A VISIT TO ST PANCRAS CHURCHYARD & GIVING A DEAD (BAD) MAN A STERN TALKING TO

Telling a dead man he’s a dick! 😃⚰️☠️ The 4th Earl Ferrers was a very bad man. 🔪 But unlike the fates of murderers who were poor, he was allowed a proper burial because he was an aristocrat. ⛪️ What’s up with that?!? 🧐 A couple hundred years later an American woman gives him a stern talking to. 🤨

HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN HEALERS IN THE ERADICATION OF SMALLPOX

When we think of the eradication of the smallpox disease today, we think of the groundbreaking vaccine developed by Dr Jenner — but where did the original knowledge of smallpox inoculation (the knowledge on which the eventual vaccine was based) come from? We actually owe our thanks to the ancient practices kept alive by women healers in Greece, Turkey, China, India, and Africa. Basically, everywhere in the world *except* Western Europe…

WHAT DOES THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR HAVE TO DO WITH FEMINIST MEDICINE?

In this video, I explain how the chaos of the English Civil War led to relaxed print censorship, increased literacy, and a boom time for female-focused medical books — the origin of the printed family herbal book. 

WHY IS THE STEREOTYPICAL IMAGE WE HAVE OF A WITCH ALWAYS A WOMAN?

In this short history, I pinpoint the exact year in mediaeval Europe when the idea of the inherent character of the Satanic witch as female began — and also explain how the blame for this misogynist bull really comes down to just a few travelling preachers.