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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 consulta…
6 months, 2 weeks 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 …
6 months, 3 weeks 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 …
7 months 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 exc…
7 months, 2 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 hom…
7 months, 2 weeks 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 che…
8 months 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 pu…
8 months, 1 week 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 Ins…
8 months, 3 weeks 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 …
9 months 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 – t…
9 months, 1 week ago