Botany, Feminism, Folk Healers, Medicine, Museum of the Home, Romany Reagan, Video, Women's Weeds ACE Funded Research Project

What does the English Civil War have to do with feminist medicine?

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In this video, I explain how the chaos of the English Civil War led to relaxed print censorship, increased literacy, and a boom time for female-focused medical books — the origin of the printed family herbal book. 

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