In 2016, @laurasellers.bsky.social, @kevinmatthewjones.bsky.social, Konstantin Kiprijanov and I interviewed Jon for the Integrated History and Philosophy of Science conference we had organised. You can watch the interview here ihpsleeds.wordpress.com/keynotes/

It definitely feels like it's of its time! I'm genuinely pleased this is not a current food fashion 😅

This comes from my husband's Grandma's cookbook. The fact that it's got no marks on the page suggests it wasn't a regular favourite. Even if it could be kept in the fridge for a month. Anyone fancy giving it a go and reporting back?

It's going to take weeks of grovelling to earn forgiveness for my transgression

For many, this was a place of shame and humiliation. Although we do have stories of people voluntarily taking thier stuff to be cleaned at the unit.

Everything was a one way system which went from "dirty" to "clean".

The people would go through the door on the left into a bathroom. Thier clothes were processed and cleaned and the people had to take a disinfectant bath. To retrieve thier clothes they has to be deemed clean themselves before they could pass through another door.

Items such as mattresses and bedding were loaded into carts, carried across Leeds, and then placed behind the round door to be steam cleaned before being returned to their owners.

If a sanitary inspector found someone's home to be "infested" they could forcibly take the contents of the property and it's occupants to be fumigated. The house would also be cleaned.

The model was built by two sanitary inspectors for an exhibition in Wembley. It showed the operational part of the steam disinfection plant.

The chamber pot was an advertising giveaway, because who doesn't want a tiny chamber pot for their desk?

The glasses were made by an optician and have real lenses in. Reportly, these once resided in a royal dolls house. The glasses and cases have working hinges.

The operating table was probably made by a Thackray Company apprentice in the 1940s as a practice piece.

But it's not a very well thumbed page let's put it that way

Sadly, the author never tells us if they actually had cause to use this recipe and if it, in their view, worked

They could edit photos a little bit manually, but can you imagine the commitment to spot editing required to modify those bad boys? 😅

It was probably all a bit shocking for some of his late Victorian and Edwardian readers. But he certainly had a following and was even appointed as a special instructor in physical culture to King George V