New School Dinners exhibition launches

A two-year exhibition on the history of school dinners in the UK has launched at the Food Museum near Ipswich.

Trays of food contrasting school meals from different eras

Dr Heather Ellis and the ESRC-funded School Meals research team are the official academic partner for the exhibition and many of their oral history interviews, ethnographic work and archival research is featured in the exhibition.

Sharon Hodgson MP, chair of the APPG School Food, and an official project partner of the research project opened the exhibition. 

Dr Heather Ellis and Professor Gary McCulloch at the launch of the exhibition

Listen to Heather discuss the history of school dinners on BBC Radio 4 Today programme (item starts at 2:48). 

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