Lauren Potts
Lauren Potts is a family historian and journalist
Recent articles by Lauren Potts
Sprinkle urine on the mother and pass the baby through a hoop of cheese: history's strangest childbirth customs
Discover the strange historic customs used in childbirth
Sin-eaters, corpse photography and telling the bees: the historic death traditions that helped us cope with grief
Discover the historic death traditions our ancestors would have known
From the workhouse diet to chewing 100 times: weight loss expert evaluates diet tips from the past
Lauren Potts looks at the weight loss tips our ancestors would have known - and asks whether any of them work
The truth about the Christmas baby boom: what your birth date says about you
Lauren Potts reveals the time of year most babies are born - and what it says about our ancestors