Can oats be controversial? Can porridge be political? Or dangerous? Do the choices in the grains you eat betray your character? Yes, and they have for millennia.
Read the latest story from #Distillations magazine, Fitter for a Stable Than a Table, written by @helenaaeberli.bsky.social ⬇️
Possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever written - I researched the history of porridge for Distillations Magazine. Breakfast by way of Galen, Robert Burns, and a whole lot of Quaker oat adverts. Oh, and horses🥣🐴
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Event poster- Re-Enchantment Readings March 6th 7.30-10pm The Horse Hospital, WC1N 1JD line up: Al Anderson / Chi S. Tsu / Isobel Falk / Jake Roberts / Anna Hartigan
Literary londoners! A week tomorrow you could be hearing new writing while drinking negronis! Get ur tickets here! www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...
Too much public interest in the Marlowe/Shakespeare relationship. Not enough interest in the Shakespeare/Jonson relationship.
my History Today piece on early modern women’s pregnancy pica is now online! a little look into what I’ve spent the past few years thinking about…
i am now officially moving off x to here. don't know why i didn't do it earlier. trying to find friends and colleagues - please do let me know if i've missed any contacts. love x
I'll be chairing this lecture with Professor Helen King tomorrow - do come by if you're in Oxford!
Our new Body in History Network MT2025 Term Card has been released. The @bodyinhistoryox.bsky.social brings together researchers across disciplines interested in the history, representation, and experience of the human body and its environments.