"How Architecture, Oil Lamps, and Censorship Shaped 19th-Century Life"

"Before electricity, families gathered around one oil lamp—and that simple architectural reality helped create the censorship laws of the 19th century. This episode uncovers how Victorian living rooms shaped what people could read aloud, why booksellers were jailed for “indecent” classics, and how smuggled copies of Leaves of Grass became covert signals in hidden gay subcultures—long before modern debates over censorship and cancel culture."

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