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WEBSITES
Useful Educational Resources

The Wellcome Library: Digital archive for eighteenth century recipe books

 

John Carter Brown Library: Online resources for the history of slavery and African-American experience

 

Liverpool Museum: Online resource for the history of slavery

 

Ashmolean Museum: An art installation about tea and ceramics

 

Hampton Court Palace Website: Online resource for the history of chocolate making 

 

Hannah Glasse, The Complete Confectioner

 

Robert Abbot, The Housekeeper's Valuable Present

 

Amelia Opie, The Black Man's Lament

FILMS
 Useful Educational Resources

Roots, BBC

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The Long Song, BBC

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12 Years a Slave, Netflix

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Hampton Court Chocolate Kitchen, YouTube

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How Chocolate Came to Court, YouTube

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The Sweet Makers, BBC

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Food in England, The Lost World of Dorothy Hartley, BBC

BOOKS
 Useful Educational Resources

Sara Pennell, The Birth of the English Kitchen 1600-1850, (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)

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Sophie Coe, True History of Chocolate, (London: Thames and Hudson, 2019)

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Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, (London: Penguuin, 1986)

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Marcia and Frederic Morton, Chocolate: An Illustrated History, (New York: Crown Publishers, 1986)

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Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth Century Britain, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

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James Walvin, Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste 1660-1800, (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997)

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B.W Higman, How Food Made History, (Chichester: Wiley and Sons LTD, 2012) 

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