I'm a PhD student at Roehampton University, researching the impact of the professionalisation and commercialisation of healthcare on eighteenth-century domestic medicine, through the medium of manuscript medical recipes.
21 May 2013
Gambling was a popular activity in the eighteenth century, and some of the sums involved are staggering. I recently came across an example of someone using it almost as a means of...
Of the vagaries and eccentricities of women
12 May 2013
Recipes are often found in printed appointment diaries, such as a copy of The Complete Pocket-Book, or Gentleman’s and Tradesman’s Daily Journal, for the Year of Our...
6 May 2013
To celebrate the brief appearance of the sun, these short verses were found on a tiny piece of paper in an anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book: Written upon a sun dial Thus steals...