Helen Castor’s Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death – Episode 1: A Good Birth
Last night, I watched the first episode of Helen Castor’s three part series on birth, marriage and death…
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26 August 1533 – Queen Anne Boleyn Took to her Chamber
On this day in 1533, Queen Anne Boleyn went through one of the rituals associated with childbirth: “taking…