The REAL Street Life of VICTORIAN LONDON (1850s) Brought to Life

Описание: In today's video about Victorian London, we'll explore the brutal reality of the 1850s when over two million people crowded into streets where children scavenged barefoot in Thames mud, families of eight shared single rooms, and the river carried two hundred tons of sewage daily. We'll uncover the lives of mudlarks who worked in freezing conditions, chimney sweeps as young as four years old, and costermongers selling fruit in markets like Covent Garden and Billingsgate. Discover how Dr. John Snow proved cholera spread through contaminated water at the Broad Street pump, how Henry Mayhew documented thirty thousand street sellers in "London Labour and the London Poor," and how Charles Dickens captured the poverty in novels like Bleak House. Learn about the Great Stink of 1858 that forced Parliament to approve Joseph Bazalgette's sewer system, the three hundred thousand horses producing mountains of manure, and the gas lamps that lit the famous London fog. From gin palaces to rookeries, from Jacob's Island to Bethnal Green, this is the real street life of Victorian London that history forgot.

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