How the Victorians started the modern health obsession with collagen

Dream79/Shutterstock Shimmering, wobbling and painstakingly prepared, jelly was a staple of elite Victorian dining tables. But beneath its elegant presentation lay a deeper significance – one that reveals much about the era’s understanding of bone, health and scientific progress. By examining what jelly meant to the Victorians, we gain aContinue Reading

Rachel Reeves’s plan to reduce inheritance tax relief for farmers risks hampering growth and destabilising the wider economy, according to Rain Newton-Smith, head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Addressing the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) on Tuesday, Newton-Smith criticised the Chancellor’s decision to cut Agricultural Property Relief—previously exempting farmsContinue Reading