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Sara Read

Dr Sara Read

Lecturer in English in the School of Arts, English and Drama

Areas of expertise

Seventeenth-century culture and literature. Early women's reproductive health and medicine.

Profile

Sara's expertise is in seventeenth-century culture and literature. She specialises in women's reproductive health and medicine in early modern popular culture. She can speak on historical attitudes to menstruation, miscarriage, menopause, adolescence, pregnancy, and religion. She writes for the press and history magazines about a range of topics connected to her research. 

Interview booking

Please call the press office on +44 (0)1509 223491 to arrange an interview with Dr Sara Read. Bookings can also be made online at Globelynx.

Related press releases

Sara Read

How different were things in ye olde Christmas?

20 December 2022

‘Sallets’ – how to eat healthily the 1600s way

4 January 2022

Learn how to be more environmentally friendly with lessons from the 1600s

2 November 2021

How women’s experience of birth during COVID-19 can help improve childbirth in future

1 July 2021

Ye olde remedies for modern Christmasse ailments… or how 17th century medicine can help after a Christmas binge

22 December 2018
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