Date and Time
November 15, 2025 - 10.30-17.30
Location
Wilberforce Room, Docklands Museum of London, E14 4AL
Timetable
- Time Content
- 10:30 Doors open: registration, and displays by societies
- 11:00 Welcome and opening remarks
- 11:10 - 11:40 “The Alimentary Question”: Food, Imagined Community, and the Experience of Civilian Internment in First World War London (Christopher Batten)
- 11:45 - 12:15 “Home and Hominy”: the American Red Cross clubs in London during the Second World War (Simon Fowler)
- 12:15 - 12:40 Comfort break
- 12:40 - 13:30 Keynote Lecture London soup kitchens 1795-1914: feeding the poor of the nineteenth century metropolis (Dr Phil Carstairs)
- 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break (opportunity to browse displays by societies)
- 14:30 - 14:40 LAMAS Publication Awards for 2024 Introduced and presented by the Chair of the Local History Committee
- 14:40 - 15:10 “There is no such thing as scarcity”: Food, the docks and the revolutionary politics of the East London Federation of Suffragettes (Dr Katherine Connelly)
- 15:15 - 15:45 Orange sellers on the streets of London (Malcolm Thick)
- 15:45 - 16:15 Refreshment break (tea and coffee provided)
- 16:15 - 16:45 Food for thought: The use of Subtleties in Medieval Banquets (Dr Vanessa King)
- 16:50 - 17:20 Lord Cranfield’s 1621 Sugar Christening “Bankett” (Stephen Draper)
- 17:20 - 17:30 Closing Remarks
Food Glorious Food
At the Museum of London in Docklands, for the 2025 Local History Conference on the theme of food in London History
We have assembled a fantastic programme of speakers covering a wide and varied range of topics:
- “The Alimentary Question”: Food, Imagined Community, and the Experience of Civilian Internment in First World War London (Christopher Batten)
- “Home and Hominy”: the American Red Cross clubs in London during the Second World War (Simon Fowler)
- Keynote Lecture: London soup kitchens 1795-1914: feeding the poor of the nineteenth century metropolis (Dr Phil Carstairs)
- “There is no such thing as scarcity”: Food, the docks and the revolutionary politics of the East London Federation of Suffragettes (Dr Katherine Connelly)
- Orange sellers on the streets of London (Malcolm Thick)
- Food for thought: The use of Subtleties in Medieval Banquets (Dr Vanessa King)
- Lord Cranfield’s 1621 Sugar Christening “Bankett” (Stephen Draper)
The LAMAS Publications Awards for 2024.