America had a guy on one of their gameshows that witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

All that white privilege, 🙄

There was no white privilege for the majority of the population who lived to their dieing day in fear of the workhouse. Living conditions were unimaginable for the poor, urban and rural. Starvation was real and common. If you think that history is portrayed in costume dramas and social media then you might be able to throw 'white privilege' around, but if you actually read accounts of those lucky poor white people you might gain a little deeper understanding about how class and social privilege is the root of all evil, not skin colour.

It's quite hard to understand how british empire colonised so many countries and brought/looted so much wealth from these other countries but still their own people suffered in poverty.

I know. Its so sad

It is sad.

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 i agree.

it will continue to change forever and ever….best get used to it rather than fight against the inevitable

The interesting thing is that you never hear people of this time being either sentimental about the past or negative about the future. The Victorian culture was full of enthusiasm. A time of discovery, travel and invention as well as great social change. and although there were some terrible faces to that people could see great changes taking place and instead of being fearful they were hopeful for the future. Now, maybe we've gone further than most people need or even want and we understand that the world isn't just a resource for us to plunder.

Aldershot, yes! The officers. 'we knew what they were'

Yes, those lucky privileged white girls! Prostitution was huge in Victorian times because wages for the poor were not enough to keep a person fed, especially women. Shop girls were notorious for obliging extras in the back of the shop. Rural girls & their parents were duped with offers of apprenticeship to leave their homes and travel to the cities to find that they were kept imprisoned in brothels. And to this day, wherever there are large numbers of men in barracks, poor women will gather to a ready market! Even though my small rural town has not housed soldiers for over 200 years, there are well recorded accounts of the women at the other end of town, which was a collection of shacks and hovels by the river (so also prone to flooding) who would donate white apron as a code for 'being available '! The workhouse was such a feared institution that most people would rather do anything, including selling themselves as indentured labour,than being taken into one.

Yeah, it was mad how much sexual abuse went on back then, even my grandmother who was born in the early 1920s was always saying "oh yes, he was well known for interfering with children so we weren't allowed in his shop unsupervised" etc

gtfo with your BS. She was 82 years old in this video, and the video is from 1972. She would have been 132 y/o in 2022.

The good old days of malnutrition, poverty, disease and racism ❤

@@itsweb1584 You had to bring racism into it didn't you.

It's an English film, not American.

lol ok julie

@@itsweb1584 yawn could not resist could you!! There was no need to be racist as unlike the BBC who will try and gaslight us all into believing all the bullshoot lies we the working class were the ones put upon and taken advantage off!! If you looked a little further than the colour of someone’s skin you could learn a lesson or two!!

There are videos on KZfaq filmed in the late 1920s of elderly people being interviewed about their youth and some civil war veterans

@people had it much harder living than today, to much instant everything, machine does so much today, and just being poor was harder.

I don’t think you have a clue what could be in store for us,especially when you think different parties are different from each other and not just different cheeks of the sam arse.

Same*

@@michellebooth327 This is the common response of someone who kind of realises, but won't fully admit they backed the wrong horse: THEERE ALLL THE SAAAME. lazy thinking 😏

A lot of places already feel like they are. Just that now we have cocktails of drugs to add to the misery. Although such choice Victorian careers as mudlark,'pure' collectors (dog mess, for the tanning trade) tanners(who rub 'pure' into hides),bone grubbers&sewer hunters have not yet made a comeback!

@@michellebooth327 True all WEF puppets!!

Pretty sure she’s brown bread

I’m guessing you’re not a woman, or non-white lol. Or if you are then you’re just incredibly naïve.

Really? overcrowding of cities, the exploitation of women and children (because they work more and cost less), the building of Workhouses and the growth of slums. Disease and early death were common for both rich and poor people.

Dental care was likely non-existent for most people then.

True, but they sure did live long lives . It's rare to see people living past there 70's and 80's

Riiiiiight

Silly child.

Definitely not a boomer. Learn to speak facts before you speak next time princess. 👸🏼

Bugger off, Yank.

The joke went over their heads

🤣 clueless.

Piss off with your reparations & greed.

😳😳😳 well that gave me a good laugh 😂 you need to look at history and check out what was happening in Africa before white man stepped a toe there!! No worries though you don’t have to Thank us all for the billions spent on ending slavery!! Take it as a freebie!! Most of you do anyway.