Living conditions in Industrial Revolution Era cities?

Wh*te ""civilization""

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There's something really eerie about the winding and plain streets in 1800s London. Feels like something out of a fever dream

Victorian London seems really depressing.

You fell for it.
London still depresses me. But these slums look horrible I'll give you that.

*blocks your path*

lmao some Jacobs Ladder shit

you think niggas were smoking Opium back then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a poem while high on opium.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

my boy was off the shits

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_den

Modern London looks no better. Ugly city in every period.

it looks like a shithole but I love the aesthetic. Certainly more interesting looking than modern London

Victorian "entertainment"

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat-baiting

Ditto. Also, fun facy. The age of consent in Victorian England was 13 years old but it was easy to sell them even younger considering police forces were small and underfunded.

This doesn't look as bad on its own

Oh sweet jesus

In 1887, the medical journal The Lancet stated that there were 80,000 working prostitutes in London alone or 3% of the city’s population

prisonersofeternity.co.uk/victorian-eroticism-and-sexuality/

Imagine being a former slave going north and finding yourself trapped in these conditions.

reminds me of a coworker who looks like a victorian princess, really chubby/curvey body yet her head/face looks like she's slim, how does a body type like that possible

>It was a fact that spanking, flagellation, and images of sado-masochistic sex dominated Victorian pornography. More than 50% of all pornographic books published in the Victorian era had a flogging theme, perhaps reflecting the Public School background of many of its authors who would have been subjected to regular canings, beatings, and ritual humiliations as small boys

>There were to be a number of high-profile homosexual scandals during the Victorian era. One in particular was to strike at the very heart of the British Establishment.

>On 6 July 1890 Detective Inspector Frederick Abberline, who had earlier been prominent in the Jack the Ripper case, arrived at number 19 Cleveland Street with a warrant for the arrest of the owner of what was believed to be a homosexual brothel. The subject of the warrant was not at home but a search of the premises uncovered the brothels client list. The police were shocked to discover some of the names that were on it which included Lord Arthur Somerset, equerry to the Prince of Wales, Henry Fitzroy, the Earl of Euston, and a number of high-ranking military officers. Even Price Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales and heir presumptive to the throne, was implicated.

>Though there were prosecutions in the case none of the brothels high-profile clients was ever charged in what was widely perceived to have been an establishment cover-up

>But it was the obsession with buttocks that reflected the equal obsession with anal intercourse, the so-called English vice.

>Books such as My Secret Life by Henry Spencer Ashbee and The Lustful Turk published anonymously, told graphic tales of abduction, sexual enslavement, anal rape, and castration, and could be easily purchased by those in the know. As also could the erotic periodical The Pearl, published between July 1879 and December 1880 when it was closed down.

Proof that the "muh duhgunwussy" has been around forever

Obviously, it was the jews fault. /s

>/s
Faggot.

U ok man?

*blocks your hands*

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>Late Victorian women used arsenic laced “complexion waters” and wafers, and bathed with arsenic soap and shampoo in an effort to improve their skin, make themselves look younger, and increase their attractiveness. Some men took arsenic pills to stimulate their libidos. Did it work? Of course not! But it comes as no surprise that the nineteenth century was awash in arsenic. Green dyes used in many products including wallpaper, clothing, and food contained terrifying amounts of arsenic. A notable fact is that arsenic could be bought at the chemist’s by anyone, and it was cheap. Half an ounce – sufficient to murder fifty people – cost only a single cent.

BY replying you lost

that's buzzfeed level of pulling numbers out of your ass

Anyone got photos from balloons or the tops of buildings? I'm always fascinated with seeing cities from the top-down from before most people thought of them that way.

I know this thread has gotten a bit off topic but I'll reply with some books I found interesting, if you have the time to read them.

archive.org/details/whiteslavesofeng00sheruoft
>White Slaves of England, Robert Sherard
Contemporary descriptions of the working and living conditions of industrial era sweatshop workers in the UK.

gutenberg.org/ebooks/45502
>How the Other Half Lives, Jacob A. Riis
Contemporary accounts of life in New York tenement buildings from the industrial era. The author also has multiple other books on Gutenberg describing life and conditions in tenement buildings.

>Gentleman considers pretty young flower girls offer while his wife looks on disapprovingly