By I’m thrilled to announce that Dr Sara Read has agreed to become an editor for Early Modern Medicine! She has been writing for the blog for over a year and works hard to promote the blog, so it will be great to have her on board in an ‘Official’ capacity.
Feeling ‘Louzy’
Many people, myself included, have an aversion to the sensation of things crawling over our skin, whether it be insects, arachnids, or other creepy crawlies. In the early modern period it would seem that people were much more accustomed to having their bodies invaded by visitors, but, like us, found
Notches
In the final run up to the publication of my book (due for release at the end of the month) I have been blogging about aphrodisiacs over on the Notches blog … http://notchesblog.com/2014/09/18/sexual-curiosities-aphrodisiacs-in-early-modern-england/ Notches was established in order to get people inside and outside the academy thinking
History Carnival #137
This month as expected there has been a wealth of discussion about the centenary of the first world war including this piece at the History Matters blog on America’s uneasy commemoration of the centenary and this consideration of how the war changed British attitudes towards authority. The British Library