Her crime was talking too much — so they locked her head in an iron cage. For three hundred years in Britain, women branded “scolds” for gossiping or answering back a husband were made to wear the scold’s bridle — an iron muzzle that pressed down the tongue — then paraded through town to be shamed. Still used as late as the 1850s. #BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #WomensHistory #SocialHistory #HiddenHistory