"A Time of Upheaval: British America, 1775-1784: Life, Rebellion and the Fork" by Peter Gillies

This presentation by Peter Gillies is about life in the 18th Century in British America. Looking at the culture of the common family and how they lived. The presentation will include what people ate and how they ate, including the fork - how it was, or wasn’t, used. What about other things like beer, the “sipper”, and how you learned the 28 (or was that 29) letters of the alphabet!
This part 1 of his discussion of life in Britain's American colonies in the 1770s and 1780s.
Peter Gillies
has been a student of the 18th Century for more than 40 years. He has also been a reenactor for most of that time focusing on the 18th Century: portraying a merchant, and soldiers from the Seven Years War, the American Revolution (DeLancey's Brigade, Butler's Rangers) and the American Civil War with the 20th Maine Regiment of Volunteers, Company I. He is a member of many historical and history academic and research groups and is a member of DeLancey's Brigade and the 20th Maine. His studies on the 18th Century focus on the Life and Times of common people of that century with a concentration in the American War of Independence.
Recorded at the Saint John Public Library, April 27, 2024. Thanks to Troy Middleton for recording this event.