Introduction
I am a historian researching and writing on the history of food and drink in the early modern period. Much that is written about the history of food uses evidence from printed sources - cookery books, dietary advice books, etc. - with the resulting concentration on the wealthy and at best generalisations (often inaccurate) about the experience of those not so fortunate. My approach is to work from the ground up, using documentary evidence of everyday life to build up a picture of what was actually going on in the households of our forebears.
East Midlands and Early Modern
My research is focused on the East Midlands region of England (where I live and work) and the Early Modern period (c.1500 to c.1700 - the times of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs).
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Click on Research to see what I've been up to and what I'm working on now.