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Item Book Review: Reassessing Murder, She Wrote: the Afterlives of a Popular Culture Phenomenon(Taylor & Francis, 2025-09-16) Geddes, KevinItem Book Review: Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975(Informa UK Limited, 2024-12-24) Geddes, KevinItem Above all, garnish and presentation: An evaluation of Fanny Cradock's contribution to home cooking in Britain(Wiley, 2017-08-02) Geddes, KevinThe development of cooking on television, and the associated rise in ‘celebrity chefs’ is often seen as a modern phenomenon involving cooks like Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson in Britain. Fanny Cradock (1909–1994) is from time to time credited as a pioneer in television cooking and Britain's ‘first celebrity chef’. However little detail of her career has been documented, despite working as a journalist, radio and television presenter, food demonstrator, writer of fiction, children's books and cookbooks spanning from 1942 until 1986. Cradock was prominent on television between 1955 and 1975, with her final appearance in 1985. Cradock is as often remembered for her colourful character as for the colourful food she presented and her name remains synonymous with elaborate cooking in ball gowns, using copious amounts of food colouring and aspic, and for berating her husband who assisted her on stage, on television, and in print. However, from Cradock's personal archive a far more substantive contribution to home cooking through the development of television cooking and cookbooks, looking at her undocumented ideas and innovations. Additional archive materials and collections of newspaper clippings collected between 1942 and 1982 by Cradock herself shed light on how she was perceived at the time, her role as an entrepreneur and her own ‘brand’ identity. From this documentary evidence, it is argued that Cradock deserves to be much better remembered for her contribution to British food culture.Item Common Market Cookery: Fanny Cradock’s European Fantasy(Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2018-02-01) Geddes, KevinFanny Cradock remains best known for her ball-gowns, brows and her berating of assistants, but she also had a lifelong ambition, threaded through her work. She wanted to bring the gastronomic landscape of Europe to the housewives of Britain. From her early days as a young, ambitious, jobbing newspaper feature writer, food activist and campaigner, to her rise as a television celebrity extraordinaire, she championed the style, the feel and the food of the Continent. This essay looks at Craddock's career and asks, was Fanny as ‘ProEU’ as she seemed, or would Brexit be more up her boulevard?Item For the Housewife? From ‘The Singing Cook’ to ‘Common-Sense Cookery’: The First (Disrupted) Twenty Years of Television Cooking Programmes in Britain (1936-1955)(Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, 2020-05-26) Geddes, KevinTelevision cooking programmes are ubiquitous on the established institutions’ television channels, dedicated food channels and online. They have become a popular focus for research in recent years, this research often exploring their impact on audiences, societies and cultures. Much of this research examines programmes produced and broadcast during and following the 1990s. These programmes are often readily available to view as they have been stored and archived by the broadcasting institutions themselves, or recorded at home by audiences and subsequently shared on platforms such as YouTube.Item Book Review: Television history, the Peabody archive, and cultural memory(Taylor and Francis Group, 2020-12-28) Geddes, KevinItem A Conceit of Coney: Philip Harben and Britain's First Television Food History Programme(Prospect Books, 2021-07) Geddes, KevinItem “The man in the kitchen”. Boulestin and Harben: Representation, gender, celebrity, and business in the early development of television cooking programmes in Britain(Routledge, 2022-02-14) Geddes, Kevin; Tominc, AnaThis chapter focuses specifically on two television cooking presenters from the early days of broadcasting in Britain, Marcel Boulestin (who featured in television broadcasts before World War II) and Philip Harben (who featured in television broadcasts after World War II), both of whom played a significant role in the establishment and development of television cooking programmes in Britain. By reviewing archival materials and primary sources, this chapter will examine the initial 20 years of broadcast television cooking programmes in Britain, looking in particular at these two male presenters who dominated television cooking programmes before and after the war, respectively.Item Book Review: Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating(SAGE, 2023-05-25) Geddes, Kevin