Sex in Tudor England | Lesley Smith Interview

[@melissarybb]

This was wonderful. Thank you Philippa! The question I still have is about miscarriage. What did women do in the days before D&Cs? Any tissue left behind could have been dangerous, yes? Did women die post-miscarriage or were there things that midwives could do to fully evacuate a uterus of remaining tissue? This is great women's bottom-up history. Please interview her again and bring us more bottom-up history. I love monarchs & other high-status person history as much as the next guy, but we need more of this!

[@Susan17578]

This was so interesting. I was not familiar with Leslie Smith before this talk and found her very enjoyable. Thanks, Philippa, for another great interview!

[@BritishHistory]

Thank you Susan. 😀

[@ODDwayne1]

Lesley was awesome. Educational and fun. Thank you Lesley for a life of study.

[@vanessahardie1842]

Great discussion. Very interesting. Thank you

[@lisadwyer9699]

This is was Interesting & I Love how she delivers this History. Thank You!

[@rycoli]

Great live! Such interesting information 😊

[@pennyatkinson5740]

Fascinating...thank you! Happy new year!!

[@BritishHistory]

Happy New Year Penny 😀

[@alisonridout]

Thank you Philippa. This was really interesting. Ali

[@susancatananzi1085]

That really was most interesting. Thankyou both

[@Neat0957]

My 12 Great Aunty Rose Lock lived until 86 in Tudor times. 😊 Her father Sir William Lock my 13 great grandfather also passed away 70. Pretty amazing for then especially being Protestant’s after Henry & Edward passed. Mary became queen as we know and my aunty & her family fled to Antwerp and came back when Elizabeth was in power. 😊

[@kellyfoster8079]

Wonderful episode

[@BritishHistory]

Thank you Kelly 😀

[@timothyfreeseha4056]

We still need some of those great thinkers

[@aimeemorgado8715]

This was a magnificent episode. Thank you so much for presenting the lived lives of real human beings- who are just like we are. Social history and the history of material culture is far more important than the sensationalized BS of historical fetishized “ Great man “, warfare and political history we are usually fed .

[@avalonkerr8332]

This Italian (by family background) just laughed aloud at "Of course he's Italian"😆

[@kathleenmcdonald6641]

This was difficult to understand the host. Went to my phone much better. Thank-you this presentation was wonderful ❤

[@BritishHistory]

Sorry to hear you had difficulties but glad you enjoyed Lesley’s presentation 😀

[@kathleenmcdonald6641]

Merry Christmas to you all🎄🎄🎁🎁💚💚❤❤@@BritishHistory

[@shonamcwilliam2842]

I learnt a lot in this discussion. Really interesting. I do remember the vegetable Mandrake being used as an abortive remedy for an unwanted pregnancy in a movie.

[@Raquel-g9f]

I would love to go back in time but be invisible & just see how people live.

[@Raquel-g9f]

As a woman I still don't understand my body

[@kray3883]

They didn't do human dissections, but surely any butcher could have told them that you never find a cow or an ewe or a mare with their uterus going walkabout.........

[@j-pflaherty8357]

Not sure which Bible you were reading. There is nothing in God's word where women were created wet etc etc. that I have seen. Please provide book, chapter and verse regarding this. It can then be fact-checked.

[@BritishHistory]

It was the accepted convention at the time.

[@j-pflaherty8357]

So the old testament that was referred to....???

[@catherinenewman6516]

Henry8 could not have opened any learned boy in the 1580s becauseopened any scientific boy in the1580 because he was dead

[@BritishHistory]

I'm not sure to what you are referring to here but I'm sure neither myself or Lesley referred to Henry VIII being alive in the 1580s

[@catherinenewman6516]

It looks like a urine sample