Archaeology Honours reasearcher  Kim Connor joins us again with her recreation of a typical dinner served to women living in Hyde Park barracks in the Destitute Asylum and Immigration Depot in the 1880s.  If breakfast and supper in the Destitute Asylum and the Immigration Depot were boring and repetitive, dinner (served at 1 pm) was the one … Continue reading Reconstructing dinner in the Hyde Park Barracks destitute asylum