Throughout the early stages of my PhD I regularly presented on aspects of my work. Some of these papers have now been proposed or accepted for publication. This page does not include public lectures, but covers only papers presented to specific academic audiences.
The following papers & articles are sorted by year then date:
2008
‘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. Publication planned in an edited volume (by S. Pennell & M. diMeo)
‘The proud air of an unwilling slave’:
Tea, women and domesticity, c.1700-1900
Paper read on my behalf at WAC 2008. (Session: Intimate Encounters: The Historical Archaeology of Domestic Reform), Dublin 29th June – 4th July. Publication planned in an edited volume (by S. Spencer-Wood & S. Camp, Springer Press).
‘A Movable Feast’: Negotiating gender at the middle class tea-table in eighteenth and nineteenth century England.
Paper given at Food and Drink in Archaeology 2008: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Nottingham University, 11-12 April 2008. Proceedings published as Food and Drink in Archaeology 2 - University of Nottingham Postgraduate Conference 2008. Ed. N. Sykes & C. Newton.
Session leader for ‘Material Cultures of Consumption’ at Nottingham Food and Drink 2008 (as above) and editor of corresponding papers for published conference proceedings.
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. Publication due 2010 as ‘The greatest ordeal’: using biography to explore the Victorian dinner’ in Post-Medieval Archaeology (journal) www.spma.org.uk
‘Chocolatada! Sensing the Past:
Recreating Eighteenth Century Chocolate.’
Paper given at ‘The Table’ conference, Sheffield, April 2004. ‘Proceedings to be published as Symonds, J (ed) (forthcoming) Table Settings: The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900, Oxford, Oxbow Books. http://www.oxbowbooks.com