THE VICTORIAN ERA WAS ROUGH #darkhistory #history #victorianera #ukhistory #londonfog #victorian

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[00:00:00]Modern movies love portraying Victorian fog as the soft cinematic mist rolling through gaslit streets.

[00:00:08]But a lot of the famous fog was actually pollution.

[00:00:12]Coal smoke mixed with natural fog to create yellow thick smog that coated buildings, clothes, lungs, basically everything. Respiratory illness became incredibly common, especially in the industrial areas where factory chimneys never seemed to stop running.

[00:00:32]But factories generated so much wealth that society tolerated these awful conditions. Progress mattered more than safety.