Food Glorious Food
Please join us 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)
Local history displays and stalls by affiliated societies. will be available to browse before and during breaks in the conference.
The LAMAS Publications Awards for 2024 will be presented at the Conference.