How People In The Victorian Era Spent Their Free Time 

*women did barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen back then* .

@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 wow...classy...

Fair enough

I spend my free time watching you 👀

Ironic isn’t it lol

2150 teacher: and in 2020 of you were alive you were condemned with dealing with the virus and paranoia of war but 2020s were the best year for what was essentially a TV show, literature, video game, and movie Renaissance as anniversaries for beloved franchises were celebrated left and right while critically acclaimed series came out like ridley scott's Raised by wolves anyways its time to learn about capitol hill

And there was also baking, lots and lots of baking 😕

There were also these completely insane traditional practices called "hugging" and "holding hands". We know this based on the ancient manuscripts left over from the time before the great Zombie apocalypse.

Yes lots and lots of getting baked

True!

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I see why the public (and Queen Victoria) laughed like idiots at those displays. It's so morbid and messed up...and yet it's hilarious!

Or watch keyboard cat on RU-vid

The only thing that changed is that we now have a way to show it to lots of other people

@@yourmother3126 I agree. I'll read history or biography about something back then and I'll be like some things don't change

Milk flew out of my nose as I read this

Lmao how does this comment have so few likes?! That was epic funny.

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Yes that was such a macabre thing to do!!! Have seen some of those photos in a museum. Cant believe they thought that was ok😬😱

So are we!

You’d be weird too, watching the “magic” of the industrial revolution unfold and haphazardly trickle into your world. Hell, we are all going to seem very weird to whatever comes after us as they see how we watched and participated in the information age trickling into our lives... eventually flooding it.

And oddly familiar

I’ve always been more partial to the Edwardian era bc it was like the Victorian Era but much more carefree. Edward VII was only on the throne for like a decade but he modernized society. Although all monarchs technically have an era, it truly only applies to a few in popular culture and history. Like the Elizabethan era or the Georgian era. The latter is why George V and George VI’s era isn’t referred to as Georgian eras. It makes you think of a completely different time period.

Facts 😂

“I can’t believe Ethel is dead...I miss her so much... I don’t think I’ll ever recover...Oh, Mary, could you pass the salt?”

@@iswearimnotafurry4953 "Yeah, sure. Here you go." Anyways, I know how you feel, I lost my mother not so long ago- God! I spilled tea all over my dress!"

I was reading about this for the Redeemer Cemetery and Baltimore Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland along the US-1 corridor. The Brehms Brewery was nearby and they had beer gardens. If you missed your loved ones, after burying them, get trashed.

@@jgallardo7344 “well, ethel’s dead, lmaoooo lets go drink the pain away guys!”

Picnics on battlefields were also common, particularly during the American Civil War. Granted it was largely only the middle or upper classes that enjoyed this pastime if I recall correctly.

@@Dany_Stormborn Natural burial is becoming more popular. Look up "Ask a Mortician" on RU-vid. She's fun to watch and interesting.

@@julienielsen3746 Yes, I like the idea of becoming fertilizer for a tree. Can't do that if you've been cremated. You're useless once you're ash. Nothing but phosphate dust.

@@maidenminnesota1 Ash has fair, good use.

Agreed

@@julienielsen3746 she's great!

Exactly!! They did some dark ass hobbies. Grim vibe like the Addams Family and that is where Charles Addams got the inspiration....the eerie and depressing Victorian Architectural style of its time

To summarize the video: death, death, death, more death, death with guests from the other side, Instagram, flower emojis

Social media like Facebook and Instagram

*mind blown*

That’s deep

I KNOW Right 😂😂😂

Pria your smart and beautiful

If there wouldn't be people whining about it, I'd bet people would buy tickets to go to a morgue or watch an autopsy.

@@Kevs442 Yeah, all those whiners who...don't want some rando screwing up a criminal investigation or looking at their loved one's naked body being dissected. So unfair.

@@Kevs442 first thing I thought was I wanna watch

*that’s what they wanted you to think!*

Can't get over that Diatom arrangement. That blew my mind. Why didn't anyone tell me?

It would of been for me also.

@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 LOL

Weird that the age of consent was 10 years old then. Kinda creepy.

@@justayoutuber1906 omg really ? That’s horrible

@@justayoutuber1906 I think it's because life expectancy is very short by that time so as young as 10 yrs old their child will have suitors/be engaged to someone yeah It's really creepy but at least that custom stopped by the time medicines and life expectancy improved.

@Bob Hulsey that's funny!

Hahahaha

More like raw and still bleeding.

NO MORE TURKISH BREAD

ROFL 😂 I KNOW Right?!?!🐰🐰🐰🐰😁😂

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Thanks!

@@resiliencewithin In Theodore Fontanes Novel "Effi Briest", rhododendrons are foreshadowing her death

I looked through the comments for like 10 mins for a seaweed poem Tysm

Amazing, thank you!!

Haha same

Yeah, about that... Victorian industrialization gave the people plenty of it's own struggle to keep survival on it's toes.

We work more than they did during medieval times lol...shat is a myth

That's beautiful! ❤️

That is too good for just the comment section of a RU-vid video. You are very talented

Great job 😊

@@rebeccacline5669 awe thanks 😊 I wanted to be a writer when I was in high school. Funny how life takes you in a different direction.

I didn’t get it but then I watched the whole video

This is nice.

Ours are just a bunch of tomb stones arranged in rows just on the edge of town. The cemetery itself may not be pretty but the tombstones are extravagant.

Yeah, I thought that was weird. Most modern cemeteries in the US are the "park" version with open space and occasionally somewhere to rest, and eating lunch there wouldn't be a big deal so much as making sure you don't leave trash behind. Not even mentioning the cultural differences between the "spooky dead people, ghosts & zombies!" view of cemeteries and people who consider it respectful to visit with your dead relatives and keep their graves tended...

That's wonderful!!!

Roses are red Steak needs thyme I suck at Making things rhyme

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Food, water, medicine and pretty much everything else...

@@Jess-737 They have asbestos which is harmful

@@mopeyraccooninc *some do.

@@ddrew1973 Back in the 1800s, Opium and Cocaine were considered very prestigious and pleasant experiences, few realized the dangers. Even Queen Victoria herself greatly enjoyed opium-spiked alcohol, she said it gave her a wonderful energetic feeling. I'm just wondering what happened at the dinner parties, were people getting sky high and laughing like maniacs till they passed out? Kinda scary.

Don't forget the green dye in their clothing was toxic.

YES!

For sure! Weird History has great content with even greater narration!

It’s History Channel 2.0, without the reality TV!

I do!

Yes. Because weird shit is always interesting

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Edwardian Era was better.

The past was the worst.

Opium used to be a thing back then as well.

@@mikitz Still is. It's even synthesized in a lot of pharmaceuticals (albeit in often far less addictive and harmful ways).

muertos*

So true HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA I don't remember celebrating Halloween wearing costumes in the Philippines. Instead we start visiting cementeries mid October.

This isn’t about Mexicans or Filipinos

Don't they also dig up the dead, dress them in some new clothes and party with the corpses? Pretty sure that's unsanitary... And insane.

@@thenifell I think that's a tribe from Indonesia who did that.

Lone Fir? 🖤

Hi there! In from Portland or too! I got to lone fir cemetery all the time. You'll usually see me writing and sipping wine 🍷

I think its the same with some latin american countries as well, having picnics at cemeteries during all soul's day or all saint's day

@@oceanheartz717 Yeah Día de los Muertos in Mexico anyway

Please help...where is "Ph"? What is that short for?? I feel ignorant as hell. I'm sorry

@Erwin Mapa I was going to guess Philadelphia PA 😂

@Erwin Mapa yeah lol but I think your guess of the Philippines is more likely to be correct

Teeth

I’ve seen some pretty ancient nail files...glass ones too ✨

Right. Did they all have hard clawlike nails or 🤔

Pocket knife

scissors

Fire and brimstone preaching.

This is going to be a long read, but I think they focused so much on death due to the fact that the mortality rates were high, even for the upper classes. Consider that a lot of the things they used in their everyday were toxic, the water was polluted to the point where it was safer to drink beer than water, cholera was kinda common, they smoked a lot and sometimes consumed drugs and other substances that we now know are dangerous like they were candies, people −usually women, due to the dresses they wore− were prone of suffering serious accidents (such as falling down the usually long stairs at home). Even the bread was unsafe to eat sometimes, not to mention that freezers didn't exist until the late 19th century, so food was prone to go bad quite easily. Medicine was also nowhere near to where it is nowadays and surgeries plenty of times ended in tragedy as hygiene literally did not exist within the context of a surgery (the surgeons −some of which were actually barbers− would never wash their hands, neither the ever washed their bloodied aprons, for example), there were no anesthetics (you got chloroform used on you if you were lucky), hot irons were used to stop profuse bleedings, and limbs −arms, legs− were usually amputated if you happened to break them, so the chances of getting an (at the time) incurable infection in any of these instances were pretty high, which is also one of the reasons many women died during childbirth or due to childbirth complications. Not to mention that the poor had it even worse, as malnutrition and starvation (plus long work days in sometimes extremely horrible work conditions, and this includes child labor) were common. So, literally, they were surrounded by death everyday, hence why they focused so much on it and were even fascinated with it to some extent.

@@speedwagoncito Very true. But, I was wondering what was going on in the church, that is supposed to be preaching life and not death. Guess it depended some on which denomination.

@@julienielsen3746 It could be, but it's probably because death itself plays a big part in the church's beliefs, since catholicism (the main religion in England at the time) believes in the afterlife, which is basically eternal life. To gain access to it, one must die first, so it kinda ties to the whole obsession with death, I'm guessing. Death itself is not precisely seen as something bad by this religion or by religions with similar beliefs on this regard, as it is part of the process and a step that's necessary to transcend to the afterlife and be in God's presence. Not sure if that might answer your question?

@@speedwagoncito If they believed in the Bible which is God’s Word, it speaks of life which is of God and not death which is of satan. Giving into satan and focusing on death instead of life would not be what God’s Word tells us. It wouldn’t be on focusing on death, but to live thorough Jesus in this life, and when we leave this earth. Not to focus on death or going to Heaven while in this life.

What did poor victorians do?

@@backwardsbandit8094 work

That's the reason why, Goths today have a Victorian Goth type.

Victorian only refers to Britain not to the USA. We have our own names for historical periods. We have antebellum, reconstruction, gilded age etc etc etc

Way to get my hopes up, WH😩

Just say Biggie Smalls three times in front of a mirror

I was thinking that was how they contacted Alexander Hamilton.

I laughed too hard at that joke

I personally think your comment needs more cowbell.

@@Nmdixon-cu7vm I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell

@@grim6726 haha yup. You got it.

Cochise omg

And you think men cleaned their junk any more than women did?

♥️ Vanessa! 😁 That’s a fantastic series. 👍🏼

The original Penny Dreadful series with Eva Green was fantastic. The show definitely had some crazy and super creepy moments especially the seance scene.

Loved, Loved Penny Dreadful!!

victorians be weird yo

@@DyslexicMitochondria Hi bro! I watch your videos. Love ur channel

2:47 I’m sure is an example

Nice

that's covered in the video

Bit cringe to credit yourself in your own post

@@Laura-Yu and?

Love it !!

hahaha

Interesting times.

I totally agree. The Victorian Era was definitely a very interesting and entertaining time period. Theres just so many fascinating aspects to Victorian culture. I also really enjoy the work that Suzannah Lipscomb has done. She has some very interesting documentaries on RU-vid as well.

@@archangel5627 Susannah Lipscomb, good taste

@@archangel5627 I adore Suzannah! Coincidentally, I just started watching her documentary about witches on Netflix just this morning!

@@crystalnicole6577 It’s funny you should mention that because I just started watching that documentary too and it’s really good. Suzannah Lipscomb never disappoints no matter what subject or era she’s covering.

@@archangel5627 agreed 😍

Yeahh same~

Me too, even down to the arsenic wallpaper 🤣👍

must of been nice to learn the violen and piano lmao or may i say rap or rock

ah yes, i do love to live in an era of with worse sexism and racism, rampant class discrimination, bad conservatism, poor health, extreme labor, terrible hygiene, ugly royalty drama, and bizarre health practices

@@DIOsNotDead fun times, huh

Yeah.

Same in Romania and Moldova. We celebrate a “second easter” called the “easter of the gentle/kind hearted-ones”. The gentle/kind hearted-ones are the dead relatives, who in popular folklore were believed to help the living. We celebrate them in cemeteries with a whole feast and we give away - either to whoever attends the feast or to the poor, gift bags that contains bread,sweets,candles,and other stuff.

They never really went away. I wasn't aware the trend went so far back, but suffice it to say that making 'art' in petri dishes is still a thing, if only in niche circles.

They still do it, at least in Canada.

same!