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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's

best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorne, and for today's podcast, which is the last of 2019, I spoke to the medieval historian

Catherine Harvey about a surprising and sometimes quite revolting subject, personal hygiene in the

Middle Ages. Catherine has written a feature on how medieval people were not necessarily as filthy

as you might think for the January issue of BBC

History magazine. I headed to Burke Beck in London, where Catherine is based, to find out more about

keeping clean in the Middle Ages. So, to start us off, when you speak to people who aren't

medievalists, aren't experts in this field, or possibly when you watch TV or films or read books, what are some of the most common misconceptions about medieval hygiene that you encounter?

Well, I suppose the stereotype is that medieval people were dirty, that they never washed, that nobody washed between the

fall of Rome and sort of the 18th century or something, and that consequently they were all filthy

dirty. But I think also that they didn't really care that they were filthy dirty, that people

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