Changing relationships between grocers and shoppers: the role of food packaging

The histories and social significances of food packaging have been neglected by both historians and other social scientists (with honourable, but few, exceptions, e.g. Cochoy, Hawkins, Wilk). There are various good reasons for aiming to fill this gap. One allows enlarging on historiographies of conjunctions between food production and consumption. Food packaging is integral to interactions between supply and demand, notably the version enacted between grocers and customers. The seminar examines this aspect of the history of food shopping, based on a small section of my 2024 book 'The (not so) secret life of food packaging' (London: Bloomsbury).

This session has been rescheduled from the 26 September 2024.