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Step back into the Victorian age, where elegant parlors and lace curtains hid one of history’s strangest taboos: the bathroom. Tonight’s story will ease you into deep sleep with calm narration while uncovering the secret world of chamber pots, outhouses, and the dawn of indoor plumbing. As you drift off, you’ll gain not only restful dreams but also a richer understanding of how everyday life—from servants’ hidden buckets to the Great Stink of London—shaped society in ways rarely spoken of. By the end, you’ll feel both soothed and intrigued, as though you’ve quietly peeked behind the velvet curtain of Victorian respectability.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Behind the Curtain of Respectability
43:10 - From Chamber Pots to Flush Toilets
1:26:03 - Bathing, Servants, and Strange Remedies
2:08:59 - Public Sanitation, Hospitals, and the Fight for Dignity
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Sources
1. Jackson, Lee. Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth.
2. Wohl, Anthony S. The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London.
3. Halliday, Stephen. The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis.
4. Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor (1851).