Editorial Team

Editors: Amanda E. Herbert, Durham University Amanda Herbert is a historian of the body: gender and sexuality, health and wellness, food and drink.  She earned her Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University.  Her first book, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain was published by Yale University Press in 2014, … Continue reading Editorial Team

Consumers of the Exotic: summary of a workshop in Cambridge, April 5-6, 2017

By Emma Spary and Justin Rivest The project “Selling the Exotic in Paris and Versailles, 1670-1730”, running in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and funded by Leverhulme Research Grant 2014-289, held its planned workshop in April this year. Its theme, “Consumers of the Exotic: European commerce and the consumption of exotic … Continue reading Consumers of the Exotic: summary of a workshop in Cambridge, April 5-6, 2017

Cookery, Ancient and Modern

By Henry Power This post is about two sort-of-recipe-books published in the first decade of the eighteenth century. When I say sort-of-recipe-books, I mean that although both of them are full of culinary precepts, neither is likely to have been used in the kitchen. But taken together, the two books give an insight into the … Continue reading Cookery, Ancient and Modern