DPhil student at Oxford…researching luxurious cuisine and eating habits in eighteenth-century Britain
Oxford, England
Joined September 2013
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Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
Tea: it's such an essential part of British culture. @ailsa_m_ tells us all about how tea became part of not only adults but also children's daily lives as a form of education in the 18th century:
historyofeducation.org.uk/th…
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
One of my favourite blogs we've had for @HistEdSocUK! It made me reminisce about the plastic tea set my nan and grandad had for when the grandchildren visited - I think it had Snoopy on it.. Thanks @ailsa_m_ ☕️
We invite you all to raise a glass (of tea) to our first blog post of the year!
Ever wondered about the origins of your childhood tea sets? @ailsa_m_ tells us all about the education of children in tea culture in 18th century Britain:
historyofeducation.org.uk/th…
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
We invite you all to raise a glass (of tea) to our first blog post of the year!
Ever wondered about the origins of your childhood tea sets? @ailsa_m_ tells us all about the education of children in tea culture in 18th century Britain:
historyofeducation.org.uk/th…
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
As it's Christmas we thought we'd give an honourable mention to #GeorgeMichael who died on Christmas Day in 2016 ❤️🎄
In his youth George was a member of the Young Communist League of Britain @yclbritain under his original name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.
While not...
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Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
Morning cuppa? ☕
Drawing of a cat drinking from a cup and saucer by Beatrix Potter, drawn in the 1890s.
See Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature - fal.cn/3sR6F
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
One of the greatest letters ever written.
Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. November 5, 2001.
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
if and when I get a creditable thesis done, I feel I’ll deserve a champagne blast to celebrate...heck, wine will do. 9/24/54
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
Our first seminar is just one week away (28 Sept)! @gvullinghs chairs @emma_pearce98 & @ailsa_m_ sharing research on runaway slave advertisements and children’s tableware. See Eventbrite link for abstracts & registration 👇
eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-…
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
The CECS PG Forum Team are absolutely delighted to be able to share the program for our upcoming online conference 'Transformative Times' with you!
Registration is open to all postgraduates now, just sign up on our eventbrite here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/384831721…
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
If you’re in Cambridge come along to spice up your Tuesday night by hearing about dead people’s diaries!
On TUESDAY 14 JUNE we are so excited to be hearing papers from the amazing Michaela Kalcher, @BachleitnerK and Daniele Palmer!
5-7pm, Tuesday, Room 5, History Faculty. Refreshments provided 🍷🧁
Join for our last event of the year!
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
This is Piglet. She politely requests a bedtime story. Has to be a fresh one. No repeats. 12/10
ALT a small brown dachshund is tucked into a bed with blue and white pinstripe sheets. she’s looking at you pleadingly. she could really use a bedtime story to help fall asleep. it would honestly be a crime not to oblige her
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
a haunted house for chronically ill people, but it’s just endless rooms of doctors saying ‘the tests came back negative’ and ‘do you think you might be stressed?’ until you reach the final dungeon where the DWP assessor hands you an application form & says you don’t look sick
Ailsa Maxwell retweeted
On this day in 1953, novelist Shirley Jackson replied to a disappointed reader.
