Lisa Smith

A historian of eighteenth-century France and England, Lisa Smith has published widely on food, recipes, illness, fertility, bodies, and the household. Her book, The King’s Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820 (UCL Press 2026), was co-authored with Adam Crymble (UCL), Sarah Fox (Edge Hill) and Rachel Rich (Leeds Beckett) and was funded by a British Academy grant. A recent article co-authored with Cathy McClive (Florida State University) received prizes from Nursing Clio and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender and an honourable mention from the Society for the Study of French History: "Women at the centre: medical entrepreneurialism and ‘la grande médecine’ in eighteenth-century Lyon", French History 38, 1 (2024).