The ‘Real’ Oliver Twist of Victorian London (19th Century Street Life)

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[@melvinboydedwards8990]

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[@ahuddleston6512]

I love learning about history especially Victorian London. I used to live on the same street (Bayham Street) in Camden as Charles Dickens when he was growing up. I found this out at the local library. Keep up the awesome work!

[@esterherschkovich6499]

Me too,used to live on that street.

[@warriorhawk2064]

Lucky you, I too love all these historical videos about life in London for destitute people and children

[@hayweb866]

I love the victorian content, the narrator has a great story tellin voice it is so relaxing xx

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[@Heneggsboss]

Ikr, so interesting and so soothing

[@LuchadorMasque]

He's no indy nidel

[@dragonlotion1789]

That’s interesting. I wasn’t sure if it was AI generated. Some of the syllables seem off somehow. The pauses in between words have an awkward transition time. IMO.

[@tashaimpressions]

Good content. Did you do the Mr Kipling adverts? You have a good clear voice.

[@lightclawshadowmarsch8167]

Best narrator. I've listened to in years. Very few can bring the past to life. And teach history while at it. Keep it going.

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

Slightly off topic, When Lionel Bart was in the process of formulating the pre film musical Oliver, he was walking in London and heard from a distance a street busker. The busker, of young years, and small stature, with a distinct cockney accent and cheeky grin was no other than, the great Steve marriott of the small faces, before fame. Sir Lionel Bart, signed him to play both Oliver twist, and later the artful dodger, in 1960. Afterwards marriott went on to form the small faces and humble pie. He was auditioned for the stones but Legend has it mick jagger vetoed it Because his voice was "too good" An incredible artist, who was skimmed of millions by the father of Sharon osbourne(entrepreneur) And incredibly, in new York, Steve was picked up in a limo and delivered to a meeting with the mob, Who warned him to lay off pursuing his lost revenue. Died after a cigarette he was smoking in bed caught fire and killed him at a kindly friend's house. I'm sure boz envisaged dodger as the personification of all that is bright and yet wasted through circumstance, and Bart saw that in marriott.

[@jasonpayneuk]

This is such a great history series - thank you to the brilliant researchers and wonderful narrator!

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[@that0negrinder.157]

I love our rich british gruesome dark history.This channel makes me feel like I time travel I get so engrossed into the story I love it.Keep victorian videos coming 😍

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[@suet.r.4815]

I really enjoy your content. The way that people have survived in the past... especially children... We speak, these days, of the loss of the value of life (here in USA) when there is a shooting or other preventable tragedy occurs; but life has often been cheap throughout history. -Not that it is in any way, or at any time 'okay' to turn our backs on each other. I am curious, as you sift through content, if you find the action of predators against these children was reported or simply accepted as another symptom of living on the streets?

[@WhoDoUthinkUr]

My favorite new find on KZbin great Channel thanks.

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[@barbc7698]

These working class Victorian videos make me so thankful that I live in this day and age. Most of us in my community have enough to eat and a roof over our heads.

[@mangot589]

Admirable account. Mr. Bayless is (was) truly an example of giving back to the community….

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His is a story of a benevolent man showing compassion for the less fortunate.

[@donnadees7031]

So interesting to hear the story behind the story. thanks.

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Thanks for listening to his story.

[@margkropf5541]

I find it sad that our language has so deteriorated from Victorian times. We are , worldwide, in the process of being dumbed down. I would not ever want to live as the Victorians did, but I find their vocabulary and choice of words so refreshing.I doubt that today’s ignorant masses would be able to understand much of what is being narrated here but of course they can always Google.it.Yes, we have been reduced to this!!!!!

[@snowysnowyriver]

@Marg Kropf. I totally agree with you. The English language today is a culmination of decades of educational neglect. I'm 64 years old. At school I was taught grammar, cursive writing and spelling. Going forward several decades and I found myself correcting the spelling and grammar of my grandson's "English" teacher. She corrected his homework, replacing his correct usage with her own incorrect usage. I took the homework back to her in person to make sure she got the point. The excuse in these intervening decades is that rigid application of the written word stifles a child's creativity. This is balderdash. All it does is reduce a child's ability to appreciate the best literature from the past and to create tomorrow's masterpieces.

[@farangtikitungmuang]

Your laments were first recorded in cuneiform by the Sumerians perhaps 5,000 years ago. Every generation since then has had curmudgeons who thought change meant decline. The fact is that every generation reinvents the language they inherit to suit the unique needs of their times.

[@allyoopdan991]

@@snowysnowyriver Bravo! I agree entirely with your comments. It hurts to see so many English speakers have no idea of grammar, for example, writing “should of” instead of “should have”, “your” instead of “you’re”, putting apostrophes where they don’t belong etc, etc. I’m not as old as you, but I feel sad that the language of Shakespeare, Milton and Keats have deteriorated to texting where any sense of grammar goes out of the window.

[@moondancer9066]

So glad I'm well read! But few people understand me!

[@moondancer9066]

@@snowysnowyriver ❤🌹💕⚘ I agree 💯

[@CashelOConnolly]

I wonder If the two men who wrote this ‘true life of a child’ cleaned it up,made it more pleasant and palletable for the Victorian middle classes to read. It reads as romanticised. I wonder what horrors these children really faced that the Victorians would deny existed let alone write about them! Did I dream up Molly houses🧐

[@christinebuckingham8369]

Children were exploited in that way too back then tragically.

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

let me guess, you're a liberal.

[@ThunderStruck15]

@@itsMe_TheHerpes let me guess, you’re delusional

[@pepperco100]

@@itsMe_TheHerpes Yeah, so what if she is a liberal? Meanwhile, you conservatives pamper and coddle your children with private schools, lolling at the country club, tennis lessons, etc. These kids are so sheltered from the realities of life they too will become conservatives, and not give a damn about the less fortunate.

[@JERSEYBOYFOREVER444]

I love these videos.oliver twist is among my favorite books, i love history ty for posting

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[@moondancer9066]

I just discovered your channel recently and I enjoy it very much. 💕

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Love your channel my workers and I listen on our long commutes you rock brother

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@@FactFeast no thank you I love history and your channel helps me get younger guys into it. We need our history good or bad I will share it all I can

[@gusfjeld8750]

@@FactFeast maybe do some early American history not now but soon we need more people listening about real hard times not just getting your feelings hurt

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

I don’t understand why and how they got away with paying the workers so very little. The employers certainly knew how much it cost to live, and I don’t mean live well, I mean survive. How could they live with themselves knowing they didn’t pay enough for their workers to survive.

[@avalondreaming1433]

The same way the live with it today with minimum wage jobs.

[@richardsingh5827]

Very interesting. I often went to Drury Lane to visit people working there.

[@FactFeast]

Much changed today from its 19th Century character! Thanks for watching.

[@LoLFilmStudios]

You’re gonna be big !!!

[@slytheringingerwitch]

It is said that Charles Dickens based the character the Artful Dodger on Jack Sheppard. I watched the movie 'Where's Jack' which stars Tommy Steele as him. No singing (I say that as he has made some awesome musicals) and of course its very sad. Many had a sadder end than they should have due to the fact that capital punishment in those times wasn't just for murder.

[@farangtikitungmuang]

And thus the trope,. might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.

[@donrobbo837]

U do justice to these people and their life experiences 💞 We all learn especially from the past ✌

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[@cosmicmusicreynolds3266]

good content and well presented

[@Gerry1of1]

I love the irony of Artful Dodger growing up to become a Cop.

[@donrobbo837]

I thought that was Oliver.

[@somniumisdreaming]

I loved this I hope you cover Ikey's story.

[@clarencedavisiii1412]

I love this channel

[@FactFeast]

Great! That's so nice.

[@raylady0]

This little Oliver Twist has some beautiful eyes he was so cute😚 ,,,,he was in a heap of trouble for playing with those marbles 😪

[@patrickrose1221]

A good story well told .

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Very good! Thanks for watching.

[@davidsiler5505]

He expected a feast didn't he?

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

he wants some MORE ?!

[@bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish]

More?

[@markhonerbaum3920]

True I struggle with my memory as I have remembered too much. As a catholic who didn't understand laten l was left in the dark.Now I've been awaken in the most recent of times.

[@lanacampbell-moore4549]

Thank You 😊

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[@littlebirdling238]

This is super interesting.

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[@garyhyndman1105]

Very entertaining.

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[@JackJones-oq3tt]

Very interesting .

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[@honorladone8682]

Takes one to know one. Thanks. Philadelphia USA

[@pepperco100]

Nowadays, Oliver Twist would have ptsd, and require prolonged therapy and prozac. It's likely he'd qualify for Social Security disability. A fanfare for the common man!

[@kris4247]

True legend

[@FactFeast]

He really was! Thanks for watching.

[@kayneF1251]

Nice man

[@tomredaintdead9575]

I was born on Baylis road

[@mikkisen8092]

sounds somewhat like Stephen Fry. Outstanding narration!

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[@galanie]

Actual history, presented very well. The Victorian Era is just that era Im most interested in learning about. Though I'd prefer American common life, English life does affect what we did back then and I love English history also. Most American stuff from this time frame focuses only on slavery, a subject one gets tired of when they want to learn of things not really related to that. Things like, how did the poor live in big cities? The same things these deal with, only in American settings.

[@FactFeast]

Researching the living conditions of the poor in America is of interest to me and I will be turning my attention to such content some time in future. Thanks for watching.

[@disunityholychaos7523]

am american, i never got tired of slavery history (must be known, we even knew Tulsa before it got on the news recently on the anniversary thats passed) but what interests me is the progressive era history but the common life of the times, i read the testimony of asian americans who were cotton pickers and coal miners of the gold rush era, the testimony of Lyndon johnson's past when he was teaching poor mexican american children and their flight, the great depression era cooking and lifestyle (stories of people lining on backs, closed industries and how they survived while others also on :hoover villes"/slum shacks), The WW1 Anti-war/isolationist side history, and many more that is underrated and behind the scenes or even knowing life on each american city and seeing photos of ellis island immigrants i even listened to the videos of interviews of them.

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

Sorry, for me there is absolutely no interest in American slums. I’d prefer some stories about the Irish, and how they lived. Also the Scott’s. I realise they would be very much the same as English, but I’m sure there would be some differences.

[@thomaslucas6079]

I would rather hear about the Artful Dodger.

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[@mauriceclark4870]

Ive. Read. Dickens. Got. A. Lot. Of. Names. And. Cases. Of. Villains. From. Newspapers. At the time.

[@Lady_Chalk]

Now is “garroting” the same as “to garrote” some poor person’s throat? Edit: Nevermind! It is as dark as I thought.

[@bokhans]

Its amazing that this is the goal for the ruling party of U.K. and poor people agree obviously and support them again and again. Brexit will speed up the pace for Dickens England to come back. Good luck!

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Sadly not that fictional.

[@eunicestone838]

My sister dated a guy from Manchester. As soon as he opened his mouth and spoke I knew exactly right then he was not of the upper class. He spoke using a lot of 'me's" and " US's". My sister visited him for 6 months and had planned to marry him. He came to USA with her and she came to find out this was his 5h time trying to .....GET MESELF A GREEN CARDIO

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[@mauriceclark4870]

I. Suppose Dickens. Many. Trips. Too Arerica. He. Stayed. In. Knobe hill with. His mistress. ?

[@patrickshore5859]

great story teller ! give up the day job !

[@Gerry1of1]

Valet : pronounced "Val-et" not "Va-lay". The former is a man's personal servant. The latter parks your car.

[@michaelsternberg1597]

He pronounced it the way it's pronounced in England. There are many differences between the way English is pronounced in England and the USA.

[@tomredaintdead9575]

Really? I thought it was a french word, hence the silent t