history
New Age concordium gazette and temperance advocate
A search on Google Books for early use of the word 'vegetarian' brings up a lot of junk with wrong dates etc. Unfortunately the e…
Joseph Ritson (1761-1830)
Joseph Ritson (Engraving by James Sayers, published in 1803)
Roots of vegetarianism
Banish from your mind any image you may have of an industrial, murky, smog-bound Salford. Imagine it as a small, suburban settlem…
Salford's first MP
Joseph Brotherton was born in the village of Whittington, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on May 22nd, 1783, the second son of Mar…
John Snow (1813-1858)
wikipedia: "John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and med…
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Note: there is no evidence that Southey adopted a meatless diet, however he was in close contact with Shelley in Keswick in early…