title: William Wilde: Historian.
abstract: This essay attempts to assess William Wilde as a social historian. It examines some of his contributions to the discipline of history and looks particularly at 'The food of the Irish', which was published in the Dublin University Magazine in February 1854.
authors.affiliation: School of History, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. l.geary@ucc.ie.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Geary
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000266:history; D004190:Disasters / Q000266:history; D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D011198:Solanum tuberosum / Q000266:history; D013217:Starvation / Q000266:history*
keywords: Famine diseases; Ideology; Mortality; Potato; Social history; The Great Famine