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Episode 20: Death in the Walls. How Arsenic Green Poisoned Victorian Britain

Episode 20: Death in the Walls. How Arsenic Green Poisoned Victorian Britain

FromDirty Sexy History


Episode 20: Death in the Walls. How Arsenic Green Poisoned Victorian Britain

FromDirty Sexy History

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Oct 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Decor can be ugly, but what about when it’s deadly? Continuing with our Halloween series this week, we’re talking about Scheele’s Green, the arsenic-based pigment that filled homes in Britain throughout the nineteenth century, and its surprising connection to William Morris, one of the most influential figures of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Millions of miles of arsenic green wallpaper filled the homes of Victorian Britain, causing illness and death with toxic dust. You’ll never look at green walls quite the same way again…
Released:
Oct 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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Going beyond the sanitized and idealized to the dirty reality of human history with Jessica Cale. There's more to history than what you learned in high school, and we're going to skip to the good stuff together.