Tag: England

• Jane Austen’s Birth | Pt 1

  

  This is the first of a two parter exploring the life and times of Jane Austen with relation to pregnancy birth and mothering. In this series I combine the popular culture, scientific developments and politics, along with the family’s letters and Jane’s novels to gain a better understanding of what life was like for growing […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 28, 2021

  Babies, Birth, Jane Austen Series, Pregnancy, Video

  art history, baby, Birth, breastfeeding, dry nursing, England, foster mother, Georgian, wet nursing

• Updated: Hogarth’s Infant Carriers

  

  Today we’re looking at baby carriers in William Hogarth’s The March of the Guards to Finchley from 1750. The March of the Guards to Finchley, depicts a fictional troop of buffoonish British troops in Tottenham Court Road, in London, on their way to fight the Jacobean forces in the uprising of 1745. It’s an example […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 3, 2020

  Babies, Video

  18th century, art history, baby, Baby carriers, babywearing, British Army, England, Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, Georgian, Hanoverian, Henry Fielding, Jacobean, London, William Hogarth, Working moms

• The Byrth of Mankynde, 1540

  

  Learn more about the first book in English on pregnancy, birth, and newborn care: The Byrth of Mankynde, 1540.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 7, 2020

  Birth, Pregnancy, Video

  apothecary, baby, Birth, birth figures, book history, Catherine Parr, childbirth, early modern, England, English, Eucharist Rosslyn, Henry VIII, history, history of medicine, latin, literacy, midwife, midwifery, neonatal, New York Academy of Medicine, newborn, obstetrics, pediatrics, physician, postpartum, Pregnancy, printing press, protestantism, reading, Richard Jonas, Royal Collection Trust, Royal College of Physicians, soranus, surgeon, Thomas Raynalde, Tudor, vernacular, Wellcome Collection

• Measles in the Tudor Era

  

  What was measles like for people before vaccination? Watch or read about measles in the Tudor era.

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 21, 2019

  Babies, Video

  16th century, book history, contagion, England, featured, herbology, history of measles, history of medicine, humoral, illness, immunity, immunization, King Edward VI, measles, medicine, medieval, mmr, pediatrics, smallpox, The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaer, tuberculosis, Tudor, vaccination, vaccine

• The Boke of Chyldren | Tudor Pediatrics|

  

  Imagine a world where there are no books about keeping your baby healthy in your language, even in your country: that was the case in England until Thomas Phaer published “The Boke of Chyldren” in 1544.

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 10, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

  16th century, art history, bedwetting, book history, breastfeeding, colic, cradle cap, domestic manual, early modern, England, epilepsy, history, humoral, infant care, infant sleep, literacy, magic, medicine, medieval, metaphysical, nightmares, religion, teething, The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaer, Tudor

• Medieval Babywearing | European Infant Carriers

  

  With the talk of which culture has the exclusive rights to this or that, some have wondered if people of European descent should use infant carriers at all. To which I can only groan (and share this post).

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 27, 2015

  Babies, Blog

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