Constance Anne Wilson is a British food historian. She was previously in charge of the special collection of cookery books at the Brotherton Library

Brotherton Library

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 of the University of Leeds

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, Leeds

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, England. She published the wide-ranging Food and Drink in Britain in 1973, and her more specialised The Book of Marmalade

Marmalade

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: its antecedents, its history and its rôle in the world today won the 1984 Diagram Prize

Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year

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 for the oddest title of the year at the Frankfurt Book Fair

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. In 2006 she published Water of Life: a history of wine-distilling and spirits; 500 BC - AD 2000. She has edited several volumes of the proceedings of the Leeds Symposium on Food History and Tradition.

Works

• 1973: Food and Drink in Britain from the Stone Age to Recent Times. London: Constable ISBN 0094560404
• 1984: Philosophers, iōsis and Water of Life. Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
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• 1985: The Book of Marmalade: its antecedents, its history and its rôle in the world today, together with a collection of recipes for marmalades & marmalade cookery. London: Constable ISBN 0094656703
• 2006: Water of Life: a history of wine-distilling and spirits from 500 BC - AD 2000. Totnes: Prospect Books ISBN 1903018463

As editor

• 1991: "Banquetting stuffe": the fare and social background of the Tudor and Stuart banquet (Proceedings of the 1st Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP ISBN 0748601031
• 1991: The Appetite and the Eye: visual aspects of food and its presentation within their historic context (Proceedings of the 2nd Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP ISBN 0748601015
• 1991: Traditional Food East and West of the Pennines (Proceedings of the 3rd Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions), Edinburgh UP, 1991 ISBN 074860118X
• 1991: Waste Not, Want Not: food preservation from early times to the present day. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP ISBN 0748601198
• 1993: "Liquid Nourishment": potable foods and stimulating drinks (Proceedings of the 5th Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP ISBN 0748604243
• 1993: Food for the community : special diets for special groups (Proceedings of the 6th Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP ISBN 0748604316
• 1993: Traditional Country House Cooking. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 0297831372
• 1994: Luncheon, Nuncheon and Other Meals: eating with the Victorians. Stroud: Sutton ISBN 075090528X
  • 2004: Eating with the Victorians. Stroud: Sutton (Previous ed. published as: Luncheon, nuncheon and other meals, 1994.)
• 1998: The Country House Kitchen Garden, 1600-1950: how produce was grown and how it was used (Based on papers from the 10th Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions). Stroud: Sutton ISBN 0750914238