Samuel Pepys might be best known for his diaries but how many of us know what he actually wrote about? Along with his other appetites, Pepys relished his meals, and recorded the choosing, buying, cooking and eating of food and drink in hundreds of diary entries. Join us to enter his culinary world, featuring period dishes such as salmagundi, apple and orange tarts, and sack posset.

Speaker, Judith Headley loved history and literature equally at school and hated having to choose between them. Opting for an English degree led her to further studies at the Shakespeare Institute. Since then a career in secondary teaching has developed beyond retirement into teaching adults. Judith has a particular interest in social history and the history of food. She regularly talks on a wide range of topics.