Thankyou Michaela and Sunny for your suggestions. looks like I need another
trip up to London! Fortunately I only live in Portsmouth and the mega Bus
gets me up there for £2.50 return! (About the same cost for me to go to
portsmouth Dockyard and the historic ships!)
And thankyou, Robin for the fascinating information about the Herjofsnes
garments.
With regard to the menstruation discussion, it would seem that there are
many factors to take into consideration. It's a long time since my degree
but from what I can remember about fertility and family size in Early modern
Europe, women's experience varied according to social status,(e.g.wet
nursing = more births) environmental factors, ( eg. crop failure = poor
nurition = fewer births) and of course locality.
regards
Joy
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