Peter Brears, Esq, FSA

Career: keeper of folk life Hampshire Co Cncl 1967-69; curator: Shibden Hall Halifax 1969-72, Clarke Hall Wakefield 1972-75, Castle Museum York 1975-79; dir Leeds City Museums 1979-94, museum conslt and writer 1994-; pres Soc for Folk Life Studies 1992; FMA 1980, FSA 1980

Books and Publications: The English Country Pottery (1971), Yorkshire Probate Inventories (1972), The Collectors' Book of English Country Pottery (1974), Horse Brasses (1981), The Gentlewoman's Kitchen (1984), Traditional Food in Yorkshire (1987), North Country Folk Art (1989), Of Curiosities and Rare Things (1989), Treasures for the People (1989), Images of Leeds (1992), Leeds Described (1993), Leeds Waterfront Heritage (1993), The Country House Kitchen (1996), The Old Devon Farmhouse (1998), Ryedale Recipes (1998), A Taste of Leeds (1998), All the King's Cooks (1999), The Compleat Housekeeper (2000), The Boke of Keruynge (2003), A New and Easy Method of Cookery (ed, 2005), Cooking and Dining in Medieval England (2008, André Simon Food Book for 2008), Traditional Food in Shropshire (2009), Jellies and their Moulds (2010), Cooking and Dining with the Wordsworths (2011); numerous articles in Folk Life, Post-Medieval Archaeology and others