Hi English folks! would you go back to Victorian England?

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The Exotic Dr. Congo

nostalgia, nostalgia

yes, is the answer to your question

Louise

I am glad that towards the end you put "(not all of them)" because that is a major thing to remember. In the victorian times a lot of the information is about the wealthy because they had the resources to make records, we don't have absolute evidence of how much things have changed. I must admit that the way of going about things is different, but its not all for the worse. Yes I think that things like single teenage mums who either financially or emotionally cannot look after their children are a problem, but at least now they can get help and not just been thrown into the street as a disgrace to their families. Victorian women had to depend entirely on men for their survival, there is independance now. The child working laws have changed and the workhouse has gone. That is undeniably a positive change.
Admittidly on a shallow level I think that the dresses were beautiful and so on if you were rich, and I would have liked to have lived as a victorian had it only that aspect to think of. However the rich were in the minority and other aspects of life were very poor so that I am immensly grateful to be living in the time that I live in. And I belive that I still hold morals similar to those of Victorian women, not quite as strict maybe, but entirely approriate for the modern age and my own principals. This is the time to be living.
Louise x

alfalpha

Consumption, scabes, small pox, polio,no thanks. I think you've been watching some nice old black and white films that show nice middle class people with atmospheric London fog. The London fog was actually smog from coal fires. Most ordinary people would have lived very hard lives, without the beautiful clothes of the day. And if you were from a working class family and the husband died, the woman would probably have ended up in prostitution. Stop watching the films and read some history of the time, I'm sure it will change your view. Saying that, in Britain, we always see films and TV about the US and imagine everybodies rich. We see ordinary people in ordinary jobs with lovely big apartments and fantastic wardrobes, and the suns always out. Ooh it must be true lol.

â™¥ Rockii â™¥

No way! It was disease ridden and women had to sacrifice breathing for a skinny corsetted waist so that can't have been much fun.

There wasn't enough food about for everyone, dirty water and sewage problems, plus many women died during child birth, and there were far more stillbirths and child deaths in those times. Women had no rights, were raped and abused and this was seen as the norm, unmarried pregnant mothers were sent away. The list goes on

Yes, women may have had more morals, but that doesn't mean that they followed the rules. There were pregnancies outside of marriage, there were illegal abotions and even prostitutes.

How about the men? Men have never had any morals so why the hell should women?

Very sexist opinion you have mr

Well I am not english, but scottish, and scotland had a victorian period too! As for the question, I wouldn't mind going back for a visit to see what London, etc must have looked like as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle viewed it (Pea Soupers, etc).

diamonds

no way....wouldn't want to be without my 42inch tv & all of my home comforts...couldn't live in a house without central heating & a power shower!!

Cee

No not really. But speaking of morals etc, looking at it from that point of view maybe it would be a good thing.

tominator1uk

Oh yeah i'd love to go back to a time where people life expectancy was 60 years old, cholera was rife, and we were enslaving the world.

Also i can think of nothing better than having rotten teeth from lack of dental care.

munki

Not a chance-I'm currently studying British Social & Economic History during 1700's-1900's and have covered the lives of the Victorians extensively,I wouldn't want to live in those conditions,sure their morals were far better than now but working/living/sanitary conditions were completely different and not in a good way.

I should be doing something else

Yes I would love to go back, not permanently, but just for a while to see first hand how things were in those days, I think it would be really interesting.

I wouldn't want to live it out permanently due to the medical treatment and healthcare not being as advanced, lack of electricity and mod cons that I have grown used to, and as the poster above said, the sanitary conditions etc.

BODGE IT AND SCARPER

I think I would not choose Victorian England because they used to send me up chimneys to clean 'em. The amount of soot back then was incredible. At least we now have a few creature comforts.

cumbrian traveller

at least it would be cheaper than it is now.

Karl

Yes, that was the time of the Industrial Revolution.

wannabe93

yeah.. why not

Hear hear! I'd love to revert back to Victorian times although 1 in 10 houses were a brothel!
England's going down the pan big time and if we could have a bit more hard-core punishment andless liberal huggy nonsense then I'd be all for it.
I wouldn't call some English women women either.

birchalltheaxehero

I wouldnt go back because I was never there to start with, Anyway, Isnt Victorian England the time of the Plague?

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