An exploration of the hazardous objects and features found in the Victorian home. The Hazards of Domestic Brewing. In the next few posts, I want to venture out of the house and explore the hazards lurking in the gardens and yards of the Victorian home. Today, I am going to begin with the hazards of domestic brewing. Brewing was an integral part of Suffolk rural life. Whilst in decline in many areas of the country, in rural Suffolk.

A few years ago, when researching infanticide cases in Irish newspapers, I came across a brutal murder in County Kerry in 1894.

Writing about Serbia and Salonika in WW1. Creative Writing Workshop at Glenville Park, Cork. This one-day workshop will take place on 22. Creative Writing at the Crawford Art Gallery. A series of six workshops will take place in the Crawford gallery using the artwork to inspire ideas and creativity. These classes are suitable for beginners or more experienced writers who are seeking new sources of inspiration.

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.

Registration for the Alternative Families conference is now open! The conference will be held at the University of Sheffield, 9-10 February 2017. Here, or visit our Registration.