What Was Life Like In The Victorian Social Class System? | Secrets of Britain | Absolute History
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- The Victorian era was famous for its rigid class system that divided Britain. Alan Titchmarsh will delve into the working lives of each social tier. Starting with the underclass, we will witness the plight of poor children forced into work in dangerous factories, risking their lives during the industrial revolution. The middle classes, who lived in a perpetual state of uncertainty, despite holding skilled jobs. Some had a clear view of their circumstances while working in service for affluent families in grand estates. The upper classes, born into generational wealth, inherited vast estates. While many thrived, some faced immense pressure to uphold the strict order and expectations of aristocratic society. Although each section of society had its own trappings, some certainly benefitted from this rigid system more than others.
00:00 Under Class
43:06 Middle Class
1:23:42 Upper Class
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My grandmother was born In 1888 in New York, USA. She worked in the thread mills upstate in Cohoes, NY when she was only 8 years old. She said if the thread broke, she would climb inside the machine to tie a knot so it could keep going. She eventually ran 11 machines by herself.
Wow, incredible story. how old are you if your grandmother was born in 1888?
I'm 63, my mother was born in 1926 and I was born in 1960.
Incredible.
Grandma said the same! She was nimble for sure!
I’m not complaining but, this video is bits of other videos put together. I’ve seen the individual videos of these subjects.But I do hope you can post something new soon.
thanks for the heads up
You saved me from wasting 2 hours. Mad respects dude. O7
Thanks so much, I appreciate your tip. So I will be enjoying several videos at once as I watch this 🙂 Warm greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Yeah it's fine if you hadn't seen the others, but I wish they would make it more clear.
I wish your CZcams titles better lined up with what’s showed in the video 😅
In our time we forget that for most humans, in most parts of the world, in most ages of history, life was painful, hungry and short. What we today would call desperate poverty, was what most people would have called "daily life". In the days of the Roman Empire, being someone's bondslave was preferred to being a "freeman" without a farm or a steady job. These conditions for working children are harsh in our eyes, but for many people back then, it was a preferred way of survival. It was better than a cold hovel and maybe one bowl of porridge a day after working 14 hours on a couple acres of land or a barn or in a cramped living room.
I really appreciate how the British work so hard to preserve their history. Here in the US we don't seem to do so as much. Though of course we have much less history I guess.
agreed.😊
And half of us history is terrible and very racist that's why
@@linatang7037 just about everything is considered racist these days so not any worse than anywhere else. It's a shame this horrible history isn't taught to those millions of folks risking life and limb to get in. We would probably all be happier. Then again considering the innovation provided by the US it would be interesting to know how many centuries we would have had to wait for those discoveries.
They also don’t have our resources or any room to grow. They don’t have much choice
@@linatang7037😃😃😄😄🤣🤣😂😂 are you 13 and without books?
Thank you for another entertaining and informative video and keep up the good work.
I build scale models as a hobby and use youtube as background "noise." But with this vid I was always stopping and watching that I got very little work done. This was such a enjoyable watch, from the US.
I've been looking for some models! where do you get yours and do you have any brand recommendations?
I have these videos on in the background when I clean. This one had me stopping too
It is a pretty good channel.....@@elenaderoet4926
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Love it! Please consider doing a video on the fascinating Mitford sisters. Tx
Wow I’ve enjoyed every part of this story 🌹
The Steam and Power show in backwater Wisconsin (USA) has always been a pleasure. Giant horses included especially.
Your history is amazing
Thanks.
32:24 I remember hearing about one scholar who tried to argue that "what is ONE day to god? is it the same as one day for us? it might as well be that one 'day' for god is 100.000 years or more to us mere mortal humans, and we're still on the 7th day", but the church would have none of it and deemed him a heretic for putting anything the church said into any degree of question, for if that part was a "mistranslation" then other parts would be questioned too.
sounds interesting. 😮
49:30 Did a double take when the gentleman in the middle looked like Sir Anthony Hopkins.
My Grandma worked on the Mule. Here in the States.
Wonderful greenhouse and if you put a gutter on you could collect rainwater to water your veggies
Any poppies or trilliums in the garden? Trilliums are the provincial flower of Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
AI thumbnail?
AI or ai stands for artificial intelligence. I don't know much about it except that people are concerned that it will deprive creative people of jobs. You can Google AI to find out more about it.
Is that preview image for this video done with AI?
Looks similar to the Peeky blinders set
I love seeing Black people in these types of projects because the world may not realize that we love History as well and hardly are black historians included in these types of shows. Love to see it
I think this is a rerun
Yes
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The guy with the garden is silly, doesn't he know you can just deny that empirical evidence is real and that it's all a conspiracy and then you've done mental gymnastics rather than physical ones and saved a lot of work.
….I don’t think you quite understand Bateman’s intentions…
Nice 😊💋💕
Can’t wait to watch ❤
And yet some complain that there was only one type of slavery
Our Irish were slaves for millenia
Who?
*_As a culture, the English middle class had an utter disregard for the lives of working class children and their laboring parents. England still celebrates its class system to this very day with impoverished and hungry children right up through the professional middle class and culminating in a fabulously wealthy monarchy._*
And I suppose you have just the solution for this
@@rrice1705 A good dose of socialism would do the trick. The English ruling class would never go for it.
Thank god for labour laws
Pete Pete and repeat
The only problem with critics of the Bible’s story of creation is the hubris involved with thinking humans know or understand how long a ‘day’ is for God. Everything happened exactly in the correct order
Why do commentators have a problem with religion and science or nature? In my understanding, science is about discovery and religion is about respecting the power we do not understand. Even Einstein acknowledged a greater power in the universe.
Havs and hav nots ,simple
Not quite satisfied at the top, and you'll own nothing and be happy at the bottom.
Guys if you dont like to loose your jobs. Defer AI 😂❤
His lack of discretion are the reason that later generations stood up and said no to anti-gay laws. Thank god for people who went out on a limb to live their lives according to their truth.
Most people are dressed appropriately for tv - not the lady walking in the garden. She’s dressed as if she’s going to the movies or going to the chippie.
Unfortunately all those lovely estates had been erected on the blood of the exploited population...
Yes, but hopefully, as long as their stories are told, they will not be forgotten.
Sad that a channel all about humanity is using AI images. You're on the wrong side of history with this one.
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Sad people who expect free content cant understand creator right to cut cost if it does not decrease quality.
Stop using AI images for your thumbnails and hire real human artists.
Oh, Lordy, the accent of the Black presenter is so heavy, you couldn’t cut it with the sharpest chisel….
What? I had no problem at all.
diarrhea was common and people enjoyed having diarrhea because their poops were very fast and they could return to work sooner