From the Exotic to the Everyday: changing attitudes to the pineapple (Cambridge Festival of Ideas)

Event
16th October 2019
13:15 - 14:00
FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
Dr Kasia Boddy from the Faculty of English joins Dr Melissa Calaresu and Dr Emma Spary from the Faculty of History

Link to the Festival of Ideas website:

https://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/exotic-everyday-changing-attitudes-pineapple

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