Thank you!

Ooh! I need this!

They are lovely in tart tatin too - or just cooked in a buttery caramel without the tatin TBF! I love quinces.

Let me know if you need a copy!

And Rachel Delman's lovely piece on the birthing chamber.

Oh! And there is a fab paper about a Jewish midwife, Floreta d'ays- do you know it? Dan Smail and Green, and great fun to teach.

Kim Phillips did a great paper on wet nurses at gms 2024; might be useful?

Thank you - that's a lovely thing to say.

Yes, and they were shorter anyway (my parents still have a rural phone number that's a digit shorter than all automated forms expected it to be, and I remember both times it acquired new digits).

I know - hence the 'now I've got your attention' bit. It's a bit of a running joke amongst medievalists that people think witch-burning was a medieval thing.

Some of them are, though apparently it's not a good idea as there's an acid in them that really ought to be cooked. NB, I discovered this several years ago, *after* my toddler munched handfuls. She suffered no ill effects. :D

So satisfying!

*Want*