Five Foods that Changed the World with Kate Antoniou

Ref: C3746990

This history course will focus on five common foodstuffs such as sugar, spices, tea and potatoes and examine how they have changed the course of history by stimulating world exploration, provoking wars and encouraging early European colonialism. For each foodstuff, we will follow the timeline to investigate their influence today. Students will be able to choose one foodstuff from a selection of other foodstuffs to concentrate on for the last session.

Course aim

This course will focus on 10 common food stuffs and explore how these affected history at the time and to the present day.

Do I need any particular skills or experience?

  • All levels of knowledge welcome

By the end of the course I should be able to:

  • Be able to describe how sugar is linked to the expansion of the slave trade and the growth of the British Empire
  • Have a basic understanding of how the search for spices led to world exploration, and the start of European colonialisation
  • Be able to describe how potatoes change eating habits from the eighteenth century onwards
  • To have a basic understanding of how tea is connected to the Chinese Opium Wars of the 1840s

How will I be taught?

What kind of feedback can I expect?

What else do I need to know?

no

Pre-course work, reading and information sources

What can I do next?

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Five Foods that Changed the World with Kate Antoniou

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Conditions

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  • You are paying the standard fee (with a credit or debit card) or you are on any of the qualifying benefits
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  • You have been resident in the UK, EU or EEA for the last 3 years
  • You are aged 19 years or older on 1st September 2021
  • You declare that the address you provide is correct and that you will provide evidence of this and your eligibility to live and work in the UK
  • You have read and accept our standard terms and conditions

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