Podcast Episodes

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 day, 10 hours 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 1 week 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 weeks, 4 days 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 4 weeks ago

Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballantyne

Season 9 Episode 3

My guests today are archaeologists Chris Wakefield from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of Cambridge University Rachel Ballantyne from McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and they are h…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

A Regional Food Tour with Jenny Linford

Season 9 Episode 2

My guest today is food writer, podcaster and cheese enthusiast Jenny Linford and we are going on a bit of a regional food tour across the UK.

We talk about her new book The Great British Food Tour pub…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Black & White Pudding with Matthew Cockin & Grant Harper

Season 9 Episode 1

Welcome to the first episode of season 9 of The British Food History Podcast!

Today I am talking with Matthew Cockin and Grant Harper of Fruit Pig – the last remaining commercial craft producer of fre…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Season 9 of the British Food History Podcast coming soon!

Season 9 Episode 1

Hello there everyone! Exciting news: the ninth season of the British Food History Podcast will return on 9th July 2025.

I have been busy collecting an eclectic range conversations for a baker’s dozen …

Published on 2 months ago

Special Postbag Edition #5

Season 8 Episode 13

It’s time for the fifth traditional postbag episode, where I (attempt to) answer your questions, read out your comments and mull over your queries.

In this edition: giant turkeys, great crisps we hav…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Alexis Soyer with Lindsay Middleton

Season 8 Episode 12

Today I speak with food historian, podcaster and friend of the show Lindsay Middleton about arguably the first celebrity chef, Alexis Soyer, focusing mainly on two of his books: The Gastronomic Regen…

Published on 7 months ago