Uncovering Rub-a-Dub-Dub's Secrets!

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🛁 Rub-a-Dub-Dub — a seemingly innocent nursery rhyme about three tradesmen in a tub.

But beneath its playful surface lies a tale of 🕵️‍♂️ scandal, 🎭 satire, and 🏛️ societal commentary. In this video, we delve into the eerie origins of this rhyme, exploring its links to 🛀 medieval bathhouses, 🎪 Georgian-era fairs, and the public's obsession with 👀 the private indiscretions of the elite.

Discover how a simple children's rhyme may have served as a veiled critique of social norms and the hidden vices of "respectable" men...

Chapters:
0:35 – The Original 1798 Rhyme
1:25 – Bartholomew Fair: A Den of Vice
3:02 – Georgian Satire and Public Scandals
4:44 – Victorian Sanitization
5:20 – Bathhouses and "Stews"
2:21 – The Legend of Melusine

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📚 Sources & Further Reading
Iona and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000opie/page/n551/mode/2up

James Orchard Halliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32415/32415-h/32415-h.htm

Historic UK: Bartholomew Fair
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Bartholomew-Fair/

Rictor Norton: Reports on the Trial of Samuel Foote, 1776
https://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1776foot.htm

Bathing in Medieval Europe
http://mikkelaaland.com/bathing-in-medieval-europe.html

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#RubADubDub #NurseryRhymes #HistoricalAnalysis #GeorgianEra #BartholomewFair #SamuelFoote #Melusine #Folklore #HiddenHistories #Satire