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  • čas přidán 11. 11. 2019
  • The Victorian era was one of the most remarkable in British history; it saw The Industrial Revolution, the growth of major cities, the birth of the British Empire and huge advances in medicine, transport and education. It was also a time when harsh working conditions and desperate poverty blighted the lives of the majority of the people of the country. Incorporating rare footage from the end of Queen Victoria's reign, this film presents an uncomplicated picture of the era, focusing on aspects of everyday life.
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  • @DocumentaryBase
    @DocumentaryBase  Před 4 lety +50

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    • @sylwia7060
      @sylwia7060 Před 4 lety +1

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    • @kathleenmullen4249
      @kathleenmullen4249 Před 4 lety +1

      Kate in Belgium. Am finding these documentaries enlightening and interesting

    • @feederdiaries4862
      @feederdiaries4862 Před 4 lety

      Sounds like Communism to me.

    • @eilocaffrey6090
      @eilocaffrey6090 Před 4 lety +1

      Hello 👋 from Ireland 🇮🇪 great video could you tell me the name of the violin music please ( is it mendlesson )

    • @xxxellbrownoxxx
      @xxxellbrownoxxx Před 4 lety +3

      Watching this video see if I can create a Victorian quiz

  • @mehmeh6887
    @mehmeh6887 Před 3 lety +313

    2:45 “she would become the longest reigning monarch in British history.”
    Elizabeth II : HOLD MY IMMORTALI-TEA.

  • @emilyvalenciaa
    @emilyvalenciaa Před 3 lety +214

    plumbella putting this at the end of her playlist to teach us a bit of history, what a generous babe x

    • @davidmaslow399
      @davidmaslow399 Před 2 lety +4

      That's the way History should be taught!

    • @CarLoverPhotography
      @CarLoverPhotography Před 2 lety +4

      Who

    • @emilyvalenciaa
      @emilyvalenciaa Před 2 lety +14

      @@CarLoverPhotography plumbella (a sims youtuber) accidentally put this at the end of one of her gaming playlists. It might not be there anymore but it was her cottage living playthrough I think!

    • @kasia7204
      @kasia7204 Před 2 lety +4

      It still is :))

  • @fredbeach2085
    @fredbeach2085 Před 3 lety +207

    My Grandad Beach was born in 1887 and had just started work down a coal mine when Queen Victoria died, he died in 1975 when I was 17. He was christened William Henry Bach, his father was German, in 1914 he was nearly interned for the war but was saved by the good references from the Vicar and his employers. He inserted an E into his name becoming Beach at least 3 of his sons served in WW2. He never spoke about his hardships and raised 10 children.

    • @jaynekittycat9252
      @jaynekittycat9252 Před 3 lety +5

      My Dad was called Fred Beech, born in 1928.

    • @devogrant2817
      @devogrant2817 Před 3 lety +2

      How far back can you trace your ancestry ???

    • @fredbeach2085
      @fredbeach2085 Před 3 lety +5

      @@devogrant2817 About 5 generations but I did some work for my cousin David Beach, I`m an electrician, and he had been on Ancestry.com and traced it all the way back to Germany which he told me about. I knew of the name change and possible internment from my Uncles and Aunts.

    • @devogrant2817
      @devogrant2817 Před 3 lety +6

      @@fredbeach2085 That's pretty good ....because most working class people find it really hard to go back beyond three generation ...I presume if you go about searching in a more detailed way ....you have better results !!

    • @kathrynchisholm5536
      @kathrynchisholm5536 Před 3 lety +3

      Wow thanks for sharing. :)

  • @NOPANCAKESONMONDAYS
    @NOPANCAKESONMONDAYS Před 3 lety +79

    Why is this in Plumbella’s Cottage Living playlist 😭

    • @avalon5957
      @avalon5957 Před 2 lety +1

      Because history is good for ya ;)

    • @mo0nstonegirl
      @mo0nstonegirl Před 2 lety

      Inspiration 🙌

    • @CrustyUgg
      @CrustyUgg Před 2 lety

      Bc history is important and very interesting.

  • @Canuck13
    @Canuck13 Před 3 lety +51

    An uncle of mine born in 1900 in Birmingham was considered well educated having grade 6. The family emigrated to Canada in 1912. They knew and were lucky enough to get out of England. In 1916 he returns to England to fight in WWI. He was lucky to survive and make it back to Canada.

  • @jerrymachusak3216
    @jerrymachusak3216 Před 2 lety +28

    As an American uneducated in English history I found this to be very well done. Thank you!

    • @ginnysnyder9703
      @ginnysnyder9703 Před 2 lety +3

      Me,too !!!! But, it was very much like America !

    • @CoraJean19
      @CoraJean19 Před rokem

      As an American I am under the opinion that British history is American history. Our societies are unbreakingly intertwined. Teaching this, I believe, is a most dreadful oversight in the American educational system.

  • @Hotshotter3000
    @Hotshotter3000 Před 4 lety +245

    As of right now, Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch in UK history.

    • @gailhandschuh1138
      @gailhandschuh1138 Před 4 lety +53

      QE II is the longest living , yet she like those before her , care not for the poor. She has created a nanny state not a great deal better than the Victorians. The wealthy of the UK still care nothing of the lower incomes. The wealthy still strut around ignoring the problems of the poor. They do give them just enough for minimal food and possibly lodging if they are lucky. The obvious drug addictions and homeless in the country is proof of this. Britain’s class system still exists today. The wealthy still ignore the plight of the poor and the Royals set the standard. There isn’t a single member of the upperclass that can relate to the working class in any way. Here in the US we do have lower income families and communities but , they are still afforded a good education and ample food and lodging for their families.

    • @idkkk1825
      @idkkk1825 Před 4 lety +22

      gail handschuh we have worse income inequality than the uk does

    • @der1777
      @der1777 Před 4 lety +4

      @@gailhandschuh1138 Lower income is putting it mildly don't you think. czcams.com/video/JHDkALRz5Rk/video.html

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 Před 4 lety +17

      @@gailhandschuh1138 I was about who was Queen longest not who was nicest.
      They are Just Figure Heads they can not do anything about Government or the poor.
      This is a 1985 doc so Victoria still was the Queen longer.

    • @firebladex8586
      @firebladex8586 Před 4 lety +9

      because she is a reptilian ;)

  • @cliftonjames785
    @cliftonjames785 Před 3 lety +69

    I watch this to make me feel better about my life and my job. Here I am complaining about working 10.5 hour night shifts, but its a cake walk compared to working back then

    • @airportsecurityaustria182
      @airportsecurityaustria182 Před 3 lety +20

      Comparing things like that is nonsense. Working 10 and a half hours is also pretty bad in today's society.

    • @annas6547
      @annas6547 Před 3 lety +4

      I’m watching for the same reason, to feel better about my life circumstances.

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 Před 3 lety +7

      It may make you feel better, but you should go watch a documentary next on the Progressive Era that preceded this one to realize that the struggle towards freedom is never over, and the most foolish thing we can do is consign it to 'ancient' history or assume the work to be ultimately accomplished long ago. No one should be working 10.5 hour shifts; I thought the Progressives succeeded in making it only 8 hours by law.

    • @onionthemillionairetrader7405
      @onionthemillionairetrader7405 Před 3 lety +1

      @@airportsecurityaustria182 shows how lazy today’s society has become

    • @claudiojunior9618
      @claudiojunior9618 Před 3 lety +1

      10.5 shifts? I don't do that in a month !

  • @madtingz2288
    @madtingz2288 Před 3 lety +186

    Every era has been difficult in their own ways

    • @laceylewis9874
      @laceylewis9874 Před 3 lety +19

      This is true... But, this was time of full blown inventions.
      So, it was kind of brutal. Alot lost their lives in the name of invention.
      But yes, I do agree every era has their bad, but ALSO good. That's what they DON'T talk about! 🤷,🤔👌✌️

    • @malachycarson5846
      @malachycarson5846 Před 3 lety

      @@laceylewis9874 what was good?

    • @samtez9570
      @samtez9570 Před 3 lety +3

      @@laceylewis9874 there was nothing good during the Victorian era. If you could go back during that era i don't think you will even survive 24 hours.

    • @adamfrazer5150
      @adamfrazer5150 Před 3 lety +2

      👍 everything is relative, I hear you 🍺

    • @bonzomcduffy8336
      @bonzomcduffy8336 Před 3 lety

      No. Not true. Only certain ones.

  • @LissyVee
    @LissyVee Před 3 lety +71

    I was born in 1987. It's crazy to think my great grandfather died in a mine and my great grandmother died of lye poisoning. My parents are from Dublin and met in NYC where I was born, my mother is an accountant and my father an engineer but they came from Irish farming families (8 on Granny's side, 13 on Grandad's)

    • @paddioche
      @paddioche Před 3 lety +5

      Hello from Ireland 👍

    • @scoooter78
      @scoooter78 Před 2 lety +2

      @@paddioche Couldn't get a more Irish name than yours!

    • @mudpyz
      @mudpyz Před 2 lety

      oh wow - lye poisoning - how on earth did that happen - was she involved in the manufacture of lye?? - i hope you dont mind me asking

    • @user-ck5ho3di2o
      @user-ck5ho3di2o Před 3 měsíci +1

      What great genes you come from

  • @tiedupsmurf
    @tiedupsmurf Před 3 lety +121

    We were taught about this in school, it was brilliant until they tried to teach me Maths

  • @patricialockhart2135
    @patricialockhart2135 Před 2 lety +71

    So much missed out, in fact a one sided history. Yes it tackled the endemic poverty but it completely overlooked the Labour struggles of the Victorian age and the formation of trade unions. The unions and workers co-ops were instrumental in improving the living standards of workers. Working class people weren't handed rights, they had to fight for them, sometimes being killed in the process but this was completely ignored in this documentary.

    • @DuckStrider
      @DuckStrider Před 2 lety +1

      Exactly this

    • @abcrane
      @abcrane Před 2 lety +3

      if only military would side with workers, as they indeed share the same class struggle, these aristocrats are only as powerful as their military, you never see a king or a president out pursuing strikers or picketers in the street, they watch from above like its a game of cricket. this leaves us with the question, how to align the military and the workers

    • @robbierae6138
      @robbierae6138 Před rokem

      yeah they should have packed all 60 years into those 60 minutes which nothing left out. Good point.

    • @jz1528
      @jz1528 Před rokem

      Must suck to live in Europe, we didn’t need unions in America (that’s coming from someone whose family relied upon them) they hindered us, they hurt our cities, they were dirty and in bed with gangsters or political radicals, either way scamming the very people they claimed to protect as often as corporations have given us the stiff one in America. Quality of life here was organic unlike in Europe, but the entitlements are not and have caused many of America’s modern problems today,

    • @hhunstad2011
      @hhunstad2011 Před rokem +1

      Agreed, would have been helpful to include considering the goal they set out to achieve with the film.

  • @AJManol
    @AJManol Před 3 lety +39

    The actor/narrator that does the book reading is great!

  • @magicbulletdancers
    @magicbulletdancers Před 4 lety +22

    Greetings... I came upon this ( excellent) program by chance and am delighted.! So well done, many thanks.! Will gladly subscribe 🙂. Best regards ❤️🇨🇦

  • @ericellis3506
    @ericellis3506 Před 3 lety +53

    When you consider the wealth concentrated in London 150 years ago. That they turned a blind eye to people living absolute squalor is scandalous.

    • @deztiny005
      @deztiny005 Před 3 lety +15

      ...and yet, it still goes on to this day.

    • @mangot589
      @mangot589 Před 3 lety +1

      At least ours pay lip service. Especially our celebs and politicians😒.

    • @squirehaggard4749
      @squirehaggard4749 Před 3 lety +7

      You likely typed that on a computer made in China, in a house full of things made in China, likely made by workers living in similar squalor, with no political voice or labour representation. Who's turning a blind eye?

    • @cocothesocialist3690
      @cocothesocialist3690 Před 3 lety

      squire haggard worker conditions in China are around the same of Australia

    • @brianoswin6348
      @brianoswin6348 Před 3 lety +3

      A bit like today..i would think...unfortunate that there always has..and always will be..The great divide of a class Society...

  • @56beverley
    @56beverley Před 4 lety +118

    I'm not sure those who lived in terrible conditions or in workhouses missed her that much! A great monarch would have tried to alleviate their sufferings. She either didn't know (should have) or didn't care.

    • @ih82r8
      @ih82r8 Před 4 lety +23

      Queen Victoria was constrained by the reality of the constitutional monarchy. She was not a ruling queen the way Queen Anne was (and able to veto bills). She could not do what the politicians took out of her hands. Perhaps she wouldn't have done any better, but we'll never know. It was the PM and ruling parliament of the day who owns this state of things.

    • @brettpacker2779
      @brettpacker2779 Před 3 lety +5

      Maybe she did know and didn't care

    • @IwasBlueb4
      @IwasBlueb4 Před 3 lety +5

      VERY probably didnt care

    • @clairepeace5783
      @clairepeace5783 Před 3 lety +6

      Parliament was in control of the country not the queen ! Those days ceased a long time before !

    • @Thomas_Wedderburn
      @Thomas_Wedderburn Před 3 lety +24

      She probably didn’t know the extent of the poverty, and didn’t have the constitutional power to do much about it if she did. Regardless, it’s unfair to judge a person from the 19th century using 21st century values. She would be condemned for her ignorance today, but she acted accordingly for the period of time she lived. The past should be learned from, not judged using current standards of morality.

  • @_sheebie
    @_sheebie Před 4 lety +18

    This was an excellent video. Thank you so much. 💓

  • @dickJohnsonpeter
    @dickJohnsonpeter Před 4 lety +117

    Why, as long as I can remember, have I felt I should be living in the later Victorian era?

    • @darkmoon8400
      @darkmoon8400 Před 4 lety +6

      Me too 😊

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 Před 4 lety +23

      Today the poor live better than the rich. Better system of travel, communication , entertainment, food quality and variety . Imagine traveling in a horse and carriage and steam/sail ship to cross a ocean. Fire hazard just have a night light to read a book (only home entertainment) and no refrigeration.
      I,d rather be lower mid class now than rich back then.

    • @dickJohnsonpeter
      @dickJohnsonpeter Před 4 lety +2

      @@Crashed131963 it's not that I want to necessarily. Just that I should.

    • @Karenmccaff
      @Karenmccaff Před 4 lety

      Me too..

    • @aissamadrid3778
      @aissamadrid3778 Před 4 lety +8

      So do I. I have always that feeling that I belong to the Victorian Era!

  • @kathrynjordan8782
    @kathrynjordan8782 Před 4 lety +91

    Supposedly, Victoria cared about her subjects. Turns out that she didn't. Probably not a good time to live in England.

    • @reneastle8447
      @reneastle8447 Před 4 lety

      What if she did? That could've been different.

    • @reneastle8447
      @reneastle8447 Před 4 lety +2

      @Tony Angel This is a what-if scenario I have in mind. If Queen Victoria did care about her subjects, that could've been better.

    • @catrionamacfarlane4949
      @catrionamacfarlane4949 Před 3 lety +17

      @@reneastle8447 When did any member of the 'Royal ' families care about their subjects...throughout history....in any country?
      Victoria's self obsession in mourning her Albert gave the entrepreneurs and politicians the opportunity to get on with making Britain Great....
      For the aristocracy the common man was exactly that...common and disposable.

    • @reneastle8447
      @reneastle8447 Před 3 lety

      @@catrionamacfarlane4949 You may never know. Someday, the royal families will finally wake up, care for their subjects and do whatever they can to set things right.

    • @catrionamacfarlane4949
      @catrionamacfarlane4949 Před 3 lety +4

      @@reneastle8447 Let's face it....the whole concept of 'royal' is an anachronism in the modern world.

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Před rokem

    I watch a lot of these British historical videos, n this one is the best I Ve seen so far!!! Very concise n memorable n easy to absorb n listen to!! Awesome video!! Thanks for the post!!!

  • @seadogs3149
    @seadogs3149 Před 4 lety +93

    Married her first cousin !
    Inbreeding was common with the Royals.

    • @TheAhkenaten1
      @TheAhkenaten1 Před 4 lety +12

      All royals were related. In breeders galore!

    • @florenmage
      @florenmage Před 4 lety +17

      This is one of the many reasons I hate royalty.
      I don't hate the individual.
      I hate the idea of royalty all together.

    • @gbwildlifeuk8269
      @gbwildlifeuk8269 Před 4 lety +10

      @@TheAhkenaten1 A “cousin marriage” is the wedding of 2 people related by blood through an earlier generation. Throughout history, cousin-to-cousin marriages have been an essential means of maintaining stability among royal classes. By marrying their own, most royals are binding their ties to the next generation and by sharing ancestors they maintain the genetic pool.
      Theres a method in their madness!

    • @adamhauskins6407
      @adamhauskins6407 Před 3 lety +3

      @@gbwildlifeuk8269 unfortunately it didn't stop ww1

    • @gbwildlifeuk8269
      @gbwildlifeuk8269 Před 3 lety +5

      @@adamhauskins6407 its not intended to prevent wars! It's to maintain their genetic pool and there's nothing to stop you doimg the same!

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před 2 lety +7

    The Custodian Helmet is the headgear traditionally worn by male police constables and sergeants while on foot patrol in England and Wales. Officers of all ranks in most forces are also issued a flat, peaked cap that is worn on mobile patrol in a vehicle. Ranks above sergeant wear the peaked cap only. However, some Inspectors wear the Custodian Helmet, but with two silver bands around the base (to match the two pips worn as rank insignia) to denote their position.
    Claimed by some sources to have been based on the spiked pickelhaube worn by the Prussian Army, it was first adopted by the London Metropolitan Police in 1863 to replace the "stovepipe" top hat worn since 1829. In 1863, the Metropolitan Police replaced the previous uniform of white trousers, swallow-tailed coat and top hat in favour of very dark blue trousers, a more modern button up tunic and the early type of helmet which had an upturned brim at the front and a raised spine at the back, running from the bottom to the top of the helmet, which became known as the "cockscomb".

  • @DWKThedogbreaths
    @DWKThedogbreaths Před 4 lety +24

    Photographs and early film are evidence of the deplorable quality of inner city air back then. Because industry and people's homes used coal everything was covered in a layer of coal dust, the smoke hung thick in the air and created deathly fogs which choked people. Air today, particularly inner-city air, is so much cleaner and, while polluted by engine fumes, can in no way be described as reaching almost extinction levels. We've, to coin a phrase, never had it so good.

    • @ajrwilde14
      @ajrwilde14 Před 4 lety

      circa 1700 there was no smog OR engine fumes

  • @Mostafa-nm5ni
    @Mostafa-nm5ni Před 2 lety +1

    An unprecedented effort of showing usefully informative treasures regarding British History.

  • @tylerbrown4171
    @tylerbrown4171 Před 2 lety +9

    This narration made me feel like I was a child with someone reading me a bedtime story.

  • @wendydarling2497
    @wendydarling2497 Před 3 lety +22

    I think its discusting that Victoria had so much and wanted more ,and most of the population were so very very poor ,how can you exalt Victoria when people through no fault of their own had NOTHING and I mean NOthing -shameful, I think NOTHING of her ,Greedy

    • @steveanderson4515
      @steveanderson4515 Před 2 lety

      Couldn't agree more.... Well said!

    • @Hasdac
      @Hasdac Před 2 lety

      Look at the royals of today.. they don't care either..

    • @serenawilliams6138
      @serenawilliams6138 Před 2 lety +1

      Better her than so many others who might have been in her stead. She didn’t set up the system and the crown also comes as a burden in spite of the wealth that goes with it. She only was doing what she thought was her duty, and what she felt her people wanted. This didn’t begin with her nor end with her and pretty much all countries have poverty stricken populations, even more deprived. In terms of monarchs, she was considered to be rather liberally minded.

  • @paulette2597
    @paulette2597 Před 2 lety +2

    Excellent documentary, very captivating. You've got me hooked..... New subscriber here🇬🇧🇨🇦

  • @StanSwan
    @StanSwan Před 3 lety +10

    The Victorian age was not just a British thing. Springfield Massachusetts USA is still called the city of homes due to the many Victorian homes that were built there. It also was a major factory town once were the US Army and Navy produced Almost all their firearms and cannon. Many of the homes were torn down from 1900 to the 1970s before people took an intreat in saving them making historic districts. My parents live in an 1897 large Victorian home. Three floors, three fireplaces, 4 full bathrooms, maid lived on the 3rd floor. A big 4500 sq ft home. Has a room off the living room with a sink and marble shelves to cut and arrange flowers. Was a different era for sure.

    • @StanSwan
      @StanSwan Před 2 lety

      @@sudanemamimikiki1527 To this day American love stories about the Royals.

  • @amille223
    @amille223 Před 3 lety +25

    Maybe it’s me, but I’m having some difficulty with the volume of this video, which BTW is very interesting. Low volume coupled with the English accent that tends to sound mumbled,
    makes some of this hard to hear. I turned the volume up as loud as possible, but I’m thinking this was recorded at a lower volume. All other videos on my iPhone have more than adequate volume. Maybe it’s just me.

    • @carolball5764
      @carolball5764 Před 3 lety +1

      Sounds clear to me..

    • @Dru1111
      @Dru1111 Před 3 lety +1

      Just you

    • @lesfatalspicards
      @lesfatalspicards Před 3 lety +3

      Yes, I am also finding the volume lower than usual.
      Great video though, so am staying nearer to see and hear it all 😊

    • @darknebula9367
      @darknebula9367 Před 3 lety +1

      It is the same way for me as well, It appears to be the accent.

    • @juliering3646
      @juliering3646 Před 2 lety +1

      @@darknebula9367 I have the same problem with American accents, particularly the Southern states.

  • @pamelaj25
    @pamelaj25 Před 3 lety +9

    I wish whoever put this together had the Common Sense to turn up the Sound!!!!!

  • @sparksmacoy
    @sparksmacoy Před 2 lety +13

    It was an incredible time, but also a horrible time. The British working class deserve an apology, for the incredible cruelty directed at them by the so-called upper class.

  • @ohmeowzer1
    @ohmeowzer1 Před 4 lety +6

    Very interesting I enjoyed this

  • @kaleahcollins4567
    @kaleahcollins4567 Před 4 lety +47

    Dickens wrote on his personal experience growing up as well

  • @Canuck13
    @Canuck13 Před 3 lety +9

    Conversation was not allowed at meal times in my family! My dads mother from Liverpool raised the family that way indeed. Even my generation in the 1960s my dad did not allow conversation at dinner! Conversation could start when tea was served after dinner. So the same rules 100 years out in and English family in Canada. My Irish neighbours by contrast chatted loudly at every meal. Strange.

    • @bethcurtin4201
      @bethcurtin4201 Před rokem

      I admit I feel sorry for those born a Brit, whatdya gonna do

  • @nutcrackerninja2455
    @nutcrackerninja2455 Před 4 lety +2

    Great content

  • @keithrosenthal4757
    @keithrosenthal4757 Před 3 lety +1

    What a soothing relaxing voice on narrator. Very good documentary

  • @perlefisker
    @perlefisker Před 3 lety +38

    It is always interesting to see how a nation portrays itself, which story its people it tells, and what it omits. In the case of this documentary the last ten minutes about foreign policy are absolutely puke provoking.

    • @alexcheremisin3596
      @alexcheremisin3596 Před 2 lety +4

      Too eurocentric to your liking?

    • @richardduree6559
      @richardduree6559 Před rokem +8

      They are statements of facts and simply reflect how the Victorians perceived the world. That the sentiments offend your woke sensibilities doesn't change history as it was for those that lived it. You can hardly think the overall story is self congratulatory, or if you do then that says more about you than it does the programme.

    • @keef78
      @keef78 Před rokem +4

      Yet the world is what it is today because of it. They were visionary and made our modern world.

    • @jamesnought7489
      @jamesnought7489 Před rokem +1

      @@richardduree6559 You do sure sound triggered by the simple right of someone else's free speech and opinion.
      Are you sure you're not the one who doesn't need a safe space? Possibly a pram, perhaps?

  • @opiksa519
    @opiksa519 Před rokem +5

    why is this in plumbella's cottage living playlist LOL

  • @margaretflood-elahwal5861

    A very informative documentary well represented

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 Před 3 lety +5

    The written descriptions of life in Victorian London sparkle, dance and shimmer and bring to life just what each class did and could not do!

    • @ginnysnyder9703
      @ginnysnyder9703 Před 2 lety +1

      The Titanic put and end to the Era of Classes !!! Alot of the Uppers died with the Poor !

  • @bessiemann7468
    @bessiemann7468 Před 3 lety +1

    Interesting thanks for the video

  • @kevinheath7588
    @kevinheath7588 Před 2 lety +2

    I sometimes despair of comments sections. Other times I wonder why they are shut off...then I read some and despair again.

  • @simonhawker9277
    @simonhawker9277 Před 4 lety +89

    High aspirations but very low moral fibre. For the most life was hard and short the rich barely cared the poor fed on each other. Horrific to modern sensabilities.

    • @wendyeames5758
      @wendyeames5758 Před 4 lety +19

      System kept in place by the church. It preached each to their own place, as god assigns. So, to be upset about how horribly you were being treated, was to be disrespectig God. The church got their freedom & $, the government/big business got their control. Still works like that in the USA, which is why even the very religious should be strongly in favor of separation of church & state. Too much power tied up like that make it almost impossible for the majority of citizens to have any power.

    • @ashleyarcher2903
      @ashleyarcher2903 Před 4 lety +14

      Nothing has changed and in 150 yrs they'll be saying the same about us

    • @Loverofartsandmusic
      @Loverofartsandmusic Před 4 lety +5

      There is always a barrier between the rich and the poor.

    • @josephblacke7912
      @josephblacke7912 Před 4 lety +1

      Low moral fiber... You sct as though you wete there and you also can see into the ❤ just like YHVH... Are you god...??? Of course i am being rhetorical...moron...

    • @pushthetempo2
      @pushthetempo2 Před 3 lety +4

      People moan now about the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer today, but most 'poor' people nowadays can afford a TV and an iPhone, a holiday and decent amount of clothes. Life has gotta be better now than then.
      You see the flashy country homes of tutor, victorian, Stuart wealthy people looked after by the National Trust, the rich have always flaunted their money shamelessly. We are just more aware of how the other half live cos of tv and the Internet.

  • @jeonesevenv9
    @jeonesevenv9 Před 3 lety +4

    8:25-30 I've heard that sampled on a beat... a nice beat

  • @rajvanshiaditya
    @rajvanshiaditya Před 2 lety +4

    Brilliant documentary.

  • @awsomeboy360
    @awsomeboy360 Před 3 lety +6

    As you can see, there's a reason why communism was created during this time. Weather you agree on it or not, you have to accept that it was a reaction to these harsh conditions. Not to mention slavery was in America too.

    • @tomprung4054
      @tomprung4054 Před 2 lety

      Gulags , concentration camps

    • @user-rc3sn2cl7w
      @user-rc3sn2cl7w Před 6 měsíci

      Первый концлагерь построила англия для буров в Африке! Параллельно с Англией в сша также строили концлагеря для жертв гражданской войны. Затем Франция, затем Австро-Венгрия для галичан. Затем Германия. Все испачкались ещё за стоит лет до ГУЛАГа. оммунисты концлагеря не строили.

    • @awsomeboy360
      @awsomeboy360 Před 6 měsíci

      @@user-rc3sn2cl7w Они не рассказывают о концентрационных лагерях в Америке или Великобритании. Историю не скрывают, но о ней вообще не говорят. Я впервые об этом слышу, но совершенно не удивлен этой информацией.

  • @Tinthia82
    @Tinthia82 Před 3 lety +7

    The sad thing is, is that a lot of this crap is still happening today. There are people in my state that are living in tents because there are no affordable houses, yet the government does nothing.

    • @malachycarson5846
      @malachycarson5846 Před 3 lety +2

      Where do you think the government get houses for them? Tax more people into poverty?

    • @balthiersgirl2658
      @balthiersgirl2658 Před 3 lety

      @@malachycarson5846 they have well enough money to build if we could do it after the war they can well afford it now if they wanted to but to fecking greedy

    • @malachycarson5846
      @malachycarson5846 Před 3 lety

      @@balthiersgirl2658 Where do they get the money? you still didn't answer the question. They are so much in debt from printing money they can't just print endlessly. It causes inflation. If you can't come up with any ideas from where to get the wealth then you aren't really giving an answer to the problem. So again I ask you . Where do they get the money?

  • @bonnymcdermott1240
    @bonnymcdermott1240 Před 3 lety +2

    This is superb!

  • @RonRicho
    @RonRicho Před 2 lety +1

    What a marvelous documentary.

  • @lorenzonotarianni1667
    @lorenzonotarianni1667 Před 3 lety +3

    If you have to wake up at 4 to get to work and then at work , work hard and watch your shoulder because of managers, their KPI's, because of MBO's, objectives, ROI's etc etc etc then damn not much has changed.
    Greetings from Italy

  • @Squidward_Tikiland
    @Squidward_Tikiland Před 2 lety +2

    I like that this is a straightforward account, not romanticized. We use “Victorian” mistakenly quite often, to mean “loosely resembling the old west and Europe at once and very trendy” but it is actually yet another royal lineage on this earth, with its own fashion and influence and consequences, many of which to me are just the average trappings of royalty and power, and people trying desperately to imitate that. If I were to emulate anyone from the past, it would be a country gentleman of modest income, venturing into town for cultural events, and divorced from politics. Well dressed of course. Oh wait you can do that now!

  • @stantonhager2290
    @stantonhager2290 Před 2 lety +2

    Victoria, regent of the Age named for her, should have been ashamed of every day of her long, oppressive, compassionless life. Her "Age," historically considered a period of imperial and commercial advancement for Britain, was in fact massively defined by the wealthy class' cruel and contemptuous exploitation of 90 percent of the country's starving, miserable, and excruciatingly overworked poor.

  • @bonzomcduffy8336
    @bonzomcduffy8336 Před 3 lety +6

    That lady talking about stuff sure stood in that one spot a long time it's already night time.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před 2 lety +3

    Robert Peel (1788-1850) the founder of the first new Metropolitan Policemen Force at Scotland Yard in 1829.

  • @monumentstosuffering2995
    @monumentstosuffering2995 Před 2 lety +1

    A most excellent documentary.

  • @Anish-
    @Anish- Před rokem +1

    My teachers made me watch this thing, I wonder if future students will see this and relate. Most are probably not even watching it and just clicked completed on Class Charts ; )

  • @ObiWanGinobiliTopFan
    @ObiWanGinobiliTopFan Před 2 lety +7

    I am forever grateful to Victorian times; it's how I know which side of the plate to put my fork and which side to put my knife. I cannot even fathom what life would be like without that information.

    • @bonnerscott5374
      @bonnerscott5374 Před 2 lety +2

      Ah, yeah, no..... there was the industrial revolution, revolutionary breakthroughs in arts and science, wish shaped the world as we know it today. Education system, The things we say, way we act in public, our penitentiarys, little nursey rhymes you read as a kid, ect...most things we do today come from this time in history than any other.

    • @bethcurtin4201
      @bethcurtin4201 Před rokem

      You're pitiful n hopeless

  • @lanacampbell-moore4549

    Thank You😊

  • @rajivradha
    @rajivradha Před rokem

    Very interesting, cheers

  • @LordRegaI
    @LordRegaI Před rokem

    I enjoy & prefer this style of historical CZcams content.

  • @happybdayo
    @happybdayo Před 3 lety +2

    This is a great piece.
    Fascinating in so many ways.
    Questions I now have about our historical storytelling, because that's what I now feel it is.
    Lots of problem
    1. All of the amazing so called Victorian buildings are in all pictures circa 1859-1900 and are already old.
    I had to move 6tons of gravel recently and the brand new Transit van I used could do 1rin at a time and boy could I feel it driving...so how could all of Victorian buildings all across the world dated 1840-1900 be built?
    Why would they build ceilings and doors so big?
    Why would amazing buildings be asylums or work house's?
    How did the move all the materials
    Why are the buildings basically all the same worldwide ?
    There are so many questions that the story told here and is the official narrative just don't answer and it all makes little scence
    Something is wrong
    Great film though thank you

    • @Tamarlane389
      @Tamarlane389 Před rokem +2

      That’s because this topic is too big to cover in detail. Also the answer is they used horses and donkeys probably. They transported heavy goods longer distances by canal barge. Labour was dirt cheap and plentiful The buildings took longer cause of this but the extra time meant they were well designed and well made. That’s why they still stand today

  • @adrianneschaefer2622
    @adrianneschaefer2622 Před 2 lety +2

    I liked the documentary. It was interesting. The one complaint I have is the timeline with the pictures. Clearly the slums of London and elsewhere were not photographed in early 1840’s. So your using pictures from a later period to go along with your narrative.

  • @ItsMikeLearns
    @ItsMikeLearns Před 4 lety +6

    I am deeply satisfied and curious about what life was like in the 1800s and how things have changed until now in 2020. what the people thought of the future would look like and be life.

  • @eggzuki
    @eggzuki Před 2 lety +2

    bruh why does plumbella have this in her cottage living thingy

  • @joeowens6180
    @joeowens6180 Před 3 lety +9

    A wonderfully well done documentary! The male narrator's voice was beautifully clear; the female's voice was difficult to hear, inasmuch as she did not face the screen. Much of this was very well known to me, because I have read ALL of Dickens' novels twice, and many a third time. Excellent selection from the neglected Nicholas Nickleby; everyone knows of Oliver Twist; but Our Mutual Friend, Hard Times (especially), and Bleak House also make their indelible impressions of Victorian life. Thanks for this post!

  • @Tomh821
    @Tomh821 Před 2 lety +2

    Dickens could only go so far in his writing. Could you imagine the child molestation that went on. Little children on the street, in factory’s, and no choice but to join a gang to protect oneself from so many evils. .

  • @weaponofmassconstruction1940

    Ha, sign of the times, I thought the kid in the thumbnail was pulling down on his face mask not eating bread 😅

  • @carriebizz
    @carriebizz Před 3 lety +3

    I live in the state of Victoria Australia and it was named after Queen Victoria

  • @peterhagan8454
    @peterhagan8454 Před 3 lety +8

    The Good are striving to banish the four horsemen, poverty, famine, war and pestilence. and yet even today there is much to do. How sad it was in that era.

  • @mayhampson4896
    @mayhampson4896 Před 3 lety +2

    My Father was born in 1894, he was in the 1918 World war ,and then there was another War ,the second
    World war 1939 -1945 . I think how unfortunate he was like others to be born at this time in history .
    My Mother was born in 1903 .They both were from the poorer class then , like others, what society
    Called working class ,,I was born in 1936 , and knew poverty what must it have been like for them .
    We have come along way since then ,There is no class distinction now thank the good Lord .
    Money can buy luxuries , but not what we call today good breeding. Class .

    • @coast5663
      @coast5663 Před 2 lety

      DID YOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN HELP YOU TO CREATE A CZcams CHANNEL SO THAT YOU COULD COMMENT? THATS SOO CUTE. I HOPE I HAVE GREAT/GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN TO DO FUN ACTIVITIES WITH ME WHEN IN IN MY 100'S. CAN YOU READ/SEE MY REPLY/TEXT ON THE SCREEN? MAY? ARE YOU STILL WITH US?
      What a doll. . . .

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 Před 2 lety

      @@coast5663 can you not do simple arithmetic? This older lady deserves respect for surviving the harsh times and not disrespect from you

    • @coast5663
      @coast5663 Před 2 lety

      @@alundavies8402 ok, point out my “disrespect”

  • @Emz351
    @Emz351 Před 3 lety +22

    Not really sure how they can describe Victoria’s children as “beloved”, she was awful to them! She was manipulative and cruel towards them and constantly criticised them... hardly a doting, loving mother!

    • @davesanders5426
      @davesanders5426 Před 3 lety +5

      An out of context judgment. It was customary for parents to severely shame wrong doings. It was customary to make children to apologize after a fight as it was seen as the right thing to do for a youngster to swallow their pride and apologize to the elder. It was also customary to strongly force, with violence and shame if necessary, accepted habits of moral well being. Victoria loved her children as any mother did at the time. It was an age of strict parenthood. It's these present age people who judge past age mothers who wrongly think that past age mothers did not love their children.

    • @TheTruth-ht7qm
      @TheTruth-ht7qm Před 3 lety +1

      Slipping in the word customary doesn't hide the fact that in Victorian times Child cruelty was prevalent in society. By the way, you should not speak on behalf of another person. You look and sound STUPID.

    • @davesanders5426
      @davesanders5426 Před 3 lety +5

      @@TheTruth-ht7qm The question is whether Victoria loved her children, not about the prevalence or definition of cruelty. Commenting without following the main thread makes you look even more stupid.

    • @fabulousnewt770
      @fabulousnewt770 Před 3 lety +5

      @@davesanders5426 nope...she was a monster even by the standards of the day. A vile woman. She was jealous of them and resented them.

  • @kimotee5892
    @kimotee5892 Před 2 lety

    I fell asleep watching Plumbella’s Cottage Living series and woke up to this... needless to say I was very confused

  • @raquelbaldini2839
    @raquelbaldini2839 Před 3 lety +2

    Does anybody know the name of the song at 3:30?

  • @kjw7556
    @kjw7556 Před 2 lety +3

    I was born in victorian times.seems like yesterday.

    • @zeehighness9310
      @zeehighness9310 Před 2 lety +2

      🤨

    • @kjw7556
      @kjw7556 Před 2 lety +3

      @@zeehighness9310 I commented a month ago but i'm dead now

  • @paddydavy4167
    @paddydavy4167 Před 3 lety +1

    dis was good

  • @dannettepeters1507
    @dannettepeters1507 Před 3 lety +2

    Then, just as now, the wealthy would prefer there were far fewer, needy; not because, they had gained wealth and stability, beyond mere survival, but rather, that they did not exist at all. We, the unlanded and un-inherited, are grim reminders to the bequeathed few, of their true human status and reality.

  • @AndreaElizabeth100
    @AndreaElizabeth100 Před 3 lety +1

    I would have liked to have seen Oscar Wilde in Victorian London. The Victorian era was very creative.

  • @agyt668
    @agyt668 Před 4 lety +14

    The music makes it depressing

    • @Paladin966
      @Paladin966 Před 4 lety +6

      Victorian Britain and depression are synonymous

    • @user-ck5ho3di2o
      @user-ck5ho3di2o Před 3 měsíci

      I'm glad it's only the music that makes you depressed an not the terrible suffering

  • @MicIsaSopBre
    @MicIsaSopBre Před 3 lety +3

    Another classic case of the truly needy and the truly greedy. Not much has changed.

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 Před 3 lety +4

    Good times for the upper class, horrid for the working class and paupers.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Před 2 lety

    North Norfolk Railway was first opened and ran on the 16th June 1887. One year later in the City of London was the most mysterious and unsolved murder Jack the Ripper, 1888.

  • @misty6430
    @misty6430 Před 2 lety

    I wonder when this documentary was filmed

  • @robinf2344
    @robinf2344 Před 2 lety

    great doc, poor sound quality when the lady in muted green was speaking.

  • @eleanorsmith9706
    @eleanorsmith9706 Před 4 lety +6

    Interesting, but sound is too low. Could not finish.

  • @inr63
    @inr63 Před 4 lety +3

    What is the song played on the violin that starts at 11:59?

    • @zarjakriznikunilj
      @zarjakriznikunilj Před 3 lety +1

      Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor

    • @inr63
      @inr63 Před 3 lety

      @@zarjakriznikunilj - oh my goodness, thank you so very much. I know there’s another such question I put out into the universe about another classical song heard in some other video that I wish you’d be able to find and advise me on also. Lol. Thank you once again!

    • @zarjakriznikunilj
      @zarjakriznikunilj Před 3 lety

      @@inr63 no problem! If you can ever find the other video, I'd be happy to help with that as well.

    • @inr63
      @inr63 Před 3 lety

      @@zarjakriznikunilj - I most certainly will, you lovely, gracious soul! ❤️

  • @suzannebonner3477
    @suzannebonner3477 Před 4 lety +11

    In some ways nothing has changed in terms of the difference between rich and poor in this land.

    • @Fritha71
      @Fritha71 Před 4 lety +4

      A "poor" person today would be considered well-off in the Victorian era so yeah, a lot has changed from those times. Please!

    • @Frank-mm2yp
      @Frank-mm2yp Před 4 lety +1

      @@Fritha71 Thats a false analogy as we are not living in Victorian times. The current level of gross disparity between the "elites" and the "ordinary" people has become so egregious and probably not seen since the Roman Empire. And they gave their plebs bread and circuses as well.

    • @lavelle2911
      @lavelle2911 Před 3 lety

      The average working person lives much better now but things may return to being this bad soon.

    • @andrewizard8285
      @andrewizard8285 Před 3 lety

      You and free to do what you want now and have many opportunities than those before.

  • @roseprevost8081
    @roseprevost8081 Před 3 lety +6

    Why did they interview her in an echo chamber? Could barely follow what she was saying.

  • @genevieveloveday2016
    @genevieveloveday2016 Před 3 lety +1

    Very interesting and informative but the background pictures and noises were obtrusive, nearly overcoming the narrative.

  • @JustAndreaEdna
    @JustAndreaEdna Před rokem +1

    Oh I love these videos but I tell you what you lost me with the Dickens monologues.

  • @anthonyvanbohemen
    @anthonyvanbohemen Před rokem +2

    Nothing has changed. The poor still look onward at the rich in the streets all over the world.

  • @scouser2010ify
    @scouser2010ify Před 3 lety

    Piano music at the beginning it’s really familiar what’s the name?

    • @joedart8449
      @joedart8449 Před 3 lety

      Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16

  • @caroliner2029
    @caroliner2029 Před 5 měsíci

    Very interesting, thank you.🇦🇺

  • @vickycolvin8952
    @vickycolvin8952 Před 4 lety +3

    I wonder what year this documentary was made 🤔

  • @Mostafa-nm5ni
    @Mostafa-nm5ni Před 2 lety

    We are waiting other variations about the American history. please to have it as possible as you could.

  • @randomness9814
    @randomness9814 Před 2 lety +1

    Idk who plumblella is but ima look it up just because of these comments

  • @karenfidei5989
    @karenfidei5989 Před 4 lety +8

    I would like to be able to listen to this but the audio is so low that even at full volume I can barely hear it. I'm looking for another version now

    • @levrushforth6946
      @levrushforth6946 Před 4 lety +2

      Audio is perfect. It's your speakers

    • @issanmike1
      @issanmike1 Před 4 lety +2

      pardon

    • @IwasBlueb4
      @IwasBlueb4 Před 3 lety

      @@levrushforth6946 Rubbish.....The audio is awful.... I can hear other documentaries very well.....I agree with the lady

    • @prayingmantis4948
      @prayingmantis4948 Před 3 lety

      It’s made in 1993 that’s why it said queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch and that’s why the audio is “bad”. It’s nit bad

  • @magicalempire
    @magicalempire Před 4 lety +16

    great to watch, i have a housekeeping book from Victoria very interesting with servant costs and job descriptions

    • @robertmanfredthurrigl9424
      @robertmanfredthurrigl9424 Před 3 lety

      There are certain types of brexiteers to be found who hark back with longing for lost glories and Empire and yearn to have a return of the native where every one knew their place i say . Upstairs down stairs as they say . Must be a bit of a bore to read up on Victorian house keeping but we all need a hobby we can indulge .

  • @aTruster
    @aTruster Před 3 lety +6

    I can barely understand what the woman is saying.

  • @vo4260
    @vo4260 Před rokem

    Who is the composer and what music is at 4:25? Is it Mendelssohn?