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Brewers’ tales: making, retailing and regulating beer in Southampton, 1550-1700
Posted on April 15, 2013 | No CommentsBrewers' tales: making, retailing and regulating beer in Southampton, 1550-1700 James R. Brown Journal of the Brewery History Society, No.135 (2010) Abstract For some years now early modernists have been... -
Women, ale and company in early modern London
Posted on April 15, 2013 | No CommentsWomen, ale and company in early modern London Tim Reinke-Williams Journal of the Brewery History Society, No.135 (2010) Abstract This article explores attitudes to female ale- and beer-drinkers and the... -
Promoting the Pint: Ale and Advertising in late Victorian and Edwardian England
Posted on January 8, 2013 | No CommentsNineteenth-century brewers displayed more creativity when it came to advertising their wares than they have been given credit for by the trade’s historians. -
An Introduction to the Coffee-house: a discursive model
Posted on January 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe distinctive features of coffee-house sociability were egalitarianism, congeniality and conversation. Although there were important differences between the coffee-houses of Istanbul and London, there were also some intriguing similarities, including the manifestation of this distinctive sociability. -
Vinum Britannicum: The “Drink Question” in Early Modern England
Posted on December 31, 2012 | No CommentsThis article highlights the influence of English medical writing on the work of Benjamin Rush, concluding that Rush is best considered as a conduit for ideas already circulating in England rather than as the source of a novel approach to alcohol. -
‘Man is a dining animal’: the archaeology of the English at table, c.1750-1900
Posted on December 20, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis covers the material culture of food and dining c.1750-1900. At first view this is a long period to attempt to cover within the remit of a doctoral thesis, which might reasonably be expected to concentrate on one specific aspect of the dining experience or a single case study within the period, or to consider a few decades only. The length of the period to be considered has been dictated by the wish to study and explain large-scale changes in dining in England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. -
From courtly curiosity to revolutionary refreshment: Turkish coffee and English politics in the Seventeenth Century
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No CommentsWhy was coffee so fashionable yet so divisive a political symbol during the latter half of the seventeenth century? -
Poor Relief in Edinburgh and the Famine of 1621-24
Posted on October 22, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough Scottish (and English) historians have not ignored the famine of 1621-24, the crisis still needs to be adequately contextualised within investigations into the development of poor relief in the early seventeenth century. -
A Woman’s World: How Afternoon Tea Defined and Hindered Victorian Middle Class Women
Posted on October 7, 2012 | No CommentsAs England developed in the Industrial Revolution, fear grew that the rapidly changing society would threaten the patriarchal system. Technological advances allowed women to participate in manual labor alongside men, which was quite an attack on traditional gender roles. With the public sphere changing, home life was viewed as the means to stabilize society. Tea, long the dominion of women, was a method used for such a cause. -
Eat, drink, man, woman: Food, eating, and social formations in Renaissance culture and drama
Posted on September 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation explores the ways in which representations of food and eating in the drama and culture of Early Modern England contribute to its social formation. -
‘Masters of their own throats’: the 1834 beer strikes
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No Comments'What … are the journeymen of England to be brought down to the state of degradation and slavery, that they are not even to be masters of their own throats? Must they be told that they must drink whatever their employers think proper to give them?' -
England’s Domestic Chemists: Science and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century Recipe Collections
Posted on September 9, 2012 | No CommentsThis historical re-appraisal of the eighteenth-century recipe collection aims to uncover the often unassuming roles of England's domestic chemists. -
John Jarret and Roaring Dick of Dover: Popular Attitudes toward Drinking in Seventeenth-Century England
Posted on July 19, 2012 | No CommentsThis essay argues that a certain type of source, the seventeenth-century broadside ballad, may provide some insight into the attitudes held toward drinking by those at the lower end of the social scale. -
Finding Real Life In Cookbooks: The Adventures Of A Culinary Historian
Posted on June 26, 2012 | No CommentsI am a culinary historian: I study how food is obtained, preserved, prepared, and eaten, and the very considerable freight of cultural meaning that these processes carry with them. -
Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now
Posted on June 14, 2012 | No CommentsIn dietetic and natural philosophical frameworks of the period from Antiquity to the seventeenth century, the subjective experiences of taste, and indeed the experiences of digestion, testified to the make-up of the world's edible portions. -
Alcohol taxes in early modern England did little to stop drinking, study says
Posted on May 29, 2012 | No CommentsSteep rises in taxes on alcohol do not necessarily reduce consumption, according to research into the history of intoxicants in 16th and 17th century England. -
The chapel and the chamber: ceremonial dining and religious ritual at the court of King Charles I
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsThis dissertation explores the ritual behavior and material culture associated with ceremonial dining at the court of King Charles I of England (b.1600 – d.1649) -
The Origins of Tea Drinking in Britain
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsSoft drinks other than tea were, as we shall see, only just starting to gain a foothold on the island. Today, with the hindsight of history, we know that no other country in Europe has been so influenced by the arrival of this leaf as Britain was,