Hannah Newton very much enjoys discussing the history of illness with different audiences, including health professionals, patients, carers, and children. Here are some of her recent public engagement and media experiences.
Engaging children, patients, and health professionals
- Cambridge History for Schools Programme: interactive medical history workshop for 9-14-year olds, entitled ‘Inside the Sickchamber’ (March 2013)
- Series of discussions and talks with Fibromyalgia Patient Support Groups in Reading (Summer 2016)
- Article in the journal Pediatrics: ‘The Dying Child in Seventeenth-Century England’, Pediatrics, 136 (2015), 218-220
- Talk to paediatrics team at Royal United Hospital, Bath (December 2010)
Media – radio, podcasts, and TV
- BBC Radio 4 interview on ‘The Sigh’, with poet Imtiaz Dharker; the history, psychology, and cultural significance of sighing (19 & 21 December 2016 at 8pm and 11am)
- BBC Berkshire’s morning show with Anne Diamond: interview on The Sick Child in Early Modern England (8 November 2016): part 1: 1.09.12-1.20.54; part 2: 1.38.53-1.45.53
- BBC’s The One Show short film on ‘The History of Children’s Medicine’ (filming on 29 October 2014; broadcast 13 April 2014)
- Podcast interview on ‘Oliver Twist – What was it Really Like?’, The Naked Scientists (21 October 2014)
- Radio interview on ‘Unusual Cures’ with Dotty McLeod, Radio Cambridgeshire (23 September 2014)
- Elsevier Audio-slide to accompany article, ‘The Sick Child in Early Modern England’, Endeavour (June 2014)
- Podcast interview for the BBC History Magazine, ‘The Sick Child in Seventeenth-Century England’, (October 2010)
Articles and blogs
- [forthcoming, co-editor and writer] Blog Series on Medicine and the Senses, The Recipe Project (April 2018); I will write the introduction and a blog on ‘Bitter as Gall or Sickly Sweet? The Taste of Medicine in Early Modern England’
- University of Reading Department of History Blog: ‘The Sick Child in Early Modern England’ (May 2015)
- BBC History Magazine piece, ‘1138: The Number of London Children Recorded as Dying from “Teeth” in 1685’, February 2014: this is a contribution to the Magazine’s special feature on interesting statistics in history
- Early Modern Medicine Blog, ‘Wet Beds & Hedgehogs’ (October 2013)
- The Recipes Project Blog, ‘A Bag of Worms: Treating the Sick Child in Early Modern England’ (January 2013)
- The History of Emotions Blog, ‘Sick of Sickness! Recovering a Happier History’ (November 2012)
- Wellcome Library Blog, ‘Bathing with Sheep’s Heads: The Sick Child in Early Modern England’ (July 2012)
- University of Cambridge Research Discussion, ‘Never too Young to Talk about Death?’ (November 2013)
- University of Cambridge Research Discussion, ‘A Spoonful of Sugar or a Bitter Blocker’ (February 2012)
- BBC History Magazine article, “‘Not a Sadder Creature in the World”: Parent’s Grief in Seventeenth-Century England’, 11 (2010), 62-65