Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

So in case you don't know, you can go over to YouTube and watch all my videos.

The channel is History and Coffee, And you can just search for my name as well, Heather Tesco, History and Coffee.

And you will get it. And you can subscribe there. Thank you to the many people who already subscribe.

And then what I've started doing is weekly highlight reels of some of the videos that have

gone out on YouTube that would be of interest to the podcast listeners as well. So thanks for

listening. And you can also, like I said, go over and join me on YouTube history and coffee

and search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. We are going to talk about

another nighttime video, another sleep related middle of the night video. So I've gone down

this rabbit hole because there's a book called At Days Close, Nighttime in Times Past or something

that. It's funny because all the things

we talk about, all the events that happen, all of that is obviously when people are awake and

during the day and everything like that, right? But there's this whole other half of life,

which happens at nighttime. And the tutors and people in pre-modern societies before there was electricity, before there

was all of the kind of control over time that we have now with clocks and alarm clocks and

lighting and all that kind of stuff. It was a very different world for people. And I'm at this

period in my life right now, or I'm up in the middle of the night quite a bit. If you

are a woman of a certain age, you might relate to that. So I'm going to say about that right now,

but I am up in the middle of the night quite regularly. And it's had me thinking about kind of what

nighttime was like for people in previous times before there was electricity and the ability

to, you know, just kind of like doom scroll on your phone or read a book on your phone or watch

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