Food and drink

Land girls on an Essex turkey farm round up the turkeys for the last time. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

A brief history of turkeys, plus why we eat a turkey dinner at Christmas

The First Thanksgiving in 1621, after a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme; screen print, 1932. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

7 facts you might not know about the history of Thanksgiving

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria’s voracious appetite for food and sex

A medieval king dining

Pig-chickens, beavers’ tails and turtle soup: 8 fascinating foods through history

Dr Michael Mosley holds up a tapeworm

Tapeworms, arsenic and magic soap: fact-checking history’s weirdest fad diets and weight-loss gimmicks

A royal banquet in the 13th century. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #14: What did an aristocratic household eat in the Middle Ages? And who was Eleanor de Montfort?

Man and woman using a long-handled wooden paddle to bake bread in an oven, 15th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval food

Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill

HistoryExtra’s top 15 most listened to podcast episodes

Medieval banquet

What time of the day did medieval people eat?

What was a drunkard's cloak used for? This illustration shows a man wearing the archaic punishment tool designed to punish habitual drinkers. (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&A What was a drunkard’s cloak used for?

Irish people starving during the Potato Famine

The Corn Laws crisis

A James Gillray cartoon: 'Germans eating sour-krout'.

Cabbages and kings: how Georgian royals brought continental food to the British menu

On his plantation in Georgia, American politician Benjamin Hawkins is teaching Creek Native Americans how to use a plow, 1805. (Photo by Granger, NYC / TopFoto)

Food and war

Pancake day celebrations

The history of Shrove Tuesday