I am an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, studying the relationship between food and religion in the English Protestant Reformation and the Italian Catholic Reformation, c.1560 – c. 1640.

I approach the religious change of the Reformations through embodied or ‘lived’ religious experience, and am interested more broadly in how past people understood and interacted with the material world.

With Katrina Moseley, I am founder and convener of the AHRC- funded research group, Cambridge Body and Food Histories. To find out more about our activities click here!

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Recent Notices:

• 19/03/2019 Guest recipe post on ‘Hamantaschen’ for the Jewish Purim festival – by Julia Biggs 

• 20/02/2019 Blog post on ‘Hungry Historians: A Delicious and Disgusting Journey Through Time’ – on History for Schools Lesson

• 28/01/2019 Blog post on ‘Extreme Bodies: Sports and Physical Limits’ – reflecting on last term’s discussions

• 7/01/2019 Publication in the Graduate Journal of Food Studies: ‘“As thy body stands in need of food, so doth thy soule also”: Food and Religion in Richard Bernard’s 1616 Handbook’

• 6/01/2019 Interview on BBC Cambridgeshire & New recipes post on Epiphany Cake!

• 27/11/2018 Conference reviewed by Dr Claudio Ferlan – click here!