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Works cited and selected bibliography

Works cited 

The Colmans of Norwich 

J. Mardle, 'Jonathan Mardle writes on Jeremiah James Colman', Eastern Daily Press (15 September 1948). 

L. E. Stuart, In Memoriam. Caroline Colman (Norwich, 1896), p. 45. 

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Mustard and Co: making and selling Colman's products 

S. H. Edgar, The History of J. & J. Colman, unpublished typescript, n.d. p. 2. 

Yellow, White & Blue. The Advertising Art of J & J Colman Ltd (Norwich School of Art, 1977) pp. 46-47. 

P. Clarke, Mr Churchill's Profession. Statesman, Orator, Writer (Bloomsbury, 2013), p. 23. 

Go to the Mustard and Co webpage.

Working at the Colman's 

 'The Carrow Colony'. A history of Colman's of Norwich (Colman's of Norwich, n.d., n.p.) 

C. B. Hawkins, Norwich, A Social Study, 1910, cited in V. Morton, 'Colman's and 19th-century Norwich', East Anglian Studies: the Nineteenth Century (Open University, 1984), p. 76. 

R. Church and C. Clarke, 'Cleanliness Next to Godliness: Christians in the Victorian Starch Industry', Business and Economic History, Vol. 28, no. 2, (Fall 1999), p. 84. 

D. K. Jones, 'Jeremiah James Colman (1830-1898) and the Protestant ethic thesis: a biographical study', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 80, no. 1 (March 1998), pp. 170-71. 

Go to the Working at the Colman's webpage.

Selected bibliography 

Yellow, White & Blue. The Advertising Art of J & J Colman Ltd (Norwich School of Art, 1977). 

Blackman, Aylward M. 'A Painted Pottery Model of a Granary in the Collection of the Late Jeremiah James Colman, Esq., of Carrow House, Norwich', The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 6, no. 1 (1920): 206-208. 

Church, Roy, 'Colman family', The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.

Church, Roy, and Christine Clark. "Cleanliness next to godliness: Christians in the Victorian starch industry." Business and Economic History 28, no. 1 (1999): 81-91. 

Church, Roy, and Christine Clark. 'Purposive strategy or serendipity? Development and diversification in three consumer product companies, 1918-39: j. & J. Colman, Reckitt & Sons, and Lever Bros./Unilever', Business History 45, no. 1 (2003): 23-59. 

Colman, Helen Caroline. Jeremiah James Colman: A Memoir. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1905. 

Halsey, Richard. 'Carrow Priory Church, Norwich and the Introduction of Gothic Architecture to Norfolk', In Medieval and Early Modern Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Norwich, pp. 162-180. Routledge, 2024. 

Jones, Diana K. 'Jeremiah James Colman (1830-1898) and the Protestant ethic thesis: a biographical study', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 80, no. 1 (1998): 153-172. 

Morton, Vanessa, 'Colman's and 19th-century Norwich', East Anglian Studies: the Nineteenth Century (Open University, 1984). 

Peake, Richard Brinsley. Memoirs of the Colman Family, including their correspondence with the most distinguished personages of their time. Vol. 1. R. Bentley, 1841. 

Scrivens, Phyllida. The Lady Lord Mayors of Norwich, 1923-2017. Pen and Sword, 2018, pp. 1-8. 

Stuart, Laura Elizabeth, and Alan Cozens-Hardy Colman. In Memoriam: Alan Cozens-Hardy Colman, private circulation, 1898. 

Stuart, Laura Elizabeth Colman. In Memoriam: Caroline Colman. Fletcher and Son, 1896. 

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