Bonjour again, this time from Lyon, France. We’re staying in an incredible sixteenth century building on a very narrow cobbled street in the old part of the city. Here’s the street–just out of the frame, on the left, would be… Read More
I blogged before about how people wore night caps well into the nineteenth century, until central heating became more available. Wealthy homes might have a fireplace in every room, but imagine how much work it must have been to clean… Read More
On October 17, 1814, at a brewery in a London slum, a huge vat of beer (over 135,000 gallons) ruptured, in turn rupturing other vats. The flood of beer broke through the brick walls and gushed into the streets. It flooded several basements, killing at least nine people.