The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Alanna Skuse

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was afoot. Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England – a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants. Can Alanna convince you to join her in just 15 minutes? Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can

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The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Alanna Skuse is an episode from History Hack by Alex Churchill, Matt Bone.

This episode is 18:01 long.

This episode was published on Dec 31, 2025.

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