Lauren Johnson

@History_Lauren

Author & historian. Mostly drinking tea & sitting. First novel out now. First history book ('England in 1509') out 2016.

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Joined November 2011
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  2. 11 hours ago

    Hard to concentrate on Georgia's dancing when there's a lady dressed as a teapot and candlestick as ziggy stardust.

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  3. Dec 4

    This is an intriguing definition of 'fact'... (Much as I love a ghostly tale.)

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    The screaming lady in the Haunted Gallery at is the ghost of Catherine Howard!
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    Dec 3 Vaughan, Ontario

    100 years later, Marie Curies' research papers remain radioactive

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    4:16 PM - 3 Dec 2015 · Details
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  5. Dec 4

    Agreed! X

    It's Friday. My advice is to hop over to 's timeline for some important medical advice.
  6. Dec 4

    Colour me intrigued...

    I've written something on oral sex (including seed swallowing) in Irish Penitentials
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  7. Dec 4

    With that, I'm done.

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  8. Dec 4

    : More contraceptive advice. Castrate a male weasel (release it alive) & carry its balls in your bosom, tied in goose skin.

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  9. Dec 4

    : Don't want to get pregnant? Carry the womb of an infertile goat against your nude flesh. Sorted.

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  10. Dec 4

    I am no longer writing an article, am I? I'm just finding gross things in Trotula. Oh! There's more!

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  11. Dec 4

    : Want kids? No worries. Dip damp wool in ass's milk then tie it round your middle and keep it there 'til you have sex. Mmm

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  12. Dec 4

    : Infertile? No worries. Dry & powder the liver & testicles of a small pig (which has only had 1 sow) and eat it.

  13. Dec 4

    ALSO the Trotula .Basically . To have a son? Hubby should dry the womb & vagina of a hare then drink with wine. Foolproof.

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  14. Dec 4

    "If a monk gives to another drink in which there is a dead mouse or a drowned weasel, he is to sing 300 psalms."

    The penitentials are my favourites. I made a list ages ago: the little pig is the best, I think
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  15. Dec 4

    ‘If anyone intentionally cuts off any of his own members’, penance of 3 years on bread and water. Ouch.

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  16. Dec 4

    Penitential of Burchard of Worms v specific: Fornication by yourself / with a beast of burden / any quadraped: 3 years penance.

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    Dec 4

    fantastic directors & & writers &

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  18. Dec 4

    Rereading medieval penitentials. ‘Hast thou washed thyself in the bath with thy wife and other women and seen them nude, and they thee?’

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      @honeyandjam

      Author of Honey & Jam: Seasonal Baking from My Kitchen in the Mountains. available now:

    • Claire Cock-Starkey
      @NonFictioness

      Author & Editor (How to Skin a Lion, The Georgian Art of Gambling). Tweeting about books, writing, history, quirky facts & things that catch my eye.

  20. Dec 3

    Had an amazing time leading tour groups around after dark this week. Here's a sneak view.

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    12:23 PM - 3 Dec 2015 · Details
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    Jan 1

    I wrote about Anglo-Saxon swearing, euphemism and some proper medieval smut in

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