# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DaKiL3Coei1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67323912-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0c25646401.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-29T09:23:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

Victorian Britain: a mother fed her baby milk — not knowing the cow was diseased. Bovine tuberculosis moved invisibly through British milk supplies for decades. In 1877, the Local Government Board found a quarter of all milk it tested was seriously contaminated. They issued a report. Pasteurisation wasn’t widespread in Britain until the 1930s. Half a million people died from milk-borne TB between 1850 and 1950 — most of them children under five.

The government tested the milk. They knew. Was it tragedy, or a choice? Follow Wild History Shorts for forgotten British history.

#BritishHistory #VictorianBritain #SocialHistory #ForgottenHistory #HiddenHistory

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victorianbritain, socialhistory, forgottenhistory, britishhistory, hiddenhistory

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