We’re excited to be organising a one-day workshop on Friday 28 November on ‘Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch’. Jointly hosted by the V&A and the Netherlands Embassy, and drawing on some of our initial findings in our material culture strand (especially derived from our […]
Project Outreach Session: The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze
The project did another bit of outreach on 2 April when I led a session on early modern intoxicants for Year 12 students during a University of Sheffield open day. Organised by Discover Arts and Humanities – a new initiative of the Outreach team and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities designed to introduce GCSE […]