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Sara Read featuring on Country File alongside a TV presenter

Dr Sara Read

Senior Lecturer in English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Areas of expertise

Seventeenth-century culture and literature, early women's reproductive health and medicine, and historical fiction.

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 is also a historical novelist. She has appeared on tv such as BBC Countryfile and radio such as Women's Hour and Free Thinking. 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 222224 to arrange an interview with Dr Sara Read.

Related press releases

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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
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