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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 17h

Not long now until @serveitforthfest.bsky.social on 17 October! I'm starting the day in discussion with Dr Eleanor Barnett. Tickets are £12 + Eventbrite booking fee. Here's the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

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Sam Bilton @mrssbilton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just 2 weeks before the @serveitforthfest.bsky.social so Allie & I visited a few of our sponsors last weekend.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here it is!

Photo of a newspaper double- page spread showing photos of the authors appearing and blocks of text describing each event.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My column is devoted to @burylitfest.bsky.social first food programme. I'm its curator and I'm so thrilled these wonderful authors have agreed to appear. We'd love you to attend! www.suffolknews.co.uk/whats-on/fes...

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The nights are drawing in and it certainly feels autumnal here in Manchester. Well if you need a comforting, delicious and simple soup, may I suggest cock-a-leeky. I've just posted a recipe on my blog + a bit of history of course... britishfoodhistory.com/2026/09/30/c...

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #internationalpodcastday to all who celebrate! If you've never checked them out before, please have a listen to my food history-themed shows: *The British Food History Podcast *A is for Apple with cohosts @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social Available on all podcast apps!

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy #InternationalPodcastDay! 🎙 Did you know the National Library of Ireland is on SoundCloud? 🎧 Explore a range of audio, including exhibition tours, educational resources, and podcast series created by our poets and podcasters in residence. 🎧 ow.ly/LJKc50ZQSXM

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National Library of Ireland

The mission of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provis

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look what's arrived on my doorstep today! The Films of John Waters editied by Michelle E. More and Brian Brems. I have been waiting very patiently for this to be published and now it's here. "I'm so happy I could shit!"

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've managed to get hold of a copy of this amazing book: Welsh Rural Life in Photographs by Elfyn Scourfield (1979)...photos show the reaping and stacking of corn, butter making & oatcake baking. Amazing stuff.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Ladybird diet, 1977 Artist: Roger Hall

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A final historical british bake for #sourdoughseptember... This one is a maslin loaf made from around 50% rye, 30% hen gymro (a Welsh landrace wheat variety) & 20% strong wholemeal flour. All soured in my sourtrough, C17th style. This was delicious with set honey & marmalade.

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Less than a month to go until @serveitforthfest.bsky.social 2026 on 17th of October! Get your tickets on Eventbrite for £12 + booking fee. @mrssbilton.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social and I cant wait to see you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Beaver boom: the furry dam builders are back after 400 years Beavers have been successfully reintroduced across the Midlands and are benefiting the wider environment | Louise Balint-Kurti

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Beaver boom: the furry dam builders are back after 400 years

Beavers have been successfully reintroduced across the Midlands and are benefiting the wider environment

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Going through photos and spotted this! Young Buttery sporting Lego man hair with trusty collie, Bess, by his side.

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ItsADerpDrone 🔜 Pawsome @itsaderpdrone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Signed myself up to this. Being left unattended and this is right up my alley. No not that alley Jesus 🙄

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whatever plans you have for 17 October cancel them and come to the @serveitforthfest.bsky.social 2026! Being in an inconvenient time zone is no excuse! Tickets and breakdown of the day here: www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is just one month until @serveitforthfest.bsky.social 2026! I'm leading two sessions this year (you lucky things 😂) & I can't wait to see you there! Xxx Tickets are £12 + booking fee and are available via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking for some light lunch reading? Rachel Rich and I wrote a bit about how 18th c British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful. theconversation.com/british-food... #HistFood @uclpress.bsky.social +

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British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century – despite what you might think

The King’s table was full of flavours from the British empire and beyond.

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Sam Bilton @mrssbilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Catch me and Kathryn Laverack of Cocoa Encounters at the Gloucester History Festival on Saturday. Click on link in bio for further details. #chocolate

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just spotted this piece of magnificence on Peter Brears' 'Cooking & Dining in Tudor & Early Stuart England', a carriage & horses made from sausages, a bag pudding & 4 roast sucking pigs, made for James VI/I. A new Sunday roast aim unlocked!

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My next bake for #sourdoughseptember is an 18th century style Derbyshire oatcake. Just fine oatmeal and water plus salt that's left to sour over a couple of days and cooked on the bakestone. I'm very happy with how they have turned out...pleasantly sour and nutty. Yum!

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A trip to Tatton Park and naturally my favourite bit was the downstairs... 📷 kitchen, stillroom, housekeeper's room, scullery.

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What a day it was yesterday at Ludlow Food Festival recording the first ever live episode of @aisforapplepod.bsky.social ! The theme? C is for Castle. Such fun recording w/ @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social A huge thanks too to @nethertonfoundry.bsky.social for supporting us

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good folk of Manchester! Are there any damsons available anywhere? I fear I have missed the season. Can anyone help!?

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It used to be eels were the sort of food a king would serve at a feast. But they developed a lower-class rep., & by the 19th C. most eels imported to London went to street vendors. But they stayed popular: eels were the most purchased street food after coffee, tea, & dog meat. *

Meme. Line drawing of a Victorian-era street showing four characters around a cart in the street selling coffee. On the left, a man with something like a cowboy hat is holding up a cup on a saucer, either to offer it to someone or to smell it. He looks a bit like he just came the range. A heavy man in a top hat and coat is pouring coffee from a big pot, like you'd see at an Episcopal church coffee hour. A sad woman behind him holds and empty cup, and a lucky fellow next to her, with a top hat and stylish beard, is drinking his coffee and contemplating the ills of capitalism. Likely one of these folks is the coffee vendor, but it's impossible to tell which one.

We can read these characters as embodiments of the 4 humors: the cowboy, calm and poised, is Phlem. The heavyset man, with his lurking rage, is Yellow Bile. The sad woman is Black Bile, & the sassy, sanguine fellow in the back is clearly Blood.

Meme text reads:
"I need my coffee
before I can think
about eels and dog meat"

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The final guests announcements for @serveitforthfest.bsky.social 2026 are in! I'll be talking with the fantastic Sally Grainger & Sudi Pigott about the influence of the small-but-mighty anchovy in British & Mediterranean cuisine. Book your ticket for 17 Oct here: www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

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Dr Christopher Monk @medievalmonk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I love reading about medieval life, especially from primary sources. In my latest blog post, you can find out what went on in a thirteenth-century monastic bakery. You can read the medieval sources for yourself (my translations thereof). Fascinating stuff!

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Bread for the monks, perks for the senior bakers, and stripping off to bolt the flour

Would you like to know what went on in a thirteenth-century monastic bakehouse? Read on.

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've been making some extinct English breads for #sourdoughseptember This one is Gervase Markham's brown bread. I made it with 50% barley flour, the rest made up of rye, wheat & bean flour. Plus salt & water of course. It's the bread you made for your lowest servants. Twas heavy but not too bad!

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Breaking news for #FindsFriday 😮 Nothing like finding a 1999 Walkers crisp packet in a fresh firebreak cutting whilst examining wildfire damage in Powys today 👌🔥

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Saturday 17th October 2026 will see the second annual edition of the Serve it Forth online festival of food history. Food history is a key part of ckbk’s offering, with the website including cookbooks from every era, and many books devoted to the subject of food history app.ckbk.com/features/ser...

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Serve it forth: an online festival of food history

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Have you seen the guests we have announced so far for @serveitforthfest.bsky.social on 17 October 2026? Check them out! ...there will be more announcements in the next few days too. Tickets are £12 + booking fee. Eventbrite link with all the deets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ICYMI More premium content landed...this time a recipe for a kidney omelette* inspired by my recent conversation with @mrssbilton.bsky.social about the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell on the SECRET podcast. *don't knock it till you've tried it. Link here: britishfoodhistory.com/2026/08/16/k...

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Kidney Omelette (Omelette aux Rognons)

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm back from my week break in Aix-en-Provence. I took not a single picture of any of the beautiful things I saw, just this one of a really big slice of Parmesan, tiny grater for scale. Anyway, how've you all been?

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

ICYMI: An episode of The SECRET British Food History Podcast is live & just for my £3 subscribers. 'The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman' by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with @mrssbilton.bsky.social To become a subscriber check out this link: britishfoodhistory.com/support-the-...

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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've just received a copy of Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring by Graeme Rigby & published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social I must say it is a page-turner! The many facets of a very important fish we rather take for granted...