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5.5K views · 13 reactions | Why is gin known as 'mother's ruin' when 11 gallons of the stuff were knocked back by EVERYONE - man, woman and child - in 1750's London? Possibly something to do with the case of Judith Defour, who murdered her own child to sell its petticoats for gin. | Channel 5 | Facebook

Next time you try to hold in a fart, bear in mind that someone actually died from 'winde' in 1664. But it was the plague that was the era's biggest killer. What these bills of mortality tell us about the spread of plague in the 17th century is quite extraordinary... | Channel 5