Margaret Dorey
Resume
Margaret Dorey is a PhD candidate in a Graduate Diploma of Arts – History (First Class Honours) University of Western Australia. Dissertation title: ‘Innovation and change in diet: English perceptions of the fruits and vegetables of the Americas, 1492 to 1700’
Published articles:
‘Controlling corruption: Regulating meat consumption as a preventative to plague in Seventeenth-century London’, Urban History, 2009, vol. 36:1.
‘“I’ve Always Enjoyed Conferences”: An Interview with Pam Sharpe on the Importance of Collaboration and Diversity’, Limina, 2007: 13, http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/59120/Sharpe_Interview.pdf
Reviews:
Dorey, M. of Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities by Andrea Gaynor, published in Limina, 2007: 13, http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/59120/Reviews.pdf
Conference papers:
‘Dangerous adulterants or kindly corrections?: Representations of food additives and concerns about food purity in early modern English dietary texts’,
ANZAMEMS Conference 2008, University of Tasmania, December 2008.
‘Lewd, idle people selling corrupt, unwholesome food? The construction of street hawkers as the corruptive other in 17th century London records’, Urban History Group Annual Conference 2008: Urban Boundaries and Margins, University of Nottingham, March 2008.
‘Corrupt and naughty wares: rhetoric versus reality in regulating the food traders of 17th century London’, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2007: Food and Morality, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, September 2007.
‘Controlling corruption: Regulating meat consumption as a preventative to plague in 17th century London’, ARC Network for Early European Research Conference 2007: Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400–1850, University of Western Australia, July 2007.
‘“Child flesh pye”: food anxieties and suspicions in 17th century England’,
Social History Society Annual Conference 2007, University of Exeter, March 2007.
Seminars and public presentations:
‘Sophisticated Food’, presented as part of Danger, Decadence and Dictators: Courses in History, a fund-raising dinner for the History Alumni, held at Frasers’ Restaurant, Perth in October 2009.
‘“Living by her own hand”: the precarious status of food hawkers in early modern London’, in Toil and Indolence in England and Australia c.1200–2000 (postgraduate seminar), University of Tasmania, December 2008.
‘Food in Imperial Rome: Cooking from Apicius’, presentation and food tasting for the Roman Archaeology Group, University of Western Australia, August 2008.
‘Reading 17th century English Hands’ ARC NEER Postgraduate Advanced Training Scheme: Reading the pre-modern: European Paleaography and Diplomatics, University of Western Australia, May 2008.
‘Making Mascarpone’, practical workshop and food tasting for Slow Food Perth, July 2007.
‘Home Cheese making: White Mould Cheese and Mascarpone’, practical workshop, Harvey Cheese, June 2007.
‘Home Cheese making: Blue Wensleydale and Quark’, practical workshop, Harvey Cheese, October 2007.
‘Innovation and change in early modern English diet 1490–1700: some problems with the sources’, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group and the Round Table, Sundowner series, University of Western Australia, July 2006.
‘Daily Life in the Middle Ages: Food, cooking and dining’, University Extension Program, Summer 2006, University of Western Australia.
‘Greek Lenten fare’, presentation and food tasting for Slow Food Perth, April 2005.