How People Survived Winter Before Central Heating | Sleepy History Facts

Interesting history, told calmly enough to fall asleep to. Five long winters in one evening: a Viking turf house in Iceland, a medieval castle in deep winter, the frozen canals of Golden Age Amsterdam, a colonial New England kitchen hearth, and a ship trapped in the Arctic ice for a whole winter. Almost two hours of calm, true history about how people kept warm, fed and busy long before central heating. Listen as a podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mvW9PI... Chapters 0:00 Viking Iceland 20:26 A Medieval Castle in Winter 40:42 Golden Age Amsterdam 1:01:09 A Colonial New England Kitchen 1:20:45 Trapped in the Arctic Ice This compilation brings together five full Sleepy History Facts episodes: How Vikings Survived Iceland's Winter, How Medieval Castles Survived Winter, When Amsterdam Ruled the Seas, How Colonial Families Survived Winter, and Trapped in the Arctic Ice All Winter. Uncertain historical details are hedged in the narration. Images: public-domain works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access) and the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0); public-domain paintings and manuscript illuminations via Wikimedia Commons (Très Riches Heures, Luttrell Psalter, Fouquet, Avercamp, Beerstraaten, Bruegel, Durrie; Yale Center for British Art CC0); photographs by Christine Johnstone (CC BY-SA 2.0); Christine Matthews (CC BY-SA 2.0); Elliott Brown (CC BY-SA 2.0); Patrick Roper (CC BY-SA 2.0); Phil Champion (CC BY-SA 2.0); Ppjink (CC BY-SA 4.0); Space-cadet-pullout (CC BY-SA 4.0); Helen Filatova (CC BY-SA 3.0); John Phelan (CC BY 3.0); Don Graham (CC BY-SA 2.0); Fletcher6 (CC BY-SA 3.0); Famartin (CC BY-SA 4.0); 4300streetcar (CC BY 4.0); Acabashi (CC BY-SA 4.0); Algkalv (CC BY 3.0); Albarubescens (CC BY-SA 4.0); Penny Higgins (paleololigo on Flickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0); Brocken Inaglory (CC BY-SA 3.0). Full image lists with sources and licences are in each original episode's credits. Thumbnail: George Henry Durrie, Winter in the Country, Distant Hills (1861), public domain. Ambient audio: original, CC0. #history #winterhistory #sleepstory #relaxing #bedtimestory