Material Culture Workshop – Michaelmas 2025

We’re very excited to announce our term card for Michaelmas 2025! As always, all of our sessions are hybrid. For more information, please contact Tomas Brown (tbnb2@cam.ac.uk) or Sophia Feist (stcf2@cam.ac.uk).

27th October, 5-7 PM, Arthur Quiller Couch Room, Old Divinity School, St. John’s and online
Corryn Kosik (Edinburgh): The Influence of European Courts at Regent Arran’s Kinneil House
Matthew Wood (Curator, Castle Howard): Weighing Scales of Power: The state apartments at Castle Howard

3rd November, 5-7 PM, Arthur Quiller Couch Room, Old Divinity School, St. John’s and online
David Martin (Cambridge): Feeding the Body to Save the Soul through Love Feasts in Colonial South India, 1830 – 1842
Lis Riveros (Cambridge): The Social Architecture of the Interwar English Pub

17th November, 5-7 PM, All Saints Passage Room 1, St. John’s and online
Alice Goldsney (University of East Anglia): Work in Progress: Breaking bread in Reformation England
Robert Hewis (Bard Graduate Center): “With Sower Sawce their Sweete do Taste”: Sweetness and morality at the English banquet

1st December, 5-7 PM, Castlereagh Room, St. John’s and online
Carlo Scapecchi (Arden University): Making and Repairing Luxurious Carriages and Coaches in the Medici Court in Florence 1591–1650
Jamie Ostmann (Durham): From the Court to the Coffeehouse: London chocolate culture 1650–1720

Image: Lucas Cranach the Elder, Der Jungbrunnen, 1546, Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.