How People In The Victorian Era Spent Their Free Time

In a time before smartphones, social media, and binge-watching, the Victorians were remarkably creative in finding ways to spend their free time.
A culture obsessed with the afterlife, the Victorians would spend the day enjoying a meal next to a grave and then the evening trying to contact a lost loved one. Fascinated by the teachings of Charles Darwin and the scientific revolution, they paid fortunes to collect rare plants and witness medical anomalies firsthand. Even expired animals could be grouped into entertaining tableaux for audiences to wonder at.
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[@lavenderlylin]

This is how I spend my free time, watching how other people spent their free time

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

*women did barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen back then* .

[@ddrew1973]

@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 wow...classy...

[@oieci9801]

Fair enough

[@JeffersonSteelflexx]

I spend my free time watching you 👀

[@aprilleerose]

Ironic isn’t it lol

[@DeathbyProxy]

That taxidermied cat playing the piano proves that humanity has never changed. These were what Victorians did for memes before you could photoshop a dog in human clothes.

[@nuggets0717]

🤣🤣🤣

[@thunderbird1921]

I see why the public (and Queen Victoria) laughed like idiots at those displays. It's so morbid and messed up...and yet it's hilarious!

[@ASHl33164]

Or watch keyboard cat on KZbin

[@yourmother3126]

The only thing that changed is that we now have a way to show it to lots of other people

[@seanraines5871]

@@yourmother3126 I agree. I'll read history or biography about something back then and I'll be like some things don't change

[@shart7660]

Year 2150: People in the 2020s usually spent their free time on KZbin watching videos.

[@mrnukes797]

2150 teacher: and in 2020 of you were alive you were condemned with dealing with the virus and paranoia of war but 2020s were the best year for what was essentially a TV show, literature, video game, and movie Renaissance as anniversaries for beloved franchises were celebrated left and right while critically acclaimed series came out like ridley scott's Raised by wolves anyways its time to learn about capitol hill

[@MicRuLerZ]

And there was also baking, lots and lots of baking 😕

[@steamgadget]

There were also these completely insane traditional practices called "hugging" and "holding hands". We know this based on the ancient manuscripts left over from the time before the great Zombie apocalypse.

[@gumpthompson5139]

Yes lots and lots of getting baked

[@racerhex5787]

True!

[@paranormallook8357]

"God dammit, Timmy, hold your dead sisters' hand and smile at the camera!" "Cheeeeese"

[@sebastiangaleano2041]

Milk flew out of my nose as I read this

[@jaeboogie2786]

Lmao how does this comment have so few likes?! That was epic funny.

[@anthonymcelravy6074]

)l

[@brendapowell4795]

Yes that was such a macabre thing to do!!! Have seen some of those photos in a museum. Cant believe they thought that was ok😬😱

[@angelaharris53]

The creepiest thing about those photos is that you can usually tell who's dead. They're the only one not blurry because they're the only one who can be perfectly still.

[@ihavenonamep]

The Victorians were such a weird bunch, I was always fascinated with the era.

[@elias7748]

So are we!

[@juliejanesmith57]

You’d be weird too, watching the “magic” of the industrial revolution unfold and haphazardly trickle into your world. Hell, we are all going to seem very weird to whatever comes after us as they see how we watched and participated in the information age trickling into our lives... eventually flooding it.

[@jesseleeward2359]

And oddly familiar

[@Garbeaux.]

I’ve always been more partial to the Edwardian era bc it was like the Victorian Era but much more carefree. Edward VII was only on the throne for like a decade but he modernized society. Although all monarchs technically have an era, it truly only applies to a few in popular culture and history. Like the Elizabethan era or the Georgian era. The latter is why George V and George VI’s era isn’t referred to as Georgian eras. It makes you think of a completely different time period.

[@melissawinn996]

Facts 😂

[@aaronhurst4379]

"They were definitely into some dark subject matter" This pretty much sums this entire video lol

[@jgallardo7344]

Exactly!! They did some dark ass hobbies. Grim vibe like the Addams Family and that is where Charles Addams got the inspiration....the eerie and depressing Victorian Architectural style of its time

[@lisaandothers]

To summarize the video: death, death, death, more death, death with guests from the other side, Instagram, flower emojis

[@neoasura]

I still picnic at the cemetary once a year to spend time with my grandparents. Nowadays I think people are too quick to forget their dead relatives and never visit their graves anymore like they used to.

[@julienielsen3746]

@@Dany_Stormborn Natural burial is becoming more popular. Look up "Ask a Mortician" on KZbin. She's fun to watch and interesting.

[@maidenminnesota1]

@@julienielsen3746 Yes, I like the idea of becoming fertilizer for a tree. Can't do that if you've been cremated. You're useless once you're ash. Nothing but phosphate dust.

[@thenifell]

@@maidenminnesota1 Ash has fair, good use.

[@stephanie1733]

Agreed

[@ruffridge02]

@@julienielsen3746 she's great!

[@eyesoneme_]

Cemetery Now: Death Victorian Era: 🥰Picnic🥰

[@iswearimnotafurry4953]

“I can’t believe Ethel is dead...I miss her so much... I don’t think I’ll ever recover...Oh, Mary, could you pass the salt?”

[@xx9522]

@@iswearimnotafurry4953 "Yeah, sure. Here you go." Anyways, I know how you feel, I lost my mother not so long ago- God! I spilled tea all over my dress!"

[@jgallardo7344]

I was reading about this for the Redeemer Cemetery and Baltimore Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland along the US-1 corridor. The Brehms Brewery was nearby and they had beer gardens. If you missed your loved ones, after burying them, get trashed.

[@iswearimnotafurry4953]

@@jgallardo7344 “well, ethel’s dead, lmaoooo lets go drink the pain away guys!”

[@themadhattress5008]

Picnics on battlefields were also common, particularly during the American Civil War. Granted it was largely only the middle or upper classes that enjoyed this pastime if I recall correctly.

[@priatalat]

And in the future during their free time, the people will look at how we spent our free time looking at what others did in their free time.

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

Social media like Facebook and Instagram

[@cjclark2002]

*mind blown*

[@Professionalbsdetector]

That’s deep

[@kristinadelfierro1320]

I KNOW Right 😂😂😂

[@thugzfunny6236]

Pria your smart and beautiful

[@mzgigglez1992]

The Victorian era was always so fascinating to me ....

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

It would of been for me also.

[@LifesPeachy321]

@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 LOL

[@justayoutuber1906]

Weird that the age of consent was 10 years old then. Kinda creepy.

[@mzgigglez1992]

@@justayoutuber1906 omg really ? That’s horrible

[@tetothehearthunter1072]

@@justayoutuber1906 I think it's because life expectancy is very short by that time so as young as 10 yrs old their child will have suitors/be engaged to someone yeah It's really creepy but at least that custom stopped by the time medicines and life expectancy improved.

[@pennyafterpenny]

as a huge true crime fan myself, it’s kinda fun seeing how a fascination with true crime in a way started with people flocking to morgues in the victorian era

[@Kevs442]

If there wouldn't be people whining about it, I'd bet people would buy tickets to go to a morgue or watch an autopsy.

[@cam4636]

@@Kevs442 Yeah, all those whiners who...don't want some rando screwing up a criminal investigation or looking at their loved one's naked body being dissected. So unfair.

[@seanraines5871]

@@Kevs442 first thing I thought was I wanna watch

[@punkrox1468]

Once I grew in the ocean, strong and could not be shook! I hope my life is not over, for at the moment I’m squashed flat in a book!!

[@Sadgalchlo]

I looked through the comments for like 10 mins for a seaweed poem Tysm

[@Meowmeowmeow564]

Amazing, thank you!!

[@naomigerner4905]

Haha same

[@orangehoof]

The spiritualists were called "mediums" because it was rare when they were well done.

[@jessicurry2010]

@Bob Hulsey that's funny!

[@donnadanielsen9411]

Hahahaha

[@notmewtwo4044]

More like raw and still bleeding.

[@burquebandit7169]

We need to get out of the house immediately, there's bloody rhododendrons at our door!

[@makutas-v261]

NO MORE TURKISH BREAD

[@kristinadelfierro1320]

ROFL 😂 I KNOW Right?!?!🐰🐰🐰🐰😁😂

[@hahahahahaha672]

I'm the 69th like

[@resiliencewithin]

Thanks!

[@seeraeubear]

@@resiliencewithin In Theodore Fontanes Novel "Effi Briest", rhododendrons are foreshadowing her death

[@peppeppig5467]

Me after finding out Victorians didn't just have tea parties and dinners during their free time 👁👄👁

[@duolingoowl8207]

*that’s what they wanted you to think!*

[@jesseleeward2359]

Can't get over that Diatom arrangement. That blew my mind. Why didn't anyone tell me?

[@pennydaytreasures8173]

Swaying blissfully in the sea Mermaids, seahorses swim around thee Elegance weaved like a wayward breeze Until thy human plucked up me Stuck my graceful motion to and fro In thy scrapbook for all to know Now I lie here, I no longer grow But thy colors will gently flow Off thy pages forever on show... Be it the year 1901 or the far off date of 2021 The sea holds beauty second to none Her dance of time goes on undone Which is why thy loveliness has been forever spun For you to turn thy pages one... by.... one...

[@anamariaramirez9341]

That's beautiful! ❤️

[@rebeccacline5669]

That is too good for just the comment section of a KZbin video. You are very talented

[@notmewtwo4044]

Great job 😊

[@pennydaytreasures8173]

@@rebeccacline5669 awe thanks 😊 I wanted to be a writer when I was in high school. Funny how life takes you in a different direction.

[@marielledelaine]

I didn’t get it but then I watched the whole video

[@jensgronning4436]

I’m pretty sure the modern interpretation of the word boredom came to prominence in Victorian Britain. As industrialization started to give people more free time, as opposed to spending all day just trying to survive.

[@thenifell]

Yeah, about that... Victorian industrialization gave the people plenty of it's own struggle to keep survival on it's toes.

[@ultraboombean]

We work more than they did during medieval times lol...shat is a myth

[@colmastro4373]

In Australia we don't have "church cemeteries" most of ours here are all huge and beautifully designed with park/picnic areas, toilet blocks, palms, water features etc. You're even encouraged to bring your dogs. Death isn't as morbid or taboo here, we're not religious like other countries, we celebrate death through life. Becides burying a loved one is hard enough as it is. Eating lunch then walking and calming your mind through the scenery at a cemetary here helps you understand death is normal and makes you appreciate your own life more.

[@liaf525]

This is nice.

[@mekhane.broken9678]

Ours are just a bunch of tomb stones arranged in rows just on the edge of town. The cemetery itself may not be pretty but the tombstones are extravagant.

[@cam4636]

Yeah, I thought that was weird. Most modern cemeteries in the US are the "park" version with open space and occasionally somewhere to rest, and eating lunch there wouldn't be a big deal so much as making sure you don't leave trash behind. Not even mentioning the cultural differences between the "spooky dead people, ghosts & zombies!" view of cemeteries and people who consider it respectful to visit with your dead relatives and keep their graves tended...

[@Ami-jc2oo]

That's wonderful!!!

[@araasis3239]

Roses are red Seaweed is green Weird History is the best KZbin channel on screen.

[@iamaghost125]

Roses are red Steak needs thyme I suck at Making things rhyme

[@WhuDhat]

_Here Here!_

[@jeffgrey663]

1800s lifestyle has always fascinated me. It was such a wild century

[@jessicabadrak1757]

I wish cemeteries were still as beautiful as they used to be. I would picnic in a cemetery.

[@piss-n-vinegar8457]

Too bad they didn’t realize that they were being poisoned by their wallpaper 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@ddrew1973]

Food, water, medicine and pretty much everything else...

[@mopeyraccooninc]

@@Jess-737 They have asbestos which is harmful

[@eartherinfire]

@@mopeyraccooninc *some do.

[@thunderbird1921]

@@ddrew1973 Back in the 1800s, Opium and Cocaine were considered very prestigious and pleasant experiences, few realized the dangers. Even Queen Victoria herself greatly enjoyed opium-spiked alcohol, she said it gave her a wonderful energetic feeling. I'm just wondering what happened at the dinner parties, were people getting sky high and laughing like maniacs till they passed out? Kinda scary.

[@TalairanPerigord]

Don't forget the green dye in their clothing was toxic.

[@hawaiianboii5255]

Is it just me or does everyone get excited when you see a new vid from Weird history? 😃

[@jasonhainline]

YES!

[@mikewilson3774]

For sure! Weird History has great content with even greater narration!

[@ryanebigelow]

It’s History Channel 2.0, without the reality TV!

[@SquishyZoran]

I do!

[@Shinzon23]

Yes. Because weird shit is always interesting

[@viktoriak4332]

To be honest i find it endearing how much time and effort the victorians put into being with and remembering their dead loved ones.

[@TheOnlyRealGamerOnEarth]

Me: "man I wish I lived in the Victorian era" Weird History: "no the fuck you don't kiddo"

[@mzgigglez1992]

😂😂😂😂

[@jeremiahkivi4256]

Edwardian Era was better.

[@pollypocket3508]

The past was the worst.

[@carolmorris404]

I always recall my, long deceased dad's joke. A couple's two dogs passed soon after each. Being devistated they wished to retain the physical reminder of their beloved dogs... So took them to a taxidermist. The taxidermist asked them, do you wish to have them stuffed and mounted? Their response.. Just holding hands will be fine 😂😂😂

[@bvagasky83]

"Back in the Bidenian Era, people sat around watching videos on the Internet, which was something people used to connect to each other before NeuroLink"

[@justayoutuber1906]

People when not working 6 days a week, drank, practiced music, did personal chores like cooking and laundry (with a washboard), went to church on that one day off.

[@mikitz]

Opium used to be a thing back then as well.

[@themadhattress5008]

@@mikitz Still is. It's even synthesized in a lot of pharmaceuticals (albeit in often far less addictive and harmful ways).

[@barondarc8459]

We still do picnics in cemeteries here in Ph, well before the pandemic atleast. Instead of Trick or Treat, we spend halloween at cemeteries remembering our loved ones

[@oceanheartz717]

I think its the same with some latin american countries as well, having picnics at cemeteries during all soul's day or all saint's day

[@keithprice4711]

@@oceanheartz717 Yeah Día de los Muertos in Mexico anyway

[@jessicurry2010]

Please help...where is "Ph"? What is that short for?? I feel ignorant as hell. I'm sorry

[@keithprice4711]

@Erwin Mapa I was going to guess Philadelphia PA 😂

[@keithprice4711]

@Erwin Mapa yeah lol but I think your guess of the Philippines is more likely to be correct

[@mikebahrami]

0:51 Mexicans and Filipinos be like: "Picnics in cemeteries? Been there, done that." #DiadelosMuertos

[@okletmesignup]

muertos*

[@Ms.Emerald]

So true HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA I don't remember celebrating Halloween wearing costumes in the Philippines. Instead we start visiting cementeries mid October.

[@jordan12374]

This isn’t about Mexicans or Filipinos

[@thenifell]

Don't they also dig up the dead, dress them in some new clothes and party with the corpses? Pretty sure that's unsanitary... And insane.

[@SiPakRubah]

@@thenifell I think that's a tribe from Indonesia who did that.

[@jeffk7881]

Lament of a Scrapbooked Kelp Drifting, wafting, a tangle in the sea An undiscovered forest, Stretching for several leagues And I, a strand Of Lady Ocean’s mane Pray tell me Scrapbooker, Will I ever swim again?

[@mareerosebakeshoppe9667]

I picnicked at a cemetery in Portland, Oregon all the time when I lived there,and it was gorgeous! I loved it!

[@eartherinfire]

Lone Fir? 🖤

[@HailSatanOurLordAndSavior]

Hi there! In from Portland or too! I got to lone fir cemetery all the time. You'll usually see me writing and sipping wine 🍷

[@zulimi]

I am curious of the history of nail care. What people groomed with before nail clippers. Could be part of a ancient grooming episode.

[@tinoderyanto7668]

Teeth

[@conclavecabal.h0rriphic]

I’ve seen some pretty ancient nail files...glass ones too ✨

[@AnnettaDarandri]

Right. Did they all have hard clawlike nails or 🤔

[@bertlen02]

Pocket knife

[@convoyconvoyconvoy]

scissors

[@notmychairnotmyproblem]

The Victorians were such fascinating people. I love learning more about this era.

[@Paul-ou1rx]

Whenever I hear about people of days gone by who were into odd or stage things, it makes them more real to me. It is also why I appreciate the original Twilight Zone episodes. The idea of them being fanciful really fleshes them out for me.

[@ThatOddChickenHippie]

I hang out in cemeteries all the time, which is weird because I used to be TERRIFIED of them. Now I see them as peaceful places to go for a walk and bird watch. If I have a little extra cash, I'll stop at a dollar store and pick up some small toys, plastic flowers, or flower seeds and bring them with me. I leave the flowers or scatter the seeds on Graves that are too old to realistically have anyone coming to visit them anymore, and I'll leave the toys on kids' graves.

[@gojrich9586]

ah yes... death is such a good fad and source of entertainment for humans

[@GroundersSourceOfficial]

Taking photos of the dead may seem rather grotesque, but it had a beautiful meaning. Not a lot of families had family photos and they wanted to remember their child or loved ones the way they were. I have some photos of my ancestors in such poses and I always wondered what they would've been as adults. My only nit pick or curiosity abut them is how did the parents remain composed through that? My own mother would have gone to the deepest end of mentality.

[@kariannecrysler640]

My mother took us picnicking in cemeteries in the 1980’s. Guess she was a hundred year’s behind the times. And I thought her dancing to the “tootsie roll “ song in traffic was the most out of date thing she did. I still love 💕 my crazy sweet lady mam!♥️

[@zach7193]

The Victorians were something else.

[@MsKeroseneLamp]

Seaweed grows under the waves, Algae floats on the tides, In this troubling times, you still split my sides.

[@bellevanilla]

2:39 "Queen Victoria Former Queen" 😂😂

[@julienielsen3746]

Makes me wonder what was going on in the churches during the Victorian era that they focused so much on their dead.

[@notsureiL]

Fire and brimstone preaching.

[@speedwagoncito]

This is going to be a long read, but I think they focused so much on death due to the fact that the mortality rates were high, even for the upper classes. Consider that a lot of the things they used in their everyday were toxic, the water was polluted to the point where it was safer to drink beer than water, cholera was kinda common, they smoked a lot and sometimes consumed drugs and other substances that we now know are dangerous like they were candies, people −usually women, due to the dresses they wore− were prone of suffering serious accidents (such as falling down the usually long stairs at home). Even the bread was unsafe to eat sometimes, not to mention that freezers didn't exist until the late 19th century, so food was prone to go bad quite easily. Medicine was also nowhere near to where it is nowadays and surgeries plenty of times ended in tragedy as hygiene literally did not exist within the context of a surgery (the surgeons −some of which were actually barbers− would never wash their hands, neither the ever washed their bloodied aprons, for example), there were no anesthetics (you got chloroform used on you if you were lucky), hot irons were used to stop profuse bleedings, and limbs −arms, legs− were usually amputated if you happened to break them, so the chances of getting an (at the time) incurable infection in any of these instances were pretty high, which is also one of the reasons many women died during childbirth or due to childbirth complications. Not to mention that the poor had it even worse, as malnutrition and starvation (plus long work days in sometimes extremely horrible work conditions, and this includes child labor) were common. So, literally, they were surrounded by death everyday, hence why they focused so much on it and were even fascinated with it to some extent.

[@julienielsen3746]

@@speedwagoncito Very true. But, I was wondering what was going on in the church, that is supposed to be preaching life and not death. Guess it depended some on which denomination.

[@speedwagoncito]

@@julienielsen3746 It could be, but it's probably because death itself plays a big part in the church's beliefs, since catholicism (the main religion in England at the time) believes in the afterlife, which is basically eternal life. To gain access to it, one must die first, so it kinda ties to the whole obsession with death, I'm guessing. Death itself is not precisely seen as something bad by this religion or by religions with similar beliefs on this regard, as it is part of the process and a step that's necessary to transcend to the afterlife and be in God's presence. Not sure if that might answer your question?

[@julienielsen3746]

@@speedwagoncito If they believed in the Bible which is God’s Word, it speaks of life which is of God and not death which is of satan. Giving into satan and focusing on death instead of life would not be what God’s Word tells us. It wouldn’t be on focusing on death, but to live thorough Jesus in this life, and when we leave this earth. Not to focus on death or going to Heaven while in this life.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Considering they were being poisoned by their own clothing and wallpaper, it's no surprise death was all around them.

[@christopherwalken5065]

Imagine being in the Victorian Era, and trying to bang so you gotta unbutton your jacket with like 5,000 buttons, only to get Cochise that hasn’t been washed since last weeks river bath.

[@Nmdixon-cu7vm]

I personally think your comment needs more cowbell.

[@grim6726]

@@Nmdixon-cu7vm I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell

[@Nmdixon-cu7vm]

@@grim6726 haha yup. You got it.

[@feliz1443]

Cochise omg

[@Tinyfurball]

And you think men cleaned their junk any more than women did?

[@Laura-Yu]

I sorta think the communicating with flowers is charming

[@meme0218]

correction *how rich victorians spent their free time*

[@backwardsbandit8094]

What did poor victorians do?

[@el-ju4uv]

@@backwardsbandit8094 work

[@lisaandothers]

So, not only were the Victorians the OG goths and emos, but also they were the OG instagramers and tiktokers. Edit: Also, are we going to ignore that we have taken the Victorian language of flowers and created this era's language of emojis? (I am still trying to figure out which heart color means what 😂💙)

[@Tinyfurball]

That's the reason why, Goths today have a Victorian Goth type.

[@zeusathena26]

My grandmother started doing this every year when her husband passed. This was the 1960's-70's. They stopped when her youngest had grown up. No one else wanted to picnic at a cemetery.

[@jakekellenvercauteren8732]

“..and not the spirit of dead hip hop artists dropping rhymes”

[@thebestcentaur]

Way to get my hopes up, WH😩

[@rockoorbe2002]

Just say Biggie Smalls three times in front of a mirror

[@BeeWhistler]

I was thinking that was how they contacted Alexander Hamilton.

[@Gurinder828]

I laughed too hard at that joke

[@BygoneChina]

Victorians also had the strange and slightly disturbing habit of taking family photos with the corpses of their recently deceased relatives.

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

victorians be weird yo

[@tomhappening]

@@DyslexicMitochondria Hi bro! I watch your videos. Love ur channel

[@ninogaggi]

2:47 I’m sure is an example

[@KetchupPankaka]

Nice

[@Corpsegrinderr]

that's covered in the video

[@manuelmetallica]

Museum.... “open to the public” !! This guy is killing me 😂

[@Alex_Bert_]

They always spent time in the factory. Working on the factory, sleeping in the factory, playing in the factory, screwing in the factory, everything!

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

hahaha

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

Interesting times.

[@Marcus51090]

Speaking of the thumbnail..... the best best best seance scene in ANY period drama/horror etc..... is the one in penny dreadful KZbin “Seance penny dreadful” its incredible. (Also I think it’s set in the Victorian era)

[@Lizablue0608]

♥️ Vanessa! 😁 That’s a fantastic series. 👍🏼

[@archangel5627]

The original Penny Dreadful series with Eva Green was fantastic. The show definitely had some crazy and super creepy moments especially the seance scene.

[@lindacoolbaugh962]

Loved, Loved Penny Dreadful!!

[@christopherrhodes3228]

I am the ocean's humble grass, Yet people find me intriguing, alas; I display in hues of red and green, A lush visage in the aquatic scene; I'm known amongst the poor and nobility, And even acquainted to royalty; I hope these words are a fine selection, That they highlight this comment section. ~Me

[@Laura-Yu]

Bit cringe to credit yourself in your own post

[@christopherrhodes3228]

@@Laura-Yu and?

[@aimzzz9382]

Love it !!

[@bettywiendels5714]

Very interesting! If I lived in Victorian times, I likely would read the books 📚, do embroidery 🧵, hike in the woods, ride a bike, swim, draw, colour or paint the pictures and travel 🧳. There obviously was plenty of entertainment in the 19th century and earlier times.

[@jackschitt7783]

This is an awesome subject to share! Please do more covering more era's to share how life as we know it has changed. It changes pretty drastically every 10 to 20 years.

[@Nic-vf7hi]

There’s a cemetery in Buffalo called Forest Lawn. And it’s beautiful! It has many famous people buried there from past and present. Like President Fillmore and Rick James. Actually even a Prince and Princess are there too. Anywho, it looks the way it does because people would picnic there in the Victorian Era. But people in Buffalo still love it so much that there are trolley reenactment tours, walking reenactment tours, a gift shop, and regular visitors during the summer months.

[@diegoflores9237]

Victorian only refers to Britain not to the USA. We have our own names for historical periods. We have antebellum, reconstruction, gilded age etc etc etc

[@MrReganomics1]

4:27 a random Cedar Pointe reference makes my heart happy

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Soft background music with a sarcastic narrator 👍🏼👌💯😍

[@thepapistyourmotherwarnedy752]

There’s a cemetery in my hometown that’s got flowers, a duck pond and a walking path that families usually walk around with kids, not everyone sees cemeteries as creepy, I actually played hide and go seek behind gravestones when my family went to visit relatives’ graves and the Frankfort Cemetery actually has a beautiful view of the holler the capital is in

[@oziozzioslo2503]

The funny thing is that to this day from growing up with it, my mom and I have picnics in cemeteries. It's so incredibly peaceful.

[@christinafraser6671]

Diatom art is probably the coolest thing I've learned about recently. And I LOVE Victorian flower messages and meanings.

[@Waihz]

When im on my death bed I wanna hear this guy voice

[@somebody8633]

My favourite era😌 I love your channel keep it up❤️

[@benjamindover2601]

They felt the death of loved ones just as much as we do, I think many of the methods they used to preserve the memory of loves ones were quite touching.

[@LadyDelSangue87]

ok the scrapbooking seaweed thing and the microscopic art is ridiculously cool to me as an artsy person lol. We need to bring the microscopic art thing back like right now that was cool as hell!

[@mamamogreen4663]

Having a picnic in the cemetery is our tradition here in the philippines every November 1st and 2nd. It's common here

[@kathygordon7690]

I always enjoy hear about the past and the everyday things we take for granted . My favorite time in history was the reason 20's .There was so much going on . I also love to hear stories about the Titanic and the Bordon family . That was pretty crazy 😧

[@whotfstolemyusernamewhtalo5949]

Bruh I love the Victorian era

[@nindialiceputri8636]

Yeahh same~

[@piss-n-vinegar8457]

Me too, even down to the arsenic wallpaper 🤣👍

[@SimpleCodyAcc]

must of been nice to learn the violen and piano lmao or may i say rap or rock

[@DIOsNotDead]

ah yes, i do love to live in an era of with worse sexism and racism, rampant class discrimination, bad conservatism, poor health, extreme labor, terrible hygiene, ugly royalty drama, and bizarre health practices

[@piss-n-vinegar8457]

@@DIOsNotDead fun times, huh

[@ASHl33164]

7:06 “phantom rappings,” not dead hip hop stars dropping rhymes, lmfao that really got me 😂🤣😂🤣👍🏼

[@ROBOTPETER101]

Sending someone flowers to warn of impending danger sounds like something only a person about to deliver impending danger would do.

[@karenking3574]

I really enjoy these videos about the Victorian Era...even though I feel that it would've been a most horrendous time to be living, unless you were wealthy. Scares me to think that it wasn't so long ago in terms of history.

[@StoryMemories86]

So a couple of thoughts here. I know they may sound antiquated now, but I do so enjoy some of these still! In Southern California we are blessed with a chain of cemeteries that have beautiful sprawling landscapes that are perfect for picnicking or enjoying a day walking the grounds. Forest Lawn is such an icon! I also really love taxidermy style. At the Los Angeles natural history Museum there’s a beautiful display of antique taxidermy wildlife. The Los Angeles zoo is also fun to see. And speaking of taxidermy and entertainment, an early stop motion film was created using dead bugs in anthropomorphic scenarios. And who doesn’t like a good séance? How else am I supposed to communicate with my favorite celebrity? They dead.

[@elizabethshaw734]

The Victorian era was an explosion of interest in new things.

[@chaincarillo3155]

A seaweed indeed A seaweed in need of a seaweedette -But the ocean keeps hurling & tossing & turning me away from my oh dear Antoinette -So I sent her red roses but Poseidon imposes - for not all roses are red but I'm very blue -Now I'm stuck in the friendzone How about you?

[@dormir9772]

I literally thought about this topic A LOT. I wouldn’t mind watching this about every era there is

[@seekertosecrets]

0:48 Wait... WHAT?! 1:28 Okay... as odd as that sounds, I get it now. 10:30 Imagine you sending your would be lover a rose, and she sends you back straw... Oooof! I'm actually surprised that plays didn't make the list!

[@cworthy443]

I love the Victorian era! Please put out anything and everything you can from it 😍😍😍😍

[@kimtodd1803]

Since I have been watching weird history videos now I love it! I am 45. I can understand history can be boring for some kids and teens. But if we had weird history back in 80-90s it would been vest way of learning. If I was a teacher especially middle school and high school I would have this in classroom. Cause it keeps your interest. Thank you so much weird history

[@LeprinhaGul]

Year 2500 "In the early 2000s people used to spend their free time watching how other people in the past spent their free time"

[@crystalnicole6577]

My favorite time period (beside the tudor times)

[@archangel5627]

I totally agree. The Victorian Era was definitely a very interesting and entertaining time period. Theres just so many fascinating aspects to Victorian culture. I also really enjoy the work that Suzannah Lipscomb has done. She has some very interesting documentaries on KZbin as well.

[@Laura-Yu]

@@archangel5627 Susannah Lipscomb, good taste

[@crystalnicole6577]

@@archangel5627 I adore Suzannah! Coincidentally, I just started watching her documentary about witches on Netflix just this morning!

[@archangel5627]

@@crystalnicole6577 It’s funny you should mention that because I just started watching that documentary too and it’s really good. Suzannah Lipscomb never disappoints no matter what subject or era she’s covering.

[@crystalnicole6577]

@@archangel5627 agreed 😍

[@sinsupawong9282]

For Chinese people, family picnic in cemetary is very common even nowadays. It's called "Qingming Festival" where all family members will meet up at ancester's grave once a year, clean and decorate the tombstone, then bring out food to eat together like a small party. Pretty much like Christmas, but in the cemetary, so the dead loved ones can still forever be part of the family gathering.

[@GeneralRobertELee-vu5ii]

I sway endlessly in the breeze of the pond Seeing all that passes through From a fleeing fish To the great stars above But only brought up when the catch gets away

[@ynabei8647]

“Cemeteries are quiet, somber and creepy” Filipinos celebrating all souls/saints day at the cemetery: 👁👄👁 Picnic is an understatement. It’s a wholeass feast at the cemetery in the Philippines lol

[@haze300]

Yeah.

[@TheLastProzacNation]

Same in Romania and Moldova. We celebrate a “second easter” called the “easter of the gentle/kind hearted-ones”. The gentle/kind hearted-ones are the dead relatives, who in popular folklore were believed to help the living. We celebrate them in cemeteries with a whole feast and we give away - either to whoever attends the feast or to the poor, gift bags that contains bread,sweets,candles,and other stuff.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

*100 years from now* How people in the quarantine era spent their time...

[@judyshort38]

Back in the late 40s, at family gatherings, they would make a table "talk." We had a 3 legged round card table. The table legs curved and met in the middle. They would rub their hands on the table and hold them there and ask if the table was going to talk. If it was, and it always did, the table would raise up slightly on one leg, then back down. You could ask it a question in your mind if you wanted. You would just let everyone else at the table know that you wanted to ask a private question. The table would also do a shimmy and move across the floor. As a teenager, we also used to do this. It really works!

[@TheWeirdMusic]

Just wanted to let you know that this channel is amazing. You put your videos together so, so well! Editing is spot on, so are the jokes and you have a lovely narrative voice!

[@ooh7504]

CONGRATS ON 3 MIL

[@DJDoubleCee]

I’m surprised they didn’t bring up Joseph Merrick when they were discussing freak show acts. I heard he was a big name in the field as The Elephant Man.

[@walterfechter8080]

My grandmother used to frequent Highgate Cemetery in London. She enjoyed the quiet so she could read.

[@SunshineExperiment]

Such optimistic people! Gives you great joy to spend your free time in a cemetery, or having a group photo with some dead relatives, can't ask for more fun!

[@charleslol3613]

Once I was stuck to the ocean floor, but now I'm on a page. I hope my owner enjoys my appearance, otherwise my suffering will have been in vain.

[@brianziegelmeier5495]

Thank you for the great videos of history

[@AI-hx3fx]

Here in the Philippines photographs with the dead (and now videos on social media) were popular and called “Recuerdos de Patáy” (Spanish “Souvenirs of” + Tagalog “Dead”). I recall scanning old family albums dating to around the mid-20th century or earlier. Many of the sepia or black-and-white photos showed distant relations posing around a coffin prior to burial. The other reason for this was that funerals were, and still are, one of the rare occasions the entire clan is supposed to attend.

[@kellydeal72]

I love the Victorian scrapbooks and cemetery picnic’s.

[@sauceman2885]

It would be great if you could cover the prohibition era in America!

[@chava4809]

Diatom arrangements need to make a comeback noww🔬

[@themadhattress5008]

They never really went away. I wasn't aware the trend went so far back, but suffice it to say that making 'art' in petri dishes is still a thing, if only in niche circles.

[@joanreeseNYCartist]

Weird History is my favorite channel! Thank you

[@MovieGirl868]

Love walking through cemeteries