What Was Life Like In The Victorian Social Class System? | Secrets of Britain

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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@suzannestauffer7761 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Itsnotatuba 7 ай бұрын

Wow, incredible story. how old are you if your grandmother was born in 1888?

@suzannestauffer7761 7 ай бұрын

I'm 63, my mother was born in 1926 and I was born in 1960.

@lavenderflowersfall280 6 ай бұрын

Incredible.

@jimmylowe 10 ай бұрын

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.

@TomoMomoDomo 10 ай бұрын

thanks for the heads up You saved me from wasting 2 hours. Mad respects dude. O7

@thebelissima64 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, I appreciate your tip. So I will be enjoying several videos at once as I watch this 🙂 Warm greetings from Canada 🇨🇦

@bryan__m 3 ай бұрын

Yeah it's fine if you hadn't seen the others, but I wish they would make it more clear.

@jetsons101 10 ай бұрын

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.

@ellianadailey 10 ай бұрын

I've been looking for some models! where do you get yours and do you have any brand recommendations?

@elenaderoet4926 7 ай бұрын

I have these videos on in the background when I clean. This one had me stopping too

@jetsons101 7 ай бұрын

It is a pretty good channel.....@@elenaderoet4926

@haileyespinosa8400 10 ай бұрын

I wish your KZfaq titles better lined up with what’s showed in the video 😅

@rhvreugde 6 ай бұрын

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.

@pumirya 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for another entertaining and informative video and keep up the good work.

@rustynails8756 10 ай бұрын

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.

@kaitlyn4845 10 ай бұрын

agreed.😊

@linatang7037 10 ай бұрын

And half of us history is terrible and very racist that's why

@rustynails8756 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@debbylou5729 10 ай бұрын

They also don’t have our resources or any room to grow. They don’t have much choice

@debbylou5729 10 ай бұрын

@@linatang7037😃😃😄😄🤣🤣😂😂 are you 13 and without books?

@joeyhoney1 9 ай бұрын

Wow! What an absolutely amazing adventure you experienced. Thank you so much for sharing with us. I was so relieved to see a new post from you- I was hoping all was well with you and your family! What a wonderful gift for you! Warm wishes from 🇨🇦Calgary, Alberta🇨🇦

@manusha1349 10 ай бұрын

Love it! Please consider doing a video on the fascinating Mitford sisters. Tx

@jillybean2681 10 ай бұрын

Wow I’ve enjoyed every part of this story 🌹

@user-ln4zr4pz4f 9 ай бұрын

The Steam and Power show in backwater Wisconsin (USA) has always been a pleasure. Giant horses included especially.

@mikkelnpetersen 7 ай бұрын

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.

@lavenderflowersfall280 6 ай бұрын

Your history is amazing

@mimiSF 10 ай бұрын

sounds interesting. 😮

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 10 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@alektothefury2680 9 ай бұрын

49:30 Did a double take when the gentleman in the middle looked like Sir Anthony Hopkins.

@susanhayirli8474 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful greenhouse and if you put a gutter on you could collect rainwater to water your veggies

@samy2441 8 ай бұрын

Looks similar to the Peeky blinders set

@GerbenDavid 10 ай бұрын

AI thumbnail?

@vickyabramowitz2885 10 ай бұрын

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.

@digitalartsi 10 ай бұрын

Is that preview image for this video done with AI?

@MrKevb1540 8 ай бұрын

Any poppies or trilliums in the garden? Trilliums are the provincial flower of Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

@amys2650 10 ай бұрын

I think this is a rerun

@brittnyy113 3 ай бұрын

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

@stavrosgazis5824 9 ай бұрын

And yet some complain that there was only one type of slavery

@BuzzinVideography 9 ай бұрын

Our Irish were slaves for millenia

@Ricciroc 7 ай бұрын

Who?

@rajeshnvijo-dj7dk 10 ай бұрын

Nice 😊💋💕

@Poopie_buttholelickeresquirejr 10 ай бұрын

Can’t wait to watch ❤

@tonymorris4335 10 ай бұрын

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.

@Shineon83 7 ай бұрын

….I don’t think you quite understand Bateman’s intentions…

@nancyM1313 10 ай бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

@donnyboon2896 10 ай бұрын

Yes

@jean6872 10 ай бұрын

*_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._*

@rrice1705 9 ай бұрын

And I suppose you have just the solution for this

@jean6872 9 ай бұрын

@@rrice1705 A good dose of socialism would do the trick. The English ruling class would never go for it.

@fuckugplus 7 ай бұрын

Thank god for labour laws

@jacobkuykendall9325 10 ай бұрын

Pete Pete and repeat

@rhondawhite5202 9 ай бұрын

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.

@debbylou5729 10 ай бұрын

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

@hidiyakikliuka2792 8 ай бұрын

Guys if you dont like to loose your jobs. Defer AI 😂❤

@NineteenEighty-Four 10 ай бұрын

Not quite satisfied at the top, and you'll own nothing and be happy at the bottom.

@harveypost1841 7 ай бұрын

Havs and hav nots ,simple

@MoniqueAO888 10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately all those lovely estates had been erected on the blood of the exploited population...

@rrice1705 9 ай бұрын

Yes, but hopefully, as long as their stories are told, they will not be forgotten.

@greywater3186 10 ай бұрын

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.

@Fribee83 10 ай бұрын

Sad that a channel all about humanity is using AI images. You're on the wrong side of history with this one.

@hunnypie1873 9 ай бұрын

💯

@Pawelec801 8 ай бұрын

Sad people who expect free content cant understand creator right to cut cost if it does not decrease quality.

@IQTech61 7 ай бұрын

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.