From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and diverse as a five-course dinner.
Kate Colquhoun Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Kate Colquhoun is een biografe en historica wier werk zich verdiept in boeiende levensverhalen en maatschappelijke verschijnselen. Door middel van nauwgezet onderzoek onthult ze verborgen drijfveren en culturele contexten die de geschiedenis vormgeven. Colquhoun blinkt uit in het tot leven brengen van het verleden, waarbij ze lezers boeiende en vaak onverwachte inzichten biedt in menselijke motivaties en maatschappelijke krachten. Haar schrijven verkent diverse onderwerpen, van visionaire figuren tot de geschiedenis van de culinaire cultuur, en onderzoekt voortdurend hoe deze elementen de maatschappij weerspiegelen en beïnvloeden.
De hoed van de heer Briggs
Het sensationele verslag van de eerste treinmoord in Engeland
- 319bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
On 9 July 1864, after an evening with relatives, Thomas Briggs walked through Fenchurch Station and entered carriage 69 on the 9.45 Hackney-bound train. Little did he know that he was travelling into history ... A few minutes later, two bank clerks entered the compartment. As they sat down, one of them noticed blood pooled in the buttoned indentations of the cushions. Then he saw blood smeared all over the floor and windows of the carriage, and a bloody handprint on the door. Ladies in the adjacent carriage complained that their dresses had been stained by spurts of blood entering their window while the train was in motion. But there was no sign of Thomas Briggs. The only things left in the carriage were his ivory-knobbed walking stick, his empty leather bag - and a hat that, stangely, did not belong to Mr Briggs ... So begins a breakneck-paced, fascinating Victorian true crime story - a story that obsessed the nation and changed rail travel for ever. With formidable narrative skill, Kate Colquhoun evokes the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian rail travel, and uncovers long-buried secrets from one of the most gripping murder investigation of that age.