University of Leeds

University of Bradford

Wakefield Council

You Are What You Ate

Food lessons from the past

What we're up to:

Image from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, Book of Hours, Calendar, January, MS. 9, f. 1v.

Latest news

Project news::osteology workshop The medieval kitchen at Medieval Winter, Pontefract Castle, December 2011

Project news

Diet and disease: osteology workshop at the University of Bradford

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Detail from Johann Theodore de Bry's image of slaves making sugar, 1595 (image courtesy of the Wellcome Library)
Research news

Take a look at the dark side of sugar

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Upcoming events

2012-3-03 'The Dark Side of Eating', exhibition at Pontefract Museum

How horrible was history really? Find out more about the grim history of eating in Yorkshire from the Middle Ages to today!

2012-5-26 Festival stall at 'Leeds Loves Food'

Visit our festival stall and taste food cooked to medieval recipes at this busy food fair

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