Your comment about 'all things' being acceptable on a steam ship reminds me of my Gran. She was a Lady's Maid in the 1930s. Her 'mistress' travelled on the Queen Mary and of course my Gran went with her. At that time, women were not allowed on deck after a certain time at night. My Gran was friendly with the her employers' chauffeur, and she had short hair, so she borrowed some clothes from him and went to the top deck after hours. Mum' s got a photo of Gran (dressed as a man) and the Chauffeur posing together. I never did find out if her boss knew what was going on🤣
@simplykathrynrebeca2 жыл бұрын
Iconic ✨
@SuperDrLisa Жыл бұрын
What a great family history!!
@alexia35527 ай бұрын
I love that lmao
@MariaJoseRangelUwU2 жыл бұрын
I mean this is our Titanic and our Titanic didn’t sink. We kept being fancy the whole trip and we got to America, where we did all the fancy things. And my lady’s maid met a vallet and got married, we were very happy for her.
@delphinidin2 жыл бұрын
So when Rose says, "I can still smell the fresh paint"--that's because when they arrived they could, in fact, still smell the fresh paint! lol
@DramaGeek12252 жыл бұрын
I work at a historic house museum that was once owned by George Bruce Douglas, Jr., whose brother died on the Titanic. The Douglas brothers were sons of a Quaker Oats founder, so I found it especially interesting that you mentioned Quaker Oats being served for breakfast on the ship.
@valeriepark94442 жыл бұрын
You work at Brucemore?!? I live in CR as well!
@DramaGeek12252 жыл бұрын
@@valeriepark9444 I do! Small world. :)
@hannahjohnson45822 жыл бұрын
Hey I'm from the cedar rapids area as well!
@agentredfox2 жыл бұрын
I know this house & have toured it several times!🙂
@TheLewistownTrainspotter81022 жыл бұрын
I've never been in there, but I've walked by the Brucemore multiple times when walking around Cedar Rapids (I attended Coe College from 2014-2019).
@beaveloso36822 жыл бұрын
Ellie, I've loved these last videos you've released of Elizabeth Bennet's routine and this Titanic one! They are so fun! I love learning more about people's day to day life back then. Maybe you could do more of them? For example, Lydia Wickham's life as the wife of a military and Charlotte Collin's as the wife of a clergyman, I'm really interested in that
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
Those are such great ideas! I’m definitely writing them down!
@IlovTrunks162 жыл бұрын
I second that! One of my favorite books is a resource about daily English life (If I don't mess up the title, it's "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew".)
@DeeDee-zg6dc2 жыл бұрын
Second that as well!! Really love this kind of video! 😍
@amandab29842 жыл бұрын
Yes I agree that's a great idea.
@annemarie13232 жыл бұрын
Agreed!!
@RecklessFables2 жыл бұрын
Ellie is such a good storyteller.
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
Aw! Thank you!
@josephlim68542 жыл бұрын
@@EllieDashwood I agree. Love watching your videos... and @16:08 was sooo entertaining but realistic too. These voyages tend to last 2-3 weeks so that's a long time! If I ever did first class trip like this back then, I'd make sure my best friends are there too!
@PokhrajRoy.2 жыл бұрын
11:15 Louis Vuitton invented the folding suitcase and made luggage chic.
@rodgomola2 жыл бұрын
Do the Orient Express next!
@gretslie2 жыл бұрын
Ooh! Yes!! That would be awesome!
@mikaelastefkova2 жыл бұрын
Oh yess, please, that'd be really interesting! ✨
@jamesfracasse8178 Жыл бұрын
Rail travel
@snowangelnc2 жыл бұрын
Interesting thing; so much of the information we hear about the Titanic focusses on first class and third class, and I can understand why. It makes sense. We almost never hear anything from second class though, the forgotten middle child of the ship. I do wonder about it though, especially considering it's where I most likely would have been.
@CandraJade842 жыл бұрын
Yes, I would love to learn more about 2nd class as well, especially who the people in there were. People going on vacation like first class or more wealthy immigrants? What I know is that the best rooms in 2nd class were very similar to the basic first class rooms. The difference was that many amenities of the ship like the swimming pool and the restaurants were only for first class passsengers.
@kerrychristensen72042 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@emilylewis53732 жыл бұрын
@@CandraJade84 it would have been both.
@maryhildreth7542 жыл бұрын
Tasting History channel is doing a series now about the food on the Titanic, and each video shows you how to make the dish or meal, and tells a story about some people on the ship. You might be interested in watching those Ellie. I sent them to my daughter, who is a chef and also loves the Titanic. I'll be sending her your video too.
@fantasyfiction1012 жыл бұрын
Share the link here, that sounds interesting.
@annemarie13232 жыл бұрын
I was going to mention Tasting History. I love that channel, and this video is an excellent complement to the Titanic series Max is doing right now!
@mouseketeery2 жыл бұрын
@@fantasyfiction101 Here's his Titanic playlist so far: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMide72TudbTdI0.html It's a very enjoyable channel and Max is a great presenter.
@penultimateh7662 жыл бұрын
I saw those videos too. Ellie is WAY prettier.....
@maryhildreth7542 жыл бұрын
Here is the link to today's first class Titanic video. Ellie, you should cook this and try it in a video :-). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bc6Jdcik1M62e2Q.html
@zuitsuit802 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact 3: Re: 1st Class servants as passengers. Personal maids, nannies and valets had their own dining room next to The Grand Staircase, one deck below the 1st Class dining saloon. It was a small room with long tables that looked like a cross between the 2nd Class and Steerage dining rooms.
@debbiericker82232 жыл бұрын
This was so interesting! I always assumed the 3rd class passengers were grimy, huddled masses stuffed into dim, crowded, windowless rooms. How wrong I was! Ellie, you put so much work into these videos for us, and I thank you.
@josephlim68542 жыл бұрын
i think the cruise ships during the slave trade back in the 18th/19th centuries were like that unfortunately.
@thesimslover828842 ай бұрын
@@josephlim6854Cruise ships didn't exist until way after the Titanic sailed. Ships slaves sailed on were just called slave ships.
@AadenKDragon2 жыл бұрын
"They literally just finished painting so they stuffed it with flowers- BuT It'S pRETTy!" I am so into this video but this bit just sent me 😂
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
😂🌸🌺😂
@themistnfog2 жыл бұрын
This was great! Could you possibly do one about the 3rd class experience on the Titanic? I think that would be extremely interesting as well.
@angelika93962 жыл бұрын
Tasting History with Max Miller has Titanic month this month and touches on every class plus the crew members experiences (plus recipes).
@josephlim68542 жыл бұрын
I remember from the 1998 movie that Kate Winslet found the 3rd class experience to be much more freeing/fun than first class.
@victoria8562 жыл бұрын
@@josephlim6854 That's because she could go back to first whenever she wanted.
@Hungarycloud2 жыл бұрын
@@josephlim6854 yes but she also felt stifled by upper class life and her family, it was personal preference.
@corvidflight19 Жыл бұрын
Yeah being locked in 3rd class as the ship was sinking sounds like fun!!!
@April_20077 ай бұрын
Just a quick note Ellie there were three The Olympic Class ships, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic. The Britannic is often forgotten because she was still being built when the Titanic set sail where as the Olympic was launched a year before. Have a lovely day!!
@izzy12212 жыл бұрын
Oh now I want a part 2! I wanna see an average day for a passenger in the different classes! Minus the sinking and dying of course.
@belletense36182 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine being late for the boat train for the Titanic. Huddling to try and make it on time but missing the boat loading. Then being pissed off for like a week because you missed the departure date and couldn’t hang out with all your other rich friends…just to find out you missed a bullet.
@dezbiggs63632 жыл бұрын
I'm sure that happened. Just like the couple who was arguing so the man missed his subway to his job in the twin towers. Guess what he missed.
@strawberrylime332 жыл бұрын
@@dezbiggs6363 what? A couple was arguing and he accidentally missed work on 9/11 ? This is true?
@sleepyghostproductions75292 жыл бұрын
next time i have oats i'm gonna feel SO fancy!
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
You should! 😂😂😂
@jonnie78912 жыл бұрын
I’m obsessed with the Edwardian Era. 😍😍😍 I would love more videos like this.
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
Yay for an Edwardian era lover!!!!
@jonnie78912 жыл бұрын
@@EllieDashwood I used to listen to an Edwardian Era radio station back in the early days on ITunes. 😭
@Pinkladyisv2 жыл бұрын
I also really like this era!
@tymanung6382 Жыл бұрын
One can also enjoy Edwardian clothing analyses + reproduction demonstrations by Bernadette Banner, etc. One can also see a several decades old modern simulation + current people on BBC TV series, Edwardian House?
@cheerssteph2 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh I’d love a similar video about a trip on the Simpleton-Orient-Express train when it first was made. Luxury train trips seem very romantic!
@sballantine81272 жыл бұрын
Yes, please do!
@PokhrajRoy.2 жыл бұрын
It’s interesting to take a leap from Regency to the Nineteen-teens. Also, you look stunning in that red outfit! 👏🏽
@vapjolflar2 жыл бұрын
There is something delightfully dark about the idea that your present self is transported back to 1912 to ride on the Titanic and your first instinct is not to tell anyone what's about to happen Great video! Always love more information about the Titanic
@reginajanelilianapatterson58386 ай бұрын
You kidding? I'd figure out a way to make it so the lookouts can see the iceberg sooner or make a point to emphasize the fact that a head-on collision would not have sunk the ship... and nope! I don't care about the consequences on history. The timeline will adapt and anyone here in this timeline today wouldn't be affected by it. Anything that prevents the sinking would cause an alternate history to start at the point any change to history's course was initiated, meaning ALOT more history between 1912 and now would be VERY different. Honestly, I'd be very curious to see what would happen if someone we know died in this timeline (or don't know died because we don't know who they were in the aftermath) didn't die in another timeline and what they'd go on to do... or what their descendants would go on to do. What would 2024 look like had Titanic never sank? The way I'd expect time travel to actually occur (while explaining why we never knowingly run into any time travelers to begin with) is that if someone were to go back in time to any point in history, any changes that WILL happen simply by virtue of being there (nevermind any deliberate changes to history) would result in an alternate timeline in line with the "many worlds theory". Time travelers will never cross paths with anyone in our present timeline to their memory as we know it, the grandfather paradox or any other temporal paradox has no effect on our current timeline and thus is virtually meaningless, and the time traveler would simply go on experiencing the passage of history according to the results of anything they do either deliberately or inadvertently with no one in this timeline any the wiser. I'm willing to bet money someone's done it already, but we'd never know.
@maryannlockwood78062 жыл бұрын
What a treat this was!👒🚢
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
😃😃😃 Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
@Awakening_Sunshine2 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see a video about the second class experience on the Titanic!
@Hugin-N-Munin2 жыл бұрын
That'd be a lot harder. There's plenty of info about 1st class, and plenty about 3rd class, but 2nd class was kind of the invisible middle ground. Also the smallest class in size. Some of the 2nd class cabins could be used for 3rd class, and some for 1st class, which tells you about the variety of quality within 2nd class.
@PokhrajRoy.2 жыл бұрын
It’s wild to know that all morals were low-key relaxed on a Steamship 😂 P.S. I’d be excited with the preparation for the voyage and waking up every morning with a different view.
@missanne29082 жыл бұрын
My grandmother, who had gone around the world three times by steam ship, said that the real relaxation of morals came east of the Suez. There was a saying 'anything can happen east of the Suez.' One of the men that were at my grandparents' table was involved in the manufacture or exportation of pornographic statuary (I don't remember which). A single woman who was a neighbor would stagger back to her stateroom at 4:00 AM each morning. I don't know how my grandparents, who were missionaries, were able to deal with it, but apparently they were pretty chill. The woman even thanked my grandmother for not being judgmental towards her.
@PokhrajRoy.2 жыл бұрын
@@missanne2908 Wow! This is really a cool anecdote 👏🏽
@hjpngmw2 жыл бұрын
Well, of course, the BEST part of sailing on the Titanic as an aristocrat---and a female one at that---would have been my guaranteed lifeboast seat! That aside, the food sounds amazing!
@classicslover2 жыл бұрын
I had an ancestor on the Titanic! Aboriginal on my Mom's side all the way back, but my Dad''s Dad was born in England, and my Dad's Mom was born in Minnesota with Norwegian ancestors...AND she had a great uncle on the Titanic! All of this was SO VERY fascinating to me. Family history unfolding before my eyes. Thanks Ellie!
@iamweaver22 жыл бұрын
I just realized... At the end of every video, I wave "goodbye" to you. With both hands. Jazz hands. 😁 😂 🤣 And can I say how you use this content as a reason to wear absolutely awesome outfits 😁
@JacquelineViana2 жыл бұрын
There's a great YA book called "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani in which the protagonists are two teenagers immigrating to NY from Italy in the turn of the century. Some of the earlier chapters describe their different experiences in their ships and it's incredible to read about them. Also: the story is based upon the immigration story Adriana's grandparents and I think this is so beautiful.
@lifelover5152 жыл бұрын
And no images from the 1997 film, not a single one. Well done. This was a nice departure from the Regency and Victorian worlds that you already research so well. This piece is well up to your standard. Many details I didn't know, especially concerning the elaborate luggage arrangements and the segregated trains. A different dress every evening OMG! Apparently the luxury angle was the White Star line's main marketing strategy, so they laid it on thick.
@TheLewistownTrainspotter81022 жыл бұрын
The White Star Line was pretty big on that "our ships won't break any speed records, and it'll take you an extra day to make the crossing compared to Cunard, but you'll forgive that because of the more luxurious accommodations" thing. Actually, it was such that when Cunard commissioned the _Aquitania_ to complement the _Mauritania_ and _Lusitania_ (and thus give Cunard three big ships for their weekly transatlantic service), they decided to borrow a page from the White Star Line's playbook in designing her, so she was more opulent than her older sisters. (The _Aquitania's_ initial entry into service as a passenger liner in 1914 was cut short by World War I, forcing her to be repurposed as a troop transport through December 1918; then after 22 years as a passenger liner, she saw use as a troop transport again in World War II, and was finally decommissioned at the end of 1949).
@lifelover5152 жыл бұрын
@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 At last, a real Karen worthy of the name you no doubt proudly share with one of our best-loved (and best) pop singers. Interesting info, thanks very much.
@Mmarialejj2 жыл бұрын
I found you a couple of days ago! I'm learning so much with your videos, you're very entertaining without being exaggerated 💛.
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
Yay! I’m so glad you’re enjoying them! 😃 And welcome to the channel!!!
@julijakeit2 жыл бұрын
What I feel like what gives better understanding in how expensive (or cheap) something used to be in the past is not the inflation but cost of living comparison. While 18 000 per person sounds already expensive, in reality the ticket was far more expensive in today's money. 220 pounds back in 1912 was the equivalent of the entire pay of 1-2 years of someone like a land steward or house steward (very upper-class servant) probably equivalent to a wealth manager in today's terms of a super rich who earned between 100 and 300 pounds a year in 1900s, 4 years entire salary of a chef would earn around 50 pounds a year and 7-8 years of the entire salary of a lady's maid who earned around 30 pounds a year. That's the ticket alone. Let's not forget the insanely expensive dresses and accessories, cars, suits and all sorts of possessions the rich changed 3-4 times a day! One dress could cost up to a 1000 pounds!
@douginorlando62602 жыл бұрын
I feel like I just went on a first class vacation with Ellie and friends … so nice
@jdcienfuegos2 жыл бұрын
This would be my story then, thanks to your video: I am Cole J. Reeves (b. 1889), son and heir to a nouveau riche American couple. After growing up spending endless summers in Newport, I've become quite an adventurer with the excuse of studying history and geography. I started traveling to the Wild West, Canada and the Arctic, but have come to enjoy Mediterranean cruises and expeditions to the Egyptian desert. There, in Alexandria in 1910, I met Michael (b. 1886), a tennis player with my same dissolute life, since he is the son of the Marquesses of Bly. We fell in love and started a clandestine romance while traveling through Europe: Andalusia, Portugal, Provence, Switzerland, Bavaria and Venice. We have been at the Lido for months before leaving for Paris... One night we went to dinner at Maxim's, at 3 rue Royale, and there an advertisement attracts our attention. It is going to set sail for New York, making a stopover in France, the largest steamer ever built. It's called Titanic! We bought the tickets for the Titanic at the agency that White Star has open in Paris, at 9 rue Scribe, right in front of the Opera House. We bought a joint ticket (17758) for £108, including two cabins; one for us and one for Hargreaves, our footman. The butler will stay in Paris to answer the letters from our families, to whom we do not tell that we are continuing our journey. Early in the morning of Wednesday, April 10, we take a taxi to the Saint-Lazare railway station to catch the train that will take us to the port of Cherbourg, where we will board the Titanic. Happy as always, we are far from suspecting the tragic fate that awaits us. We've reserved a compartment on C deck, just three levels below the upper deck. The splendid cabin C-65 is located in the starboard bow sector and has sea views. However, the idiot Lord Whitby is also on board with his horrible mother. They have hated us since I refused to marry the late lady Lili Rothes... I hope they don't sit us next to them in the dining room.
@mikakestudios58912 жыл бұрын
I am fascinated by your tale. And hope you continue in good health.
@sapphire74242 жыл бұрын
Keep going
@jdcienfuegos2 жыл бұрын
@@sapphire7424 Perhaps I write a book
@sapphire74242 жыл бұрын
@@jdcienfuegos I'd read it. I'm assuming they survive and have wild adventures in New York?
@jdcienfuegos2 жыл бұрын
@@sapphire7424 that is a very nice thing to think ❤️ I hope they did
@jamesgleason90042 жыл бұрын
What a nice change of pace for you this must have been. Well done!
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
Aw! Thank you!!!
@healinggrounds192 жыл бұрын
Max Miller of "Tasting History " recreated menu items from all the 3rd, 2nd,1st class, the staff menu and the special restaurant onboard. It's a month long series through last April. It was very popular.
@EpicTrainsCanada8 ай бұрын
Your enthusiasm is infectious and you dressed the part super well!
@dezbiggs63632 жыл бұрын
I'm going on a Cunard vintage cruise in October so I've been reading and watching a lot about titanic lol I'm even leaving from Southampton and going to New York. I'm so excited 😍😍
@sapphire74242 жыл бұрын
Safe travels
@dezbiggs63632 жыл бұрын
@@sapphire7424 thanks :) honestly I'm more frightened of the cross atlantic plane ride. It will be my first time off the continent
@sapphire74242 жыл бұрын
@@dezbiggs6363 just have an amazing time and enjoy every minute! Keep safe and God be with you 💛
@Lillith.2 жыл бұрын
I don't know about a 10 course dinner, but I love my yearly 7 course dinner with friends. It sounds fancier than it is, but explaining would not help. It's also not that expensive at €40 and takes 4-5 hours (drinks not included (full wine/beer another €40, half €20), tip is just a nice thing (no 20% nonsense)). Definitely worth a try if you've never tried something like it.
@erracht2 жыл бұрын
My favorite part? The food and drink most certainly. I could also use the Turkish baths. BTW, the meals with the many courses, I think some of the portions would have been relatively small, so it wouldn't (perhaps) have been as difficult to digest it all as one might imagine.
@JacquelineViana2 жыл бұрын
As someone obsessed with the Edwardian Era, I'm so happy you chose this topic for today's video
@marylut60772 жыл бұрын
Thanks, felt like I was traveling with you. You are first class, Ellie D! Because you asked, to pass the day, I would be avoiding a sunburn and heat on the open deck until sunset. I would have my lady’s maid book a court for squash/tennis in the AM, and would be found after lunch in the reading room composing my ship-to-shore telegrams til cocktail hour and chatting with the others mothers to matchmake a suitable spouse for all my excellent children. I may be forced to consider American new money to maintain my English country manor, London home, and Caribbean get a-away place.
@PokhrajRoy.2 жыл бұрын
I want to see an alternate history where people have to deal with loading pages in 1911 to book a room on the Titanic.
@mcpossum2 жыл бұрын
Where did you find such an amazing replica of Rose's butterfly hair pin?! I've been looking and have yet to see one as amazeballs
@SincerelyHannah92 жыл бұрын
You are such an amazing storyteller! The fact that you made up an entire hypothetical situation and placed us all in the shoes of English nobility traveling on the titanic is amazing. Not only was the video very informative but so entertaining and engaging!! Loved it
@saraa34182 жыл бұрын
As an incurable busy body, exploring the ship sounds fun. Ideally I'd do this as a child having escaped my nurse so I can find all the little corners and hide holes. Assuming I am an adult, I'm pretty happy to people watch and eavesdrop.
@DM-lc2cf2 жыл бұрын
That was interesting. It would be interesting to learn more about the servants trip. What would the ladies maid or valet do during the voyage? Besides dressing their employers, etc. Where did they eat? Did they have to work all the time, keeping the clothes neat and clean etc. Could they ever have fun?
@SwedishAlicorn2 жыл бұрын
It depends on their employer, their job, the reason they're travelling, etc. For example, if you were a lady's personal maid, you'd probably be housed nearby your employer's cabin (at the very least, you'd still be in first class), you'd take your food in the maid's and valet's saloon on C deck, and you might be called on by your employer throughout the day to assist in changing or personal matters. Other travelling servants were listed as 'not wanted during voyage' similar to those wanted or not wanted stickers put on luggage. They usually travelled in second class. Now, though a servant might still be working for their employer, they were still considered first class passengers. You wouldn't see them in the pantry, cooking, or folding laundry. The cabins had dedicated stewards and other crew for that.
@jasonsteele69202 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love these Day In The Life -type videos you've been doing!
@Siansonea2 жыл бұрын
I think my favorite aspect of the trip would just be being in 1912. Being able to see history first hand, up close, and to talk to people from the past and learn about their lives. That would be so cool.
@MortalFaces2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Titanic is one of my joys and your video was sooo good!
@pricegrisham2998 Жыл бұрын
In addition to the Olympic and the Titanic, I believe there was a third ship called the Britannic, forming a sort of trinity; it launched shortly before WW I, and so served until 1915 as the world's largest hospital ship, when it was sunk that year by enemy forces. Many of the Edwardian rules for ship travel stayed the same right up until the early 1960's (see Countess from Hong Kong and An Affair to Remember), including not dressing for dinner the first night, and on some cruise ships today there is a faint echo of it by requesting "dressy casual" at dinner (no jeans, haha).
@catherinesanchez11857 ай бұрын
I’m planning a cruise in two years and it’s amazing how many similarities there are between travel by ship back then and cruising today
@anieth2 жыл бұрын
Lovely change. This is my favorite era. Many historians have said that this was the height of civilization in Europe. Everything is so mixed, but the beauty achieved in this era is amazing. Expand, Ellie, and explore--you do it well: research, presentation, and those pictures.
@zuitsuit802 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact! Re: Buying tickets. The White Star office building in New York is now a CitiBank. However, the separate entrances for 1st Class and Steerage customers are still clearly marked on the facade over the street doors.
@jthomasmack Жыл бұрын
Ahh I love this. Do you happen tk know which citi bank?? I live in Manhattan
@LeahWalentosky2 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact: while American generational new money avoided Molly Brown, European aristocracy was fascinated by her. She was authentic girl from the Wild West and unlike anyone they met before. A group of upper class English women curios about California would have loved her
@RobinGH2 жыл бұрын
I loved this, thank you. I like learning the little details of daily life so this video and your one on Elizabeth Darcy's days at Pemberley are two of my favorites.
@doddypemberley87012 жыл бұрын
I love how your outfit matches Rose’s in the movie ❤️
@CandraJade842 жыл бұрын
Great video. I'm a huge Titanic fan (the real Titanic history, not the Hollywood movie), read several books about it, but you mentioned things I didn't know like the "wanted"/"not wanted" luggage and that you could reserve a deck chair.
@kiranbasra41182 жыл бұрын
I loved this video. I live outside of Belfast and have small boys so we have to pilgrimage to the Ulster transport museum to see the Titanic exhibit a lot. Would you consider doing a video on the unsinkable Molly Brown? She seemed awesome.
@alice0605042 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this video Ellie! If your servant was in first class with you, does this mean that you could be sat next to a servant at dinner? Did the servants mingle with all the other first class passengers?
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
They actually had a separate dining room and lounge *just* for first class servants to prevent that. 😂
@douginorlando62602 жыл бұрын
I think of the servants in the movie Parent Trap. The servants must have been excited about the trip and their own social circles (different but no less an authentic life experience)
@emmaluxe2682 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad that you asked this as I was wondering as well!
@sballantine81272 жыл бұрын
Seriously???
@lisabmpls2 жыл бұрын
This was so great!!!! It gives me a sense of how my great-grandmother sailed on a steamship from the US to the Middle East in 1929. I’ve got her scrapbook from that trip and your video really brought it to life…even though it was later than the era you highlighted. Thanks!!!!!
@ladytharpofhastings2 жыл бұрын
The Olympic was launched first in 1911 and Titanic was to flow a year later. If the Great War did not happen than Britannic would have launched in 1914. I love Titanic she’s my favorite White Star Line ship and the Mauretania is my favorite Cunard ship.
@ginnieliebherr42452 жыл бұрын
Do more like this!!!
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
😃😃😃
@adrianashilling25732 жыл бұрын
We went to Italy in the early 70’s on the “Michelangelo” 2nd class. It was still pretty fancy. It’s been scrapped since then.
@ArtAnimeEmerly2 жыл бұрын
I used to live where the Titanic was built and there's a museum there exploring the lives of all the people who were on board. Very excited to see this video being posted and am going to stop what I'm doing to sit down and watch it now :D
@Richardsonprincess002 жыл бұрын
Hoping to learn about the social session in the Edwardian era soon...
@sanjivjhangiani32432 жыл бұрын
I love that little sea music at the end; with the old film footage, it's really haunting.
@confessionofabookdragon2 жыл бұрын
I live in Tennesse and in pigeon forge, TN is the Titanic Museum and it is so cool. I loved it. You come in and get a ticket with a passenger and while you walk through you learn a lot about the ship how it was made and you go through all the levels of the ship and at the end you find out if your passenger survives or not. I always love learning about the Titanic.
@josephinegonzalez2122 жыл бұрын
I'm always so excited when i see a new vid from Ellie :D
@alexjacob49452 жыл бұрын
With this video and TastingHistory’s new serious, I am officially in a Titanic mood lol
@claraharmonson21812 жыл бұрын
Ellie! This is one of my favorite videos 😍😍😍😍 but now I need a video about “how to shop for a first class trip on the Titanic” Where do you go? Who shops with me? Who pays for alll this? So many questions!!!
@Aurriel2 жыл бұрын
I know I am late on this. But I loved this video format! It was interesting and immersive. Thank you! I will spend the rest of the day daydreaming about this trip.
@tiffanyharris23632 жыл бұрын
I would love to see videos about 2nd and 3rd class and even the staff. Thank you for making this video I enjoyed it
@ginnieliebherr42452 жыл бұрын
Love this video idea! I’ve been interested in The Titanic ever since I first heard about it. Have read several non fiction books about it.
@mishaa72632 жыл бұрын
your outfit reminds me of the scene where Jack saves Rose from jumping over 🥰
@ColorwaveCraftsCo2 жыл бұрын
This was such a fun and informative video! You should do more like this!
@sophiecooks092 жыл бұрын
This is by far one of my favorite videos you've ever filmed my friend 😍😍
@thecatlady35012 жыл бұрын
Can you please do a video on the 2nd class experience? I feel like first and third are always covered but 2nd is rarely mentioned.
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
That’s such a good point! Second is so overlooked!
@mikakestudios58912 жыл бұрын
This is such a detailed, experience oriented video. And I lovelovelove the idea of having a Nemesis on board.
@rubybuttons6682 жыл бұрын
Hi Ellie, I’m a new subscriber and I have been enjoying your content and finding out more about first class life through the ages. The Edwardian era and the story of the Titanic is really fascinating, especially the social dynamics. I have visited the Titanic museum in Belfast and the dry dock where the ship was built. It really gives you a true sense of the size of the ship and the museum has mock ups of the first and third class cabins so you can see the differences in luxury between them. I highly recommend you visit if you ever find yourself on this side of the pond. 😊
@tymanung6382 Жыл бұрын
1) Edwardian clothes analyses + repro demonstrations are on youtube with Bernadette Banner, etc. 2) Several decades ago, BBC showed a current simulation reality TV series called Edwardian House ?
@you_already_have_it2 жыл бұрын
I would definitely be existed for the evenings : glam up in new pretty dresses and mingle with new people from around the country without being introduced by family or friend. Nowadays I feel like people keep to themselves and rarely get to know new people easily.
@Brunette_Rapunzel2 жыл бұрын
I would've loved the reading room. :)
@stephanieharvey-harris87032 жыл бұрын
Considering I live and am from Southampton, if I was on the Titanic, I would probably have been one of the stewards, or more likely below decks.
@amaltheadelacostuming2 жыл бұрын
This was super informative, thank you! I'm playing Titanic voyage beginning this weekend, and I am going to try some of these out, hehe.
@rosegoldhalo2 жыл бұрын
This video is incredible! Instant subscribe!
@AadenKDragon2 жыл бұрын
You know.. I was going to say "Ellie, if I end up in 1912, the very last thing I'm doing is boarding the Titanic" but then I thought it. I would absolutely find a way on the Titanic and remind them that their damn furniture floats and maybe more people would survive. Or maybe get to be buddy buddy with the captain and try to get him to avoid the damn iceberg...
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
It makes me wonder so much if the Titanic didn’t sink how much the timeline would change!
@LouiseAndersen19912 жыл бұрын
@@EllieDashwood Not only the timeline, but also how much things changed after Titanic sank. There should then be one morse code dude awake at all times. There needed to be enough lifeboats for everyone on board, and proberly one more thing I cannot remember. So as horrible and sad Titanic was, it actually changed some things for the better
@AadenKDragon2 жыл бұрын
@@LouiseAndersen1991 yeah I thought about that too. There are so many safety precautions in place because of it that in the end the Titanic sinking was a bittersweet thing. However, I don't think a whole lot would change because the captain probably wouldn't change his mind from what he believes to be the correct course and people in a panic wouldn't listen to a woman (me) shouting about how they need to throw the furniture overboard for people to sit on. A few dozen people may get the hint and we'd have a few more surviving bloodlines but I honestly don't think history would change too much.
@elisabethmontegna54122 жыл бұрын
@@AadenKDragon There must be a “What if the Titanic hadn’t sank” book or something out there somewhere, right? Something that looks at what happened to the companies owned by the new money industrialists who were on the voyage. Also, the Britannic had added safety features because of the loss of the Titanic and when it sank during WWI, less than 50 out of 1000+ passengers (military personnel and nurses) died. Would more of them had died and if so would that have affected the war? Would having the Titanic available to be conscripted by the navy have made a difference in the war? So many possibilities for alternative timelines for world history!
@AadenKDragon2 жыл бұрын
@@elisabethmontegna5412 there might be! I'm sure there is somewhere, it's just a matter of finding it. I used to be a huge Titanic nerd but its been a few years since I looked into anything about it
@marissahermancarr13862 жыл бұрын
Your tiny boa is giving me LIFE
@jeannechapman26962 жыл бұрын
Loved this video. Placed myself as a mature member of a traveling family. I had my maid, who helped me with so many things. Dinner with family, music and I retired early. Had already picked out my outfits for the following day. Hoped to sit in my deck chair, which was next to a traveling friend. We planned our day. Family was busy with fast paced activities so low key events were on my personal agenda. And so forth....... We did not go via the Titanic thank goodness. Lol. One can dream.
@fancyasmrbya2 жыл бұрын
A family member of mine was named albina bassani, born and raised in Rome. She survived and also the lady that accompanied her first class!!
@SwedishAlicorn2 жыл бұрын
While Germany and England did battle it out over who built the biggest and best ocean liners, the real battle for dominance (at least as far as Titanic is concerned) took place between two major British lines, Cunard and White Star. The Olympic Class ships were designed to compete with Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania.
@Delaney-and-the-Starlight4 ай бұрын
The way I was personally offended they charged extra for use of the squash courts! 🤣 how dare!
@MichalZismanReactions2 жыл бұрын
I like the rose-running-to-jump look you have here 🙂
@DawnOldham2 жыл бұрын
Greetings, Miss Dashwood! I’ve recently found your channel and have been bingyeing on it ever since! Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book/movie and I’m enjoying the fact that you are going over so many aspects of its content. Most of my reading is historical fiction, and I love learning our past verbal expressions and the clothing worn at that time. Your channel was made just for people like me! By the way, your cheerful demeanor and pleasant voice make your videos all the more fun to watch! I can’t wait to watch your channel reach more people and grow to be well past a million subscribers!
@lorireel85827 ай бұрын
Ellie, I love your page! It is just the best!!
@davidhudson35342 жыл бұрын
If I may give some feedback, servants who were needed during a crossing (maids, valets, governesses, etc) would have needed a first class ticket. It would be discounted and they had their own small dining room in first class but with second class food. Some servants did have second class tickets, but they were not needed by their employer (ie chauffeurs or footmen for luggage). Interesting side note: the “Not Wanted” luggage was kept in a special first class baggage hold accessible by a stair near the Squash Court. You could arrange with a steward to visit your trunks if needed. Also Titanic was indeed launched May 31, 1911 when the hull first took to water. She was completed and delivered in 1912. Last, Cunard is pronounced coo-nard in the UK and by the company, often q-nard in the US, but never cunnard. I don’t mean to be corrective or rude, I’m just a big nerd :) I love your videos!
@lehighguy2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic and thorough overview, but just one very small nit: Titanic did actually launch on May 31, 1911. It was her maiden voyage that didn't happen until 1912, on April 10.
@linkwannabe7 ай бұрын
I'm really looking forward to my voyage on the Titanic! It's already pretty expensive, though, so I don't think I'll worry about getting the traveling insurance.
@alexander12842 жыл бұрын
Suddenly realized that your dress and headdress are similar to Rose's! They are beautiful : )
@JesReally2 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing how much of this has carried over to modern day cruise ships, I woulda expected them to be more different but a lot of it is similar
@athag12 жыл бұрын
Umm… if I time-travelled to 1912, taking a trip on the Titanic would not be on my agenda… Superb as it looks.