Tag: WORKING CLASS

EP046 A TOUCH OF CLASS

The essential guide to the Victorian class system. There was more to being middle class than drinking tea, and the working class weren’t all up the Chimney. From the well dressed footman, to the Haymarket prostitute, to the pie seller, and duke. All of Victorian life is here.

  • This episode covers. 
  • Intro. 
  • A discussion of what is Class.
  • A tiny bit of Marx.
  • Life at the top.
  • I say, those young people today, they are frightfully uptight.
  • We are a most humble Queen.
  • Prince Albert knows his place, and he doesn’t like it.
  • The Spencers.
  • The middle class – super stars and clubs.
  • The middle class – the rest.
  • The vibrant skilled working class and their poets.
  • Upstairs, Downstairs.
  • Beaulieu; all hands to the pumps.
  • The desperate poor on the scrap heap.
  • Anglo Indians, and the native Indian Aristocracy.
  • Travellers.
  • Minorities and the oppressed.
  • The great north south divide.
  • North & South; Gaskell and industrialists.
  • The outsiders; Superstars and the Out of Place.
  • “This Green and Pleasant Land”.

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EP027 Pt2 “made it run”

Railways were one of the great achievements of the Victorian Era, but they are complicated and hard to build. This show covers the process and the people involved in building these incredible pieces of engineering. Pt 2 of this episode covers;

  • The navigators; hard work for hard men.

  • Drink hard, play hard, fight hard.

  • The riots.

  • Individual lives.

  • The great railway tunnels.

  • The miners – life and death in the dark.

  • Monuments to sacrifice.

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