# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZhbwLTI9UZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66798248-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5bfc48828f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-13T10:18:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

She handed her baby to a stranger — because she believed she had no other choice.
In Victorian England, unmarried mothers had nowhere to turn, so they paid a fee to women who promised a loving home. One of those women was Amelia Dyer. She took the money, and the children died within hours. Six bodies were pulled from the Thames; the true number may run into the hundreds.
When the law left a mother no way to keep her child, who truly put that baby in the water?
#BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #VictorianHistory #SocialHistory #HiddenHistory

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- **Likes:** 340
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## Tags

socialhistory, forgottenhistory, victorianhistory, britishhistory, hiddenhistory

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