How Did Victorians Entertain Themselves? | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:53 Leisure in the Working-Class World
00:21:47 Respectable Recreation for the Middle Class
00:36:34 Leisure in the Upper Class
00:53:24 Thoughts and Conclusion

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Sources and Further Reading

Henry Mayhew (1851), London Labour and the London Poor.

Charles Dickens (1850), “Amusements of the People,” Household Words.

Isabella Beeton (1861), The Book of Household Management.

Queen Victoria (1846), Personal Journal (Diary entry, Arundel Castle visit).

William Booth (1890), In Darkest England and the Way Out.

Peter Bailey (1978), Leisure and Class in Victorian England.

Judith Flanders (2006), Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain.

Richard D. Altick (1978), The Shows of London.

Hugh Cunningham (1980), Leisure in the Industrial Revolution, c.1780–1880.

John K. Walton (1983), The English Seaside Resort: A Social History 1750–1914.


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