More recipes from the Roman Festival at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds for you to try.

An exploration of Roman gladiator diets to tie in with the Royal Armouries Museum's Roman Festival 2025.

If in Split, Croatia then definitely dine at Villa Spiza. Tastes Of History ate there several times and it was fantastic.

After several years of wishing we could be involved a chance encounter while “pirating” in Scarborough has led to Tastes Of History’s first performance at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, Yorkshire. We were delighted to offer a taste of mediæval food to spectators at the live-action International Jousting Tournament over the Easter bank holiday weekend. From Friday 29th March to Monday 1st April the museum’s impressive jousting arena resounded to the cheers of crowds an

For the early May bank holiday weekend we jumped back 80 years to wartime Britain where Audley End House once again became a school for spies, soldiers and top secret training, During the Second World War, Audley End House, near Saffron Walden in Essex, was used by the Polish Section of the Special Operations Executive to train Polish special forces soldiers. Known as the Cichociemni – the Silent Unseen – these soldiers were elite paratroopers trained in covert operations, s

Here are the World War Two recipes that Tastes Of History cooked 'on the ration' at Tanfield Railway's 1940s Weekend (September 24th & 25th 2022).

Medieval recipes suitable for celebrating the Battles of Bosworth Field, the final battle in England's Wars of the Roses.

Ahoy m'hearties! If you landlubbers are looking for food fit for pirates then here are some tasty recipes from the Georgian period that will fit the bill.

Tastes Of History introduced visitors to Berkhamsted Castle to the food of the "Merrie Ol' England" of the Tudors. Here are the recipes.

Over the late August Bank Holiday weekend we joined the Hoplite Association to recreate 5th-century Greeks at Military Odyssey in Kent. The recipes we created are here for your delectation.

Recipes for a medieval feast.

What have the Romans ever done for us? How about they created the earliest known recipe for burgers.

In another first for Tastes Of History, we travelled to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight to support English Heritage's "Victorian Christmas" in 2019. Our aim was to provide a sampling menu of food and drink of the period for visitors to try. Here, then, are the recipes.

Each year English Heritage remember the pivotal battle that took place on October 14th, 1066 and changed the course of English history. Here are some Anglo-Saxon recipes fit for any warrior. 

Stonehenge in England is known for its alignment with the summer solstice sunrise, and it remains a popular destination for thousands of revellers welcoming the longest day of the year. But should they actually be celebrating the winter solstice? Find out more.

Tastes Of History was delighted to be part of the Bosworth Medieval Festival in 2019 at the brilliant Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre. Here, then, are the recipes visitors could sample.

Located in sunny southern Italy, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was perfectly positioned between lush vineyards and fertile plains to one side and the bountiful waters of the Bay of Naples to the other.  “Last Supper in Pompeii”, a major exhibition in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, told the city's amazing story.

With 2018 marking the centenary of the end of the Great War, at Waddesdon Manor we recreated a taste of the Home Front in 1918.  Visitors were surprised to discover that many of the things familiarly associated with World War 2 had been instituted just over two decades earlier.

In 1563, Elizabeth I granted Kenilworth Castle to her childhood friend and favourite, Robert Dudley, the soon to be Earl of Leicester.  She visited four times during "progresses" through her realm. For English Heritage we recreated recipes fit for an Elizabethan pageant.

In October 2017 and again in February 2018, we stretched our culinary expertise further back in time to the Neolithic period to support English Heritage’s “Feast Exhibition” at Stonehenge. Here are the recipes.