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        Date: 2026-09-22 13:07:42+00:00
        From: Alison Fox <alison.fox@ucl.ac.uk>
        Subject: New open access publication: The King’s Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820


UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book
that may be of interest to list subscribers: The King’s Dinner: Family, nation,
and identity on the British table, 1760-1820, by Adam Crymble, Sarah Fox, Rachel
Rich and Lisa Smith.
Download it free: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kings-dinner/
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The King’s Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820
Adam Crymble, Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich and Lisa Smith
Free download: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kings-dinner/
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The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the
eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households
made newly available to research through digitisation, the authors study the
role and influence of food in understanding British identity. Analysing trade
routes, migration, agricultural changes, recipes, and flavours they argue that
Britishness was more complex and more multicultural than previously recognised.
Starting at George III’s Kew Palace and the Prince Regent’s Carlton House, then
moving in ever wider circles, the book considers the significance of food for
understanding the royal family, the wider British population, their European
neighbours, and the British and colonised people in the Atlantic world and the
Indian subcontinent. With a growing overseas empire, Britain was an increasingly
powerful nation, and the ability to choose was one of the ways this power was
exercised. The cuisine that emerged was complex, with wealthy Britons adopting,
adapting, or rejecting the foods of European enemies and allies or colonised
peoples and places. ‘Britishness’ was an ever-shifting balance of European
multiculturalism, imperial ambition, tradition and experimentation, a messy mix
that reveals the entanglement of cultures and cuisines, continually changed by
the people who cook and eat the food.

Free download: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kings-dinner/
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