Strange things that were completely normal in Victorian England: a man paid to tap on your window with a long pole every morning, beautiful green wallpaper made with arsenic, letters delivered twelve times a day, laudanum in the family medicine cupboard, bathing machines at the seaside, and ice cream licked from a shared glass.

Walk slowly through London and the industrial towns of England between the 1840s and the 1890s, in the age of gaslight, horses, coal smoke and thick yellow fog. Twenty quiet chapters about the everyday customs, jobs, fashions and cures that seemed perfectly ordinary to the Victorians, and why they slowly disappeared.

Calm narration, soft painterly scenes, a crackling fire, quiet streets and gentle waves. Over three hours of history, made for curious minds and gentle enough to fall asleep to.

More history to fall asleep to:
Your Life at Every Rank in a Medieval Castle: https://youtu.be/n8dLkoV4MQw
How medieval peasants survived winter: https://youtu.be/zKh68X5J2Pw

???? Chapters
0:00:00 Welcome to Victorian England
0:09:31 Paid to Knock on Your Window
0:18:44 The Beautiful Green That Was Poison
0:28:50 Letters Twelve Times a Day
0:38:26 Treasure Hunters of the Thames Mud
0:48:04 The Strangest Job in London
0:58:04 A Year Dressed in Black
1:07:57 A Spoonful of Laudanum
1:18:20 Bathing Machines at the Seaside
1:28:18 Tea Under Lock and Key
1:38:09 Why Little Boys Wore Dresses
1:47:51 Cures From the Chemist's Shelf
1:57:59 Secret Messages in Flowers
2:07:44 The Great Fern Craze
2:17:44 Voices in the Dark Room
2:27:45 The Fog They Called a Pea-Souper
2:37:54 The Children Who Swept the Crossings
2:47:52 Ice Cream From a Shared Glass
2:57:50 A Victorian Christmas Is Born
3:08:09 A Quiet Night in a Victorian House

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