I started writing about hysteria in the mid-1980s. But I'm still needing to tell the story!
Filthy Philaenis: the first sex manual?
This is one of those stories about the classical world which starts with assumptions, and ends with them being shaken up as the result of one simple discovery.
Acting up in the Vagina Museum
If you hang out on social media, or read the newspapers, you'll know that the world now has not just a Penis Museum and a number of Sex Museums, but also a Vagina Museum. Unlike Iceland's Penis Museum (actually called the Phallological Museum, which sounds more formal and scientific), containing 'more than 280 penises and… Continue reading Acting up in the Vagina Museum
Pliny on corns and bras
Pliny’s cure for corns was to look at the stars whilst oil was poured on the hinge of a door. Really??
The histories of miscarriage and stillbirth
Three children who died too young: what can they tell us about how we frame and then answer our questions about the past?
Mistaking histories 