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Fake history, hunted 😎 (Ironlily)

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2179759/fake-history-hunted-ironlily

"For this book Coomans spend countless hours exploring records and archives and the result is a book full of often small, personal stories that introduce us to people long gone, names we would never have known if they at one time had not gotten into trouble with the law or had to apply for a permit. But the book also mercilessly destroys those old myths about those dirty middle ages. Well, at least in the low countries.

And even though I, as a Dutch person, rather like the idea that we were somehow special and cleaner than everyone else in Medieval Europe, what this book mentions actually fits what we know about how things were in many other countries and regions."

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/08/17/book-review-community-urban-health-and-environment-in-the-late-medieval-low-countries-by-janna-coomans/

@histodons @bookstodon #MedievalHistory #hygiene #TheDarkAgesDontExist #FakeHistoryHunter #LowCountries #geschiedenis

"For this book Coomans spend countless hours exploring records and archives and the result is a book full of often small, personal stories that introduce us to people long gone, names we would never have known if they at one time had not gotten into trouble with the law or had to apply for a permit. But the book also mercilessly destroys those old myths about those dirty middle ages. Well, at least in the low countries.

And even though I, as a Dutch person, rather like the idea that we were somehow special and cleaner than everyone else in Medieval Europe, what this book mentions actually fits what we know about how things were in many other countries and regions."

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/08/17/book-review-community-urban-health-and-environment-in-the-late-medieval-low-countries-by-janna-coomans/

@histodons @bookstodon #MedievalHistory #hygiene #TheDarkAgesDontExist #FakeHistoryHunter

Fake history of "brothel candles." I guess this explains why Sherlock Holmes had a convenient candle in his pocket so very often (hehehe...). This channel deserves more subscribers.
https://youtu.be/h36fRACr_VE?si=Huv7Ha43y2TTDfb1
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