By A guest blog post by Dr Shona McIntosh Frances Howard’s marriage to the Earl of Essex is one of the most famous instances of marital dysfunction in the early modern period. Ballad-makers enthusiastically commented on the ‘strange frigidity’ which was detailed in Frances’s petition for annulment in 1613. The judges
2015 Roundup
As we begin a new year it’s time for our annual round up of the reader’s favourite posts from 2015. Narrowly missing out this year were our posts on ‘Inconvenient Incontinence‘ and ‘Horrible Halitosis‘. 5. Ashleigh Blackwood’s post about ‘Maternity Wear: to Conceal or Reveal‘ opens our top five and revealed