Spent some happy hours correcting and polishing threethousanddishes.prisms.digital 🧑🍳 all thanks to The King's Dinner by Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social, @adamcrymble.bsky.social & @historybeagle.bsky.social. They wrote the book, I just tidied my site to do it more justice. Do read theirs.
Explore 40,000+ dishes served to King George III and the Prince Regent (1788-1813). A digital resource for Georgian food history.
A lovely lunch walk today. Spotted hemlock, mustard and wormwood growing. Heard many birds, including a Cetti's warbler (not usually found in Greater London). The apple orchard is growing quickly, with one variety that should not be ready until October already turning red (not the pic below).
Hello! This new #openaccess book will be useful for thinking about Britishness, migration, hierarchy, and food. uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin.... BUT ALSO our dataset is there for anyone to play with: zenodo.org/records/8070.... (The accompanying article makes some suggestions for use.)
Is there a website that is not Google Maps, which I can use to look up the distances between European cities on a map? For historical context purposes.
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
