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Despite my forays into costume and love of the kitchen, I remain a dedicated archive lover.
I am available as a consultant on all matters historic food related, as well as on below stairs life from the eighteenth century onwards. My experience in interpretation, live and otherwise, means I’m especially useful in bringing to life the spaces of culinary preparation and eating.
Current and past work includes:
- Ickworth Lives (National Trust). Domestic history consultant, advising on life below stairs, and how this can be expressed through living history, using volunteers from the community and local drama college.
- Mansion House, York. Involved in HLF bid to fund the renovation and reinterpretation of a late C19th kitchen which is still in use at the Lord Mayor’s residence.
- Ickworth (National Trust). Lead judge on the Ickworth Lives Edwardian Cake Bake Off!
- Audley End (English Heritage). Team leader and devisor of ever-more elaborate themes for the cook and her long-suffering girls.
- Osborne House (English Heritage). A full research report on the Victorian kitchen, covering aspects of cooking and dining at Queen Victoria’s residence on the Isle of Wight. The report was designed to inform the potential interpretation and presentation of elements of the service wing, never before open to the public and currently in use as a storage facility.
- Audley End (English Heritage). Transcription and testing, with a view to publication, of a set of Victorian recipes donated to English Heritage and belonging to the 1880s cook.
- Wimpole Hall (National Trust). A one day workshop to train costumed staff working in the grounds