Tastes Of History started as experts in recreating Roman era cuisine. The history of food, however, is one of continuity and so our...

Mother's Day: Not as sold Every March there is annual chance to tell your mother how much she means to you (hopefully you don't need...

Our repertoire has expanded once more. For twelve days in October of 2017, and again for nine days in February 2018, we stretched our...

It may be a peculiarly military thing, perhaps it strikes accord with armed forces personnel, but one particular quote is frequently...

In support of English Heritage’s 'Feast Exhibition' at Stonehenge in 2018/19, Tastes Of History was asked to recreate some of what...

A while ago we were approached for help in promoting 'Britannia', a British historical drama scheduled to air on Sky Atlantic on January...

Forward The purpose of this paper is to provide general readers, and those wishing to don a more accurate Roman 'toga', all the...

Sunday July 23rd, 2017 found Tastes Of History at Ford Green Hall in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent recreating dishes from Tudor and early...

The sole mention of the arcuballista occurs in the work of Vegetius (Epitoma rei militaris) [1]. In book II.15, when describing how the...

The discarded bone of a chicken leg, still etched with teeth marks from a dinner thousands of years ago, provides some of the oldest...

In every issue of BBC History Magazine, picture editor Sam Nott presents a recipe from the past. In this article, from December 2015, Sam...

A major source of information for Roman artillery is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a 1st-century BC Roman author, architect, civil and...

Many years ago, long before I joined The Roman Military Research Society (or RMRS), a teacher inspired his pupils to build a catapulta,...

Gladiators were the sporting heroes of the ancient world. The archaeological record shows them celebrated in everything from mosaics to...

In the summer of 2015 archaeologists from the University of Edinburgh attempted to recreate a style of Stone Age cooking based on their...

The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is native to Asia but has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. Their original range...

Every so often, over the last decade at least, our modern-day bards, the media, regurgitate a story about 'European-looking' people in...

As costumed re-enactors know only too well there are occasions, especially in the height of yet another glorious British summer, when...

Salt is a chemical compound of sodium and chloride (NaCl) and is an essential nutrient, the amount of which in the diet has a direct...

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea italic) is a cultivar of wild cabbage, which originated along the northern and western coasts of the...