Adam Crymble (Author)

Adam Crymble is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities in the department of Information Studies at UCL. His research has focused on the experience of migrants in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain. This has included work on Irish, Black, and English internal migrants in London. He has an interest in historical method, and data science in the service of the humanities. He is a founding editor of Programming Historian and the author of Technology & the Historian (2021). This project provided an opportunity to expand his social history research into cultural history, for the first time.

Sarah Fox (Author)

Sarah Fox is Senior Lecturer in History at Edge Hill University. Her research explores the lives and relationships of ordinary people in eighteenth-century England, and their connection to the broader structures that organise their lives. She has written and co-authored publications on the social history of law and regulation (with Margaret Brazier), the role of empathy in historical research, and embodied experiences of growing old in the past (with Karen Harvey). Her first book, Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England (2022) was published open access by the University of London and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize.

Rachel Rich (Author)

Rachel Rich is Reader in Modern European History at Leeds Beckett University, and co-editor-in-chief of Food & History, the journal of the IEHCA. Her research has focused on food and eating, and in particular on women’s domestic roles, and on female authors of cookbooks and other forms of domestic advice. Rachel is the author of Bourgeois Consumption: Food, Space and Identity in London and Paris, 1850-1914 (2010) as well as articles on domesticity and timekeeping, and on women cookery writers, in journals including Gender & History and Cultural and Social History.

Lisa Smith (Author)

Lisa Wynne Smith is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Essex. She has published widely on recipes, health, gender, the household, and the body. She developed a database of Sir Hans Sloane’s correspondence, co-founded the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (2012), and co-founded The Recipes Project blog (2012). Recent publications include book chapters on eighteenth-century fertility and beauty (2026) and early modern loneliness and food (2023), a prize-winning article (with Cathy McClive) on women and medical entrepreneurialism in eighteenth-century Lyon (2024), and an edited volume A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment (2021).