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People often romanticize the Victorian Era as a time of class, aesthetic, and wonder when in reality, you’re much better off in the 21st century than you could ever hope to be in the 1800s. From your water to your wallpaper, death lurked around every corner. Public health was such a problem that male tradesmen and laborers of the working class had life expectancies of 25 and 22 respectively. But no worries, if you do ever happen to find yourself in the unfortunate cesspool that is Victorian London, I’m here to teach you all the essentials you’ll need to know to survive!
Mike Dash’s article on Two Penny Hangovers: https://mikedashhistory.com/2021/05/19/the-twopenny-hangover/
NOTES:
My comment on corsets being dangerous wasn’t meant to be a blanket statement for all corset use. While certainly not always dangerous, when the practice was taken to the extremes (aka tight lacing), permanent ribcage and organ deformation could occur (which is the picture I showed in the video). There are skeletons in museums showing the results: https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/effects-of-the-corset/
I’ve also been getting a lot of comments on the life expectancies of 25 and 22 being misleading because it includes childhood mortality. It’s actually not misleading at all. All I did was a balance of probability. If you are older than the life expectancy of one group, then you would statistically be more likely to be dead at that point in time than you would for the other group with a higher life expectancy. It’s basic statistics. Infants are still a part of the equation and you have to account for them because if you were to roll the dice to see if you’d be alive at the age of 26 for example, infant mortalities would affect that outcome.
Also: Some people are mishearing my line at 6:18, I’m not saying mummies had brains, the line was, “oh my god, look, he’s got no brain, that’s crazy.”
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actually you forgot to mention that you would see much less steampunk than you expect to see
Essentially boils down to dont be poor
You are tooooooooo fast!!!
You must talk more slowly
To quote another youtuber: The past was literally the worst.
Ayyy yo the stellar jay wants ya
6:55yes ok
Hey, you were here in Dublin recently weren't you?
Ahhh ili boy got roasted there
Of course it’s an American who has no idea what they’re on about
Alex should try live long enough to join the British army and get a promotion
The one with the mummies is the weirdest one. But than you remember that you can litterally buy a dead body and just play with it in the US. John oliver did a segment on it. Look it up if you donate your body to science they can use it for anything most of those get blown up by the military and a lot are bought by orivate people and just torn apart.
Victorian era is very interesting, lemme born bri ish!
Pls do middle age
A Karen support network?
This is how I found your channel 👍
Any one else play rdr2 online and dress fancy and Victorian walk around Saint Denis
Sir im asian and have a weird accsent even lower chance of living
6:18 mummy’s don’t have brains as they are sucked out of the nose before mummification!
oof that vaccine joke has not aged well.