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NEW SERIES LAUNCH – IFPH Explorers Intern Series

We are delighted to announce the official launch of Public History Cooked, a new digital series developed as part of the IFPH Explorers Internship Program—an initiative that continues to highlight the creativity, rigor, and impact of our student collaborators.

At IFPH Explorers, we understand internships not simply as training opportunities, but as spaces of active knowledge production, where students contribute in meaningful ways to the field of public history. This series is a perfect example of that commitment.

Public History Cooked explores the rich and dynamic relationship between food and public history, inviting us to rethink how history is experienced, narrated, and shared through everyday practices. Across these first two episodes, viewers will encounter historical recipes, culinary traditions, and the stories embedded within them—revealing how food operates as a powerful medium for memory, identity, and cultural continuity.

From 18th-century recipes to dishes that have shaped national identities, this series blends hands-on cooking with critical historical reflection, demonstrating that kitchens, ingredients, and recipes can function as archives in their own right. In doing so, it opens up new ways of engaging with the past—ones that are sensory, accessible, and deeply connected to lived experience.

Created by Lily Kelly-Clark, a Bachelor of Archaeology student at Macquarie University and an IFPH Explorers intern, this project reflects both scholarly curiosity and creative engagement. Her work exemplifies how emerging scholars are expanding the boundaries of public history by connecting academic inquiry with innovative forms of storytelling.

Watch the first two episodes here:
https://youtu.be/jtWv0ZQDD_I
https://youtu.be/MWcWHsNXboI

This is just the beginning of the series—stay tuned as we continue to explore how food allows us to cook, taste, and experience history in new and meaningful ways.


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Jimena Perry (April 30, 2026). NEW SERIES LAUNCH – IFPH Explorers Intern Series. IFPH-FIHP. Retrieved May 19, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/165tv


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