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Yann Ryan

is a historian and digital humanities researcher interested in early modern news culture, with a Ph.D from Queen Mary, University of London. He most recently worked on the AHRC-funded project 'Networking Archives' which seeks to shed new light on seventeenth-century intelligencing using digital methods.
Recipes for dealing with the plague in Shakespeare’s England
Burges's water for the plague
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Recipes for dealing with the plague in Shakespeare’s England

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Recipes for plague-curing potions like “Doctor Burges’s remedy” are often found in household recipe books of Shakespeare’s time. Folger fellow Yann Ryan writes about the circulation of information and misinformation through these recipes.

Recipe Books, Plague Cures and the Circulation of Information
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Recipe Books, Plague Cures and the Circulation of Information

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a guest post by Yann Ryan As well as its terrible consequences for health and mortality, plague in early modern England had a major impact on the communication and circulation of information. Movement was restricted, towns with suspected cases were…