Stories
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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
- 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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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
Catalogue
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Look! : you can make all these different kinds of cake with your Max Madeira Mix.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]
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Essence of lemon : for flavouring blanc-mange, custards, cakes, puddings, etc.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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Essence of almonds : for flavouring blanc-mange, custards, cakes, puddings, &c.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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For your next party : decorated cakes : for anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, parties / from Hathaway.
Hathaway Bakeries.Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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Two black actors, Gregory and Brown, one in drag, dancing the Cake-Walk in Paris. Photographic postcard, 1903.
Date: [1903]Reference: 2044881iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.