England: Beef and Liberty (TRIH ep 286)
1730 · Resource
This episode examines the cultural and political history of roast beef as an English national emblem. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace how abundant English pasture, changing agrarian practices and cheaper beef made roast meat a common staple from Tudor times into the 18th century. They discuss travel-writing observations, English roasting techniques and condiments, and the contrast with evolving French culinary fashions. The conversation covers patriotic polemics against French ‘effemi...
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Around 1730
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)