Tag: England

• Jane Austen’s Birth | Pt 1

  

  In my Jane Austen Thinks series, I explore the Austens’ family letters, Jane’s novels, as well as contemporary fashions, scientific developments, and politics in England to get a better understanding of what life was like for growing families in the late 18th and early 19th century; and to get an idea of what Jane Austen […]

  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

• The Byrth of Mankynde, 1540 | Book History

  

  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 | King Edward VI

  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