# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZsztqxI9ig
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66798230-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/491a0493f2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-17T20:19:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

She was twenty, and she sewed for 26 hours straight — then died.

London, 1863. Mary Anne Walkley made gowns for a fashionable court dressmaker. In the busy season she worked 26 hours with barely a break, in a room packed with 30 women and almost no air. The coroner blamed the hours and the airless room. No law followed.

#BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #VictorianHistory

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forgottenhistory, victorianhistory, britishhistory

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