The Outrageously Lethal Life Of A Victorian Matchmaker | History of Britain | Absolute History

I thought it was going to be about a person who made romantic matches hahaha

You always hear about the old days "when women didn't work." When was that, exactly? It seems like women have always worked...

Turns out 90% of this is not about Victorian match makers

I remember. An Incendiary Bomb went through the roof and into our bed. My Sister and I survived because my Mother woke us up one minute before to go downstairs to the air raid shelter in the garden. My Mum used to wait til the bombing was really bad to wake us up. God Bless our Mum.💕🕊

The thing about living in the countryside during the war...before I switched majors from photography to jewelry the jewelry professor was an older English gentleman. We had artists come talk about their work when it was displayed in the gallery and he had a display. He told us all about getting out of bed, the view from the bomb shelter doorway laying next to his little sister, and the Christmas that Santa brought him a real airplane. He heard a loud boom and crash and out in the snowy field was a real plane! His mother went out, and told him to put on a kettle and get some of the Christmas biscuits they had just made. So she retrieved the German pilot, sat him at the kitchen table, with the children, she called the police, and they all sat there as the sun came up sharing tea and biscuits until the police arrived. I thought...Dang his mom was bad ass! She ran out there in her housecoat to make sure that the pilot wasn't injured, brought him in from the cold, fed him, but also called the cops because he was the enemy.

I’m watching this from Nashville, Tennessee. As a young married - about 20 years ago - I worked in a local assisted living home. One of our residents was an English woman who was a young woman in London during the Blitz. I encouraged her to share all of the memories about that time as she liked. Her recollections were fascinating, am I’m so lucky to have heard them.

22:20 wild that it actually went "can you make labor laws so women aren't exploited in the coal mines?" "no" "did I mention they're topless?" "say no more"

The match girls developed "phossy jaw", but MANY MANY years later the girls who worked in dial-painting factories developed radium jaw, in which the teeth fell out and the lower jaw eventually came off. People don't learn.

"Wow, dating sounds really hard during Victorian times. What's up with that? OOHHHHHHHH, matches-matches."

They seem to be forgetting the fact that men running the mines did more than just beat these women. They also committed SA on women on a daily basis along with beating them. This happened to working women for every generation where women working outside the home. This is history that nobody talks about….ever. ~Historian

Funny. It was in the 60s that I remember my mother referring to a girl she didn't 'approve' of as a 'shop girl'

"Nothing the Victorians liked more than setting fire to things." That was cute 😄

No wonder lifespans were so short.

Actually the full quote is " The customer is always right in matters of taste" soneven if the hat ghastly you couldn't tell them that just let them buy it.

"GET STUFFED!" Wonderful retort to a higher rank.

For the story about the man who went on a trip to blackpool I was waiting for them to explain why his wife didn't wake up.....did anyone else think she died and he went to the beach anyway 😆🤣 like dam b*tch I had a whole day planned and you ain't gonna spoil it again! 🤣🤣🤣😅

23:31 JUST LIKE QUEEN VICTORIAS WAISTLINE- STOP I JUST CHOKED ON MY CEREAL

Kinda frustrating to hear bout how hard these ppl worked just to live in impoverished conditions while their employers could have cared less bout them all n forced the women to work 6 grueling days with no breaks except a lunch hour that was controlled too (forced to eat inside the factory on in the floor in a phosphorus filled environment.) crazy, man.

My grandfathers brother fought in the war sadly almost a year he was killed while guarding a bridge I think a few days before D-Day I am told he was a very smart young man I would have loved to have met him

I love Tony Robinson so much, he has such a passion for history which is so contagious