This is a request for a someone, who has worked in the area, of to give a
talk on celebratory upper middle class drinking in Victorian England for a food
study day on Victorian Christmas eating and drinking for November 2007. This is
being provisionally planned for by Kensington and Chelsea arts and recreation
department. It is intended to take place at Leighton House Museum, where the
audience is likely to include an interested general public, food historians
and those with related interests. A fee and expenses will be paid. This will
probably only include