The Royal Kitchens at Kew: a social history
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Channel: Historic Royal Palaces · 2012 · Education
Meet Savage Bear, purveyor of herbs and roots ... An introduction to the social history of George III's amazing Royal Kitchens at Kew. Now the site of Historic Royal Palaces' £1.7 million project to open this Georgian time-capsule to the public, opening 18 May 2012. Filmed in March 2011, before the conservation and interpretation work started, this film gives an introduction to the research that has taken place into the people who worked in this remarkable building and what their lives must have been like. Featuring Historic Royal Palaces' curator Susanne Groom.
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