Why did people in the 1800s not bathe often yet in ancient times people bathed frequently?

I have followed claim and counter claim on this, but this sounds about right. From the 16th century onwards, there was a health fad which said washing was unhealthy and people tried to avoid it altogether if they could. Before this there were public bath houses in many European cities....many of which were actually brothels.

The "no washing" health fad seems to have come about around the time that syphilis hit Europe big time after the colonisation of the New World, so maybe people were making a false connection between bathing and disease, when they should have been connecting bath houses with disease. Anyway it's a myth that medieval people never bathed, but once a month would probably be about typical for medieval people as well. Imagine carrying all your water in buckets from a distant well and heating it on an open fire for which you gathered all the firewood, while working your *** off to avoid starvation.

You probably wouldn't bathe as much as modern people, especially in winter. I believe that after the "no washing" health fad died out, the advice was something like "bathe once a month, whether you need to or not".

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.