24,000 Liters of Wine in the Hold: 40 Years of Globalization

24,000 Liters of Wine in the Hold: 40 Years of Globalization

Remember that song “99 bottles of beer on the wall?” Singing down the numbers helped children endure long car journeys before tablets, even if it drove their parents to distraction. …

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Trade, Trust and Madeira

Trade, Trust and Madeira

An age of commerce and civility was how many eighteenth-century thinkers, including the Scots Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson and Frenchmen such as Turgot, saw their own time. Unlike previous…

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Shingles, Blogging, and Opportunities in Food History

  I’ve not had such a long holiday from blogging since I started, I think in 2008. Shingles: A Public Service Message The reason? Shingles, aka Herpes Zoster.  It’s enough…

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