What do 17th- and 18th-century recipe collections and contemporary food blogs have in common? Explore the hidden meanings of recipes and remedies, and find out what they reveal about their writers' status, self-identity, and relationships with others and the world.

This event includes time for the audience to view unique manuscripts from the Wellcome Library’s special collections.

Speaker: Dr Sara Pennell, historian of material culture and domesticity, Roehampton University.

This event is FREE.

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 This event will have live speech to text transcription so that deaf, deafened and hard of hearing visitors can also follow what’s being said. For further information about speech to text, please contact Gemma Hopkins at access@wellcomecollection.org. Find out more about access at Wellcome Collection.

This event is part of Recipes and Remedies.