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"2019-03-13T12:02:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c543-db56-7134-ad7d-965a458adeba", "title": "The English Origins of Sweet Potato Pie", "url": "https://edmundstanding.wordpress.com/2018/10/30/the-english-origins-of-sweet-potato-pie/", "published_at": "2018-10-30T22:43:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-b079-7051-a9b6-640be8f7787b", "title": "The Survival of Old English Speech Ways in the American South", "url": "https://edmundstanding.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/the-survival-of-old-english-speech-ways-in-the-american-south/", "published_at": "2018-09-06T11:26:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-b079-7051-a9b6-640be99c8687", "title": "The English Love of Gambling: A Brief History", "url": "https://edmundstanding.wordpress.com/2018/07/18/the-english-love-of-gambling-a-brief-history/", "published_at": "2018-07-18T09:36:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-b079-7051-a9b6-640bea171ab3", "title": "The Irreligiosity of the English: A Brief History", "url": 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2026

Writings on English History and Cultureoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Writings on Folk Culture and Folk Beliefsoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Writings on Linguistic Historyoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Writings on American History and Cultureoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Writings on Culinary Historyoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
The True History of Southern Fried Chickenoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
Was Fried Chicken Brought to the South by Scottish Settlers?original ↗
21 May 2026
Carson Gulley: The Forgotten Black Chef Who Championed Subtle Seasoningoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2026
Is Brum ‘Finished’? Inner City Youth Disorder in Historical Contextoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
John Nott, Hannah Glasse, and the French Roots of Southern Fried Chickenoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2026
The Black ‘Waiter Carriers’: How Former Slaves Popularised Southern Fried Chickenoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2026

2025

The English Breakfast Society’s Pseudo-Historical Narrativeoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2025
What Early African American Fried Chicken Recipes Really Showoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2025
What was an ‘English Breakfast’ in the 19th Century?original ↗
12 Dec 2025
The Rise of ‘Americanisms’ or the Return of Traditional English?original ↗
6 Nov 2025
On the Myth of England as a ‘Christian Nation’original ↗
3 Aug 2025
Is Youth Gang Violence in London a New Phenomenon? Evidence from the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2025
How Industrialisation and Victorian Moralism Destroyed England’s Rural Folk Cultureoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2025
How the Daily Meal Misrepresents Southern Fried Chicken Historyoriginal ↗
22 May 2025
Why the Real History of Southern Fried Chicken Matters: Pushing Back Against Culinary Mythsoriginal ↗
12 May 2025
Did Enslaved Africans Invent Southern Fried Chicken? A Historical Examinationoriginal ↗
12 May 2025
The Economist Butchers the History of Southern Fried Chickenoriginal ↗
12 May 2025
A Century of Southern Fried Chicken Recipes: What Historic Cookery Books Actually Revealoriginal ↗
4 May 2025
Historic Scottish Chicken Dishes: Real and Imaginedoriginal ↗
1 May 2025
England’s Lost Dialectical Diversity: The Decline of Regional Speechoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2025
‘Ask’ vs. ‘Aks’: How Black Communities Preserve Historic Englishoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2025
The Power of the Moon: Lunar Beliefs in English and North American Folk Traditionoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2025
Apocryphal Christian Elements in British Folk Magic: How Lay Christians Created Their Own ‘Biblical’ Textsoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2025

2024

The Forgotten English Hot Sauce That Predated Tabascooriginal ↗
29 Nov 2024
Hot Wings in 19th Century England: A Century Before Buffalo Wingsoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2024
Fried Foods in 18th and 19th Century English Cookeryoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
The White House has long ‘smelled like curry’: Laura Loomer and Culinary Xenophobiaoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2024
America’s 20th Century Love Affair with Herbs and Spicesoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2024
The English Roots of Southern ‘Country Gravy’original ↗
23 Aug 2024
James Tuckett in Court: A ‘Monstrous’ Case and a ‘Drunken Exhibition’original ↗
28 Jun 2024
James Tuckett, the ‘Herbalist’original ↗
28 Jun 2024
James Tuckett, the ‘White Witch’original ↗
28 Jun 2024
Introducing ‘Dr’ James Tuckett of Bartholomew Street, Exeteroriginal ↗
28 Jun 2024
John Mariani, Adrian Miller, and the ‘Scottish Fried Chicken’ Mythoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
The French Origins of Rufus Estes’ Fried Chicken Recipeoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
Hannah Glasse’s ‘Fried Chicken’: Its Surprising French Originsoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
Mary Randolph’s ‘Fried Chickens’: Tracing the True Origins of the First Southern Fried Chicken Recipeoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
West Indian and African Foods in 18th and 19th Century Accounts of Deep South Cookeryoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
18th and 19th Century Accounts of West Indian Cookeryoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
18th and 19th Century Accounts of West African Cuisineoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
Mary Randolph and the English Foundations of Early Southern Cookeryoriginal ↗
26 May 2024
The History of Devil(l)ed Eggs: From Britain to the Southoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2024

2023

What the Planters Ate: Recollections of 19th Century Plantation Foodsoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2023
The History of ‘Sweet Tea’: From Russia to the Southoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2023
Chitlins, Pig Feet, and other ‘Variety Meats’: Forgotten Foods of Englandoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2023
Foodways of 19th Century Rural White Southerners: Beyond the Planter Eliteoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2023
Cheese Straws: Debunking the Myth of Southern Originsoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2023
A ‘Mess of Greens’ and ‘Pot Liquor’: The Forgotten English Originsoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2023

2022

Southern Barbecue: The Overlooked English Influenceoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2022
The Obscure and Surprisingly Recent Origins of Buttermilk Fried Chickenoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2022
Fried Chicken in Colonial Virginia: What the Evidence Actually Showsoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2022

2020

Hot Peppers and Hot Sauces in the English Cookery of the 17th to 19th Centuriesoriginal ↗
28 May 2020
Newspaper Reports Reveal the Survival of Witchcraft Beliefs in 19th and 20th Century Englandoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2020
The European Roots of African American Crossroads Magicoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2020

2019

Guinness: A Very British Drinkoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2019
How I Reckon ‘I reckon’ Became a ‘Southern’ Expressionoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2019
Country Music and the Construction of ‘Authenticity’original ↗
25 Aug 2019
The Myth of ‘Christian America’original ↗
5 Aug 2019
The Myth of the ‘Christian South’original ↗
27 Jul 2019
Confederate Writings on the American Civil War Confirm Slavery as its Principle Causeoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2019
A Witchcraft-Infested Land: Demythologising England’s Rural Pastoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2019
Love Powders in British and American Folk Magic: A European Tradition Carried Across the Atlanticoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2019
Witch Bottles and the Persistence of English Folk Magic in Americaoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2019
The Lives of the Rural Poor in 19th Century Englandoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2019

2018

The English Origins of Sweet Potato Pieoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2018
The Survival of Old English Speech Ways in the American Southoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2018
The English Love of Gambling: A Brief Historyoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2018
The Irreligiosity of the English: A Brief Historyoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2018
A Brief History of the English Drinking Cultureoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2018
The British Roots of Black Southern Folk Beliefs: How Racist Ideology Obscured Their True Originsoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2018
Backwoods Horror: Press Representations of a Devon Family in the 19th Centuryoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2018
Christianity as Folk Magic in Medieval and Early Modern Englandoriginal ↗
28 May 2018
Folk Beliefs of the 10th and 11th Centuries and their Lasting Impact on the European Christian Laityoriginal ↗
28 May 2018