Witch-hunts during the little ice age

Icy blasts from the north have inspired French artists, writers and scientists

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

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LEECHES and baked owl might not be the first remedies we reach for when feeling poorly, but in the Middle Ages, that was just what the doctor ordered. Medieval medicine was a mix of magic, myth and cu