Victualling and British History
Don’t you love that word? Victualling Supplying with food. And let’s supply some food for thought. N.A.M Rogers, in his magisterial history of the British Navy in the eighteenth century,…
Read moreGreat Opportunity-Call for Papers on Court Cooking in 19th Century Europe
Here’s a call for papers on a great topic: what happened to the food of royal courts in nineteenth century Europe. As I see it, courts had been the centers…
Read moreBooks that shed light. Richards, The Unending Frontier
For the past several weeks I’ve been perusing John F. Richards’ The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California, 2005). There’s a lot of it to…
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