Reblogged from The Social Historian, an inestimably irreverent yet academically impeccable site from an Oxford associate profesor of social history, Jonathan Healey. Give him an award, somebody… By the way, for American readers, Boots equals Walgreens.
On Michaelmas Eve, 1544, two women came to blows in the open street in Winchester. We know who they were. We know the approximate time (two in the afternoon), and we know there were plenty of witne…
Source: ‘The Foulest Place of Mine Arse is Fairer than thy Face’