Milk matters

Deborah Valenze is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University and the author of ‘Milk: A Local and Global History’ (Yale University Press, 2012). Her research has focused broadly on the relationship between British culture and economic life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her most recent book, ‘The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History’, will be published in June 2023.

Hillary M Nunn is a professor of English at the University of Akron, Ohio. Her current research focuses on intersections between Renaissance literary culture and the era’s domestic medical texts and cookery books. With Madeline Bassnett she edited the collection ‘In the Kitchen, 1550–1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad’ (Amsterdam UP, 2022). She is a co-founding member of the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) and author of ‘Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Tragedy in the Early Stuart Era’ (Ashgate, 2005).

Julia Nurse is a collections research specialist at Wellcome Collection with a background in Art History and Museum Studies. She currently runs the Exploring Research programme, and has a particular interest in the medieval and early modern periods, especially the interaction of medicine, science and art within print culture.