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Life in Victorian Britain, with Ruth Goodman

Life in Victorian Britain, with Ruth Goodman

In this six-part course, discover everything you need to know about Victorian Britain, guided by historian Ruth Goodman and filmed on location at Black Country Living Museum

Published: November 14, 2024 at 7:45 PM

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Part oneDaily life: how did people live in the 19th century?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ruth introduces the cold and heavy physical labour of everyday living. She examines the normal routines of life – from washing and dressing, to eating and sleeping – and how this differed for people from different walks of life.
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Part twoLeisure: how did people spend their free time in the 19th century?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ruth explores exactly how little leisure time most people had in the 19th century – and what they did with their precious snatched hours
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Part threeWhat was school and education like in Victorian Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

It was in the Victorian period that school shifted to becoming a more universal experience. Learn more about the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered and how the classroom was a different experience depending on whether you were a boy or a girl.
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Part fourWhat was health and medicine like in the 19th century?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

n the 19th century, work changed for most of the population with shift working made possible by gas light, a new adherence to fixed hours of work and a fierce concentration upon a smaller number of tasks whilst at work. Ruth explains all of this – as well as the slow movement towards protection for workers that took place over the course of the 19th century.
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Part fiveWhat was work like in Victorian Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the 19th century, work changed for most of the population with shift working made possible by gas light, a new adherence to fixed hours of work and a fierce concentration upon a smaller number of tasks whilst at work. Ruth explains all of this – as well as the slow movement towards protection for workers that took place over the course of the 19th century.
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Part sixWhat was family life like in Victorian Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the 19th century, men took more control at home than at any other time in history. Ruth explains the ‘male breadwinner pattern’ and the employment of boys and how this affected the whole family.

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