{"id":10545,"date":"2022-10-15T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T09:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=10545"},"modified":"2022-10-15T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T09:50:37","slug":"staffordshire-soup-kitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/10\/15\/staffordshire-soup-kitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffordshire soup kitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A timely new PhD thesis, in part a study of <a href=\"https:\/\/leicester.figshare.com\/articles\/thesis\/A_generous_helping_The_archaeology_of_soup_kitchens_and_their_role_in_post-medieval_philanthropy_1790-1914\/21187117\">post-medieval soup kitchens in Staffordshire<\/a> including around five pages in total relating to the Potteries. Public and available for download.<\/p>\n<p>Also reveals the origins of the well-known Soup Kitchen, in Stafford town centre&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thomas Salt, a banker, founded Stafford\u2019s soup kitchen as part of a \u2018house of charity\u2019 that provided lodging, clothing, and food to the poor, with an area to sit and eat. Salt\u2019s son, Sir Thomas Salt MP, handed the institution over to a committee in 1865 which then ran the institution on a subscription basis [i.e. local people undertook a sort of early crowd-funding to sustain the service]. In 1868 it limited its ambition to soup. It opened all year unlike most other soup kitchens; its premises remain in use today as a restaurant called The Soup Kitchen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m fairly sure it&#8217;s also still run by a charitable body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A timely new PhD thesis, in part a study of post-medieval soup kitchens in Staffordshire including around five pages in total relating to the Potteries. Public and available for download. Also reveals the origins of the well-known Soup Kitchen, in Stafford town centre&#8230; Thomas Salt, a banker, founded Stafford\u2019s soup kitchen as part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}