Stories
- Article
Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
- Article
There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Recipes
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: MS.8101/2/2Part of: Corbyn & Co., chemists and druggists, London- Books
Recipes and home hints / published by Parkinsons (of pill fame).
Parkinsons.Date: [1928]- Archives and manuscripts
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Recipes and analyses
Date: c.1787-1938Reference: SA/WWP/B.1Part of: 'The Widow Welch's Pills'- Books
Recipes for sick vegans.
Cooper, LilithDate: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Recipes for pefumes, toilet waters and pharmaceutical preparations
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: MS.8101/2Part of: Corbyn & Co., chemists and druggists, London
Events
- Discussion
Recipes for Early Modern Beauty
Online
Available to watch
Part of Exploring Research
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- Discussion
Beauty By the Books, Transcribing Early Modern Recipes
Online
Past
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- Event
- Youth event
Young People, Mental Health and Recipes for Self-care
Online
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Part of What Does It Mean To Be Young, Now?
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