Podcast Episodes

Shakespearean Food & Drink with Sam Bilton

Season 9 Episode 12

My guest on The British Food History Podcast today food historian and friend of the show Sam Bilton, podcaster and author of Much Ado About Cooking Delicious Shakespearean Feasts for Every Occasion, …

Published on 8 hours ago

Welsh Sheep & Cattle with Carwyn Graves

Season 9 Episode 11

My guest today is food historian Carwyn Graves, a specialist in the foodways and traditions of Wales, and we are talking about Welsh Sheep and Cattle – and their products.

Carwyn has written a wonder…

Published on 1 week ago

Subversive Feasting in Medieval King & Commoner Tales with Mark Truesdale

Season 9 Episode 10

My guest on The British Food History Podcast today is historian Mark Truesdale, scholar of the fifteenth-century King and Commoner tradition and its early modern afterlife and author of The King and …

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Housekeepers & Butlers with Peter Brears

Season 9 Episode 9

In today’s episode, I speak with Peter Brears, a world-leading food historian. He was director of both York and Leeds City Museums, and is a consultant to the National Trust, English Heritage and His…

Published on 1 month ago

Worcester Porcelain with Paul Crane

Season 9 Episode 8

In this episode, I talk with ceramics expert Paul Crane FSA about the early years of Worcester porcelain. Paul is a consultant at the Brian Haughton Gallery, St James’s, London, and a specialist in C…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Ireland, Ale & the Colonising British with Christina Wade

Season 9 Episode 7

In this episode, I speak with Christina Wade, a beer historian specialising in the UK and Ireland, with a particular focus on women. She has written an excellent book, Filthy Queens: A History of Bee…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

BONUS EPISODE: Serve it Forth Food History Festival Special

Season 9 Episode 6

Hello there everyone!

Here’s a quick special bonus episode for you – the lowdown on the Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025 sponsored by the excellent Netherton Foundry.

My fellow festival coordi…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Derbyshire Oatcakes with Mark Dawson

Season 9 Episode 6

My guest today is Mark Dawson, food historian, specialising in the food of the Tudor period, but also the food of Derbyshire. We met up at Mark’s home in Derbyshire to talk all things Derbyshire oatc…

Published on 2 months ago

A Rare Early Modern Cheese Manuscript with Alex Bamji

Season 9 Episode 5

My guest today is Alex Bamji, Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, and we are talking about a rare treatise on cheese dating from the Early Modern Period.

We met up …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Bread & Bakers with David Wright

Season 9 Episode 4

My guest today is third generation baker, writer and teacher David Wright author of the excellent book Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped our World published by Aurum.

We talk about the social benefits…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago