Acquisitions

2023.8.1

Hardbacked edition of ‘A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World’, by Erika Rappaport. Published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. 409pp with black and white photographs.

A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women – through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa – transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. […] An expansive and orginal global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.’

2023.6.4

Information about The Jags Foundation and Thistle Pins which relates to the issue of a commerative badge depicting footballer Johnny MacKenzie (1925-2017), Caoles. Can be viewed alongside a colour photograph  and an article written at the same time. Also, envelope with an address label which contains a small copy of the colour photograph of Johnny MacKenzie.