🏚️🍵 In Victorian cities, not everyone lived in grand homes — most squeezed into boarding houses filled with strangers, secrets, and the faint smell of tea and coal smoke. Behind the lace curtains and polite smiles, people from every walk of life shared rooms, gossip, and the occasional scandal. It was a world of whispered ambitions, hidden romances, and the quiet desperation of trying to appear respectable.

So close your eyes and step inside a creaking London house lit by gaslight, where every knock at the door came with a new story — and no one really knew who was sleeping in the next room.

👉 Boring History For Sleep | Secrets, society, and Victorian survival. 💤