The Victorian Obsession With Museums | How The Victorians Built Britain
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- Michael Buerk discovers how the Victorians took on the world of exploration and adventure, and brought it home to Britain for everyone to share. His voyage of discovery begins at the Natural History Museum, where Michael comes face to face with a dinosaur that changed the course of history. He travels to the Victorian 'living museum' - London Zoo - to find out about the way scientific study of the birds and the beasts led to the first ever public zoo. Last in the series.
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I live in the middle of Canada, and there is nothing like this.....going to London, and visiting these museums was mind blowing
I'm from Ontario. While there is nothing like this I highly recommend checking out the museums at Parliament Hill and in and around Ottawa.
idk why but I am kinda sad to see this series end, the content was amazing and as an outsider this has given me such an insight to the victorian era. would definitely go to britain and visit all these great landmarks when i have the chance. 10/10 from Absolute History!!
I agree. I have really enjoyed this series. It's well written and researched, and presented in a wonderfully interesting perspective. I'd also love to see the advances going on around the world that were inspired by these British accomplishments.
The series is ending? Seriously?
Same these types of series are so fun to watch
You are not alone.
How do you know what order they're in? This is the first one I saw and I'd prefer to watch them in order
I'm studying biology now and i almost cried when I realised how beautiful Londons natural history museum is. (on pictures/ videos) I can't imagine how I would react if I really visited that museum.
This channel is such a precious gift and blessing for a chronic History enthusiast like myself.
Nutty History is pretty good too, just sayin.
@@ashleelarsen5002 I looked it up, unfortunately too short documentaries for my taste. Also those modern (stock video clips) made the videos unwatchable.
Thank you very much anyaway!
@@-xorxito-6736 I like how quirky it is :)
@@ashleelarsen5002 Good for you :)
This was my favorite episode! Amazing what Albert and Victoria brought to the common folk. I love 💕 this series. Learned so much! Thank you England for all of the good that eventually rose out of the bad.
Firstly, I love this type of content. However, as I was selecting this video and my husband scurried away to go shopping, it occurred to me that having to watch "a 45 minute video about how people in the past used to enjoy museums" sounds like an ultimate threat to use against anyone uninterested in history.
I would rather watch average people talk about old stuff, then watch famous people "going back in time" 🤮
From California!
It does! LOL :=). But as someone who LOVES history that isn't a threat that's a 'you really mean it?!' situation :=)
@@jaymartin8273 Yes, it should be taken far more seriously than other threats I may make.
@@emawerna Yes indeed :=)
Thank you for all the work and time put into this series. You’ve helped me feel excited about life again!
This is an awesome series. I enjoyed every minute of all the episodes and learned things I never knew before. Thanks for making this documentary series. 👍👍
this made me happy cry. all of it so beautiful and importantly informative. thank you
Victoria Kew, what a great and very appropriate name for the Gallery Manager of Kew Gardens, almost seems as though she was born & destined for the position.
My first thought was that she was descended from whoever was it was named after. I doubt she'd change her name for her job haha, that would be quite some dedication
You know a show is good when you sit with a cup of tea in front of your mouth and you forget to drink it….
I chronically forget teas I've made; so when it comes to me, for this show, I'd say when you're hungry and made food but you forget to bring it to the table and just sit and listen, while the wonderfully hot meal slowly becomes room-temperature.
@@edyo6190 Haha
This is spectacular! Best done program all around I've seen in quite some time 👍
Wish this series was eternal
I just have to wonder if the green wallpaper has arsenic in it..
Absolutely. I’m sure it does.
RIGHT??? After seeing how much of it was green, I was like "geez, I sure hope that's not the original paint/wallpaper, too." @_@
Well, now my bucket list is even longer. I always wanted to visit London, but now I really, really want to visit London. I love museums.
The middle class was growing. It became possible for more people to their spend money on entertainment and not just necessity. Hence the boom of theaters, museums, concert halls, etc... Competition between countries was also a driving force.
...And then 2020 happened, and the Middle class went back to being the Upper Lower class again 😉
@@masterdrewanthony Or, y'know, poor. Like I am. Shameful..
The poor only get poorer and the richer always get richer. There will be no fix and those that tout that they want to 'eat the rich' are already rich autocrats themselves who lie.
@@redline1916 I agree until the last bit. I am not the least bit rich, but I would like them served in front of me in an extremely rich soup or sandwich of some sort. A majority of my friends aren't rich either, and they would like to see the same.
That museum is so magnificent! I would love to visit it one day!! 😍♥️
What a fascinating video, and from what I have read, series.
I will be sure to watch it all.
Thank you kindly.
Definitely shed a tear at that monument for Albert, absolutely gorgeous. 😊💙✨
Ikr she just really loved her husband and he loved her. But she knew that he also loved the museum he created for the people so she honored him there with something that she knew people all over would look at as a part of the museum also. It’s almost poetic
This is so well done!!!
I've really enjoyed this series -- I'm an American, but I'm fascinated by history in general. The Victorian era was truly an amazing period in British history! Now I just wish there was a documentary somewhere that covers the same time period in the US, so I could see how different, or how similar, life in the US was compared to life in Britain. I'm also pretty sure that a lot of the things that happened in Britain in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, also influenced a lot of things in the States as well!
The Retro Decade Revival Project is gonna make your dreams come true.
Theres a lot of good stuff about American life on TH-cam like the Townsends, which is earlier, colonial period but its true I don't think I have seen anything about and made in America as good and indepth while being entertaining on social history as these documentaries about Britain by the BBC.
@@creepydoll2872 All that is going to change.
Outstanding video--thank you.
That was really amazing. Thank you
FINALLY! always wondered about this
I loved this series
I absolutely love museums. Any kind of museum and ,when I stayed in London for awhile I visited a lot of them and ,there are some awesome museums in England.
As a native and 53 year resident of Florida, I just can't understand anybody's obsession with palm trees.
They're diversity plays a huge part in this fascination... They can be tall and lean or very bulky, their fruits range from small orange berries to huge brown fruits, some have fan shaped leaves, others he them longer, feather like... And obviously the fact they're practically unexistent in northern Europe helps too haha
Hahaha I know what you mean. I'm not Floridian so I love palm trees, but I feel that way about the Canadian landscape where I grew up. It all seems so boring to me, but I guess that's because that's all I ever see. Sometimes when I try to see it through new eyes, I can appreciate the beauty more
@@monkiram I once read that there are a million plant species native to North America and half of them are native to Florida. But what this really means is that my yard needs mowing.
@@christianpatriot7439 😂
I know a bit about Jumbo the Elephant's life post-London Zoo. He was sold to famous Circus promoter, PT Barnum and toured all over the USA for many years. When he died, Jumbo's pachyderm body was stuffed, and sent to Tufts University near Boston where he remained until the 1970s in Barnum Hall ( PT Barnum was a trustee of Tufts). In 1998, the University built a replica of Jumbo outside of Barnum hall for a cost of 50k. Jumbo is the official mascot of the university.
I'm obsessed with this channel! Pls let me be a Britain in my next life!...it's the only way I would be able to see all this history! Grateful for your work...happy in Texas
if your able you could just travel there! or maybe become a dual citizen? but i do agree myself as an american i love british culture!
You can be dual. It's not frowned upon as bad as it used to be.
A fellow history loving Texan! Always nice to see. ☺️❤️
why? if i ever seen that queen id spit at her feet and tell her she is the epitomy of pure evil, id love to see her or any royal live one year on a minimum wage job, they are humans but believe they are above everyone else, they should turn the buildings they own into gov funded housing for the poor and handicapped, that's what Jesus would do
Tack!
Anyone else notice Michael looks like Ian McKellen?
Funny! I was thinking the same thing!
Yes! At first I thought he Was Ian McKellen so I checked the description box.
This is a fantastic episode, loved every second of it!! I watched it twice in a row, it was that good. I wanted to go back and see everything again and pick up on all the things I might’ve missed the first time. Very informative, extremely interesting, and without any shade thrown at the Victorians for their empiricism, or trying to delve into social issues, gender issues, race issues… Just a pure celebration of the grandeur and accomplishments and progress of the era. It’s refreshing, rather than having those other things that we are all WELL aware of at this point being shoved in our faces at every possible turn. It’s nice to just celebrate the achievements once in a while.
the great hall at the beginning looks like the arc in angels egg and ghost in shell
How does absolute history make money if all this awesome content is available for free? As a small youtube I how I can one day make documentries.
This is heavily monetized. I got around 10 commercial ads interrupting the documentary. Even worse - from what I've heard, this isn't even content this channel has created, but taken from the original.
@@misspeach3755 It's not taken. It's licensed from the content owners. Most of these series aired many years ago on Channel 4/BBC/ITV/etc. In the UK, there is a requirement for all stations to have a minimum amount of educational content. This means there is a bounty of professionally done content available to be licensed.
Case in point, directly from this video's description, "Content licensed from Drive TV to Little Dot Studios."
I love this series but I don't think there's been a single building on any episode that he hasn't described as a "cathedral" lol
Actually so sad that this is the last in the series.
Now if I'm ever lucky enough to be in London I know the places I want to see.😁
Can anyone suggest me some books about the victorian era and stuff like that. I'm italian but I'm very fascinated by this period.
Try “How to Be a Victorian” by Ruth Godman, very interesting and informative!
If that was my building for sale. That’s what I would’ve done with it.
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Alice needs me in her life
I wonder how different history would have been if Prince Albert had lived. Perhaps he could have mitigated the march towards war and encouraged cooperation with Germany and constitutional monarchy. I think he was one of the greatest monarchs.
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This video inspired me to buy a book on Marianne North, Fearless Worl Traveler, for my neice. She loves art, plants, nature, and she's going to grow up knowing she can do it.
"Brought home" LOl you mean stolen.
I’m honestly surprised she said it’s part dinosaur also - a reptile…dinosaurs are proven to not be rooted in the same genus as reptiles but rather come from the same common ancestor of birds
Higher education is still hoarded by the owning class, in many countries it hasn't become public
All the museum pieces are perfect store pieces.
I didn’t pay attention to the name of the building at 5:27. However. You should make that into a store.
Still think it is shitty how most stuff in museums of the British where stollen from there proper homes and or desecrated
It would have been far shittier to leave it to be destroyed where it was.
I wish a little more time was spent on the complexities of museums. On the one hand, museums do incredible work when it comes to conservation and when it comes to educating the public. I adore museums.
On the other, this documentary completely sidesteps all of the ethical issues with sourcing materials for museums, especially when it comes to taking works that rightfully belong to other countries and cultures. In 2021, I would hope that historians would treat the concept of "empire" as the bloody, repressive force it is rather than something to be glorified because it let the Victorians look at some neat stuff.
Oh my God. Stop beating that tired old drum for five seconds. The horse is dead, stop whipping it. We have had the knowledge of how these antiquities were acquired shoved in our faces for literally decades now. For once, just shut up about it and let people enjoy these fantastic collections, these wonderful achievements, and stop trying to make everybody miserable and take the joy out of all of it. Why can’t you people just let everyone else enjoy things once in a while? Why do you have to leech the joy out of it by standing on your soapbox and preaching to us?? SHHHHHH
@@hideyourloveaway128 Well said! Could not have said it better myself.
Oh pkease thats all we effing hear about every day . You lot complaining about the united kingdoms past .. never digging up your own ancestors transgressions it just white people bad .. im sick of it all ready .. just don't watch it then you don't have to complain .. 😡😡😡😡😡
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I really wish the propaganda was toned down in some of these and the truth was was focused on more. The Victorians did some great things but some of that came from unethical men and colonialism. Still a decent series.
It’s like Anthropology The Store but with furniture instead of clothing. If it was clothing it’s REI
Today's art and architecture is nothing but a backlash bargain at beauty, craftsmanship and eternal values. Today we have the technology to mass produce great buildings. Why is that the Japanese and Chinese copy great British and European architecture, while European artists and architects seem to compete for uglinrss.
I wish they never opened Zoo's. Such bad places. Animal sanctuaries with big areas for the animals are so much beter.
10:54 The host is completely non-objective in his view of museums.
It's a shame that this documentary doesn't go into the ethical issues surrounding the acquisitions of museum pieces. It feels like they're glorifying its history too much.
Jesus. As if that hasn’t been shoved down our throats for literally decades. No one is ignorant of how the British Empire was built or how these acquisitions were made. For once, for ONCE, just let people enjoy something!!! Why do you self-righteous types have to be such downers, standing on your soapbox and preaching to everybody, trying to suck the joy out of everything. Just effing enjoy the documentary, marvel at the wonders and celebrate the achievements and progress made, and stop being a pedantic keyboard social justice warrior.
They need to give back the stuff they took
@@hideyourloveaway128 No need to get your panties in a twist seems like you're more pressed about the subject than I am.
@@hideyourloveaway128 jesus, you're so pressed. Guess the truth hurts😏
@@mimidoll13 nice bit of gaslighting there. But it is after all what you woke guilt-artists are best at.
Charles Darwin, meh.
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God bless the white man
And then you can make it into an apartment complex
and maybe one lucky college kid who works at the Starbucks down the street
As a (non-British) history student this mainly felt like a glorification instead of a nuanced view. I‘m a bit disappointed
Who cares about your arrogant opinion.. don't like don't watch . Woke 🤡
@@annaverano5843 lmfao someone's a bit butthurt
@@tyrennosaur i quite enjoyed what I saw .. your the one who watches things like this that sets off your triggers so much so that you even have to leave your negative woke opinion. What a miserable life to lead watching youtube videos to find something offensive just so you can virtue signal your wokeness.. lol
@@annaverano5843 All they want is a more well-rounded exploration of history. That isn't woke. I would like to know how some of these artifacts were acquired as well so that I have a better understanding of what went on. It's not that big of a deal. I still found the information they did portray interesting, but it would be a lie to think that it wasn't extremely one-sided.
Eles literalmente roubaram essas relíquias dos outros países
Which museum and which pieces are you referring to?
For super wealthy educational type people and high class middle class workers that run/operate own the food stands nearby
Why not make documentary by the atrocities of their Colonial rule and their loot....
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Why not look up what you want to know, it would be a programme by itself. If every aspect of every historical programme was included, it would be horrendously long and difficult to take in. Every Empire is by definition unfair and brutal etc, and has always been the history of mankind. When you see programmes of the Roman (Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, Benin, Carthaginian, Spanish, Portugese, Netherlands, Norwegian-Viking )Empire, all of your anger would be the same, but that's not the point of the programme. So watch if your interested or close your mind to Empires, if they upset your personal values, but as I long as it is mainly factual I will watch.
@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 Thank you for noticing my comment....No doubt British Raj left many adorable things...but since the museums specifically glorify their theft..it's hilarious watching people taking pride in their loot... anyway..Britishers took Indian gold,silver,Kohinoor etal and funded their luxury at home keeping their fellow Indian subjects hungry.... Nevertheless India had shown her Magnanimity by sending her MOST VALUABLE TREASURE ie SRIMAD BHAGVAT GITA through one of her great sons AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada the Founder Acharya of ISKCON.
You mean stolen artifacts from lands they've colonize... Ugh.
You must be at so much fun at parties. I’ll bet people love it when you stand up on your soapbox and lecture at them about all the things they are doing wrong, rather than just enjoying something for once. Do you ever turn it off? Do you ever just try to enjoy things without beating people over the heads with your white guilt??
I know right. Such a shame
Cmon English people stop liveing in past
The past is important. All of us have a past both individually and collectively and without the past there is no present or future. English people don't live in the past, but they value it because they realise its importance.
It kinda sucks that you sugar coated the history but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Entertainment and propaganda over history, right? Not the first time I was disappointed with you videos and I don't think I'll bother with them anymore