By On 1 June 1682, a woman called Jane Kent found herself in the dock of the Old Bailey in London accused of witchcraft. The charge was a serious one, for amongst other things, she was accused of causing the death of a five-year-old girl by diabolic means. The charges stemmed
By Pumpkin powers
As Halloween approaches and the shops fill up with pumpkins ready for carving into laterns, I thought it would be interesting to see what our early modern forebears thought they were useful for. The second edition of A Treatise of all Sorts of Foods, both ANIMAL and VEGETABLE attributed to