Podcast: in conversation with Dr Piers Mitchell of the University of Cambridge, on studying the Black Death, medieval friars’ faeces and bunions caused by French pointy shoes.
Fascinating...that explains why my elderly mother with her painful bunion, hobbles and struggles with walking. As she once said, it was the pointed shoes she wore to Tea dances in the 50s!
Fascinating...that explains why my elderly mother with her painful bunion, hobbles and struggles with walking. As she once said, it was the pointed shoes she wore to Tea dances in the 50s!
Fascinating Medical History and stories