‘A Practical Art’: Material Culture and Cookbooks, an archaeological perspective.
Paper to be given at Reading and Writing Recipe Books: 1600-1800, Warwick University 8-9 August 2008.
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‘The proud air of an unwilling slave’:
Tea, women and domesticity, c.1700-1900
Paper to be read on Annie’s behalf at WAC 2008. (Session: Intimate Encounters: The Historical Archaeology of Domestic Reform), Dublin 29th June – 4th July.
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‘Was Henry VIII a Vampire?’ Challenging perceptions or ‘hamming it up’ through live interpretation at Hampton Court Palace.
Paper to be given at Packaging the Past: The Commodification of Heritage, Cambridge, 19th April 2008.
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‘A Movable Feast’: Negotiating gender at the middle class tea-table in eighteenth and nineteenth century England.
Paper to be given at Food and Drink In Archaeology 2008: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Nottingham University, 11-12 April 2008. Proceedings to be published in Nov 2009
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Pies, Puddings and Cakes: The Fight to Keep England on the C18th Dinner Table.
Paper presented at the West Midlands Food Group,
Leicester University, Feb 2008.
2007:
'The Greatest Ordeal':
Dinner with the late Victorians.
Paper given at TAG 2007, University of York.
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Breaking the Mould: Edibility and Materiality in Enlightenment England
Paper given at Chacmool 2007, Calgary, Canada, 10-12th November 2007.
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‘The Privilege of Civilisation':
Cultural Change at the Victorian Dining Table.
Paper given at Food and Drink in Archaeology Conference,
Nottingham, 19-20 May 2007. Proceedings to be published in Nov 2008
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‘Chocolatada! Sensing the Past:
Recreating Eighteenth Century Chocolate.’
‘Proceedings to be published as Symonds, J (ed) (2007) Table Settings:
The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900, Oxford, Oxbow Books.
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2005:
‘A Pretty Decoration for a Grand Table:
The Material Culture of Dining, c1750-1850.
Paper given at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, York, Jan 2005.
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2004:
‘An Archaeology of Luxury:
Chocolate and all that goes with it’
Introduction to historical archaeology and the potential for the study of the recent past through material culture. Lecture given to local interest group (the Haxby and Wigginton Slide Club), Autumn 2004