How to Survive Victorian London  

The mummy parties were way worse. They used to eat mummies or grind up their bodies for paint. So there was a time when cannibalism was vogue and there is a shade of paint that called mummy brown which was used in famous art like "liberty leading the people" .

As someone who lives in London, this is so funny. And accurate. LMAO Time for some history notes! Can confirm, Victorian London is 50% disease deaths, 50% industrial deaths. The John Snow public well that is famous for killing people with cholera is literally a 10 minute walk away from me, and my whole area used to be a tenement slum. Fun fact, there is a water fountain literally right next to the cholera well. I'm not lying, I filled up a water bottle there two days ago. If it seems like a bad idea, that's because it probably is. The vaudeville/freak shows were legit a thing, and I have actually been to a couple local halls for seasonal shows, so this is arguably still a thing (just with more pantomimes and less human rights abuses). The funniest part of this video is that it assumes someone from the lower classes can actually move up in class, which is genuinely impossible over here unless you marry someone rich. Remember: Downton Abbey sucks because it is pretty much a documentary, not a work of fiction. lol On the upside, we don't crush up mummies anymore, but that's only because we literally ran out of mummies to destroy and turn into paint, which was a very popular thing to do for a long time. This is legitimately why the British Museum has all their mummies behind glass; It was for theft prevention. We also have a Childhood Museum, and the Victorian Era section might be the single most depressing museum exhibit of all time. :( There is a Victorian laundromat near where I live and it doubled as a textiles factory workshop, and it's the same place where Charlie Chaplin's family died while being worked to death. He was forced to work there as a child, too. There's a special little round blue memorial sign for him nearby. Penny sit-ups and the abuse of the poor over here is, whew. There's a local prison near me which was established in the Victorian era where they had "water wheel exercise", which meant that inmates were forced to run on giant hamster wheel style treadmills which ran the generators that provided the prison with early electrical power. This meant that inmates were constantly on rotating shifts, as the treadmills had to be run 24/7. Most people were imprisoned for crimes of poverty, like stealing food for sick family members, or trying to "steal" a plot of land to bury a deceased child. It's real fucking bad. Don't get me started on the "poorhouses", which were just places poor people were put to be abused and die of disease, usually tuberculosis. And I mean, every possible type of tuberculosis, not just respiratory tuberculosis. But a lot of people just starved and died of overwork, or were beaten to death by violent "ward masters". Abuses of all kinds. Most people who went to poorhouses went there expecting to die shortly after; They just wanted to die indoors, rather than outside. The younger women in poorhouses were often abused then left to die in childbirth or miscarry while at work, and usually died from infection or blood loss either way. Genuinely some of the most awful abuses you can imagine were in poorhouses and workhouses. Our antique stores are so depressing, oh my god. If you look at the clothes and shoes of adult men and women from the Victorian era, they were clearly severely malnourished even considering the smaller height averages of the time-- Compare the worker's clothes to the rich people's clothes, and there's a visible size difference even if you just lay the garments flat. I'm a woman, and the adult men's work boots are so small and narrow I can't even get them over my toes. It's really, really sad to think these people were worked so hard while almost universally starving and severely sick. I legitimately cried when not even the men's boots were big enough; I don't have big feet at all, but Jesus, these men were hauling steel and wrought iron over their shoulders and couldn't have weighed half as much as me. I'm not that big. The women's clothes are even sadder, they look like clothing for a stand-up doll, and some of the maternity clothes of the era are just so miserably sad; They're far, far too small in the waist. The women and the babies were terribly malnourished and overworked, and there is such a thing as "memorial dresses", which are the unworn infant gowns for babies that died shortly after childbirth. Just the saddest shit imaginable. You can tell when Victorian kids had rickets when they were younger children, because their shoes will have damage up one side from where they dragged their feet from malformed joints. It's brutal. And these were working children, so they were carrying things around and trying to work on twisted limbs. :( I mean, Jesus, England. Shout out to Appalachia, at least you never fucked up in the Victorian era as bad as we did. Granted, you also went full on into coal mining, and I think we all know how that went for all of us, lmao sigh. On the other hand, you don't have to have an entire museum dedicated to how kids used to die terribly in every possible manner. So I feel like Appalachia wins this one. I mean, obviously. It's impossible to be worse than Victorian England.

7:10 Basically, Egyptology was just Victorian weebery.

That John Snow thing was so much bigger than this video makes out. He basically went all detective and ran around the town to homes, companies, and factories to try and figure out why the outbreak was happening. Extra History did a pretty good series on it called "England: the Broad Street Pump" although some of their early work I'd recommend it.

The Victoria era was lit- if you’re rich-

Ah yes, one of my favorites of his!

14:54 it's really disgusting that people are trying to bring child labor back. It's one thing to have a summer job working as a cashier after school to earn some extra money and some job experience; is another to work until midnight at a meat packing facility with sharp blades at the age of 14.

Yes! Was hoping y’all would watch this one.

Living hell

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And things were way worse if you were a poor female child. The video's perspective was if you were born a boy. I knew things were not so rosy if you were lower class but heck, I saw an article about the poor youth in Victorian England with photos. I am so glad I wasn't born in England in that era. I would actually prefer to born in my own country.

I'm tempted to put an AI filter on this just for personal use/listening. ❤‍🔥

lol nikki 12:42