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“By the time Nelson’s men were gearing up to fight at Trafalgar in 1805, they were probably the healthiest Britons alive. Their ships were kept supplied with a steady stream of fresh carrots, cabbages, lemon juice (to prevent scurvy), beer and live pigs – a remarkable logistical operation in a world where everything had to be organised by letters.”

“ Sparta, a powerful, militarised and utterly bonkers city-state in Ancient Greece, has inspired the imagination of everyone from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher, to Victorian headmasters, to the Nazis, to elite military units, to Hollywood. And now it’s your turn. Can you navigate Sparta’s complex social structures and join the Krypteia, the Spartan elite? Play our adventure and find out.”

“The eighteenth century saw an enormous British backlash against French cooking and its associations with anything perceived as vaguely cosmopolitan, corrupt or urban. In a century in which Britain was regularly at war with France, some Brits sought solace in a strange form of beefy, patriotic nostalgia, setting up ‘beefsteak clubs’, painting pictures and singing songs about good old British beef.”