Food & Drink

Food and Drink in the Time of Jane Austen

Name: Food and Drink in the Time of Jane Austen
Start: 2026-06-20
Location: Curtis Museum

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Saturday, 20 June 2026

Curtis Museum

High Street, Alton, GU34 1BA

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£5.00

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Jane’s birth in 1775 in Steventon, North Hampshire, fell with a time of revolution (industrial and political) and social change in Britain and Europe.

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