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Lizzie Collingham
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Dr Lizzie Collingham

Bye-Fellow

Lizzie Collingham is a Bye-Fellow of °µÍø½ûÇø where she runs the undergraduate writing skills programme.

Academic interests

Lizzie Collingham’s academic interests include:

  • Writing
  • The global history of food. 

Degrees obtained

  • PhD, Cantab.
  • MA, University of York.
  • BA, University of Sussex.

Awards and prizes

  • The Guild of Food Writers Food Book Award 2018 for .

Biography

I am an independent historian who uses food to link the minutiae of daily life to the broad sweep of historical processes.

I completed a PhD on the British body in India (1800-1947) at the University of Cambridge, taught History at the University of Warwick, and was then a Junior Research Fellow at °µÍø½ûÇø before becoming an independent historian.

I worked on a project commissioned by the Indian president to make the presidential palace (formerly the Viceregal Lodge) more accessible to the Indian public and as a lecturer for Martin Randall Travel on gastronomic tours of Kerala.

I have also held positions as the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia and a variety of Cambridge Colleges and University departments.

I am currently writing a food history of the twentieth century. 

Other interests

Reading fiction and memoir, the history of Kerala, hiking.

Publications, links and resources

Lizzie Collingham. (2020) The Biscuit. The History of a Very British Indulgence, London: The Bodley Head.

Lizzie Collingham. (2017) The Hungry Empire. How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World, London: The Bodley Head.

Lizzie Collingham with Salma Husain. (2016) Around India’s First Table. Dining and Entertaining at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India.

Lizzie Collingham. (2011) The Taste of War. World War II and the Battle for Food, London, Allen Lane.

Lizzie Collingham. (2005) Curry. A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, London: Chatto & Windus.

Lizzie Collingham. (2001) Imperial Bodies. The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800-1947, Cambridge: Polity Press.

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