Would you want to live in London in the Victorian Era?

With so much disease, death, mistreatment, and atrocities, it's a wonder we have such a romanticized view of the Victorian Era at all. Blue Jay really does an amazing job at informing and entertaining us, and crushing our fantasies at the same time.

Just to clarify it wasn't open sewage that was leaking into the Broadstreet Pump it was a Cess pit for one of the houses on the street that had a crack that was leaking into the pump water. Importantly this cesspit contained the nappies of a baby who had contracted and died from Cholora, the patient 0 of the outbreak.

One thing that’s important to mention is that life expectancy of 25 for lower class is dragged down significantly due to the infant mortality rates. If you survived childhood you were likely to live significantly longer than that age.

Understanding the conditions of the Victorian era is helpful when trying to understand why so many people would decide to leave everything they have and move to the frontiers of colonies in pursuit of anything that might have the chance of being better. I would take trying to build a farmstead in an inhospitable wilderness over having to sleep over a suspended rope at the cost of most of my earnings any day.

"It was stinky air", makes it sound like people didn´t realize how poop makes the air stink.

One of the things you could comfort yourself with would be at least you're not living in 19th century Russia.

14:02  And now we have microplastics.

Yeah. There was a lady who liked the taste of the water from the diseased pump. Another case was that a brewery near a contaminated pump was fine but it turned out that the workers drank the bear or had a separate water system so they never touched the cholera infected water

How to survive Victorian london: dont live in Victorian london.

Working class life expectancy being so low didn't mean people were dying at 25.  It means that the average of all people's age at death was around 25.  This includes all infant deaths.  If you made it out of childhood and into adulthood  then chances were that you'd live to be at least somewhat elderly.  Of course that doesn't mean that it was as good as things are today still post childhood.  It's just like how a lot of people think that in the Middle Ages hardly anyone lived to 40.  Most did live at least that long if they managed to become an adult.

As to the Egyptian artifacts in England topic. I've been to both the British Museum in Bloomsbury, as well as the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. There is a sharp contrast in these two museums.
  The British museum has kept all the artifacts pristine. There are held in strict temperature and environmental controls. Whoever handled, or handles those artifacts does it with the upmost care.
  It is not the case with the Egyptian museum. Going into the Egyptian museum is like going back to the Victorian Era. At least it was when I was there in the 90s and early 2000s.
  You have to remember when the King Tut artifacts were brought out of the tomb they were in imaculate condition. They look like they were just made yesterday. And the one iconic artifact that you envision in your mind when you think of the words King Tut has been damaged due to improper handling and lack of proper temperature control.
  The whole museum in Cairo should have a complete overhaul. It should be brought up to at least the 20th century.
The art lover in me that loves to go to museums says keep the stuff in the British museum. The humanitarian in me says first bring the museum up to standards, as well as hire curators that can handle these items properly, then bring them back to Cairo.
  This is not a condemnation to the Egyptians themselves. But the powers that be who just don't want to spend the money to invest in a world class modern museum. Now I've said that, but I don't know if the Egyptian museum has gone through a modern transformation since I've been there. The last time I was there was shortly after 9/11. Everywhere we went people would say the same thing. We love Americans, we just don't like your foreign policy.
  The other way to look at it would be just give all that stuff back to the Egyptians it's theirs and if they want them to sit and degrade that's their business.
  I've been to Egypt a few times. I loved visiting there. I love the people I met and the experiences. It's a country of high contrasts. The ultra modern right next to the ancient. It's fascinating. I hope I get a chance to go back there again someday. Especially Alexandria. Such beautiful crystal blue waters.

“Today on Whats Inside we got ourselves the mummy of King Tut himself.”

The corset thing is quite arguable tho. There are YouTubers who do historic costumes reconstruction and they consistently say that corsets  are not as restricting as people think if worn properly, and those Organ-deformation pictures you often can see came from not exactly credible sources but due to how bizarre it looks git public attention.

14:00 Its a big shame the whole corset thing has such a bad reputation about shifting organs and permanentely changing your body. I would recommend watching the video by Bernadette Banner on the subject.

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Piper Pinky is wild..💀

The worst part about the mummies is that people would literally EAT parts of the body.

My great-grandfather was acrobat working for Barnum and Bailey's circus. He went on a tour from America to the UK with them in about 1890 and decided to stay in Britain.

Extra History has a mini-series on the Broad Street Pump, if you want something else to reacto to, Terry. They've got a couple of other series on the history of healthcare as well, which are real good.

Downton Abbey is just a historical soap opera. As a person who doesn’t like soaps but loves history, I’d recommend it. I’ve watched it all the way through