Upcoming lectures, talks, workshops and demos

19 Jan: Ely DFAS (Beeton)

13 Mar: Derby DFAS (Victorian dining study day)

16 Mar: Kenilworth Castle , English Heritage (game pie workshop)

3 Apr: Solent DFAS (Victorian dining study day)

10 Apr: East Grinstead DFAS (Beeton)

25 Apr: Hove DFAS (Beeton)

May, tbc: Fairfax House (taking tea)

8 May: North Staffs DFAS (Victorian dining & ceramics)

24 May: Molesey History Society (food and dining at Hampton Court Palace)

6 May: Sherborne DFAS

4 July: Epping DFAS (Beeton)

11 July: Claydon House, National Trust (taking tea)

18 Sept: Southport & Formby DFAS

20 Sept: Driffield DFAS (Beeton)

26 Sept: Camberley DFAS (Beeton)

20 Oct: Shropshire and Marches Georgian Group (tea, exact title tbc)

8 Nov: Knole DFAS (Victorian dining study day)

15 Nov: Windlebrook DFAS (Beeton)

19 Nov: Ealing DFAS (Beeton’s Xmas)

22 Nov: Folkstone DFAS (Beeton)

28 Nov: Goring on Thames DFAS (Beeton)

4 Dec: Berkhamsted DFAS

5 Dec: Waveney Valley DFAS (Beeton’s Xmas)

10 Dec: Kennet DFAS (Titanic); Pewsey Vale DFAS

11 Dec: Wensleydale DFAS (Xmas dinner, tbc)

12 Dec: Leatherhead DFAS (Beeton’s Xmas)

20 Dec: Walton-on-the-Hill DFAS (Beeton’s Xmas)

'Off the Peg' Options
NADFAS listed talks

Mrs Beeton presents…the Book of Household Management in its culinary context.

In costume, partly in character, covering Beeton’s life and times and the state of culinary play in 1861.

Table settings and the Victorian dinner (alternative title: The art of dining in Victorian England)

Exactly as it says, this talk covers the changing layout of the table, and etiquette of dining, in the nineteenth century.

Wives and witches: the art of taking tea in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Looking at tea, from its elite origins to its role as the national drink of England, from a gently gendered perspective.

Christmas Dinner: from Edward I to Edward VII.

A swift trot through the vagaries of dinner from the medieval to almost modern times.

Mrs Beeton’s Christmas.

Concentrating on the Victorian Christmas, this combines elements of the Beeton lecture with a jolly Christmassy bent.

Fuller synopses of the above titles may be downloaded below.

Lecture Synopses >

Links

NADFAS

Hampton Court Palace

Other topics, easily covered

Dining on the Titanic

Apt, for the centenary of its sinking, April 2012

Dining with the Georgians

This topic is available as a NADFAS study day, but any aspect can be covered as a talk.

Dining with the Victorians

This topic is also available as a NADFAS study day, but, as with the Georgians, there’s ample scope for a wide range of talks.

Workshops & demos

I offer workshops and demonstrations on a range of topics, as well as NADFAS study days on Victorian and Georgian dining.

Workshops tend to take around 3 hours, include up to an hour and half lecturing, split across the day, and involve participants making a recipe to take home.

Demonstrations usually have more scope, and previous demos have included pie, cake, syllabub and game preparation.

I’m also available to work in costume as a cook (or diner), for both the Georgian and Victorian periods.

Learning objectives can easily be tailored to meet the requirements of each specific site, and I am happy to demonstrate pertinent recipes or techniques in character.

For more information on costumed interpretation, click here