Ann Bagnall

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Ann Bagnall
Born
Ann Haly

25 March 1927
Edinburgh
Died8 September 2017
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Educator, publisher

Ann O'Grady Bagnall (25 March 1927 - 8 September 2017) was a British school teacher and publisher who specialised in republishing historic cookbooks.

Biography

She was born Ann Haly in

Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.[1][2]

Bagnall worked as an art teacher in schools in East Sussex.[1] Late in life she had the idea to reprint old cookbooks and in 1987 set up her own publishing company, Southover Press, which was very successful in finding forgotten Tudor and Georgian works. She retired and sold the list to Equinox Books in 2007.[3]

Ann Haly married the education journalist Nicholas Bagnall at Battle (Hastings) in 1953.[4] She died in 2017, aged 90 years.[2][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Ann Bagnall. The Times, 15 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018. (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Ann Bagnall, publisher of historic cookbooks – obituary. The Telegraph, 26 December 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018. (subscription required)
  3. ^ "Food History/Cookery". Equinox Publishing. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 24 May 2022.