<a href="https://rss.com/podcasts/the-sleepkeeper/voicemail">Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.</a>A clean shirt, a cold basin, a wooden comb, and a great deal more work than we would expect from an ordinary morning.A long, slow one. There's no ending you need to reach, and nothing you'll miss if you drift off partway.· · ·Tonight: washing and cleanliness in medieval England and northern France. Linen shirts and hand-washing at the table, wells and water carriers, public bathhouses and soft soap. Then a long medieval wash day — ash, lye, river water, bleaching grass — before following flax from the field into thread, cloth, shirts, rags, and eventually paper.· · ·If these evenings have become part of how you end the day, follow along so the next one finds you. A rating or a few words, whenever you happen to, is how the next tired person finds their way to a place like this.Narration on this channel is AI-assisted. The research, writing, and shaping of each evening are done by hand.Sleep well, friend.· · ·sleep story · medieval history · medieval hygiene · medieval life · history for sleep · bedtime story for adults · medieval bathing · fall asleep to history

How People Kept Clean in the Middle Ages | Sleep Story

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