The magazine ‘As you like it’ was created for the staff of Joseph Rank Ltd in the 1920s. They provide a fascinating glimpse of the lives and interests of the people who worked in flour mills a hundred years ago.Named after one of Rank’s flour brands, the first issue of ‘As you like it’ was…
Author: Marina Aidoni
Eccentric millers of old – Rex Wailes
Arthur Pratt French, 1920 – FREN-1116094 The attention of the antiquary has been attracted by the old-time miller. Apparently he dabbled in the arts, as witness the eccentric Master Oliver, whose tomb upon Highdown Hill, near Worthing, was and still is an object visited by the curious. It was prepared by himself with scripture texts and verses of…
Women in the Northwestern Miller magazine
Starlina Rose Parlac’s 1934 ad featuring a woman fending off her pursuing bakers titled ‘Stop! It’s my turn to speak!’. How women are discussed in the articles and advertisements in the Northwestern Miller throughout the 1930s is invariably situated within the male printing and advertising perspective. Even articles written by women primarily address the needs…