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Bedlam: When Mental Illness Had No Mercy 😵💫🏥
🏛️🕯️ Long before modern psychology, therapy, or compassion, there was Bedlam — Europe’s most infamous asylum and a symbol of how little the world und…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Great Flood That Ended the Ice Age
🌊🧊 At the end of the last Ice Age, melting glaciers released unimaginable volumes of water, reshaping continents, coastlines, and human memory itself…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Boring History For Sleep | Medieval Hygiene: Dirt, Disease & Bad Ideas 🧼⚰️
🪣🕯️ Medieval hygiene was less about staying clean and more about not getting noticed. Baths were rare, water was suspicious, perfume replaced soap, a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Meth: A Dark History of Science, War & Addiction 🕯️Boring History For Sleep
💊🕯️ What began as a laboratory experiment and a wartime stimulant slowly transformed into one of the most destructive substances of the modern era. F…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Boring History For Sleep | The Dark Truth About Victorian Child-Raising 😳📜
👶🕯️ Victorian parents believed they were raising strong, disciplined children — even if it meant practices that feel unthinkable today. From strict e…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Boring History For Sleep | Complete History. The Drug That Built Empires: Tobacco 🚬👑
🍃📜 Long before cigarettes, advertising, and warning labels, tobacco began as a sacred plant used in ritual, medicine, and ceremony. Over centuries, e…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Boring History For Sleep | What It Was Really Like to Be a Victorian Brothel Worker 🕯️🏚️
🏚️🕯️ Victorian society preached morality, discipline, and respectability — while quietly relying on an entire hidden workforce to survive on the marg…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Boring History For Sleep | The Entire History of Marie Antoinette 👑🕯️ (Myth, Luxury & a Lasting Legacy)
Season 1 Episode 1
🕯️👑 Marie Antoinette is remembered as history’s most misunderstood queen — blamed for excess, mocked for luxury, and immortalized by a sentence she n…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Boring History For Sleep | Why You Wouldn’t Last a Day in Ancient Greece 🏺💀
🏺⚔️ Ancient Greece gave the world philosophy, democracy, and the Olympics — but daily life was far less heroic. Between backbreaking labor, constant …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Boring History For Sleep | The Unwritten Winter Rules of Victorian Society 🕯️🏠
❄️🕯️ Victorian winters weren’t just cold — they were filled with invisible rules about clothing, visits, greetings, meals, and even how long you were…
1 month, 4 weeks ago