My dad, also known to the world as my father, is 80 today. Cape Cod, here we come! Here is a little birthday card I published a couple days ago. Some memories are of photographs and not the incident itself, but some feel to the rememberer like they are of a photo, with the details so clear and so accessible. There is one memory I could count the rocks in the creek bed if I would just take the time.

Religion and society in Britain in the long eighteenth century. Conversing Criminally is Daniel Reed. PhD candidate, historical researcher and Yorkshireman. He is also Assistant Archivist at Oxford Brookes University and a member of the International Laurence Sterne Foundation. Follow Conversing Criminally on WordPress. In May 2016, the major genealogy resource.

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. I am the founding editor of www. Where I blog about early modern medicine, bodies and gender. And later supported by a SSAHRI research grant.