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@DigiVictorian
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Hello, internet! I’m the historian in this video. Hope you enjoy it. If you’ve got more questions about the Victorians, feel free to drop them here and I’ll try answer some in the comments.
@steubenbreunden
December 16, 2025 at 12:18 pm
1) Do you own a bustle?
2) Why didn’t you wear it for the video?
@GulsezimBatyrbayeva
December 16, 2025 at 12:22 pm
I love non fiction books . Can you recommend me books which depict time in victorian era , maybe true story , book about someones life or history book ? Thank you
@DigiVictorian
December 16, 2025 at 12:24 pm
@steubenbreundenHah! I do own a *lot* of weird Victorian objects (we ran out of room on the table in this video) but no bustle — at least not yet. Lots of popular Victorian entertainment involved men dressing in women’s clothes, so I probably could claim it’s for research purposes. So watch this space, I guess!
@DigiVictorian
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 pm
@GulsezimBatyrbayevaOooh yes, there are almost too many to mention! Hallie Rubenhold’s books are very readable, and her book ‘The Five’ got a lot of praise for revealing the truth of the lives of the women who were murdered by Jack the Ripper. ‘The Suspicions of Mr Witcher’ by Kate Summerscale is also a great read if you’re interested in detectives / true crime. Most recently, Fern Riddell released a really interesting book exploring Queen Victoria’s alleged romantic relationship with her servant, John Brown. I haven’t read this yet, but I also hear good things about ‘Billy Waters is Dancing’ by Mary Shannon. Regency period rather than Victorian, but it looks great. Finally, keep an eye out for my new book — Killing Victoria — sometime next year!
@mcdrummer6137
December 16, 2025 at 12:51 pm
What country has the most amount of Victorian influence?
@BayAreaJaybo
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 pm
I’d like to know more about the winter faires they had when the Thames froze over.
@jameslovelady7751
December 16, 2025 at 4:43 pm
When my wife was in junior high she used hat pin on an annoying guy in class. He helped but was too embarrassed to turn her in, so he made up an excuse.
@ValkyrieTiara
December 16, 2025 at 4:45 pm
“Full disclosure, I’ve never worn a bustle.” Alright, Wired. Now you need to get Bernadette Banner on the show.
@hoofhearted4
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 pm
My favorite fact, and I’m surprised he didnt mention it when talking about accuracy in historically set films is the Accent. The British accent that we know today didnt start coming around until late 18th/early 19th century. The American accent is the original English accent lol (Give or take).
@toddverbeek5113
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Not only did a married Victorian woman take her husband’s last name, she even used his *first* name in the public sphere. Her family and friends would call her “Mary” of course, but she would be identified more broadly as “Mrs John Baker”.
@demolitionwoman-boop
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 pm
This isn’t just a Victorian-era thing. I worked in nonprofit fundraising for years until the mid 2010s and we sometimes had older donors insist on being recognized as “Mr. and Mrs. William Smith” or even just “Mrs. William Smith.” Always chafed my feminist sensibilities but you do what the donor wants! 😅
@Drew84a
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 pm
The stereoscopic photos and their viewer were in use until, at least, the 1960’s. That’s a really early date too, My grandparents had all sorts of them and a couple of the viewers and they both died after 2014.
@andeeharry
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 pm
Thanks for sharing. It was a wild century that’s for sure. I love this period and been doing a lot of reading about it lately, and there is a lot of things that happened that I can’t believe. Considering they were very strict, fussy and rule oriented on everything, they were very curious, strange, morbid, superstitious, quirky people you could ever meet.
@larencurry5230
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 pm
4:58 plus it’s not like us putting on a giant bustle and trying to go to the bathroom after never having worn one, they would have been handling much smaller/easier skirts since they were little and getting used to more and more complex outfits as they grew up
@RadFahrer-h7k
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 pm
Don’t like this, the questions are mostly about petty social stuff and lifestyle.
Almost nothing/only hinting on politics, economy, the British Empire in it’s prime.
@andeeharry
December 16, 2025 at 5:49 pm
26:15 The hairpin started off okay as it was given to courting partners as a token of love and respect, but by 1850 onwards, it became a competitive scavenger hunt where everyone would try and get thier hands on many as possible for thier scrapbooks and thier strange descriptive lists. They did anything and everything to get thier hands on them, no matter what it was, or how they got it, they would go to any length to get them. It was so bad that it was impossible to go anywhere in case someone did grab a pin…and even the house wasn’t always a safe heaven either. The law looked the other way on this due to ”boys will be boys” motion and ignored the situation. It started off as a nice thing and ended up in a nightmare fuel that only ended once cycling and sports started to take off.
@hk0935
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 pm
YEAYYY A NEW HISTORY SUPPORT
@StarQueenEstrella
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 pm
25:29 “hold your horses” is also an American term that eventually made its way to Victorian England. It first came about in the U.S. circa 1843 and then eventually got to England circa 1857.
@ProdigalSonMatt
December 16, 2025 at 6:21 pm
These are always so fascinating.
@frenzyexe5443
December 16, 2025 at 6:47 pm
He’s one of my uni lecturers an absolute legend
@Luraldir_Original
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Doctor Bob! <3
@bigguix
December 16, 2025 at 7:33 pm
plumpness essential yep 🙂
@janetf23
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 pm
This reminded me of one of my old time favorite Q&A jokes: What do you get when you cross Lassie with a cantaloupe? A Melancholy Baby🎶
@semievilsquirrel
December 16, 2025 at 7:37 pm
I have to admit, I’d love to go to the pub with this historian. His enthusiasm is so attractive!
@more__plz
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 pm
I’ve had a slight case of the morbs myself
@jkabslt
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 pm
Best tech support in a long time. Topic, presenter, and questions were very entertaining.
@kitefan1
December 16, 2025 at 7:51 pm
I thought that, going back to the Romans, urine was used for bleaching and then the item was soaped and rinsed but never gave it a bunch of thought.
@circeus
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Really annoyed about the victorian humor question because he 100% failed to answer it. I DO want to know: what topic where not to be joked about at all???
@Gruntled2001
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 pm
Absolutely love these series, and you guys found the best expert for the task.
@veechaYT
December 16, 2025 at 8:22 pm
So Victorian England also enjoys dad jokes 😂
@miranda_tee
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 am
We usually only see the upper class of the Victorian period depicted in media, would like to hear more about the common experience
@HJJSL-bl8kk
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 am
You need to read ‘Life and Labour of the People of London’ which include verbatim accounts of rat catchers, crossing sweepers, bonnet trimmers, beggars etc. There are seventeen volumes but edited versions are still available. Also the Charles Booth Poverty Maps which are part of a huge archive at the LSE, and available online.
@HJJSL-bl8kk
December 17, 2025 at 1:38 pm
Henry Mayhew! It took me a while to remember his name.
@NellieKAdaba
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 pm
I agree, we only see Rich Victorian portrayed in popular culture.
@findandobserve
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 am
Is that telegraph cable still in the ocean?
@benzorelli
December 17, 2025 at 10:06 am
Love how some people write saying “did you know” like you aren’t asking an expert in the field 🤣
@sugarandspice4815
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 am
1:08 Also, mummies were so popular that there were counterfeit factories, making fake mummy corpses.
@Everysinglepersonismyenemy
December 17, 2025 at 10:37 am
This guy is one of my lecturers at uni!! He’s great btw
@cesaralpuche7422
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 am
9:48 that’s a killer joke lmao
@alexanderl7491
December 17, 2025 at 10:57 am
Bustles, the original (British)BL
@laurelhill3505
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 am
YES! The Muppet Christmas Carol is a great, if not best, adaptation of the book. No lie!!
@heynhamnham
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 am
6:25 james Cameron used a similar technology to record the Avatar movies, using recent tech ofc, but its funny now to hear his team and himself saying they invented these kind of techniques
@NellieKAdaba
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 pm
Yes, interesting.
@wintersnowcloud
December 17, 2025 at 12:18 pm
… why did the guy frame “eating mummies” as anything other than completely disturbing and unhinged?
He’s just like, no big deal it was a party thing or a rich person thing…
Get a clue Dr. Nicholson (the historian), some things are disturbing and shouldn’t be considered “Okay.”
@hannahcarter611
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 pm
Here as a representative of the Broski nation
@josechung7713
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 pm
Has anyone completed a PhD dissertation on Victorian pornography? That would be an interesting dissertation defense to watch.
@SpookySoulBleach
December 17, 2025 at 12:52 pm
When it comes to adaptations of A Christmas Carol, if it don’t have Kermit, I don’t want it.
@umakemerandy3669
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 pm
26:05 Seymore Skinner’s mother was quick with a HatPin
@magpepper5000
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 pm
Ankles out AND a cigarette?
That woman was the Marilyn Monroe of her day.
@NellieKAdaba
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 pm
😝
@Kashered
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 pm
The hatpin as a defense weapon makes sense, but my luck I’d spy a pretty and get poked for simply saying hello.
@Solamend
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 pm
USA！！！
1. 资本主义必须在某种社会主义的框架中运行，个人财产在非极端状态下，应当受到政府的保护。
2. 独立的，高薪和高效的司法系统是一个现代国家的基石，国家的最高领导班底应有能力赦免囚禁和死刑。
3. 军队是一个主权国家无法替代的安全保障，军队的支出和司法的支出将由民选政府和最高领导班底共同协商制定，每十年更新。
4. 最高领导班底应具备剩余超过1/3的自由预算分配能力和超过半数的军权，而民选政府将拥有2/3的经济预算和总计少于半数的军权。
5. 最高领导班底有外交权和宣战权，所有外交条约需最高法院的最终批准。
6. 民选政府可在对外战争中通过超过80%的投票终止战争，并强行迭代最高领导人。
7. 合法的司法监督系统应由具有资质的国际机构代理执行。
8. 政府可制宪和修宪，宪法在得到最高领导人的批准后，由最高法院最终通过。军队可在修宪三年内独立宣布修宪无效，并向最高法院申请撤销修宪。
9. 中央政府（领导人和政府）拥有独立的随时制定税收和修改税收的能力。
10. 中央政府可投资企业，中央政府占股的企业，财政记录需要向司法部门公开。
11. 中央政府可通过超半数的投票强制结算占股企业。
12. 地方行政将由中央指派的地方领导人，民选政府和当地警察共同构成，地方领导人是当地警察的最高领导，地方领导人在当地具备和最高领导人同样的赦免权。
13. 地方政府的行政在原则上不可与中央政府的政策相违背。
14. 地方政府除中央政府制定的税收外，不得独立制定税收项目，60%税收将上缴中央，40%作为地方预算。
15. 地方政府无法在企业中直接占股。
16. 地方政府拥有所有当地土地和土地中的自然资源。
17. 地方土地使用权将按不同的土地用途，实行年限承包制，连续土地承包需由政府审核，当地企业的大宗土地的长期连续承包需经由中央政府的审核，并由中央政府占股。
18. 地方土地上自然资源的开采权将向社会招标，中央政府在企业开采作业前需至少获得中标企业30%的股份。
19. 地方土地上的不动产将以年限承包制承包给竞标公司，获得竞标的公司需由中央占股，不动产的使用权将由竞标公司负责买卖，连续承包需经由地方和中央政府的审核。
20. 地方政府在原则上不与中央政策相对立的前提下拥有独立的立法权。
21. 地方警察在当地司法系统的监督下拥有自主审判权，当地司法机构的费用由当地政府和中央政府共同承担。
22. 地方行政区域由中央政府划分，如有需要，多个地方行政区域可共用中间财务机构负责沟通和协调中央和地方的行政。
23. 中间财务机构由中央政府负责组建，司法系统对其监督，并由最高领导班底领导。
24. 中间财务机构除财务结算外，无其他行政能力。
25. 货币发行银行不得调整货币供给。
26. 中央政府有国债发行权，国债发行需由超过90%的地方领导人投票通过。
27. 银行，投资机构和自然投资人的投资回报率将受到法律的限制。
28. 中央政府可强制征用地方土地建立军事基地，中央政府每十年需向地方政府缴纳土地承包费用。
@Solamend
December 17, 2025 at 3:01 pm
塞瓦斯托波尔市，顿涅茨克市，卢甘斯克市，扎波罗热市，赫尔松市作为特别行政区接受俄罗斯驻军，但这五座城市将遵循乌克兰宪法拥有完整的独立行政权。俄罗斯驻军在当地享有部分政治权利，驻军可为乌克兰政治选举投票，但无法以任何形式竞选或被委任为政府官员。
俄罗斯驻军数量受到限制，顿涅斯克市，卢甘斯克市最多各允许驻军与随军人员共500人。扎波罗热市，赫尔松市最多各允许驻军与随军人员共200人。塞瓦斯托波尔市最多允许驻军与随军人员共3000人。乌克兰当地政府为俄罗斯驻军提供通行文件。
当地驻军可在紧急状况下独立宣布戒严，如俄罗斯向戒严城市派遣增援，乌方不得无故做出阻拦。
最大驻军人数在每届乌克兰大选后可经双方协商重新拟订，扩大驻军规模需征得乌方同意，缩减驻军规模需征得俄方同意。
俄乌冲突中，除非有违法日内瓦公约的重大战争罪以外，其余罪行获得赦免，但受害方有权将证据充足的罪行公开。
@Solamend
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 pm
柏威夏寺应归属泰国，周围土地主权由泰方划界6/4分，柏威夏寺周围土地的矿产由第三方探明实际矿区后不论主权归属，由柬方划界4/6分，双方矿产主权收归国有，任何在争议区内作业的开采公司，国有占比需达30%以上。
USAEIOU！！！
@BlankCanvas88
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 pm
8:45 – The Pirates of Penzance is one of the funniest plays in existence; they definitely had a sense of humor. 😉
@geoffkemp1790
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 pm
Canberra, Australia is the bike vault location you couldn’t fathom. Great place to ride a bike. Over 1000km of dedicated bike paths. Lake Burley Griffin, featured in the photo, has over 30km of bike path circumnavigating it, a beautiful ride I’ve done hundreds of times and never got sick of it. Come visit and we’ll give you a tour.
@richardh7044
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Topsy Turvy is a great Victorian movie. It’s about how Gilbert and Sullivan get inspired to create The Mikado
@NellieKAdaba
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 pm
Yes, I liked the movie, I saw it about 15 years ago.
@piso892
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 pm
Aww yeah it’s the bloodborne episode
@YungRedd
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 pm
So Victorian Age jokes are basically the ancestors of “Dad Jokes?” 😂
@NellieKAdaba
December 17, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Yes
@carabiner7999
December 17, 2025 at 7:23 pm
5:04 Pro Tip: If you are wearing some seriously hooped skirt for a wedding/prom/re-enactment/Quinceañera these days, the easiest way to use the toilet is to face in the opposite direction than you do usually. Your friend can make sure the back of your skirt/s don’t hit the floor, should you wish.
@undefeatedgaul3201
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 pm
This guy is great
@allielittlelegs
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 pm
8:04 the irony of these two presidential assassinations is that Lincoln died within hours and the news took a week. Garfield was shot in July but didn’t die until September, yet the news was relayed in mere minutes.
@jimgreen2080
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 pm
Excellent job! BTW, when you spoke of the matrimonial newspaper ads and mentioned the one that said plumpness is a virtue, what were the physical ideals for men and women? Did that advert express a niche preference, or was it prevalent? Obviously all women’s posteriors were so exaggerated by bustles that the reality of their lower physiques was unknowable, but were there for example hairstyle do’s and don’ts, for men as well as women?
@auroraourania7161
December 17, 2025 at 9:54 pm
Those stereoscopic 3D photographs can also be viewed by crossing your eyes precisely. It’s a little difficult to get the hang of, but not that bad. You basically cross them part way, nowhere near all the way, and get the images to line up and once you get them lined up, it’s pretty easy to hold that position since now your eyes are just focusing on something in a weird way, which your brain is good at holding.
District is also a good way to do those picture comparison puzzles really quickly, since anything that is in one image but not the other will kind of flicker and look partially transparent like if you hold something in front of one eye really closely.
@lal6996
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 am
plumpness was essential 😂
@emelineh8551
December 18, 2025 at 12:49 am
muppet christmas carol is the BEST 💗
@jonderic
December 18, 2025 at 1:14 am
Day X of asking for a Chinese history video, specifically the dynasties/Three Kingdoms periods.
@preciousthing101
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 am
I truly found this video amusing. I do have one serious question and a remark. SERIOUS QUESTION: I’ve never given a thought on how telegrams worked. Was there really a looooong cable crossing the ocean?! REMARK: for the poet’s joke I really thought you were gonna say he’d be poor until 30 cause he’d be dead by then. I know, dark.
@oliviadavies2674
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 am
I did have a mental image of mummy unwrapping parties being like pass the parcel for a moment…
@Terfalina
December 18, 2025 at 2:37 am
Well done! Cheers!
@kyivstuff
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 am
3:35 It’s not the matter of convincing the jury, it’s the so called “punitive psychiatry” – when absolutely sane political prisoners are committed into psychiatric facilities by an authoritarian regime as a punishment. Soviets did it too.
@The_Dude_13
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 am
21:40 Most water treatment plants, solid waste treatment plants, and some landfills use “sewer gas” to create electricity.
@CrimeEnjoyer
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 am
1:45 this painting has a single woman’s face with a photograph edited in but everyone else is sketched. Uncanny
@vtr0104
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 am
“Plumpness is essential”.. Man got his priorities straight 😀
@plucas1
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 am
“Plumpness is essential”
Gotta respect a man who knows exactly what he wants.
@Ludiotic
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 am
Even as a Brit, I barely knew anything described in this video. Fantastic stuff. 🙂
@MaceyRaynes
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 am
A Muppet Christmas Carol is my all time favorite Christmas movie! Might even be my overall favorite. ❤
@ladyethyme
December 18, 2025 at 11:02 am
So get Bernadette Banner on here!
@Rajkingdom-y2p
December 18, 2025 at 11:21 am
One of the shittiest era!
@LeonhardtWolf
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 pm
I love the term bumbershoot or all the different terms more drunkenness.
@rossbooth4635
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 pm
@20:20 I just watched The Muppets Christmas Carol with the kids last weekend! It totally holds up, and Michael Caine is legitimately great in it.
@mighti3s
December 18, 2025 at 10:06 pm
muppets!!!! i watch it every year too!
@Rooseeee
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 pm
The Muppets Christmas Carol is pure cinema.
@AuDHD_Mom
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 pm
Wired always finds the most passionate people to speak on these videos. One of my favorite series on YouTube.
@midnight.ramen.
December 19, 2025 at 11:53 am
The fact that penny farthings were created to go faster… I can’t think of a mode of transport I’d like to go fast on less 😭
@MrPedroHunas
December 20, 2025 at 6:08 am
Everything negative we experience in society in the West nowadays, I blame on these Victorians shits.
@kay123kay
December 20, 2025 at 8:19 am
Bring this guy back for a part 2, he’s awesome! I love how he came with actual 19th century newspapers and magazines! Also, I reeeaaallllyyyy want a copy of that Puniana book!!
@ForrestOutman
December 20, 2025 at 10:14 am
When referring to spooky things, you said “the victorians were looking back to the medieval era” and you showed a bit of Gothic architecture. Which is exactly why it is the “Gothic” culture. It’s a modern hybrid, Just as it was then.
@jourdyngroman
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 am
bring back hat pins!
@jourdyngroman
December 20, 2025 at 10:47 am
those last pictures were awesome!
@mandroid5678
December 20, 2025 at 10:57 am
20:05 Ah yes, the age of BBC America originals. Love Ripper Street and Copper. They’re very similar except one is in London and one is in NYC.
@juliemoses1909
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 pm
But I thought Argentina and the USA were about equal in terms of future prospects around the turn of the 20th century?
@EmmaElizabethX
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 pm
He’s a joy!
@jonthompson3279
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 pm
What an excellent video ? Please Does this again.
@Tinil0
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 pm
You know what I would love? A behind the scenes making of version of these. Like…how do they find collate the questions? Obviously most seem to be direct responses to a twitter prompt, but there are also things like reddit questions thrown in too it seems and other misc question. Do they get the expert first or do they get the questions first then find an expert? How do they find and choose experts? I assume they email the expert the finalized list of questions so they can prep for them, do the experts always provide their own props as appropriate or does WIRED have some or are willing to buy some if there aren’t enough?
I’d just love to learn all the making of details!
@marqetteliz
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 pm
Thank you for addressing that stupid myth about doctors and vibrators!
@hermanjohnson9180
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 am
Fascinating info
@mif1005
December 21, 2025 at 5:07 pm
Love it
@rudypoo421
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 am
I loved Ripper Street!
@pezza167
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 am
Sweeny Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. my favourite of the Victorian era films
@AbdhullahAzam-f5o
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 am
Ancient Egyptians: Wraps and preserves bodies for immortality in the afterlife
People of the Victorian Era: Eats them
@LauraTenora
December 22, 2025 at 1:08 pm
10:12 And what about Gilbert and Sullivan? They’re still among the most absurd and funny operettas ever written to this day! And wits such as Oscar Wilde still make us laugh.
@Mustlovebooks15
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 am
Excellent historian. Actually made the answers enjoyable to listen to. If that makes sense. I believe people find history boring because the ones telling it are boring.
@lizafrench8925
December 23, 2025 at 8:26 am
I love the muppets christmas carol too
@shadstyle
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 pm
I love how excited he was to tell us about Victorian jokes 😂
@GusStewart-c7e3j
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 pm
One of the best “tech support” episodes I’ve seen
@lisajusis4040
December 23, 2025 at 7:31 pm
There are still people with foot fetishes.
@lisajusis4040
December 23, 2025 at 7:42 pm
Lors of people in the comments are mentioning “A Christmas Carol”. I love it! It’s not a “Bad guy scared straight” story. It is a mental health intervention.
@rhiix
December 23, 2025 at 10:36 pm
MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. one of my all time favorite movies. my family has been watching it each year since i was a kid and it still amazes me just how perfect that movie is. the adaptation… the jokes… the costumes… the songs… great stuff!! love that you love it too!!
@aharw5141
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 pm
“I have never worn a bustle…”
* proceeds to give us a demonstration…
We hoped…
@r.kiarni
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 am
1:58 i hope phil lester sees this video and feels some vindication
@peneljsmith
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 am
26:07 My grandmother, who was born in the 1890’s, told me that hatpins were great for stabbing a guy in his arm, if he got too fresh. It was so great to hear this in the video, reminding me of my grandmother. She was a great lady.
@reimondvincent
December 24, 2025 at 12:26 am
I love this! And really great questions, too. Good job internet ❤
@joshuabartram5272
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 am
Juror #3 is that you
@AvocadoAffogato
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 am
GREAT JOB VERY ENTERTAINING
@powerfrenzy
December 24, 2025 at 10:31 am
I disagree on Muppets being the best adapatation of Christmas Carol. That honour must go to the 1984 version with George C Scott and David Warner
@beckylindley2263
December 24, 2025 at 5:17 pm
So you know about the Victorian women’s underwear being parted at the crotch, and you think the can-can was about ankles… riiiiiight….
@abd1900-z1m
December 24, 2025 at 6:40 pm
Bob is so engaging and I love his accent!
@LostinMayberry
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 pm
In reference to the ankle subject the designer/seamstress Bernadette Banner, who specializes in historical fashion, had a whole presentation on that. She started a OF for ankle attraction. It’s very humorous and she fully commits to it.
@UltraVega924
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 pm
9:37 😂 it would’ve been a tad funnier though if it went: You will be very poor until you are 30 years old. And what then?! Then, then, you’ll be very VERY poor 😂
@manwithnogod68
December 25, 2025 at 9:50 am
No offense to this chap, but they need to do another one of these with Ruth Goodman.
@1HPSmurf
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 am
The lady with her ankles out
Ooofff,thats too saucy for me
😂
@katwitanruna
December 25, 2025 at 12:31 pm
As someone who’s done historical costuming since 1972 as well as having a dad who taught AP History, I always nitpick everything.
@dailydoseofaspartame
December 25, 2025 at 2:55 pm
SNL has a Victorian Ladies sketch… Somehow the mummies thing is way worse 🤮
@user-gm4fg4mv4l
December 25, 2025 at 6:38 pm
Can I educate you. It was all about controlling women when they couldn’t show their ankles etc. The word slander is key. It is the same with the Muslim community today. They cover etc but it has nothing to do with actual sexuality, corn etc. It’s to do with control. Even non religious yt modern men of today are busy controlling women’s clothes and covering etc. Not sure how you missed this. There’s no difference really between the 19th century Victorian ankle and the Muslim woman ankle today etc corn was there in the past and corn is here today as well. And Muslim men definitely watch it just as men partook in corn and the smexual industry back then too.
@EmilyCheetham
December 25, 2025 at 7:30 pm
I always thought in the past when urine was used to bleach or remove stains the items would then be rinsed out & then washed a second time with soap to remove and sterilise.