The Perceptions of Pregnancy research network will host a one-day online workshop on fertility, pregnancy and childbirth across time periods, regions, cultural and global perspectives. Among the presentations:

Anna French (University of Liverpool) – “A Seed Without a Soul”: Reconsidering the History of Early Modern Abortion

Paige Donaghy (The University of Queensland) – Women’s Pregnancy Loss in Early Modern England: A Case Study in the History of (Non)Reproduction

Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) – Recovering from Miscarriage in Early Modern England

Jennifer Hardy (King’s College London) – Biological Clocks: Early Modern Pregnancy and the Experience of Reproductive Time

Cathy McClive (Florida State University) – The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife’s Epistolary Treatise to Dr Vallant

Wednesday 15 September 2021, 10:00–19:30 BST