began in 1650, the year when the first coastwise cargo from Chester was recorded in the London port books. One purpose of this research note is to embellish Foster's claim by... Read More about Navy victuallers and the rise of Cheshire cheese.

International curriculum transfer in geography in higher education: an example (2014)
Journal Article
Khan, A. U., Hassan, M., & Atkins, P. J. (2014). International curriculum transfer in geography in higher education: an example. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 38(3), 348-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2014.912617

Internationalization of geography in higher education comes in many guises. This paper discusses some of these, with particular attention to curriculum development and transfer. The context is Bangladesh and a case study is presented of a link progra... Read More about International curriculum transfer in geography in higher education: an example.

A social history of the science of food analysis and the control of adulteration. (2013)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2013). A social history of the science of food analysis and the control of adulteration. In A. Murcott, W. Belasco, & P. Jackson (Eds.), The Handbook of Food Research. Bloomsbury

Bovine tuberculosis and badgers in Britain: relevance of the past (2013)
Journal Article
Atkins, P., & Robinson, P. (2013). Bovine tuberculosis and badgers in Britain: relevance of the past. Epidemiology and Infection, 141(Special issue 7), 1437-1444. https://doi.org/10.1017/s095026881200297x

The European badger (Meles meles) has been identified as a wildlife reservoir of bovine tuberculosis and a source of transmission to cattle in Britain and Ireland. Both behavioural ecology and statistical ecological modelling have indicated the long-... Read More about Bovine tuberculosis and badgers in Britain: relevance of the past.

Coalition culls and zoonotic ontologies (2013)
Journal Article
Atkins, P., & Robinson, P. (2013). Coalition culls and zoonotic ontologies. Environment and Planning A, 45(6), 1372-1386. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45668

Diseases which can pass between animals and humans (zoonoses) have been headline news several times in the last ten years. This paper looks at bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the United Kingdom, which, although not a major health hazard for humans, has... Read More about Coalition culls and zoonotic ontologies.

Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories. (2012)
Book
Atkins, P. (Ed.). (2012). Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories. Ashgate Publishing

Food security, safety, and crises: 1920-2000 (2012)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2012). Food security, safety, and crises: 1920-2000. In A. Bentley (Ed.), A cultural history of food in the modern age (69-86). Berg

The Urban Blood and Guts Economy (2012)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2012). The Urban Blood and Guts Economy. In P. Atkins (Ed.), Animal cities : beastly urban histories (77-106). Ashgate Publishing

Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London (2012)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2012). Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London. In P. Atkins (Ed.), Animal cities : beastly urban histories (19-51). Ashgate Publishing

The Charmed Circle (2012)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2012). The Charmed Circle. In P. Atkins (Ed.), Animal cities : beastly urban histories (53-76). Ashgate Publishing

Introduction (2012)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2012). Introduction. In P. Atkins (Ed.), Animal cities : beastly urban histories (1-17). Ashgate Publishing

Application of geostatistics with Indicator Kriging for analyzing spatial variability of groundwater arsenic concentrations in southwest Bangladesh. (2011)
Journal Article
Hassan, M., & Atkins, P. (2011). Application of geostatistics with Indicator Kriging for analyzing spatial variability of groundwater arsenic concentrations in southwest Bangladesh. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering, 46(11), 1185-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/10934529.2011.598771

The material histories of food quality and composition (2011)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (2011). The material histories of food quality and composition. Endeavour, 35(2-3), 74-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2011.06.003

This article argues for material histories of food. In recent decades food historians have tended to emphasize the cultural factors in consumption, in addition to the already well-established social, political and economic perspectives, but what is s... Read More about The material histories of food quality and composition.

Communal feeding in war time: British restaurants, 1940-1947 (2011)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2011). Communal feeding in war time: British restaurants, 1940-1947. In I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska, R. Duffett, & A. Drouard (Eds.), Food and war in twentieth century Europe (139-153). Ashgate Publishing

Lobbying and resistance with regard to policy on bovine tuberculosis: an inside/outside model of Britain, 1900-1939 (2010)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2010). Lobbying and resistance with regard to policy on bovine tuberculosis: an inside/outside model of Britain, 1900-1939. In M. Worboys, & F. Condrau (Eds.), Tuberculosis then and now : perspectives on the history of an infectious disease (189-212). (!st ed.). McGill-Queen’s University Press

Small water bodies in Bangladesh (2010)
Journal Article
Huda, K., Atkins, P., Donoghue, D., & Cox, N. (2010). Small water bodies in Bangladesh. Area, 42(2), 217-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00909.x

Excavations are easy in the soft, unconsolidated sediments of Bangladesh and are widespread for the creation of raised, flood-free homestead platforms. Small water bodies form in the resulting hollows and are used for fisheries, livestock management,... Read More about Small water bodies in Bangladesh.

Liquid materialities: a history of milk, science and the law. (2010)
Book
Atkins, P. (2010). Liquid materialities: a history of milk, science and the law. Ashgate Publishing

The material that we call milk is a food that has been revered and ignored, respected and feared, in almost equal measure. This book is a history of attempts to bring it under control, manipulate its naturally variable composition and, in effect, red... Read More about Liquid materialities: a history of milk, science and the law..

Conclusion (2009)
Book Chapter
Oddy, D., & Atkins, P. (2009). Conclusion. In D. Oddy, P. Atkins, & V. Amilien (Eds.), The rise of obesity in Europe : a twentieth century food history (223-233). Ashgate Publishing

Introduction (2009)
Book Chapter
Oddy, D., & Atkins, P. (2009). Introduction. In D. Oddy, P. Atkins, & V. Amilien (Eds.), The rise of obesity in Europe : a twentieth century food history (1-11). Ashgate Publishing