The history of school meals
9 May 2023
Professor Gary McCulloch gives a history of school dinner provision and nutritional standards, and serves up a 1940's style school meal to modern students on BBC's Inside the Factory programme.
![Gary McCulloch speaking to a woman. Image credit: BBC's Inside the Factory. Gary McCulloch speaking to a woman. Image credit: BBC's Inside the Factory.](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/sites/ioe/files/styles/large_image/public/gary-mcculloch-inside-the-factory.png?itok=O62N3tqX)
Watch: BBC Two: Inside the Factory, series 7 - Rice Pudding (watch from 00:17:45)
University students, teachers and educators affiliated with an Educational Recording Agency (ERA)-licensed organisation can register to watch the clip via the ERA streaming service.
More: IOE Blog: A brief history of school meals in the UK; Improving school meals; UCL leads £1m collaboration to investigate the school meals service
![A photo of pots and pans, with students and Gary McCulloch having dinner in the background. Image credit: BBC's Inside the Factory. A photo of pots and pans, with students and Gary McCulloch having dinner in the background. Image credit: BBC's Inside the Factory.](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/sites/ioe/files/styles/large_image/public/gary-mcculloch-inside-the-factory-pots-pans.png?itok=ef-Eo42u)
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BBC Two: Inside the Factory.