For now, there is nothing stopping us from giving you a “Thanks” or a “Super Thanks”, Lucy. Until you can gain from monetization to fund your adventures and increase your on line teaching to all of us around the world… possibly consider thanking viewers for their support through the one time payment system option. You run a small business so I hope that you will appreciate that your TH-cam explores should at the very least be breaking even! Love traveling with you💞 Thank you for putting the stories of women and the working class at the forefront of your storytelling 🥰
You are so welcome! and thanks for your feedback, yes, I completely agree with you, and I truly believe YT should be free and a level playing field regarding everyone being able to watch, I saw a documentary about a boy who watched videos to learn how to play the piano from a small village in Kenya and now he is playing to concert halls - he wouldn't have had that opportunity behind a pay wall. Thanks so much for your support sister - I've got your back x
I totally agree, I watch the ads to help give my favourite TH-camrs a bit more funds. Not everyone can pay but watching ads and sharing, subscribing and 👍🏻 can all help support the channel.
I have an idea up my sleeve about this actually! A bit of "living history enactment" but I am building myself up to powdered eggs and liver .. I am on it I promise :)
This video is definitely not a cop out, it’s wonderful to get to know you better. You have just confirmed what I thought about you, you are fantastic. Rupert is adorable and I can only imagine how busy he is keeping you. Enjoy his puppy days, they go by fast! I’ve been telling everyone I know about your videos. My grandparents were from England and getting to see places similar to where and what they might have experienced is fantastic, especially since I’m working on my family tree at the moment. Really making it come to life. Thank you ❤ from 🇨🇦
Hi Lucy, Your channel is an absolute blessing to me. My ancestors came from the working-class areas of Castleford and Rawmarsh in Yorkshire, and your videos provide a wonderful connection to the museums in England that I might never have the chance to visit. My grandparents emigrated to Australia in the late 60s and thus it’s where I live. As a fellow Lucie, I'm delighted to share your channel and help you reach new milestones-let’s get you to 10,000 subscribers and beyond to 100,000! Have you considered adding a link for donations so your dedicated viewers can support the continuation of your amazing work? They’ll still be able to access your channel for free but can donate if they wish. Many channels have it and call it “buy me a coffee” etc. Some channels I follow also have a Wishlist on Amazon set up so their subscribers can help with things they might need such as camera equipment etc. Best wishes, Lucie
You are amazing Lucie - or course you are - it's a wonderful name .. FACT I have never met an unkind Lucy - strange when the connotations and origins of our name huh? I haven't to be honest, I'm kind of in the mindset I love doing what I do with completely free access but it's something I might consider in the future. You are lovely and greetings to Aus! L x
Now I understand my affinity for you and your channel-my FAVORITE field trip in primary school was Sturbridge village, a small recreated town in Massachusetts along the lines of colonial Williamsburg. Also open houses!
Open houses are JUST starting to be a thing over here .. we have always had open gardens for charity .. I would be all over it if there were more! British people are too reserved I think, never realise how fabulous things are! That museum sounds absolutely amazing!!!
Thank you, Lucy, you can´t imagine how much I enjoyed listening to your life story. Fascinating young woman you are. By the way, I´m 72 haha. Kind regards from Buenos Aires.
Lovely picture of you with Lucy Worsley 😊 I could listen to you chat all day, and I am so glad that I found your channel 😀 Whatever you do Lucy, I am here for it ❤
You are so lovely Margaret. I was so star struck when I met Lucy! I went to a talk she did about the most "successful" of Henry VIII's wives. I could have sat there all day with no water I was that transfixed!
Can I say about the memberships, TH-cam take 30% of the money so you need LOTS of members to make it worth it. Plus, there are many people that can't afford it (like me) and I think it's a bit unfair that some get to see content and others don't. If I paid £4.99 a month to see content from my favourite TH-camrs, I'd be paying a good £50 a month or more. That's just my opinion though.
@@jeepsthetimebandit@jeepsthetimebandit that's a real rip off 😒I'm glad that I don't have any channel memberships, I think I would think twice about it now if I did. I did expect there to be a small fee, but nothing like that 😕
Lucy met Lucy?! I'm so jealous! As a woman myself I always wonder what interesting women were out there that are lost to time. I think that's why I love Connie Willis' books so much, lots of time machines going back to study events for academic purposes. P.S. I love your couch! Thanks for the glimpse behind the lens. =)
I meant to say: I also love poking around in houses, I've always been interested in buildings and architecture. Housing holds a special place because it's purpose-built, preserved houses are a walk-through time capsule of the human condition, it connects us. Like the one video where you said something about how many people must've looked through those windows down into the courtyard, that's exactly what I always think of. I was in this old farm house several years back, keep in mind "old" for us in the US is not very old by your standards but it's what we have to work with. I also grew up in the Philadelphia area which has a lot of colonial history so as far as our version of old this is at the heart of it. Anyway, this old farmhouse: the owner told me the most endearing story, she pointed out a scratch in the glass of one of the window panes in an upstairs room. The story is that the farmer's daughter tested out the stone in her engagement ring on that window to see if it was a real diamond. That scratch is still there generations later, so long as we keep passing down the story she lives on!
Very welcome! The couch is sooo comfy!! It's a repro of a 1960s design by Conran without the price tag! I'm going to look up those books, they sound great xx
Thank you so much for doing a lovely Q&A. Wow, we are almost the same age! How cool is that? I'll have to admit when you showed us the picture of you and Lucy Worsley together I let out a shriek. OMG, she met The Lucy Worsley! 😁❤
She was so lovely too, had time to talk to me and listen to my wittering on. I was quite star struck though as I admire her work so much! Imagine being the head curator at Historical Royal Palaces - like WOW!
We are peas in a pod. I studied anthropology because I'm fascinated by how other people live. For the last 26 years, I've worked as an archeologist focusing on the historic period. I also love to bake. ❤😂🥰
My two choices of degree were archaeology at York or Soc His at Hull .. sometimes I regret not choosing the former, but also I don't think my knees couldn't handle it these days. I live on the back of a medieval graveyard and sometimes I go into the undergrowth at the back and have a little mini dig, ive found a few coins and some 14th century pot fragments. One I sent off to Bham museums as I had a feeling from the glaze it was Roman - and it WAS! Thank you Time Team ;)
@@throughlucyslens I always used to ask my Nan to tell me about the war. Living in South East London both sets of my Grandparents were bombed out and lost everything except the clothes they were wearing. In fact one of my Nan's was buried in the anderson shelter in the garden with 3 young children and she was pregnant again at the time, when the house fell on it. The neighbours dug them out thankfully. She told me she thought they were literally buried alive and she was always afraid of confined spaces after that.
Lucy❤❤❤ I love you sweetie!!! Let me tell the ways!!! Firstly, you are such a beautiful lady!!!! Inside and out ❤. Second, I love how you are humble and don't put on airs. Third, you have a lovely perspective and I love how you like looking in things, mooching around and how YOU express your love for learning and teaching!! Mostly on the Internet people don't feel real or accessible. You lovely 🌹, have responded to my messages! You are extremely respectful of the subjects you share and the people in the stories also. I so want to tell you that you are so enjoyable to watch. You are so beautiful and simply amazing!!! Love Heather from Iowa USA God bless you!!
Hey Heather, thanks for your lovely comment. I really appreciate it. I'm just me really - I don't know how to be anyone else! I admire people sometimes who can just "put it on" but I wouldn't be who I am if I did. I love having your here and look forward to you travelling with me in future ❤️
Thank you. I'm so happy I'm an 80s kid, although when I was at school I used to be dead jealous of the people in my class born in 1979 as it seemed cooler!
I know. It was not dissimilar to other large cities I've been to the world over - but with a plethera of Tim Hortons & amazing Chinese food (best Chinese meal I've ever had in my life!) so I was a happy bunny!
I am so thankful to you. (I'm 66 lol) I love social history and yes I have an Ancestry subscription which is annually birthday and Christmas present to myself. I love poking around houses and for some unknown reason I was intrigued and did heaps of research about convicts sent to Australia around the early 1800's. Which also led me into Irish history as many "rebels" were sent to Sydney. Just love finding out though it's mostly sad reading. Yes I was a mainstream teacher lol got kicked out as I apparently didn't fit in the square peg but loved teaching and the kids loved how I taught, so ho hum. Can't wait until "What Lucy does next" =-) Take care.
hahaha, I was a square peg teacher too - I was pulled into an office once and told I CARED TOO MUCH and I needed to concentrate more on attainment. I had kids in my class who didn't get fed so how could they concentrate on learning .. still boils my p thinking about it - anyway .. I digress! I go down rabbit holes too, and you are right it's often such sad reading, I get attached to random family lines on these websites sometimes and my heart breaks when I find an infant mortality or a workhouse admittance .. I can't wait to see what I do next either - I take things day by day! haha x
@@throughlucyslens When I was a day to dat reliever at one school I used to take fruit and bread in the classroom. It sounds so Dickensian but kids are still hungry, why hasn't society got better sigh that's right the big boys need to make money not feed kids.
@@lorrainerichardson3280 Yep. I used to take in these little brioche & fruit from Aldi, and toilet roll! At one point we had no toilet roll in the school!!! Or stationary for that matter, apparently the kids HAD to have their own stationary - but some just couldn't afford it so what were they supposed to write with? Feathers and ink .. it's ridiculous!
@@throughlucyslens sorry for butting in on this conversation between you both, but I thought I was worth mentioning that although I’m not a teacher and I’m 60 I feel very strongly about the school system too. Me and my son have long discussions about the system which we get frustrated about. Perhaps Lucy and Lorraine that is your calling to tell the real stories behind the scenes too. I’m glad you were the pegs that didn’t fit, be proud of that and stand up for the kids that need you most. ❤️❤️
He's my first one and I am getting used to his quirks - we are in the biting stage .. my goodness!! Thankfully he is quite gentle until he forgets himself, I keep telling him my hands are pretty important to me! haha
Well Lucy, that was BRILLIANT ! What a human being you are - so busy and still having time to make youtube videos for us. I'm with you as regards the 'payment' side of youtube. I think it's a swizz - people get lured in to a channel, then suddenly -' if you pay me you can get more content' ! TH-cam is supposed to be FREE to view. Anyway, enough ranting from me. Your Bedlington Terrier is gorgeous - I can see you are going to have a lot of fun with him around. Thanks for everything you do, it is so interesting to watch and you are a natural at presenting. Take special care 🙂 X X
Thanks Michael, I am on the same page about the memberships! It won't ever happen here don't worry! If I would never pay to join one why would I expect anyone else to? Rupert is driving me MAD today - the teething has kicked in with aplomb and I'm losing my mind - telling myself i'll be sad when he isn't a puppy anymore so to enjoy every bit - even the chewing! haha x
Here on east coast USA and just stumbled across you and soooo happy! I guess there are a lot of us interested in other peoples lives! I have read a lot and really appreciate you taking the time to make and share your videos. You should be able to benefit from your work! I am on board!
You are so lovely, I appreciate you and your input so much, I think because of the type of work I do in my job I'm used to volunteering my services and "expertise" a lot - it's a whole new world for me xx
Congratulations Lucy on all your subscribers! I am sure your channel will grow and grow because your topics are so interesting - I especially love looking into the every day life of ordinary people. I hope maybe you can one day look into historic Cornish everyday people's lives (just selfishly interested as my dad is Cornish). Look forward to your merchant navy research (my dad again) and I hope one day you can travel back to Japan too! Love from Australia
Thanks so much, I am so annoyed I went down to Cornwall on the night train and spent the day in Penzance, I was so tired I didn't take any footage because who knew you don't get any sleep on the night train? I will go back one day as it's a part of the UK still quite mysterious!
That would be interesting, so much industrial history. Richard Trevithick and his steam locomotive, Humphrey Davey and the safety lamp, he also discovered several elements including sodium and potassium. The ups and downs of the mining industry, dependent on the price of tin, a very precarious occupation. The Cornish miners took their skills all over the world. It was said that wherever you were in the world I f you looked down a hole you would find a Cornishman at the bottom. There were 62 on the Titanic, not all drowned.
I also love social history! During lockdown I got really into mudlarking. I was wondering if that is something that interested you too? It’s fascinating from a social history perspective. Basically a nosy through history’s rubbish bin! 😂xx
I LOVE Mud Larking! Do you watching Nicola White? I LOVE her!!! I would love to have a go but you have to have a licence. My husband takes the mick out of me as I am always looking on the floor to see if anything interesting pops up - asks me i've done much "ground larking" lately!! hahaha
@@throughlucyslens Absolutely LOVE Nicola White! Actually you with your stripes on in this vid reminded me a bit of her. I’m exactly the same desperate to go to London to have the best Mudlarking experience! Also a big fan of Si-finds. He’s great too. ☺️
I just ❤ social history. I enjoy visiting National Trust or Historic houses as I like to see the servants kitchens, staircases and their living areas. Much more interesting than who owned the homes. I'm interested in all the people behind the scenes. 😄
That was so interesting. My own love of history was, I think, birthed by my parents. We never went on week long holidays. It was always day trips to the seaside or places like York. In York museum I remember being most fascinated by the reconstructed streets, and later I was delighted to discover that Kirkstall museum in Leeds had a similar, although smaller, set up. Living in Leeds at that time, in my early twenties I used to hop on a bus to visit both the abbey ruins and the museum. I am more of a history skimmer, having ended formal education at eighteen. My experience of school history lessons really put me off any kind of formal education on the matter. We concentrated on political history and the only part that I found remotely interesting, as a teen, was when we drifted into learning about workers housing conditions during the industrial revolution. I would rather know about people than Bismarck's Foreign Policy! Your little tours are fascinating, not least because they show how much history lurks all around us, in plain sight. Please continue to make them.
I will !!! The York Castle Museum had the same effect on me - it's crazy isn't it ! I visited again last year and I was SO SAD the Victorian Street was closed .. that was the part that really sparked my imagination. Eugh, political history .. I am yawning typing that. Sadly it comes into everything .. ruddy politics .. but I avoid it when I can even if I have to throw in the odd date and parliamentary act! I am very grateful my history teacher was a man of the people and he really got me into the industrial revolution, teaching me songs to remember the political bits - I tried to be that kind of teacher but my goodness it's nearly impossible these days with all the .. you guess it .. POLITICS!
Lovely video Lucy! Nice to get to know you a little better. Love the colors in your living room. Looking forward to the next adventure. Greetings from Amsterdam 🌷🙋♀️
Thank you! I love living in a bright and colourful space, it cheers me up, particularly when we don't get many bright days here (I know you are similar in Amsterdam)
You are doing amazing Lucy 🥰 if you don't want to put the limitations of membership/patrion on your channel (which I'll be honest puts me right off them because it can penalise the loyal subscribers that have helped to build the channel) You could always add a thing called 'buy me a coffee' 😉 That way viewers can give you what they can when they can 😊 Much luvs as always sweetheart. 😘🥰💚
Wonderful to get to know you better, we have a lot in common! You mentioned seeing the Spanish Gallion so you might really enjoy seeing Brunel's SS Great Britain in Bristol. Saw it on my trip to England last year and it was one of my favourite days! Kisses to Rupert and all the best for your future adventures on the channel!
Thank you! I would love to visit the SS Great Britain. I visited the royal naval museum in Plymouth and was there so long they had to ask me to leave when it closed 🤣
Thank you for sharing. Congratulations on reaching 5000+. Your puppy is gorgeous. I get where you are coming from about paid membership. I think you should do what you are comfortable with. Thanks again for creating your channel. x
Hi Lucy! This was great, thank you! I loved learning more about your life and could relate to SOOOO many things you said! Especially the feeling like I hadn't achieved enough!!! If you're anything like me, it won't change a damn thing to hear someone say otherwise, but goddamn woman! You have done amazing things!!! You have changed careers, built your own business with a social conscience AND are no building a TH-cam empire and providing us all with wonderful entertainment and education and an escape from the real world!!! This is a bit personal, but I think part of my problem of not feeling I have achieved enough is that as a society, we generally look to marriage and kids as a bar of success and if you don't have both of those I feel like we feel we have to prove our worth 100 times over with anything else we do, maybe subconsciously we even feel we need to prove it to ourselves! This is so freaking sexist and backwards though! Also, not saying that's your situation, that's just my personal opinion and self-reflection! But maybe like me, you are so aware of the need in the world, that whatever we do, it never seems enough! Especially in terms of helping disadvantaged people. In conclusion, you are awesome and have ALREADY achieved so many more things than most people will in their entire lives!! :) In terms of membership, I am struggling with the same debate. But if you think of the membership as adding on extras for those interested/able to afford it, rather than taking away from others who can't, then it is a way for you to make a little extra for the time and effort you put into these videos. We appreciate it, so many people WANT to show their appreciation by sending some money your way. If you're not comfortable with memberships (and seriously, who has time to make extra content, or release vids early!), you could consider something like "Buy me a Coffee". People who choose to can then make a one-off donation as a thank you, or a monthly one if they choose. Just a thought! Ok, I really need to stop lecturing you and go and take some of my own advice!! 🤣
Massively agree with you! I read this comment this morning and I've sat on it all day wanting to reply! Yep I'll never be the "full package female" as I've just chosen not to do the same things - but that also makes us not only individual but interesting. I think that's totally a part of the way I feel. People think it's okay to ask why I haven't had kids like it's a throw away comment ... my business was my baby, and I'm sure this will (already is) be the same. I'll have a think about the memberships. It's hard as my business mind fights against my rational mind / heart all the time. I think it should be free! You know where I am on insta if you want to chat doll x
Lucy I’m loving your channel! Seeing how the every Joe Blow lived is incredible & brings back some memories of what my Mum & Dad would talk about. They immigrated here to New Zealand from Scotland after the Second World War. Let’s face it there would be no grand places anywhere in the world if it wasn’t for the hard work & talents performed by your every day worker. Love Rupert & I know what you mean when you say he’s the best thing that’s happened to you in a long time. Love your 2 up & 2 down, looks so cute. Until next time, take care 🤗🥰🤗
Thanks Heather, exactly!! I always think that - like who actually BUILT Hampton Court Palace? Hmmm that might be an interesting video actually - thanks for sparking that in me! :)
Exactly the same, I used to play in old air raid shelters, while the other kids ran around playing tick or hide and seek, I was interested in how people managed down there and what was it like for the children. At Stately homes I wanted to see the rooms that were not open like servants quarters
This has really made me laugh and totally reminded me of the time I insisted we turned our dining room table into a Morrison Shelter along with rations and scratchy blankets - I bashed my head getting out and split my head open - the dangers of "war" eh .. haha.
I’m not sure how your channel fed into my algorithm, probably because I watch a lot of history videos, but weirdly not a lot of travel videos. I’m so glad I discovered your channel. You seem very fun and I bet it would be awesome to hang out with someone who cares about history too and cares about the stories of the every day people who are the building blocks of every great civilization. I live in Texas,USA, and as a liberal who cares about workers and marginalized groups, I enjoy learning about the struggles and lives of people in the past. Your content is informative and has brought me to places I’d not seen or known about otherwise. I’m looking forward to further journeys! Adorable puppy ❤.
Thank you, it's really lovely to hear from you, I guess this channel is mostly social history but the travel aspect comes in actually going to the places. Really pleased to have you with me, I hope I can continue to show you some more awesome stuff! I have loads up my "digital sleeve" :)
A very honest and interesting insight Lucy, Thank you. Your channel deserves exploding. You’re so interesting and honest. (I’m 45 shortly 😂) I love bridges, and today for the first time ever while I’ve been delivering around London with my job I went over tower bridge, wow wow wow what a structure. I’ve popped a video on my channel. I’m a terrier guy, Jack Russells and borders, your Bedlington is gorgeous 😍
I love JRT! I had a parsons called Jess for 21 years! She was a marvel! The most unforgettable job. We've had a wire fox and my sister has an Airedale. I think once you have a terrier you are hooked! I love bridges too 🤣🤣 came over the most amazing suspension bridge on the way to Norfolk today and we had to stop for a photo! I get it!
In Iowa USA we have lots of wonderful historical places here!!! Like Usher's Ferry and a village right next. During the summer, which gets hotter than blazes, Seminole Valley. Volunteers put on the costumes and teach as if we are actually in the 1800's!!! And sometimes they do war reenactments. Also lots of education on the Indian Histories. (Native Americans) I'm actually related to the Usher's and in the village they actually have the home my great grandmother grew up in. It's super beyond amazing because all of it is as authentic as possible. Families donate items with the caviot that their stories are shared with all the other wonderful things. When I say village I really mean an actual tourable homes, Drs home, an old one room school that were all lovingly refurbished to be as authentic as possible. There's a railroad depot., a blacksmith's shop. An old store where you can buy a cool old fashioned soda, lemonade and stick candy. Like a candycane only straight. I'm so blessed that I, like you, love the stories and experiences!!! My olders ( elders for others) knew that I was respectful and quiet. They knew I was actually listening and asked them all kinds of questions, waiting my turn politely. They were the doorway to other times! More than tv, I would really rather hanging out with them. Not any of my other family ever gave a listening ear, was respectful, but would rather be finding ways to get into trouble.
My mouth is watering for that old fashioned soda. It sounds amazing! The USA holds such a huge interest for me because honestly I don't know enough about it, we aren't taught much in the English education system past the Boston tea party and it's so rich and fascinating! I need to come to learn more don't I? ❤️
Hi Lucy! So happy to see that you and Rupert are getting along nicely! He’s absolutely GORGEOUS! Now that you given us a little bit of your background, I’m very here laughing to myself imagining you going into Harrods and looking at the prices of food items and gouging their paying customers To advertise their joint ! 🤣🤣 Not funny really, let’s just say then …..”there’s a sucker born every minute.” So what kind of music do you listen to? I’m a music lover and film buff and I’m so curious what other people like to listen to or watch. Take care, congrats on your increase of subscribers! Cheers, ox💕🇺🇸
Music wise I'm quite an old soul! I was brought up on the Beatles because of my Dad but I also love 70s & 80s & 90s .. after the 2000s I just go off it 🤣 I'm mostly into more alternative genres, I love metal & punk but I also love a bit of 90s rave and 80s synth pop - easily pleased :)
@@throughlucyslens yep…..I assumed that might be the music you enjoy/enjoyed considering your age. I’m a decade and a few years plus older than you .I grew up in a musical called household…lots of musicians and performers in my family. My dad’s baby sister was 10 years older than me…she begged to see the Beatles @ The Hollywood Bowl. My gran said k, ONLY if you take Little Linda along to chaperone. Hahaha can you imagine?? I went…but freaked out cuz my auntie was hysterical like all the other ladies crying over J,P,G, and Ringo! Couldn’t hear a thing but screamin’. 🙉🙉🙉 Depends on my mood, events of the day what music I like. Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie (could listen to him 24/7😑) Electronic/Techno, Kylie Minogue, Jazz Fusion, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, no hip hop….it just doesn’t speak to me. Anywaaaay…..will bother you next time asking what movies do you love! Cheers, 💕🇺🇸
Have you looked into the history of your house, I did this after discovering a photo from 1918 and wanted to know more about the lady stood in the doorway, I traced back and put a name to the face
I have! Interestingly my house and my neighbours house looks very different to all the others on the road, they were built along with the school opposite (sadly the school is now flats) for the head teacher and the school teacher. In the 2 census I found there were 14 people living here at one point, blew my mind as just the two of us get in each others way! haha
Hi Lucy i missed your q,a session today im sorry but I am with you on listening to my family's history i always loved my grandparents telling about their childhood and what they did with their lives, my mums dad was a master baker for mother's pride bakery in Cheltenham throughout the ww 2 until 1960 when they closed down and then moved to baxsters the butchers at Gloucester as head baker making all their pastry products i loved going with him on a Saturday or Sunday morning to the factory on his day off the smell was lovely he even showed me where the live animals came in and was processed i was only 7,8 years old, he always brought some sort of pie's and meat to our family on a Saturday teatime and a big turkey at Christmas but working in all that flour all dust killed him in the end and I still miss him and loved his stories he came from a very poor family but me and my sisters all loved him you my feel very proud that you are helping your local community you make feel proud just listening to you today never put yourself down i am looking forward to more of your history stories you have such a lovely way of telling them keep safe, roy copenhagen denmark 😊😊.
Thank you so much, I miss Mothers Pride bread !! It was my favourite, in it's lovely wax paper and so fluffy and soft inside! For my fave corned beef sandwich. It's such a shame to hear about the flour dust - I actually wear a mask these days in my bakery because the environmental health lady warned me about lung conditions from being around flour all day long. We are lucky to have such info these days. x
Thank you for this lovely explanation of your passion for history. From across the pond, I enjoy your presentations about how everyday British folks have lived through the decades. I tie the information you present directly into what I know of European and sometimes world history. Here in America we imagine England as a place of either royalty or nobility, or posh London flats and so on. I've enjoyed watching some BBC America broadcasts (Vera, for one) and some TH-cam channels to peer behind this shiny exterior. Your videos offer a kind and understanding view of the lives of everyday folk. Suffice it to say, many people live humbly in America as well, to this day. We've inherited quite a bit of cultural DNA from England. That said, here is a thought: I understand your desire to keep your TH-cam videos free so they can be available to anyone. There however might be some who would like to return that favor and support you a bit as you do this work. I'm a mere TH-cam consumer and not a content creator, but I wonder if maybe you could offer 'memberships' or 'levels of support' that give your subscribers early or special access to things like previews, live tours, or do live Q and A's. After a period of time, you could release this content free and amass a collection of videos. I don't know how successful these strategies are for content creators. I wonder if the rub might be how much work needs to go into these different kinds of productions. I'm trying to imaging a way your audience can send a bit of support back to you as well, as thanks for your work, and maybe help you free up your time so you can do more.
Equally I think of America with huge condo houses with pools and air conditioning - "like the movies" but I know there are similar social problems to what we have here too. I like to get the real story and I love people who share my point of view, thanks for your feedback on the membership thing too.food for thought xx
@@throughlucyslens I live in a large, Northeastern city with ageing housing stock that has been a colonial city, an industrial city, a city of immigrants, and post world war II city that endured racial tensions exacerbated by poverty. These evolutions are preserved in the very buildings and streets of our city. Today, many neighborhoods are being gentrified and the character of theses once tight knit communities is evaporating with the freshly drying paint. Here is a question: after WWII with the great housing shortage in Britain, was housing built specifically for war veterans and their families? We had that here, as well as the GI Bill that financed college for former soldiers, and it gave many young men a boost in life as thanks for their sacrifice and service. Much of this housing went into decline, but it's much sought after today in some urban areas. Again -- thanks for your work and I look forward to your future videos.
Thanks Laurie: we did built some, mostly prefabs for returning soldiers and their families but I'm not sure other that that there was much else, post war was a time of austerity so there wasn't the social budget for more than the minimum regeneration, for that reason many of the bombed out areas in city remained there right into the 1950s where regeneration started more fruitfully.
@@throughlucyslens Thank you -- I'm well familiar with images of bombed out areas of London -- how you guys suffered during the Blitz -- and the austerity England endured through the 1950's. Post WWII, America was flush with cash and so full of optimism. Our middle classes grew and prospered. We never experienced the dire need to sacrifice and come together for a common cause such as rebuilding the very fabric of our nation. Our economic prosperity, however, began shrinking in the 1970's and the cultural shocks of this reverberate daily in American politics and popular culture.
I used to love history at school, but I wasn't able to go on the school trips as they were for the history club only, and when I tried to join I wasn't allowed as I was a girl and it was boy's only (1990's) If you are ever back in the South East you would love The Weald and Downland open air museum, it is where they filmed The Tudor Monestry farm with Ruth Goodman (When I visited I ended up sitting next to her in the cafe, I was too shy to talk to her) But they cover loads of time periods and focus on the everyday person rather than the rich and famous.
Ohhh that sounds brilliant. Thank you for the recommendation. I love Ruth Goodman too! She's so passionate and i read she had no formal education which made me love her more x
Not a sporty type Lucy, petrolhead ? We had a family corner shop which I also ran at a young age. It had one unusual benefit was the counter in the middle. The boy could sit on the counter, the girl stood up in front of you cuddled up and,.....share a Dairy Milk(after the shutters were down)! That might have made a great poster !
I live in a two up two down too. It was built about 1900 by the Sykes family for the workers of his bleach works in Edgeley, Stockport. I don't know if he was a Quaker, but he really looked after his workers.
They are the best aren't they? Mine was built for the little school across the road. One house was for the head teacher (next door - slightly bigger) and this house was originally for a school teacher - single of course as you weren't allowed to be married and still teach.
@@jeepsthetimebandit I think it was just the unwritten societal rules that women in "professions" such as teaching or nursing couldn't work after they were married ... probably as they were supposed to be at home making babies and making sure their house was "correct" - a different world.
Hey, age is a privilege, age is a privilege that's what I tell myself when ANOTHER wrinkle shows up on my forehead. I am going to look like a Shar-pei by the time I'm 50 !
HI Lucy, I love your channel. I have a degree in US and English History with Sociology so you are right up my road in interest. I can't wait to see your trip on Monday to Great Yarmouth. I want to visit there and then Plymouth to see the Mary Rose and Lord Nelson's ship. I had to laugh when you say toilets because I told my husband I wanted to make a Toilets of Europe book for bathrooms. LOL My weird humor. LOL!!! I am sorry I missed your questions I have been super busy babysitting my Grandson. Have a fun trip to Great Yarmouth! I would love to see some Richard III or information on WWII homefront and rationing. My husband and I are going to do a mock rationing diet after our vacation next month. xx Becki in Oregon
Hey Victoria, you will LOVE Plymouth! It's AMAZING!!! I spent so long at the Royal Naval Museum my companions all just went and sat back in the car and I turned up two hours later when they kicked me out - it's EXCEPTIONAL. Nelsons ship has a really strange vibe - you will know what I mean. you can't believe how many people were living in that space while rocking and rolling on the sea too. I can certainly help you with Richard III ... I am going to Leicester in June :) x
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For now, there is nothing stopping us from giving you a “Thanks” or a “Super Thanks”, Lucy. Until you can gain from monetization to fund your adventures and increase your on line teaching to all of us around the world… possibly consider thanking viewers for their support through the one time payment system option. You run a small business so I hope that you will appreciate that your TH-cam explores should at the very least be breaking even! Love traveling with you💞 Thank you for putting the stories of women and the working class at the forefront of your storytelling 🥰
You are so welcome! and thanks for your feedback, yes, I completely agree with you, and I truly believe YT should be free and a level playing field regarding everyone being able to watch, I saw a documentary about a boy who watched videos to learn how to play the piano from a small village in Kenya and now he is playing to concert halls - he wouldn't have had that opportunity behind a pay wall. Thanks so much for your support sister - I've got your back x
I totally agree, I watch the ads to help give my favourite TH-camrs a bit more funds. Not everyone can pay but watching ads and sharing, subscribing and 👍🏻 can all help support the channel.
Would love to see some Homefront content. I'm so fascinated by how normal people coped with the Blitz.
That's a good one.
I have an idea up my sleeve about this actually! A bit of "living history enactment" but I am building myself up to powdered eggs and liver .. I am on it I promise :)
You don't have to eat the liver or powdered eggs. Blech 😮 Just be your wonderful teaching/describing self.❤
@@throughlucyslens l love liver and onions
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Well done Lucy such a genuine young lady take care. ✨✨✨✨
Thank you Paul, you too, thank you for your lovely comment x
AWWW! You're amazing! I'm not at all surprised at your work 😊
Thank you :)
This video is definitely not a cop out, it’s wonderful to get to know you better. You have just confirmed what I thought about you, you are fantastic. Rupert is adorable and I can only imagine how busy he is keeping you. Enjoy his puppy days, they go by fast! I’ve been telling everyone I know about your videos. My grandparents were from England and getting to see places similar to where and what they might have experienced is fantastic, especially since I’m working on my family tree at the moment. Really making it come to life. Thank you ❤ from 🇨🇦
You are so kind, that means a lot, thank you! I'm still in shock anyone watches them let alone likes them to be honest! X
Hi Lucy, Your channel is an absolute blessing to me. My ancestors came from the working-class areas of Castleford and Rawmarsh in Yorkshire, and your videos provide a wonderful connection to the museums in England that I might never have the chance to visit. My grandparents emigrated to Australia in the late 60s and thus it’s where I live.
As a fellow Lucie, I'm delighted to share your channel and help you reach new milestones-let’s get you to 10,000 subscribers and beyond to 100,000! Have you considered adding a link for donations so your dedicated viewers can support the continuation of your amazing work? They’ll still be able to access your channel for free but can donate if they wish. Many channels have it and call it “buy me a coffee” etc. Some channels I follow also have a Wishlist on Amazon set up so their subscribers can help with things they might need such as camera equipment etc.
Best wishes,
Lucie
You are amazing Lucie - or course you are - it's a wonderful name .. FACT I have never met an unkind Lucy - strange when the connotations and origins of our name huh? I haven't to be honest, I'm kind of in the mindset I love doing what I do with completely free access but it's something I might consider in the future. You are lovely and greetings to Aus! L x
What a baby doggy. And you are the best person to do this research because you care about it.
Thank you. I really appreciate that. I can't wait to get my teeth into the research, there's a lot to do - and I can't wait x
Thanks!
OMG - thank you so much, I am speechless! So kind xxxxx
Now I understand my affinity for you and your channel-my FAVORITE field trip in primary school was Sturbridge village, a small recreated town in Massachusetts along the lines of colonial Williamsburg. Also open houses!
Open houses are JUST starting to be a thing over here .. we have always had open gardens for charity .. I would be all over it if there were more! British people are too reserved I think, never realise how fabulous things are! That museum sounds absolutely amazing!!!
I see baby Rupert and I click 🥰
Massive congratulations on 6k subscribers gorgeous. Always proud of you ❤
Thank you, Bitey Mc Bite is on the BITE today - he is driving me mad, wanna borrow him?
@@throughlucyslensAnytime! Dolly would probably scarper off with you though, she’s gotten proper grumpy with other animals lately
Reading through the comments you have a great community of like minded social history followers. Fun =-)
I do ! you are all the best :)
Thank you, Lucy, you can´t imagine how much I enjoyed listening to your life story. Fascinating young woman you are. By the way, I´m 72 haha. Kind regards from Buenos Aires.
Age is a feeling ... you are I'm sure young at heart and I love to hear from you Maria xx
Lovely picture of you with Lucy Worsley 😊 I could listen to you chat all day, and I am so glad that I found your channel 😀 Whatever you do Lucy, I am here for it ❤
You are so lovely Margaret. I was so star struck when I met Lucy! I went to a talk she did about the most "successful" of Henry VIII's wives. I could have sat there all day with no water I was that transfixed!
@@throughlucyslens I'll bet you were! She's just so good at keeping her audience interested, and so are you ☺
OMG! I would have been too!! She is my history hero!! Total fangirl! @@throughlucyslens
Can I say about the memberships, TH-cam take 30% of the money so you need LOTS of members to make it worth it.
Plus, there are many people that can't afford it (like me) and I think it's a bit unfair that some get to see content and others don't.
If I paid £4.99 a month to see content from my favourite TH-camrs, I'd be paying a good £50 a month or more.
That's just my opinion though.
Well said - I totally agree. TH-cam should be FREE !
We are completely on the same page about this like I said in the video, I won't ever do it, I couldn't x
TH-cam take 30%! 😲 That's ridiculous 😒
@MargaretUK It's all a rip off. Patreon takes between 12 and 15% depending on the number of memberships.
@@jeepsthetimebandit@jeepsthetimebandit that's a real rip off 😒I'm glad that I don't have any channel memberships, I think I would think twice about it now if I did. I did expect there to be a small fee, but nothing like that 😕
Lucy met Lucy?! I'm so jealous!
As a woman myself I always wonder what interesting women were out there that are lost to time. I think that's why I love Connie Willis' books so much, lots of time machines going back to study events for academic purposes.
P.S. I love your couch! Thanks for the glimpse behind the lens. =)
I meant to say: I also love poking around in houses, I've always been interested in buildings and architecture. Housing holds a special place because it's purpose-built, preserved houses are a walk-through time capsule of the human condition, it connects us. Like the one video where you said something about how many people must've looked through those windows down into the courtyard, that's exactly what I always think of.
I was in this old farm house several years back, keep in mind "old" for us in the US is not very old by your standards but it's what we have to work with. I also grew up in the Philadelphia area which has a lot of colonial history so as far as our version of old this is at the heart of it. Anyway, this old farmhouse: the owner told me the most endearing story, she pointed out a scratch in the glass of one of the window panes in an upstairs room. The story is that the farmer's daughter tested out the stone in her engagement ring on that window to see if it was a real diamond. That scratch is still there generations later, so long as we keep passing down the story she lives on!
Very welcome! The couch is sooo comfy!! It's a repro of a 1960s design by Conran without the price tag! I'm going to look up those books, they sound great xx
Thank you so much for doing a lovely Q&A. Wow, we are almost the same age! How cool is that? I'll have to admit when you showed us the picture of you and Lucy Worsley together I let out a shriek. OMG, she met The Lucy Worsley! 😁❤
She was so lovely too, had time to talk to me and listen to my wittering on. I was quite star struck though as I admire her work so much! Imagine being the head curator at Historical Royal Palaces - like WOW!
Ahahahaha! So did I!! I LOVE LUCY! Both of them! ;)
We are peas in a pod. I studied anthropology because I'm fascinated by how other people live. For the last 26 years, I've worked as an archeologist focusing on the historic period. I also love to bake. ❤😂🥰
My two choices of degree were archaeology at York or Soc His at Hull .. sometimes I regret not choosing the former, but also I don't think my knees couldn't handle it these days. I live on the back of a medieval graveyard and sometimes I go into the undergrowth at the back and have a little mini dig, ive found a few coins and some 14th century pot fragments. One I sent off to Bham museums as I had a feeling from the glaze it was Roman - and it WAS! Thank you Time Team ;)
You deserve every subscriber - and more. Your videos are fantastic!
Bless you, you are lovely. Thank you so much!
@@throughlucyslens I always used to ask my Nan to tell me about the war. Living in South East London both sets of my Grandparents were bombed out and lost everything except the clothes they were wearing. In fact one of my Nan's was buried in the anderson shelter in the garden with 3 young children and she was pregnant again at the time, when the house fell on it. The neighbours dug them out thankfully. She told me she thought they were literally buried alive and she was always afraid of confined spaces after that.
Lucy❤❤❤ I love you sweetie!!! Let me tell the ways!!! Firstly, you are such a beautiful lady!!!! Inside and out ❤. Second, I love how you are humble and don't put on airs. Third, you have a lovely perspective and I love how you like looking in things, mooching around and how YOU express your love for learning and teaching!!
Mostly on the Internet people don't feel real or accessible.
You lovely 🌹, have responded to my messages! You are extremely respectful of the subjects you share and the people in the stories also.
I so want to tell you that you are so enjoyable to watch.
You are so beautiful and simply amazing!!!
Love Heather from Iowa USA God bless you!!
Hey Heather, thanks for your lovely comment. I really appreciate it. I'm just me really - I don't know how to be anyone else! I admire people sometimes who can just "put it on" but I wouldn't be who I am if I did. I love having your here and look forward to you travelling with me in future ❤️
I’m a 1980 kid as well! Superb video and a wonderful insight into a fabulous lady. Thanks Lucy x
Thank you. I'm so happy I'm an 80s kid, although when I was at school I used to be dead jealous of the people in my class born in 1979 as it seemed cooler!
I 100% understand your love of history, including people’s stories!!❤️🇨🇦
Ps: you would ❤️ Canada!😁
I know I would LOVE it - I have been but only to Toronto for a couple of days, needed months longer!!!
@@throughlucyslens hahaha. Toronto is not what Canada is really about! I live not far from there😁
I know. It was not dissimilar to other large cities I've been to the world over - but with a plethera of Tim Hortons & amazing Chinese food (best Chinese meal I've ever had in my life!) so I was a happy bunny!
Well done love your vlog, thank you for sharing 😊
Always lovely to hear from you Pamela, you are welcome x
Lovely getting to know you more Lucy! Rupert is adorable 🥰 your channel has fast become my favourite on TH-cam. Can’t wait for the next one!
Thank you so much Michelle, look forward to you travelling with me x
I’d like to see some stuff on the Roaring 20’s. Love the style.
I am so thankful to you. (I'm 66 lol) I love social history and yes I have an Ancestry subscription which is annually birthday and Christmas present to myself. I love poking around houses and for some unknown reason I was intrigued and did heaps of research about convicts sent to Australia around the early 1800's. Which also led me into Irish history as many "rebels" were sent to Sydney. Just love finding out though it's mostly sad reading. Yes I was a mainstream teacher lol got kicked out as I apparently didn't fit in the square peg but loved teaching and the kids loved how I taught, so ho hum. Can't wait until "What Lucy does next" =-) Take care.
hahaha, I was a square peg teacher too - I was pulled into an office once and told I CARED TOO MUCH and I needed to concentrate more on attainment. I had kids in my class who didn't get fed so how could they concentrate on learning .. still boils my p thinking about it - anyway .. I digress! I go down rabbit holes too, and you are right it's often such sad reading, I get attached to random family lines on these websites sometimes and my heart breaks when I find an infant mortality or a workhouse admittance .. I can't wait to see what I do next either - I take things day by day! haha x
@@throughlucyslens When I was a day to dat reliever at one school I used to take fruit and bread in the classroom. It sounds so Dickensian but kids are still hungry, why hasn't society got better sigh that's right the big boys need to make money not feed kids.
@@lorrainerichardson3280 Yep. I used to take in these little brioche & fruit from Aldi, and toilet roll! At one point we had no toilet roll in the school!!! Or stationary for that matter, apparently the kids HAD to have their own stationary - but some just couldn't afford it so what were they supposed to write with? Feathers and ink .. it's ridiculous!
@@throughlucyslens =-)
@@throughlucyslens sorry for butting in on this conversation between you both, but I thought I was worth mentioning that although I’m not a teacher and I’m 60 I feel very strongly about the school system too. Me and my son have long discussions about the system which we get frustrated about. Perhaps Lucy and Lorraine that is your calling to tell the real stories behind the scenes too. I’m glad you were the pegs that didn’t fit, be proud of that and stand up for the kids that need you most. ❤️❤️
Really enjoyed getting to know you better Lucy! I love Bedlington Terriers too. Thank you. 😂
He's my first one and I am getting used to his quirks - we are in the biting stage .. my goodness!! Thankfully he is quite gentle until he forgets himself, I keep telling him my hands are pretty important to me! haha
Thank you for the Q&A. Looking forward to seeing all the interesting videos that you're working on.
Looking forward to hearing what you think of them :)
Well Lucy, that was BRILLIANT ! What a human being you are - so busy and still having time to make youtube videos for us. I'm with you as regards the 'payment' side of youtube. I think it's a swizz - people get lured in to a channel, then suddenly -' if you pay me you can get more content' ! TH-cam is supposed to be FREE to view. Anyway, enough ranting from me. Your Bedlington Terrier is gorgeous - I can see you are going to have a lot of fun with him around. Thanks for everything you do, it is so interesting to watch and you are a natural at presenting. Take special care 🙂 X X
Thanks Michael, I am on the same page about the memberships! It won't ever happen here don't worry! If I would never pay to join one why would I expect anyone else to? Rupert is driving me MAD today - the teething has kicked in with aplomb and I'm losing my mind - telling myself i'll be sad when he isn't a puppy anymore so to enjoy every bit - even the chewing! haha x
Here on east coast USA and just stumbled across you and soooo happy! I guess there are a lot of us interested in other peoples lives! I have read a lot and really appreciate you taking the time to make and share your videos. You should be able to benefit from your work! I am on board!
You are so lovely, I appreciate you and your input so much, I think because of the type of work I do in my job I'm used to volunteering my services and "expertise" a lot - it's a whole new world for me xx
Congratulations Lucy on all your subscribers! I am sure your channel will grow and grow because your topics are so interesting - I especially love looking into the every day life of ordinary people. I hope maybe you can one day look into historic Cornish everyday people's lives (just selfishly interested as my dad is Cornish). Look forward to your merchant navy research (my dad again) and I hope one day you can travel back to Japan too! Love from Australia
Thanks so much, I am so annoyed I went down to Cornwall on the night train and spent the day in Penzance, I was so tired I didn't take any footage because who knew you don't get any sleep on the night train? I will go back one day as it's a part of the UK still quite mysterious!
That would be interesting, so much industrial history. Richard Trevithick and his steam locomotive, Humphrey Davey and the safety lamp, he also discovered several elements including sodium and potassium. The ups and downs of the mining industry, dependent on the price of tin, a very precarious occupation. The Cornish miners took their skills all over the world. It was said that wherever you were in the world I f you looked down a hole you would find a Cornishman at the bottom. There were 62 on the Titanic, not all drowned.
I also love social history! During lockdown I got really into mudlarking. I was wondering if that is something that interested you too? It’s fascinating from a social history perspective. Basically a nosy through history’s rubbish bin! 😂xx
I LOVE Mud Larking! Do you watching Nicola White? I LOVE her!!! I would love to have a go but you have to have a licence. My husband takes the mick out of me as I am always looking on the floor to see if anything interesting pops up - asks me i've done much "ground larking" lately!! hahaha
@@throughlucyslens Absolutely LOVE Nicola White! Actually you with your stripes on in this vid reminded me a bit of her. I’m exactly the same desperate to go to London to have the best Mudlarking experience! Also a big fan of Si-finds. He’s great too. ☺️
I just ❤ social history. I enjoy visiting National Trust or Historic houses as I like to see the servants kitchens, staircases and their living areas. Much more interesting than who owned the homes. I'm interested in all the people behind the scenes. 😄
Totally agree with you. I always head right for the kitchens, even at Hampton Court the kitchens are my favourite part!
That was so interesting. My own love of history was, I think, birthed by my parents. We never went on week long holidays. It was always day trips to the seaside or places like York. In York museum I remember being most fascinated by the reconstructed streets, and later I was delighted to discover that Kirkstall museum in Leeds had a similar, although smaller, set up. Living in Leeds at that time, in my early twenties I used to hop on a bus to visit both the abbey ruins and the museum.
I am more of a history skimmer, having ended formal education at eighteen. My experience of school history lessons really put me off any kind of formal education on the matter. We concentrated on political history and the only part that I found remotely interesting, as a teen, was when we drifted into learning about workers housing conditions during the industrial revolution. I would rather know about people than Bismarck's Foreign Policy!
Your little tours are fascinating, not least because they show how much history lurks all around us, in plain sight. Please continue to make them.
I will !!! The York Castle Museum had the same effect on me - it's crazy isn't it ! I visited again last year and I was SO SAD the Victorian Street was closed .. that was the part that really sparked my imagination. Eugh, political history .. I am yawning typing that. Sadly it comes into everything .. ruddy politics .. but I avoid it when I can even if I have to throw in the odd date and parliamentary act! I am very grateful my history teacher was a man of the people and he really got me into the industrial revolution, teaching me songs to remember the political bits - I tried to be that kind of teacher but my goodness it's nearly impossible these days with all the .. you guess it .. POLITICS!
Lovely video Lucy! Nice to get to know you a little better. Love the colors in your living room. Looking forward to the next adventure. Greetings from Amsterdam 🌷🙋♀️
Thank you! I love living in a bright and colourful space, it cheers me up, particularly when we don't get many bright days here (I know you are similar in Amsterdam)
@@throughlucyslensYES! And I can 100% relate. I use a lot of turquoise/teal in my apartment mixed with bright oranges and pinks. For the same reason 😅
You are doing amazing Lucy 🥰 if you don't want to put the limitations of membership/patrion on your channel (which I'll be honest puts me right off them because it can penalise the loyal subscribers that have helped to build the channel) You could always add a thing called 'buy me a coffee' 😉 That way viewers can give you what they can when they can 😊
Much luvs as always sweetheart. 😘🥰💚
Thanks, I totally think the same as you. You know what I am like more than most people - doesn't sit well with me at all. xx
Thanks for all this info Lucy. I wish you well in all you do. Looking forward to all your future endeavours 👍🥰
Thank you! Thank you for watching, looking forward to you travelling with me :)
Wonderful to get to know you better, we have a lot in common! You mentioned seeing the Spanish Gallion so you might really enjoy seeing Brunel's SS Great Britain in Bristol. Saw it on my trip to England last year and it was one of my favourite days! Kisses to Rupert and all the best for your future adventures on the channel!
Thank you! I would love to visit the SS Great Britain. I visited the royal naval museum in Plymouth and was there so long they had to ask me to leave when it closed 🤣
The Great Britain is awesome, plus Bristol harbour is such a lovely day out.
Thank you for sharing. Congratulations on reaching 5000+.
Your puppy is gorgeous. I get where you are coming from about paid membership. I think you should do what you are comfortable with.
Thanks again for creating your channel. x
Thank you so much, and absolutely. Honestly I am just happy to have you all here, anything else is a bonus!
Hi Lucy! This was great, thank you! I loved learning more about your life and could relate to SOOOO many things you said! Especially the feeling like I hadn't achieved enough!!! If you're anything like me, it won't change a damn thing to hear someone say otherwise, but goddamn woman! You have done amazing things!!! You have changed careers, built your own business with a social conscience AND are no building a TH-cam empire and providing us all with wonderful entertainment and education and an escape from the real world!!! This is a bit personal, but I think part of my problem of not feeling I have achieved enough is that as a society, we generally look to marriage and kids as a bar of success and if you don't have both of those I feel like we feel we have to prove our worth 100 times over with anything else we do, maybe subconsciously we even feel we need to prove it to ourselves! This is so freaking sexist and backwards though! Also, not saying that's your situation, that's just my personal opinion and self-reflection! But maybe like me, you are so aware of the need in the world, that whatever we do, it never seems enough! Especially in terms of helping disadvantaged people. In conclusion, you are awesome and have ALREADY achieved so many more things than most people will in their entire lives!! :) In terms of membership, I am struggling with the same debate. But if you think of the membership as adding on extras for those interested/able to afford it, rather than taking away from others who can't, then it is a way for you to make a little extra for the time and effort you put into these videos. We appreciate it, so many people WANT to show their appreciation by sending some money your way. If you're not comfortable with memberships (and seriously, who has time to make extra content, or release vids early!), you could consider something like "Buy me a Coffee". People who choose to can then make a one-off donation as a thank you, or a monthly one if they choose. Just a thought! Ok, I really need to stop lecturing you and go and take some of my own advice!! 🤣
Massively agree with you! I read this comment this morning and I've sat on it all day wanting to reply! Yep I'll never be the "full package female" as I've just chosen not to do the same things - but that also makes us not only individual but interesting. I think that's totally a part of the way I feel. People think it's okay to ask why I haven't had kids like it's a throw away comment ... my business was my baby, and I'm sure this will (already is) be the same. I'll have a think about the memberships. It's hard as my business mind fights against my rational mind / heart all the time. I think it should be free! You know where I am on insta if you want to chat doll x
Lucy I’m loving your channel! Seeing how the every Joe Blow lived is incredible & brings back some memories of what my Mum & Dad would talk about. They immigrated here to New Zealand from Scotland after the Second World War. Let’s face it there would be no grand places anywhere in the world if it wasn’t for the hard work & talents performed by your every day worker. Love Rupert & I know what you mean when you say he’s the best thing that’s happened to you in a long time. Love your 2 up & 2 down, looks so cute. Until next time, take care 🤗🥰🤗
Thanks Heather, exactly!! I always think that - like who actually BUILT Hampton Court Palace? Hmmm that might be an interesting video actually - thanks for sparking that in me! :)
Exactly the same, I used to play in old air raid shelters, while the other kids ran around playing tick or hide and seek, I was interested in how people managed down there and what was it like for the children. At Stately homes I wanted to see the rooms that were not open like servants quarters
This has really made me laugh and totally reminded me of the time I insisted we turned our dining room table into a Morrison Shelter along with rations and scratchy blankets - I bashed my head getting out and split my head open - the dangers of "war" eh .. haha.
44 amazing, I'm heading very, very shortly to 60. Yes age is a privilege ❤
Absolutely!! I'll be blinking thrilled to live to 60 with my family history .. I will try my best :)
I’m not sure how your channel fed into my algorithm, probably because I watch a lot of history videos, but weirdly not a lot of travel videos. I’m so glad I discovered your channel. You seem very fun and I bet it would be awesome to hang out with someone who cares about history too and cares about the stories of the every day people who are the building blocks of every great civilization. I live in Texas,USA, and as a liberal who cares about workers and marginalized groups, I enjoy learning about the struggles and lives of people in the past. Your content is informative and has brought me to places I’d not seen or known about otherwise. I’m looking forward to further journeys! Adorable puppy ❤.
Thank you, it's really lovely to hear from you, I guess this channel is mostly social history but the travel aspect comes in actually going to the places. Really pleased to have you with me, I hope I can continue to show you some more awesome stuff! I have loads up my "digital sleeve" :)
Another great interesting vlogg always from a kind English lady utuber 😊a big fan of your hard work and brilliant channel 👏
Thank you lovely, always so nice to hear from you and read your comments x
Please do more looks at South Birmingham, there is so much to see !
Something else coming up I filmed today because I totally agree ❤️
That's such a great thing having a pay as you can bakery plus the food bank and community centre!
Thanks Tasha, it's been really hard work but worth it for the people we helped!
@@throughlucyslens I see from google that you can no longer use the shop premises so what has happened to your charity?
A very honest and interesting insight Lucy, Thank you. Your channel deserves exploding. You’re so interesting and honest. (I’m 45 shortly 😂)
I love bridges, and today for the first time ever while I’ve been delivering around London with my job I went over tower bridge, wow wow wow what a structure. I’ve popped a video on my channel.
I’m a terrier guy, Jack Russells and borders, your Bedlington is gorgeous 😍
I love JRT! I had a parsons called Jess for 21 years! She was a marvel! The most unforgettable job. We've had a wire fox and my sister has an Airedale. I think once you have a terrier you are hooked! I love bridges too 🤣🤣 came over the most amazing suspension bridge on the way to Norfolk today and we had to stop for a photo! I get it!
Theme parks are cool, and black country is a great place, adam ant should be amazing.
I love theme parks! I can't handle the rides anymore though unfortunately x
In Iowa USA we have lots of wonderful historical places here!!! Like Usher's Ferry and a village right next. During the summer, which gets hotter than blazes, Seminole Valley. Volunteers put on the costumes and teach as if we are actually in the 1800's!!! And sometimes they do war reenactments. Also lots of education on the Indian Histories. (Native Americans)
I'm actually related to the Usher's and in the village they actually have the home my great grandmother grew up in. It's super beyond amazing because all of it is as authentic as possible. Families donate items with the caviot that their stories are shared with all the other wonderful things. When I say village I really mean an actual tourable homes, Drs home, an old one room school that were all lovingly refurbished to be as authentic as possible. There's a railroad depot., a blacksmith's shop. An old store where you can buy a cool old fashioned soda, lemonade and stick candy. Like a candycane only straight. I'm so blessed that I, like you, love the stories and experiences!!! My olders ( elders for others) knew that I was respectful and quiet. They knew I was actually listening and asked them all kinds of questions, waiting my turn politely. They were the doorway to other times! More than tv, I would really rather hanging out with them. Not any of my other family ever gave a listening ear, was respectful, but would rather be finding ways to get into trouble.
My mouth is watering for that old fashioned soda. It sounds amazing! The USA holds such a huge interest for me because honestly I don't know enough about it, we aren't taught much in the English education system past the Boston tea party and it's so rich and fascinating! I need to come to learn more don't I? ❤️
Hi Lucy! So happy to see that you and Rupert are getting along nicely! He’s absolutely GORGEOUS! Now that you given us a little bit of your background, I’m very here laughing to myself imagining you going into Harrods and looking at the prices of food items and gouging their paying customers To advertise their joint ! 🤣🤣 Not funny really, let’s just say then …..”there’s a sucker born every minute.” So what kind of music do you listen to? I’m a music lover and film buff and I’m so curious what other people like to listen to or watch. Take care, congrats on your increase of subscribers! Cheers, ox💕🇺🇸
Music wise I'm quite an old soul! I was brought up on the Beatles because of my Dad but I also love 70s & 80s & 90s .. after the 2000s I just go off it 🤣 I'm mostly into more alternative genres, I love metal & punk but I also love a bit of 90s rave and 80s synth pop - easily pleased :)
@@throughlucyslens yep…..I assumed that might be the music you enjoy/enjoyed considering your age. I’m a decade and a few years plus older than you .I grew up in a musical called household…lots of musicians and performers in my family. My dad’s baby sister was 10 years older than me…she begged to see the Beatles @ The Hollywood Bowl. My gran said k, ONLY if you take Little Linda along to chaperone. Hahaha can you imagine?? I went…but freaked out cuz my auntie was hysterical like all the other ladies crying over J,P,G, and Ringo! Couldn’t hear a thing but screamin’. 🙉🙉🙉 Depends on my mood, events of the day what music I like. Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie (could listen to him 24/7😑) Electronic/Techno, Kylie Minogue, Jazz Fusion, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, no hip hop….it just doesn’t speak to me. Anywaaaay…..will bother you next time asking what movies do you love! Cheers, 💕🇺🇸
Have you looked into the history of your house, I did this after discovering a photo from 1918 and wanted to know more about the lady stood in the doorway, I traced back and put a name to the face
I have! Interestingly my house and my neighbours house looks very different to all the others on the road, they were built along with the school opposite (sadly the school is now flats) for the head teacher and the school teacher. In the 2 census I found there were 14 people living here at one point, blew my mind as just the two of us get in each others way! haha
Hi Lucy i missed your q,a session today im sorry but I am with you on listening to my family's history i always loved my grandparents telling about their childhood and what they did with their lives, my mums dad was a master baker for mother's pride bakery in Cheltenham throughout the ww 2 until 1960 when they closed down and then moved to baxsters the butchers at Gloucester as head baker making all their pastry products i loved going with him on a Saturday or Sunday morning to the factory on his day off the smell was lovely he even showed me where the live animals came in and was processed i was only 7,8 years old, he always brought some sort of pie's and meat to our family on a Saturday teatime and a big turkey at Christmas but working in all that flour all dust killed him in the end and I still miss him and loved his stories he came from a very poor family but me and my sisters all loved him you my feel very proud that you are helping your local community you make feel proud just listening to you today never put yourself down i am looking forward to more of your history stories you have such a lovely way of telling them keep safe, roy copenhagen denmark 😊😊.
Thank you so much, I miss Mothers Pride bread !! It was my favourite, in it's lovely wax paper and so fluffy and soft inside! For my fave corned beef sandwich. It's such a shame to hear about the flour dust - I actually wear a mask these days in my bakery because the environmental health lady warned me about lung conditions from being around flour all day long. We are lucky to have such info these days. x
Thankyou for a lovely reply, roy
Thank you for this lovely explanation of your passion for history. From across the pond, I enjoy your presentations about how everyday British folks have lived through the decades. I tie the information you present directly into what I know of European and sometimes world history. Here in America we imagine England as a place of either royalty or nobility, or posh London flats and so on. I've enjoyed watching some BBC America broadcasts (Vera, for one) and some TH-cam channels to peer behind this shiny exterior. Your videos offer a kind and understanding view of the lives of everyday folk. Suffice it to say, many people live humbly in America as well, to this day. We've inherited quite a bit of cultural DNA from England. That said, here is a thought: I understand your desire to keep your TH-cam videos free so they can be available to anyone. There however might be some who would like to return that favor and support you a bit as you do this work. I'm a mere TH-cam consumer and not a content creator, but I wonder if maybe you could offer 'memberships' or 'levels of support' that give your subscribers early or special access to things like previews, live tours, or do live Q and A's. After a period of time, you could release this content free and amass a collection of videos. I don't know how successful these strategies are for content creators. I wonder if the rub might be how much work needs to go into these different kinds of productions. I'm trying to imaging a way your audience can send a bit of support back to you as well, as thanks for your work, and maybe help you free up your time so you can do more.
Equally I think of America with huge condo houses with pools and air conditioning - "like the movies" but I know there are similar social problems to what we have here too. I like to get the real story and I love people who share my point of view, thanks for your feedback on the membership thing too.food for thought xx
@@throughlucyslens I live in a large, Northeastern city with ageing housing stock that has been a colonial city, an industrial city, a city of immigrants, and post world war II city that endured racial tensions exacerbated by poverty. These evolutions are preserved in the very buildings and streets of our city. Today, many neighborhoods are being gentrified and the character of theses once tight knit communities is evaporating with the freshly drying paint. Here is a question: after WWII with the great housing shortage in Britain, was housing built specifically for war veterans and their families? We had that here, as well as the GI Bill that financed college for former soldiers, and it gave many young men a boost in life as thanks for their sacrifice and service. Much of this housing went into decline, but it's much sought after today in some urban areas. Again -- thanks for your work and I look forward to your future videos.
Thanks Laurie: we did built some, mostly prefabs for returning soldiers and their families but I'm not sure other that that there was much else, post war was a time of austerity so there wasn't the social budget for more than the minimum regeneration, for that reason many of the bombed out areas in city remained there right into the 1950s where regeneration started more fruitfully.
@@throughlucyslens Thank you -- I'm well familiar with images of bombed out areas of London -- how you guys suffered during the Blitz -- and the austerity England endured through the 1950's. Post WWII, America was flush with cash and so full of optimism. Our middle classes grew and prospered. We never experienced the dire need to sacrifice and come together for a common cause such as rebuilding the very fabric of our nation. Our economic prosperity, however, began shrinking in the 1970's and the cultural shocks of this reverberate daily in American politics and popular culture.
I used to love history at school, but I wasn't able to go on the school trips as they were for the history club only, and when I tried to join I wasn't allowed as I was a girl and it was boy's only (1990's)
If you are ever back in the South East you would love The Weald and Downland open air museum, it is where they filmed The Tudor Monestry farm with Ruth Goodman (When I visited I ended up sitting next to her in the cafe, I was too shy to talk to her)
But they cover loads of time periods and focus on the everyday person rather than the rich and famous.
Ohhh that sounds brilliant. Thank you for the recommendation. I love Ruth Goodman too! She's so passionate and i read she had no formal education which made me love her more x
congrats lucy on 6k 🎉 love your channel 😃 and happy birthday to you 🎂 my birthday was last month too 😃 i was 56 🍰 and your puppy is so cute 🤗🐶😘
Happy belated birthday Yvonne! Hope it was a good one x
@@throughlucyslens it was lovely thank you 😀 hope yours was too 🤗
Not a sporty type Lucy, petrolhead ? We had a family corner shop which I also ran at a young age. It had one unusual benefit was the counter in the middle. The boy could sit on the counter, the girl stood up in front of you cuddled up and,.....share a Dairy Milk(after the shutters were down)! That might have made a great poster !
That's so CUTE !!! .. and cheeky! hahaha
@@throughlucyslens chat about swapping records and cassette tapes.CDs(and not eating the profits).....
I live in a two up two down too.
It was built about 1900 by the Sykes family for the workers of his bleach works in Edgeley, Stockport.
I don't know if he was a Quaker, but he really looked after his workers.
They are the best aren't they? Mine was built for the little school across the road. One house was for the head teacher (next door - slightly bigger) and this house was originally for a school teacher - single of course as you weren't allowed to be married and still teach.
@@throughlucyslens Oh yeah! Isn't that mad! I wonder what that rule was all about? Do you know why they couldn't be married?
@@jeepsthetimebandit I think it was just the unwritten societal rules that women in "professions" such as teaching or nursing couldn't work after they were married ... probably as they were supposed to be at home making babies and making sure their house was "correct" - a different world.
My grandad L loved Great Yarmouth.
I’m tagging along if you do a Route 66 trip 😂 It’s a bucket lister for me
You know you can come .. imagine us in a motorhome ... hahahah
You seem to be a rather wonderful person - & very beautiful to boot! Are there any libraries left in gorgeous Albion?
Albion? Do you mean Birmingham? We have a brilliant central library and loads of little local ones - sadly at threat at the moment!
Well, I meant Great Britain 🇬🇧, of which Albion is an archaic name (I thought it meant 'the white island' but apparently not!
Aghr. See shows what I know! Yes we have loads, we even have mobile ones in rural areas but many are under threat which is sad!
HOW is your nephew almost 10 already!? I still imagine him as a 6 year old
Mind, mine is doing his final year exams right now 😫
Frankie doodles is SIX now .. a real little lady! Man we need to arrange this meet up QUICKLY!!
We MUST
Try being 50 this year. I'm in denial 🙄🤣.
Hey, age is a privilege, age is a privilege that's what I tell myself when ANOTHER wrinkle shows up on my forehead. I am going to look like a Shar-pei by the time I'm 50 !
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Is the Buy Me a Coffee thingy an option?
Maybe. I think you just watching and cheering me on is plenty :) x
HI Lucy, I love your channel. I have a degree in US and English History with Sociology so you are right up my road in interest. I can't wait to see your trip on Monday to Great Yarmouth. I want to visit there and then Plymouth to see the Mary Rose and Lord Nelson's ship. I had to laugh when you say toilets because I told my husband I wanted to make a Toilets of Europe book for bathrooms. LOL My weird humor. LOL!!! I am sorry I missed your questions I have been super busy babysitting my Grandson. Have a fun trip to Great Yarmouth! I would love to see some Richard III or information on WWII homefront and rationing. My husband and I are going to do a mock rationing diet after our vacation next month. xx Becki in Oregon
Hey Victoria, you will LOVE Plymouth! It's AMAZING!!! I spent so long at the Royal Naval Museum my companions all just went and sat back in the car and I turned up two hours later when they kicked me out - it's EXCEPTIONAL. Nelsons ship has a really strange vibe - you will know what I mean. you can't believe how many people were living in that space while rocking and rolling on the sea too. I can certainly help you with Richard III ... I am going to Leicester in June :) x
Lovely insight into your interests. Here's to you hitting 10K before the summer's out... 🧱 (
Thanks for that! Really appreciated! It would be lovely, a real achievement BUT I can't do it without viewers support and I have the BEST bunch xx