As well as reviewing Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women’s Lives, 1540-1740, Dr Jem Bloomfield also interviewed me about the project that led to the book. You can read the interview here. It begins: Earlier in the year I reviewed Dr. Sara Read’s new book Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women’s […]
Read moreLittle Moreton Hall is one of the National Trust properties I have a soft spot for. Built in in the sixteenth century to show a family’s wealth, it has some wonderfully quirky features. By coincidence, a few weeks after the visit to Little Moreton on which we […]
Read moreI was asked at a recent talk if I had any favorites amongst the early modern women I research and write about, and Brilliana Conway, later Lady Harley (c 1600-1643) sprang to mind. We included a selection from her commonplace book written in 1622 and from her personal letters in our anthology Flesh and Spirit […]
Read moreIn 2014 Manchester University Press published an anthology I co-edited with Dr Rachel Adcock (Keele University) and Dr Anna Ziomek (Reading University). Flesh and Spirit is a collection of women’s writing by seventeenth-century women who understood their bodily and spiritual health to be inextricably connected. The summary reads: This anthology makes accessible to readers ten […]
Read moreI’ve shared some of the things I do, but thought I ought to talk about the academic side of my career, so I’ve added a category on my research. My PhD was awarded in July 2010, and became a book in Autumn 2013 for Palgrave Macmillan – you can read the Introduction for free by […]
Read moreIn April last year, I traveled up to Manchester to chat to Hannah Kate of North Manchester FM. You can find Hannah on Twitter (@HannahKateish) Hannah and I found we had a lot in common and had plenty to talk about! You can have a browse around Hannah’s blog here You can listen again to […]
Read moreIn March 2015 Jennifer Evans (@HistorianJen) and I recorded an interview with The AskHistorians Podcast. Ours is episode 32 and can be listened to below: http://askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorians-podcast-032-early-modern-medicine-womens-health Jennifer has written an amazing book on aphrodisiacs and sexuality in early modern England which can be purchased here. The book’s chapters are: Texts, Readers and […]
Read moreOn Saturday 1 April I gave a talk ‘Exploring Women’s Lives in the time of Lady Jane Grey’ for the Loughborough Archeological and Heritage Society, at Loughborough University. The title of the talk was inspired by the fact that Lady Jane Grey the nine day queen was born at Bradgate Park just up the road […]
Read moreRead my article about the early seventeenth century play A Yorkshire Tragedy which I wrote for the wonderful ‘Interesting Literature’ blog run by Oliver Tearle. This play was based on real life events in Yorkshire and dramatizes a terrible domestic violence case. It was published under the name of William Shakespeare, but experts no longer […]
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Last May I filmed a short video about John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, Book 9. In August, on a boiling summer’s day the production team and I met up again to film the sequel: Paradise Lost, Book 10. You can see both films and read the accompanying guide by clicking this link. These […]
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