As promised on the ‘School Meals Service with Heather Ellis’ episode of the podcast, I have written a recipe for a stone-cold school dinners classic for mymonthly subscribers. I went for the pink-sponge and custard because quite a few people have mentioned this as a favourite on social m...
We all have our favourites, whether it is a school-dinner jam roly-poly with custard, or a Yorkshire with onion gravy, a Burns’ Night haggis or the Christmas plum pudding. The humble pudding started out as a meat boiled in either animal intestine or in a cloth. With the advent of pud...
While the disruption was going on at Sheltering Arms, the State of New York granted funds to the House of Mercy to build a new building next to the Howland mansion, a building that included a dining hall, a chapel, school rooms, and more sleeping space. The new building was designed by...
Financial help for the unemployed, old-age pensions and free school meals were just a few of the important measures introduced. Various laws were passed to improve safety in the workplace; town planning rules were tightened to prevent the further development of slums; and better support was give...
When we think of the outbreak of The Second World War, we don’t think suicide. Maybe that’s because suicide was illegal in the UK until 1961. Maybe it’s because these people’s stories have just got lost in the melee of ‘THERE’S A WAR!’. Or maybe, it’s because, until qui...
school open in 1950. In 1953, the community honored Hard by changing the school's name to the Bailey-Johnson School. Also honored was Roswell resident Warren Johnson, who had been a tireless advocate for Black education. The closure of the Bailey-Johnson School in 1967, marked the end of ...
Coaching the team was Cornelius Fellows, president of both the U.S. National Amateur Hockey Association and the International Skating Union, and owner of New York’s St. Nicholas Rink. He was a last-minute replacement for the man who selected the team, its original manager, Roy Schooley, ...
During the eighteenth-century partitions of Poland, the Russian Empire absorbed all Ukraine except for Galicia, which went to Austria. The empress Catherine II extended serfdom to the traditionally free kozak lands and destroyed the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775. During the nineteenth century all vestige...
If it has in you too, please let the School Meals Project know about them – and let me know about them too – there’s a postbag episode of the podcast coming in just two or three weeks’ time. Three stuck in my mind: sago or tapioca pudding, pink sponge and custard, and Spam ...
As promised on the ‘School Meals Service with Heather Ellis’ episode of the podcast, I have written a recipe for a stone-cold school dinners classic for mymonthly subscribers. I went for the pink-sponge and custard because quite a few people have mentioned this as a favourite on social ...