Pictures from 1800s England

[@tinatina1104]

The hardship shows in the childrens faces

[@melindac3368]

Yet there's a picture of Queen Victoria in all of her splendor, sorry to say a most unattractive female.

[@reubenmarchant2229]

They would have been stylish today.

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

To think those men,women and children are not alive today, just their images remain to remind us that they actually existed. Makes you realise how important photos are, and how far the working class has come.

[@Violet_Odorata]

And to think that generations to come will have access to videos of our time when we will no longer alive. 😳

[@davidoram6731]

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[@biacampbell676]

Unfortunately the working class is regressing into the misery of the past! The gaps between rich and poor are widening the savage capitalism system is out of control and the working class is being thrown into poverty and destitution like before. Sadly some of this is happening with the help of the same struggling poor people who believe in the lies they are told and elected these crooks who only want to full their own pockets.

[@thomaslucas6079]

People are born to suffer and die. If that's not enough religion promises us a vengeful God who will torture us forever in the so called after life lol.

[@tabitha4135]

@@biacampbell676 Depends if us the working class want to work! My son is a scaffolder here in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 he’s on good money 💰 I am disabled and have benefit money and free health care system! We have come a long way!

[@christophersheward1960]

Some people had the fore sight to take some real pictures for us all to see today

[@muffassa6739]

The poor of the poor Bless them all

[@jamiew6438]

This is a fantastic upload . I just read Oliver Twist , the descriptions of Fagin scurrying through the alleys and streets at night , keeping close to the slimy mildewed walls really bought the grim side of this era to life .

[@billpeterson178]

The pictures of the children are sad, and haunting.

[@mshaw6836]

Women who had no birth control had to keep having more and more children, couldnt feed them or clothe them. What terrible hardship for these truly poor people.

[@lindayo49]

They shouldn't have had sex. Lol

[@kyliepechler]

@@lindayo49 Husbands were legally allowed to have sex with their wives whenever and as often as they pleased back then, whether their wives were willing participants or not.

[@lindayo49]

@@kyliepechler So it's men's fault

[@emilyb5278]

That's why abortion and birth control is essential. And women need to remind the Christians of the horrors those orphaned kids and locked up mums went through for 100s of years . As there was a flower that could induce unwanted cells forming. Which even at 12 weeks is the size of a finger nail

[@emilyb5278]

Yes in 1800 married women chose when to have sex , are you stupid. They were often raped by their husband. Grow up

[@melanienagy6389]

To think that's when we were known as the British Empire. But to see how we didn't take care of our own people, so sad.

[@shazkh7753]

Do you know what that entailed

[@shazkh7753]

Masses murder and killing of innocent people

[@progressionsessions99]

@@shazkh7753 mass murder an innocent people being killed have been going on from the beginning of humans , from all races an other countries have been taking part in it , it’s only because the English , Roman empires are the most recent we remember or know about

[@biacampbell676]

That’s what I meant! Britain controlled 25% of the world wealth, the elite lived a obscene luxury lifestyle, it’s enough watching the magnificent country houses the huge estates mostly built with money acquired throughout the empire but most of the population was living in abject poverty that’s indeed very sad, unfair and upsetting. It was so bad that after having observed the misery in which people were living in east London Karl Marx came up with the idea to write “The Capital” and the “Communist Manifesto”, something never written before! So was appalling conditions things of course have changed a bit but its still there, the elites still running the show still own most of the country like it was in feudal times only now they have to desguiasse it a bit more (not that much because some of us are aware of what they do 😉). Cheers

[@maricarmencalledemiguel7396]

I totally agree. Look at those small children, so sad.

[@bonsaipal]

Oh my, look at the poor little waifs at 8:13.....it tugs at my heart strings.~!

[@Sorrely1]

bonsaipal That is a truly heartbreaking picture. Beyond grim. The poor little souls.

[@DeinVatersVater]

What means waif? I'm not english

[@leethompson4817]

I find seeing history captured in a photograph so fascinating

[@Thomassonable]

Thank you for uploading these 19th century photographs. Every picture is an art work. It is a world nobody of us have ever known.

[@bertiodvonrastenburger1129]

Fantastic set of pictures of everyday people and everyday scenes, we have so much today and take it all for granted but seldom realise how lucky we are.

[@misantropique1488]

Pictures (and movies) like these, are absolutely important. It reminds that there are so less human and animal rights and most of the children who lived with poor families had not a good and safe life. Thank you so much (the music is really sensitive)

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

Oh yes, the "white privilege" the left likes to talk about so much , isn't it wonderful?

[@deecantola1923]

These children’s pictures made me so sad.

[@janetmcneice6246]

They did me too, those poor children 😮😮😮😢😢😢😢😢

[@judithkrongard4010]

The pictures of the children are just heartbreaking.

[@1tarawho]

Thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures!!! The background music really sets the mood, great choice regarding the background music!!!

[@paulbroderick8438]

A time when the sun never set on the British Empire or rose on the impoverished masses.

[@kirijones3778]

Tough life back then. The music playing makes even more grim. I wouldn't survive. Thanks for sharing.

[@kinakomono]

This was a very nice video, the music is really fitting for it. Victorian England was beautiful in its own way, but also very sad and hard for almost everyone

[@sunboy873]

What is the name of the song?

[@MichaelCook84]

Victoria times were great if you had money and wealth. They had a great life. If you were poor, times were really horrible.

[@judgeroybean6930]

I found the saddest 2 photos at 7.58 & 8.15, that doesn't mean I didn't feel for the others but these I found particularly heartbreaking thinking how hard it was for these kids and the poor animals too.

[@jaynekittycat9252]

I wouldn't think there was any

[@jaynekittycat9252]

I wouldn't think there was any vets in those days or animal protection societies. Very very hard life, both for Humans and Animals.😦

[@martingianelli7552]

@@jaynekittycat9252 The only "protection" they had was their monetary value. The brutality was only mitigated by the need to use them (people and animals).

[@toothpick4649]

We didn't know it was hard everyone was in the same boat.

[@judgeroybean6930]

@@toothpick4649 by my reckoning toothpick you must be aged about 130!

[@pauldurkee4764]

I remember listening to a programme which featured the british politician Fenner Brockway, he must have been active during the late victorian or Edwardian period. He said that he never knew that such desperate poverty existed in britain, and completely shocked him. Poverty is relative of course, but even today poor people don't live, they merely exist.

[@Bethi4WFH]

The contrast between the haves, and the have nots, is immense......we have so much to be grateful for these days.......the NHS being just one of our blessings.

[@jelink22]

The contrast is not nearly as immense as it wsa 100 years ago, when only the rich had electricity, cars, and indoor toilets, just for starters. Even the poorest person in America has better health treatments than any king of 200 years ago, because 200 years ago there was NO sciencve behind medicine. Today's "poor" have cars, TVs, PCs, indoor plumbing, A/C and the like which NO ONE had 150 years ago.

[@duncefunce1513]

The NHS is a national health service, like many European countries have, and less efficient than some. I work for the NHS. Can people please stop kissing its arse? There's a lot wrong with it. What's more, we aren't blessed with it. We pay for it

[@melanienagy6389]

Your absolutely right.

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@duncefunce1513 We all know we need it & are rightly gratefull for the existence of the NHS though. Many people in America cannot afford the treatment they need, even when they desperately need help with serious life threatening conditions.

[@jhengatdula9079]

They. Are. Such. Poor. Children. I. Will. Pray For them. Lord. And. Jesus And. God. Bless you. Poor. Children. If. I. Will Think. About. That. I. Will help. People Save. Them Care. About. Them. Listening. To. All Other. Kids. Or. People. And. Lots. Of. Love. To. Make. Me. A. Legend A. Famous . Girl. And. A. Super. Hero. To. Make. Me. Be the. Riches. Child. Or. A. Hero. Kid. Im. Going. To Be. So. Proud. For. My self. Love You. Children. People. And Kids. I. Hope. You. Have. A Very. Very Very. Nice. Love. And. Care

[@megagatvol]

It’s the sight of the poverty stricken children that’s so heartbreaking.

[@barbara1904]

So you gonna keep voting Tory?

[@barrydonoghue6767]

@@barbara1904Yes, as long as you lefty losers keep telling us about our white privilege and your gender problems!

[@emilyb5278]

So many kids living in poverty now but nothing like then.

[@barbara1904]

@@emilyb5278 No but that’s the way we are headed with the Tory party driving down salaries and crippling the NHS.

[@emilyb5278]

@@barbara1904 yep we need local farms back and just start doing our own thing as communities. Mass non compliance. And a new party. Sadly I havnt seen a party willing to make radical changes for the health of the people

[@pahrahinc3895]

The Mrs. says: Consider that a women was pregnant not to soon after the birth of her last child. Her children were a big burden for her and their was no money for anything. Notice most of those poor things were barefoot, and what about the brutal winters England.? So, most of these unwanted waifs ended up in a work house and many never saw their parents ever again. many were mal nourished and became sick and just wasted away and died, it was a shameful part of that society, and nobody likes to talk about it even today. Some of the little girls were prostituted at a very early age and contracted V.D. and died and if they were old enough became pregnant and died because their little bodies could not give birth and so the baby and the little mother died too. Some lived but they would take the little sick baby away and the little girl never ever saw her baby and those babies were drowned in a bucket of cold water and thrown away. My Grandmother was born in England in 1889, her Mother told her those stories and she told me those stories, I was 14 years old and I was sick after hearing those horrible stories. The work house people who ran those vile places also raped and beat those poor girls all the time some ran away and actually lived to tell of their nightmare life there and many died.

[@Dailymailnewz]

Thanks for the great historical input but I will tell you something even worse as late as 1920s or 1940s in some eastern EU COUNTRIES. A man told me a story that brought me to tears also; a German woman who was born poor but became very rich [because she became opera singer] she also told me the same story. A Lithuanian man [who is half Russian and Half Lithuanian] told me that when he was a kid in those days there was a strange brutal culture in eastern EU this also included Germany as late as 1940s etc. He said all the babies used to be tied up in jars and left on floors while the mother went to work. Many babies died in the jars and on the floors when the mother came home because in those days the people were just too stupid, or the state was too damn stupid to realize the babies simply needed a nursing school. The Lithuanian man who is half Russian and half Lithuanian said, ‘he was left in a jar’- like the rest of the babies-and most of his sibling died this way ‘and that was the common culture.’ Then, a German woman [extraordinarily rich] who became my friend in the early 1990s, she told me the same thing. That- she left her son not in the jar but on the floor and when she came home: ‘the boy was somewhere asleep and injured and cried etc.’ That is the reason I put up this video. I also published a book on amazon to write about the state and how important it is that: the state or gov should look after the poorest people. But most people do not like reading now a days so instead just put a video. The link for the book is in the description you can read some ten pages free etc. There was enough money in each land that such brutality was not needed but wrong people were in the authority, so they failed their people that is the whole purpose of the book- actually. “That: when wrong people go to the authority, they bring unlimited suffering even though when you think about it that suffering was not supposed to be there because the people in the authority did not had the brain power.” By the time-the right people came to power: millions suffered and parishes. In, Afghanistan; the population was small, and the land was big but such a thing of what you told me and what the other guys told me was not allowed because they had a Religious, Tribel system, so the mother stayed with the kids and if they were very hungry the mosque feed them for three days in a row. It is now; because of war things went bad in most countries like Afghanistan. However, they had other problems they killed each other too quickly and the stories that I heard from people from that time who are now all dead are just as bad unfortunately. For someone like me we look for the cause of why it happened, so I WRITE BOOKS. I wrote in my book that in countries like the UK no one is supposed to be without a house or a flat as long as the population in the UK does not go above 90 millions. By the time the people get what people like me are saying it will be another generation it wont be this one. SO there were people in the old days who were talking about such things that it can tackled but most people thought they were crazy so their suffering continued. I once told a Nigerian man that when people grows up in certian culture they do not believe in anything but what they have seen and I pointed toward a particular people in the UK who has the highest crime rate and most of them do no seek progress at all because that is the way they were brought up-those kind of people in the UK are a good picture of the past world wide.

[@disunityholychaos7523]

@@Dailymailnewz ironically, despite during this time where some people wanted the "good old days/bring the british empire back" are naive that they still do suffer while the rich are busy on european wars, colonial control and still the rich/aristocracy & monarchy where thriving up of abusing their own people and punishing them for being poor (the stigma of being dumbed down, wilthy deseased peasants, not hardworking, cause of overpopulation mindset and their despise of immigrants) while many after watching victorian vids of Fact feast's narration of testimonies of the past, i felt shock and understood my grandma's rebellion against my great grandmother... this was in the philippines descended from the rich and wealth Castillas/spanish colonials and the uppder class life owning vast sums of farmland and managing the towns/cities and having many connections and big homes of my great grandmother but she diswoned her daughter for wanting to marry my grandpa (lived a long life and died in 2016) whose backgound is considered a serf/peasant despite his good character (wishing to be a lawyer but had no money, neglected by his own father but even became a jail warden to be the best guy of raising and treating poor convicts with respect, food and stories no matter how poor they are and being given a slaries of cents & pesos) while my exiled grandma used her rich educated backgound to refuse the tradition of rich marrying rich/noble/high educated only culture over arranged marriages just getting some stupid nobility status or inheritance but chose her own way to the man she loves and wanted to see difference and with her high education she chose to be a teacher to the poor, read and no write kids & adults and highly helped the local school board to improve, raised 9 children over the years while living in a shack like home and eating foods of the poor yet, proud she isnt lonely or being controlled and saw the archaic like system of division as rubbish and a cause of suffering for many. funny enough she acts like a modern strong women where back in the day women must be house wuves to husbands or get beaten up, that was the opposite if my grandpa doesnt behave she will whip up a shotgun & threaten him to sleep outside and find a way to break traditional things and see what is rational & in utility for the community.. that hardwork passed the combination of my grandma's fierce freedom and embracing the different and my grandpa's sense of justice and critics one of their children became key reformers to making our backwards community grow to have roads, proper schools and malls to shopping centres, we lived near a radio station at the sea and when they put the first house years later we had multiple neighbors i would counted it as a village (sadly one son who wanted to do more reform got murdered for doing the right thing like exposing to building). she never regrets on her life to sacrifice a life of luxury to the life she wants and when great grandma was at her death bed she regrets and did love my grandmother and asked for forgiveness and finding out that the old post spanish status quo of noble families isnt the norm no more and are out of money and decided to give the farms to us, never worked by the poor (think share croppers that are exploited) but cultivated it ourselves. funny enough one time my great grandmother during the days of Marcos the dictator, she was rubbing shoulders with the wife & other rich socialites and when the people's power came and the marcoses are forced to go into exile and ousted from power (plus getting their wealth too stolen from the whole country amount of wealth!) my great grandmother ousted the plan to steal the wealth from the marcoses when she asked her other son (half brother) who was a pilot evacuating one of the stores goods (gold, paintings, maybe the yamashita treasure too) wanted to land and deliver the plane to our farm hidden and chances are in an alternate universe my family name is gonna get hunted down by a government yet still refused, crazy history.. it started out when i wanted to update and write down the names of our family tree.

[@jackiereynolds2888]

@@Dailymailnewz "... that the state or government should look after the poorest people". Why do you think Oliver that this throughout history is-never-ever-ever done ? Please tell me your thoughts.

[@Dailymailnewz]

@@jackiereynolds2888 STUPID people produces stupid rulers. That is a fact. Merciless people produces merciless rulers. Soft people produces soft rulers and on and on we can add to it. In the past most people like it is in some countries now were very very stupid so the rulers are the same. SADGURU once said , if everyone in India is so corrupt will not the politicians be corrupt? The few who were born clever they could not make it to the authority never would they have been allowed to make it to the authority by the very people who were poor. That is a sad fact. Think about it who killed socretes-? The poor people said he speaks against our gods so he was arrested by the wishes and will of the poor people and put in prison and told to chose which way to die. That sums it all.

[@sofiabravo1994]

This breaks my heart those poor little girls and their babies….what evil must they have endured….innocent souls…

[@allabouteve3290]

This was my great grandmothers time, born in 1870s, , my gran who was born in 1899, and used to talk about going to work with no shoes, some had wooden clogs, Great gran had 22 children, and gran had 14

[@Dailymailnewz]

My forefathers were rich land owners so rich that we had a person working in each area of the land from barbers to horse keeper to you name it. My forefathers left stories that are terrifying. I heard the same stories from my distance grand dad as well, he talked about wooden showes allot and also wooden hair cumbs. From others I heard Stories that were to painful to even talk about. That is the reason I put this video so people can appriciate what they have now. When I heard how cloth were washed and how people used to have just one pair of cloths and most of it very bad, I thought what is old grand dad talking about? Ha ha , I had no idea until I saw all the old pictures.

[@davideccles7805]

My family comes from working Class England, My parents grew up in a time where there was nothing to get you ahead except hard work and saving- making do with what you have. I know my mother had to share a bed with her sister, as she said it top to toes to enable to slept two per single bed. I hate this so called white privilege because its nothing but lies, we English built a strong country by working towards a better life then what we had, that how we done it.

[@albundy9597]

"That how we done it"? where did you go to school? We didn't do anything it was our great grandfathers who fought against a system of oppression that kept the rich wealthy and the working class in poverty, no amount of hard work got you out of poverty and there was nothing to save.

[@roadend78]

@@albundy9597 Spot on .

[@Tinker1950]

What is this meaningless, semi-literate, confused and vacant drivel. Definitely the ramblings of a member of the lower orders.

[@davideccles7805]

@@albundy9597 So how did the common man advance himself?? I can tell by your dribble that you must be a socialist/communist.

[@davideccles7805]

@@Tinker1950 You are so funny, lower order? HAHA, I will tell you where i sit In life, I live in a Five bedroom three car garage house which is worth about 700000 pounds, Mortgage free. I have two other property's both are 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom 2 car garage houses that i rent out. So whats is your Point on spinning your Bullshit, A tosser like you properly supports the BLM wankers.

[@lorrainerichardson3280]

The empty looking eyes in some. Probably go with the empty bellies.

[@pommiebears]

Lorraine Richardson that’s white privilege for ya! 😒

[@abbanta3002]

Life as a peasant in England 1800s was not good at all..

[@martingianelli7552]

@@pommiebears Were they being exploited by non-whites?

[@MarzannaMorana]

I collect vintage photography and those photos are priceless to me. I don't know any of the people, but part of me feels a kinship just because I have their picture. They dressed so beautifully...So dangerously beautiful.

[@ohreally8929]

2:52 Looking at the literal rags this poor kid was wearing I can only imagine how difficult his life was. It's hard to complain about much of anything after seeing him.

[@cleopatra1633]

People nowadays whining about slavery and poverty should have a look at this pictures.

[@hugobarrera7205]

It's hard to believe that an Empire that dominated half of the world could have so much poverty in it's entrails

[@Dailymailnewz]

The money went to the army and the few rich...

[@tortillawrapper5454]

@@Dailymailnewz yup not to mention the ongoing war needed to be funded

[@martingianelli7552]

Think about Spain in the 16th and 17th century... Lazarillo de Tormes, Fuenteovejuna, etc., etc.

[@tedwhitus]

Old Pictures. In viewing old pictures from the 1800's, even 1700's lithographs, they have a peculiar way of jogging my memory of similar places and similar times. Times and places I once knew personally. A very long time ago. Many old pictures are what they are referred to as a daguerreotype. A photograph on metal like tin or lead. Nice old pictures bring back old memories this life's distractions have set aside. We have lived before. What we are now is an aggregate of all our previous lives contributing to our present being. Those who are referred to as "old souls" know what I am writing about. Precocious young children are drawing on their timeless energy and experience. They haven't yet been taught to ignore their "fantasies". Not everything in our past is taken away from us with each renewal of life. In those earlier lives we had passions even more genuine than those of today. Some of them had a way of ushering in the possessor of those passions into a new life whereby those passions were abated by the veil, and for good reason. People are becoming more inhuman and unhuman. Some people cycle upward, and some downward. We each have to draw on our aggregate wisdom to show us the correct way. Each gift of time we are blessed with is a time of growth. We must fight to retain it. Otherwise we will become completely disenfranchised from cumulative time, and feel completely displaced. This is why many people feel depressed and worthless. They have slipped off the pathway. Something has happened to temporarily cut off the source and memory of their past joys. When they find they can re-enter their aggregate memory, they will find complete healing and deliverance from this present life's ills. Old photos, and daguerreotypes were invented by man with the help of the Divine Father in Heaven for the express purpose of re-opening the doorway of remembrance and healing that has been cruelly shut by evil forces that seek to inhibit and destroy our progression. When you begin to remember, cherish those memories. They help carry you successfully through time.

[@johnvanstone5336]

God, it was hard in those days, really hard, we have it so easy these days in comparison 🇬🇧🤘

[@juliedebastion4698]

Poverty was real poverty then. Today poverty means poverty in ways of thinking, imagination opportunities,education and not having a mobile phone and also because expectations are different now

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

Very true we all very blessed living at this time.

[@alexandercove1194]

Seems television has created a dissatisfaction with life as everyone can see everything and know they don't have those things...movies always gave us regular "folk" a glimpse of here's what you Don't have...I thought it was especially cruel to flaunt scenes of great wealth and high living during the Great Depression...a time when the heartland of our country became dried out ,the dust bowl they called it. The defense of these movies was but it gives the people a place to go and escape the reality of their hard life...maybe that isn't the best way to cope.

[@alexandercove1194]

Shawn..I understand the line of thought that you're saying however someone who understands their inner self worth Is probably less susceptible to societies' measuring stick than others.....thank you for your pleasant and thoughtful point Hope you're enjoying this holiday Take Care

[@Mynewlife2025]

Nowadays you watch a documentary about poverty. The person has a roof over their head, they have a $1000 iPhone, get welfare benefits and are generally overweight complaining that they're "poor".

[@Mynewlife2025]

@@Shawn0patrick um I don't live in America, this video is England. Nowadays nobody is in any way poor compared to over 100 years ago. Stop making excuses.

[@TimeMappedExplorations]

one of the most beautiful videos ive seen. thank you

[@chrysalis72]

These mothers were only in their 30s.. Our ancestors had such difficulties to bring us into being. A thankless task, even the horses look depressed. Id be a house full of orphans if id lived thenxxx my grandfather was an orphan taken in by gypsies and was extremely kind.

[@mareebrown2163]

Those poor ragged children! This is why I feel no blame or shame that my gg grandfather was transported to Tasmania for life when a teenager. What did he do? He stole meat. He would not have known it then, but it was his lucky day. Became a fine upstanding man who raised kids, and worked his own market garden.

[@minfamilie4319]

My great great grandfather was born in England around the 1800s and came to South America, had many many children, his first wife my great great grandmother died and he remarried to a Paraguayan lady. There is a town in Paraguay where many people today have his last name.

[@Dailymailnewz]

Interesting

[@gardenjoy5223]

The dirt and lack of shoes from poverty gets to me. Also how much smaller in statue the population was back then. Small child labour still common. We've come a long way since.

[@choxxxieful]

I would hope...

[@patriciativey2621]

Loved these, thank you.

[@aequoria2949]

The woman at 1:04 is Annie Chapman, one of Jack the Ripper’s victims. She was the only one of the victims who was photographed during life.

[@arkadiuszdef.1847]

Exactly!

[@cavan2664]

Starvation, homelessness and privations of all sorts were well known to the English masses. Didn't hear a lot about that did we. Still don't...sadly.

[@christinefortner7725]

At 6.01, I believe this is a picture of a very young American Samuel Clemens, famously known as the author Mark Twain. As an American myself, I felt the need to identify him…a great man! 📚

[@trimule]

Good catch - that is indeed a young Samuel Clemens. Little known -in his day EVERYTHING was printed on presses with hand set type. Every single metal letter had to be taken out of a rack of thousands and placed backward into a frame by hand before running the paper through the press. Slow and awkward process. Twain was a rich man from his book sales and was convinced to invest in a mechanical typesetting contraption that looked like something from a Tim Burton movie. For years it only needed a bit more time and a lot more money to be made to work. But, of course, it never did and he ended up having to tour the world and lecture in his old age because he was broke.

[@barrackzain5092]

The fact that people come and people go actually scares me😢... paradox of life

[@barryrudge1576]

The days when the working classes had it very hard to survive, back to back terraced housing with the only light coming in through the front of the house. No garden maybe a yard of lucky. Children dressed in rags and bare footed was the norm, with a good percentage dying before their teenage years. Men who were lucky to survive past their 40's usually dying of industrial disease or infections that are easily cured today. Those you see well dressed in these photos are business or middle class people and above. These nitty gritty photos bring realism to what it was really like back then.

[@maryspaabeck2074]

BleAk, full of suffering, poor children! Queen lived well like most rulers.sickning!

[@aknot3352]

Blm should look at this, and see what they went through

[@Viscount_Castlereagh]

Exactly it was never a white/black problem. It has always been a rich/poor problem.

[@DBZ483]

FACTSSS

[@libbyhicks7549]

Exactly, they think that the have-nots are all dark-skinned, they don't know much about history.

[@Arthur2005-j9y]

Fr

[@sands7779]

there is a difference between being a slave and free- even at the poorest level. we should feel sorrow for anyone suffering.

[@williamcaldwell-smith3865]

The music with this so suits this video, sad with poor kids and poverty

[@kat71580]

Such hardships...the toughest do survive because here we are...

[@stephenwilliams4801]

Kathy Scott not like now , food banks, dole money, ..this day and age, they have it to easy.

[@annabelgrace1267]

Stephen Williams So you want more people to die of starvation)

[@Sorrely1]

Stephen Williams and thank heavens they do. There should always be a safety net to protect those who cannot feed, clothe or house themselves. No one should ever have to live like some of the poor souls in these pictures.

[@tiffanylove6713]

@@stephenwilliams4801 So you'd like it to go back to how it was then? starving children with no shoes, workhouses and women regularly dying in childbirth? you're sick!

[@tomclarke1768]

The haunting music? Can any nice person tell us about the music please? Thanks heaps!

[@annasangiorgio3661]

È triste e difficile pensare come l'Europa fosse così povera. Queste foto così vere e cupe rappresentano quella parte del continente che non viene mai racconta sui libri di storia. Mi viene da pensare come siamo fortunati oggi grazie al progresso.

[@marioandrikopoulos2158]

fantastic old pfotos top 👍

[@lilitheden748]

All those people, all those faces, they are all deceased by now. Kinda strange to look into another world that never was ours.

[@jackiereynolds2888]

Yes, - it was yours, it very much was. Remember that these are people, - real flesh and blood human beings, they are 'not' just or merely photographs. You have a good heart.

[@allegrarivera5383]

The music is so eerie but the photos are fascinating.

[@panspermiahunter7597]

These look very late 1800's early 1900's, all brilliant photographs non the less!

[@yahmin7786]

Yes of course. Some pictures are from 1910s.

[@yahmin7786]

And some of them aren't from England.

[@yahmin7786]

7:47 , 7:53 are late 1800

[@angr3819]

@@yahmin7786 There was no photography in 1800.

[@yahmin7786]

@@angr3819 it was photography in late 19 century.

[@rumdo5617]

Wow! Great photos and spooky music. I’d like to see this video in an art gallery or museum. Especially for those who know little of history but claim that all white people are ‘privileged’.

[@lesterjohnston8888]

It covers the masters of slavery to put the blame away from them

[@DeinVatersVater]

Bet our "real" masters aren't even white, black or other

[@pommiebears]

Look at all that white privilege! 😒 Yes...I’m being sarcastic. My own great grandmother was in a London workhouse as a child. Lived in rags. Privilege? I don’t think so.

[@swmmusic6885]

Well said ! 💯

[@Clan501-Scotland]

She was free to come and go at she pleased. How can you honestly compare your grandmother wearing rags to a whole race being captured against thier will? What absolute ignorance you show.

[@colinhickman4071]

@@Clan501-Scotland Captured..??? most were sold by their Tribal leaders for cheap trinkets

[@colinhickman4071]

@@Clan501-Scotland "Come and go"..They didnt have anywhere to 'Go' ..just shows your ignorance

[@billy9534]

@@Clan501-Scotland how can they come and go as they please?? They worked from like 8 years old till dead!! You are so ignorant is blinding!!

[@Jpablopina1967-hl3if]

Siempre que Miro este video siento una sensación muy extraña como si ya estuviera en ésa época estoy loco

[@samizai6362]

Non of them is alive today but this video brought me to this era

[@cherylpurdue888]

So many people died young in 1800s😢

[@luckystar9205]

It’s very very sad to see these pictures, and made us realise that how much humanity work hard to get here, but peace never been achieved on earth yet, as still some people are living in similar situations!

[@Patricia-ic4ee]

That’s what you call real poverty,no shoes on children,no hot water, very little food, it must have been hell.

[@johnkoval1898]

A culture shock to the uninitiated of today but normal life everywhere back then.

[@TheHeraclion]

hauntingly beautiful and sad!

[@jeremybird7709]

there is nothing good about these pictures, they are all incredibly sad

[@pommiebears]

Jeremy Bird you....don’t see the white privilege that we’re supposed to have from the empire?? NO....me neither.

[@allegrarivera5383]

Would be wild if we could bring these people to our present time…how they would react would be so intriguing.

[@margaretthapar9007]

That's the white privelage, we hear so often.

[@eventcone]

Such poverty - as the Empire rose to its zenith.

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

The great British empire was only for the rich and the filthy rich, the majority of the English people lived in dirt and poverty during the great days of empire, and that goes for the Scots too.

[@catman8670]

If those in government in any country, could live no better than the least of us, things may quickly change!

[@freiheit3499]

Απίστευτο, μοναδικό, δύσκολο παρελθόν..

[@doeharris5363]

This video has made me so sad, those poor people had nothing by the looks of things. There isn't much difference today between you rich and the poor.

[@momof2momof2]

I feel sad for the children

[@MarzannaMorana]

You see 👑 Queen Victoria in one and she was blessed with a life of luxury. The next photo was an older, dirty woman holding a child outside, but neither are smiling. You didn't smile in photos back then, but there's a valid reason why the second lady wasn't smiling.

[@Rick1234567S]

Time travel is a romantic notion. This is similar to time travel. To actually go there I assume you would feel sorry for a lot of people. They managed to make sense of their world and class structure some how, but we today find that more difficult to accept. But we are lucky we live when we do. Things have not changed in photos regarding styles of dress since 1967 here.

[@bridgethannah2933]

Ok. I’m now officially depressed. My mom always said “the poor (in the current USA) do not know how good they have it!” The people in this photo essay prove that.

[@jackiereynolds2888]

Read about the plight of the poor in east London 1850 to ~ 1880 by Friedrich Engels. It will break your heart.

[@charliebaker5818]

think the music is fitting to the video,eerie!👌👌👌

[@jag4451]

Great video subbed and liked

[@johnparr5879]

These pictures show the arduous strife humanity has lived through to present day, now in these so called modern times our very personal freedom is being challenged like never before...

[@rbrowne2998]

Are you sure that all of these were taken in England? I find it very hard to believe that a b family would be found there in 1800s. In America yes, but England no. It's a pity to have to worry about provenance but in these days of falsifying history, necessary.

[@zaftra]

What do you mean by b? ethnicity, if so b were in England for hundreds of years, including marrying w and becoming rich and successful.

[@rbrowne2998]

@@zaftra you clearly have little idea of English history. I lived it and know. Did you?

[@zaftra]

​@@rbrowne2998 Being born in England in 1968, yes I do have a very good knowledge of England and it's history. I suggest you just google something like black people in British history or something like that.

[@rbrowne2998]

@@zaftra Google simply does not have the amount of information that is out there. And, as you know, it is heavily censored. I have hundreds of old books, the only bs in which are decidedly from outside England. Also the number of bs both you and I saw would have been a tiny fraction of the bs that were there during this time. My guess is 1 in 10000. And these were photographed? You are either heavily deluded or brainwashed. Look at the evidence and not a modern film with a b Ann Bolyn. There were more mobile phones and computers in England then. Total fantasy.

[@zaftra]

@@rbrowne2998 all righty. 🥴

[@philipdavey9182]

These pictures are gold dust. Despite all of our current worries, we don’t know what true, desperate hardship is. All this predates government assistance and the NHS. Makes you feel lucky, despite having very little.

[@watchtheduck1]

I'd love to know who did the music to this. It was enchanting.... all of it.

[@isabelbeckerman9226]

It's called Spirit of Fire (2020) by Jesse Gallagher ;-)

[@rcladv]

@@isabelbeckerman9226 thank you

[@isabelbeckerman9226]

@@rcladv You're very welcome 🥰

[@meanmachinejimiofficial]

Movies =lavish life Reality =sad life

[@bernadettereece108]

What is the background music? I love it. Soothing.x

[@Dailymailnewz]

Someone has commented somewhere among the comments-you have allot read to get it ha ha

[@isabelbeckerman9226]

It's called Spirit of Fire (2020) by Jesse Gallagher ;-)

[@nicholasthorn1539]

I still get caught out by the use of 1800s to mean the 19th century. I instinctively take it to mean the decade, i.e. 1800-1809, when photography was still a thing of the future

[@martinsteer703]

How would you refer to 1810-19 or 1820-29 (etc) then? I'm surprised you don't think the 1800s means sometime after 6pm!

[@nicholasthorn1539]

@@martinsteer703 as plain simple 1810s or 1820s of course. As for some time after 6pm, some of us use punctuation so if I would write 18.00, 18.15 etc

[@angr3819]

Wrong century. There was no photography in the 1800's. We are in the 21st century. The last century 1900 - 1999 was the 20th century. The title should read 'the 1900's', or 'the early 20th century. I have no idea why so many people today don't know that. What do schools teach? It was very much junior school learning during the 1960's - or around the mid 20th century.

[@nicholasthorn1539]

@@angr3819 there certainly was photography in the 19th century. It dates as far back as 1839 thanks to Louis Daguerre.

[@angr3819]

@@nicholasthorn1539 If this is too long for you then simply read the very last paragraph, and you should then understand why I have made it long. I did not say there was no 'photography' in the 19th century, such as it was. I am a retired photographer and leant the history very well thank you. I stated that there was no 'photography' in the 1800's. Years after 1809 are referred to as the 19th century as you have correctly written. There is no nought as the third digit in 1810, thus 1809 was the end of the 1800's. Same as 1909 was the last year of the 1900's. It all seems to be a matter of younger people not having been taught or not having leaned enough reasonable grammar. I know there was a change by mis-government as long ago as the 1980's which mandated that spelling and grammar were not important, and nor was learning the alphabet including the phonetics, the differences between verbs and adverbs, nouns and pronouns, tenses, infinitives etc. Worse, anyone who learnt at least reasonable grammar was and apparently still is. Considered a snob or a nazi. This was a dirty trick to lower standards in education and dumb down the masses, who had become well enough educated to ask questions about matters pertinent to their lives and to disagree instead of aquiescing in thinking, saying and doing as those more powerful told them to. Whilst I am not 100% grammatical in all I say and write I do know the importance of maintaining a certain standard, regardless of accent, and the point isn't snobbery or elitism. It is that at least a reasonable standard of grammar enables people to communicate more clearly without giving rise to misunderstandings or any confusion. As per the title of this video which unfortunately sets a bad example, particularly as the maker has chosen to not have the dignity and integrity to thank anyone for pointing out the error and changing the title slightly, nor even saying nothing but quietly changing the title to reflect the actual time period (although one commentator recognised a 1960's area). A pity as the video itself is interesting and shows an important aspect of the true history of Britain, which is very telling of those bloodline banker and black nobility families who have run it since the invasions of the Babylonian y syyc sons and their other tribes including the bit later nor(th)man cousins who they amalgamated closer to through marriage and inbreeding, and whose more numerous descendants mis-rule to this day whilst ensuring almost only their own occupy the important positions of authority, global corporations and businesses, media, big pharma, the medical industry, the food industry, politics and, well, everything today - by fair means or foul. The average British peoples never ran not benefitted from the slave trade but also remained slaves even after being renamed surfs and the poor. No prizes for guessing who really ran the slave trade - of both blacks, whites and all inbetween. I doubt many will read this as it isn't bite size. That is one aim of having dumbed down education including via entertainment and the news. Short attention spans and lack of comprehension of grammar deters many people from reading important information then investigating it further.

[@teresitamarino6693]

So much poverty, poor children , is good many of them emigrated, poor souls

[@TheRomanian-Rizzler]

I look at these photos and the feeling i get is that of seeing our world's birth. Because this era was the birth of the world we now know. The Victorian era, also known as La Belle Epoque for francophone countries is basically the start of the world we have today

[@andrearoyd2942]

This is our past, and as one poster put ''a little percentage of the Brits were living in a unimaginable luxury'' this is true. That aside, where is the ''white'' woke privilege to be seen with children with no shoes? the poverty - but here it is, recorded for all time.

[@tiffanylove6713]

The "white privilege" crap is an insult to our poor ancestors....

[@MsRobTube]

People, especially the poor, had more character in those days. Imagine what they had to go through before, if ever, they reached adulthood. lots of suffering. And they only could rely on the people around them: family, neighbors, friends. They had to entertain themselves, no tv, smartphone etc. Nowadays kids get everything they want, don't have to earn anything. You see that on their faces, and in their (lack of) character.

[@roadend78]

And we had empire it was fantastic for the 1% ?

[@aknot3352]

Nothings changed

[@billy9534]

Always been the same! And yet it’s the common people that pay the price for it then and now!!

[@MsPaintMr]

And now the elites tell us that it is US who should be ashamed of the crimes THEY committed!

[@patriciaburrows298]

Wish they were on video. I love the pictures.

[@jeanlilymanwaring7125]

Wonderful ! thank goodness the camera was invented.

[@TheNemesis0112]

Heart breaking seeing some of those kids god bless their souls

[@susanlegeza7562]

How resilient the survivors had to be!

[@chrysalis72]

we are as soil in the groud, nothing is worth worry beyond health comfort,food and relationships,. in less than the blink it took for 20 years to go by, some of us will be remembered no more than these nameless people are. others 40 yrs but time is an illusion anyway..

[@chrisdeeley3775]

All that poverty, kids in rags when we were the greatest power on Earth. I wonder where all the wealth went?

[@maureencurryhbhgg6202]

People don’t realise how lucky they are born into these times compared to back then Sad to see 🕊🕊💕

[@eddieallen9635]

Never trust the Tories ! They have a one line manifesto!! Look after number one, forget the consequences of your actions and don't look back! Remember this: in Tory land "behind everything of beauty theirs been some kind of pain"

[@hetrodoxly1203]

Who should we vote for? the Labour party left the white working class years ago and the Lib/dem are in fairy land.

[@hassanelgamal1192]

The vidio is very good

[@henryroberts5574]

5:11 one of the first examples of modern policing and the custodian helmet.

[@Michelle-qd9gm]

No shoes bless em