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Yet another in a long line of articles that denies via omission the existence of any European culture prior to the Victorian era, and entirely ignores eastern E
by chuckee 5y ago
Yet another in a long line of articles that denies via omission the existence of any European culture prior to the Victorian era, and entirely ignores eastern Europe and Slavic people.
It should be plainly obvious that mothers needed to carry their babies in Europe just as anywhere else, and that they probably didn't use baby strollers since the paleolithic. A quick search confirms this:
Such a tradition of babywearing in Europe continued through the early and middle ages [..] In 1733, William Kent invented the first baby stroller. The stroller was initially reserved only for the highest social strata - https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%9D%A4/ https://love2carry.com/history-of-babywearing-in-europe-%E2%...
But the use of carriers in Western societies fell out of style beginning in Victorian-era Europe when baby carriages became fashionable. - https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstream/ https://www.sapiens.org/culture/babywearing-culture-mainstre...
https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing-european-infant-carriers/ https://thebabyhistorian.com/2015/03/27/medieval-babywearing...
https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbabycarrying.blogspot.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155357/http://celticbaby... and https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.nosenideti.cz/foto.php?volba=zobrazit_foto&skupina_id=3&foto_id=135&tridit=datum#obrazek https://web.archive.org/web/20140531182023/http://www.noseni... - photographic evidence of traditional babywearing in Wales and eastern Europe