Clean eating

Angela Smith has published an article about 'clean eating'. The clean eating dietary fad has grown in popularity in the last decade. Angela's research explores how it has come to be associated with certain ingredients and a general discourse of well-being. Whilst being largely discredited as pseudo-science, many of these ingredients have found their way into recipes in the cookery books of those who declare a clear opposition to clean eating. In particular, Angela explores the cookery books of Nigella Lawson, as she states a preference for new ingredients that are typically associated with clean eating.

Smith, A. (2020) 'Clean eating’s surprising normalisation: The case of Nigella Lawson'. Discourse, Context & Media 35.

Rebuilding the universities after the Great War

Dr Sarah Hellawell, with Dr Georgina Brewis (UCL) and Dr Daniel Laqua (Northumbria), has published an article in The Journal of the Historical Association which examines a transformative moment in the history of British higher education. After the First World War, student numbers were boosted by the arrival of large numbers of ex‐servicemen. Their access to university was facilitated by the government‐funded Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex‐Service Students, which provided grants to nearly 28,000 students between 1918 and 1923. The article offers the first sustained historical analysis of the workings and impact of this programme, which constituted a major development in state support for individual students. The research upon which the article is based was funded by the AHRC World War One Engagement Centre at the University of Hertfordshire. In the wider project the authors also worked with community partners, Mike Day (National Union of Students) and Jude Murphy (Workers’ Educational Association).

Brewis, G., S. Hellawell and D. Laqua. 2020. 'Rebuilding the Universities after the Great War: Ex‐Service Students, Scholarships and the Reconstruction of Student Life in England'. History: The Journal of the Historical Association.