How People In The Victorian Era Spent Their Free Time

In a time before smartphones, social media, and binge-watching, the Victorians were remarkably creative in finding ways to spend their free time.

A culture obsessed with the afterlife, the Victorians would spend the day enjoying a meal next to a grave and then the evening trying to contact a lost loved one. Fascinated by the teachings of Charles Darwin and the scientific revolution, they paid fortunes to collect rare plants and witness medical anomalies firsthand. Even expired animals could be grouped into entertaining tableaux for audiences to wonder at.

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[lavenderlylin]

This is how I spend my free time, watching how other people spent their free time

[DeathbyProxy]

That taxidermied cat playing the piano proves that humanity has never changed. These were what Victorians did for memes before you could photoshop a dog in human clothes.

[shart]

Year 2150:

People in the 2020s usually spent their free time on YouTube watching videos.

[neoasura]

I still picnic at the cemetary once a year to spend time with my grandparents. Nowadays I think people are too quick to forget their dead relatives and never visit their graves anymore like they used to.

[ihavenonamep]

The Victorians were such a weird bunch, I was always fascinated with the era.

[aaronhurst]

"They were definitely into some dark subject matter"

This pretty much sums this entire video lol

[priatalat]

And in the future during their free time, the people will look at how we spent our free time looking at what others did in their free time.

[paranormallook]

"God dammit, Timmy, hold your dead sisters' hand and smile at the camera!"

[eyesoneme_]

Cemetery
Now: Death
Victorian Era: 🥰Picnic🥰

[mzgigglez]

The Victorian era was always so fascinating to me ....

[pennyafterpenny]

as a huge true crime fan myself, it’s kinda fun seeing how a fascination with true crime in a way started with people flocking to morgues in the victorian era

[orangehoof]

The spiritualists were called "mediums" because it was rare when they were well done.

[punkrox]

Once I grew in the ocean, strong and could not be shook! I hope my life is not over, for at the moment I’m squashed flat in a book!!

[jensgronning]

I’m pretty sure the modern interpretation of the word boredom came to prominence in Victorian Britain. As industrialization started to give people more free time, as opposed to spending all day just trying to survive.

[burquebandit]

We need to get out of the house immediately, there's bloody rhododendrons at our door!

[peppeppig]

Me after finding out Victorians didn't just have tea parties and dinners during their free time
👁👄👁

[pennydaytreasures]

Swaying blissfully in the sea
Mermaids, seahorses swim around thee
Elegance weaved like a wayward breeze
Until thy human plucked up me

Stuck my graceful motion to and fro
In thy scrapbook for all to know
Now I lie here, I no longer grow
But thy colors will gently flow
Off thy pages forever on show...

Be it the year 1901
or the far off date of 2021
The sea holds beauty second to none
Her dance of time goes on undone
Which is why thy loveliness has been forever spun
For you to turn thy pages one... by.... one...

[jeffgrey]

1800s lifestyle has always fascinated me. It was such a wild century

[colmastro]

In Australia we don't have "church cemeteries" most of ours here are all huge and beautifully designed with park/picnic areas, toilet blocks, palms, water features etc. You're even encouraged to bring your dogs. Death isn't as morbid or taboo here, we're not religious like other countries, we celebrate death through life. Becides burying a loved one is hard enough as it is. Eating lunch then walking and calming your mind through the scenery at a cemetary here helps you understand death is normal and makes you appreciate your own life more.

[araasis]

Roses are red
Seaweed is green
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