Food & Drink

David Birmingham draws on the private papers of an 18th-century Swiss cheese farmer to recreate a world whose business sophistication and economic arrangements cut across the context of the rustic joys of an Alpine lifestyle.

The medium and message - Miri Rubin looks at how the changing theology and doctrine of late medieval Christianity led to the creation of a popular event with social and hierarchical overtones.

In its desperate battle to fight off the advancing Germans, the Soviet Union called on its women to play as active and probably more wide-ranging a role as its men. John Erickson records the military and civilian efforts during the Great Patriotic War.

Angela Morgan discusses sugared heritage and a new exhibition

Richard Cavendish visits the newly-opened Cadbury World in Birmingham.

Sarah Jane Evans looks at eating and the nostalgia industry.

Annette Bingham on the historic nature of Philippines food.

Questions are raised about the death of men in John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic expedition.

'You are what you eat' was as relevant an observation for the ancients as for more modern thinkers, argues Helen King

'Bread and circuses' - the control and availability of grain was the key to political power and social stability in the ancient world.