Jennifer Evans
I am a senior lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire. My research focuses on gender, the body and medicine in early modern England. In particular I am interested in issues to do with the health, sex and reproduction. More broadly my research touches upon ideas of marriage, the family and medical practitioners.
15 August 2017
On the 9 August Sara and I launched our new book Maladies & Medicine: exploring health and healing 1540-1740 at Loughborough University London. Attendees battled a classic British...
31 May 2017
A few months ago I received an exciting email asking if I would like to be involved in Inside Versailles with the awesome hosts Greg Jenner and Kate Williams. We talked all things aphrodisiacs...
Perceptions of Pregnancy Published
25 January 2017
I am very pleased to announce that the edited collection I put together with Ciara Meehan is now available. To celebrate we are offering the chance to win a copy of the collection....
27 October 2016
Recently I was lucky enough to be on Soho Radio’s Science Mixtape. If you want to hear some gross details about early modern medicine and some awesome tunes chosen by me, then...