VICTORIAN ENTERTAINMENT

By: Madison Dagg

CITY LIFE VS. COUNTRY

In the cities people would often attend parties,

concerts, fairs, cruises, and shows

In the country popular entertainment included

barn raising, qualting bees, weddings, ceilidhs

(parties with Irish, or Scottish music, dancing, and

stories), barn dances, and other diversions.

READING

More people could read at this times so reading

became very popular, this included books, and

magazines.

Books were often published in serial format so

people would need to buy next weeks issue to follow

the story.

SPORTS

“blood sports” such as bear-baiting, and dog-and-

bull fighting would be considered very strange and

brutal today but were quite popular back then.

Swimming for fun also became very popular

GAMES

With no TV's, radio, or other devices people would rely on

games to pass the time, some popular games were:

Kissing his thumb- the player, hanging by his right arm from

a pipe or beam, must lift his body in goal of kissing his thumb.

Pulling the leg- two players lay side by side on their backs

with the head of one by the feet of the other; they hold each

other by the forearms and raise the left leg 3 times the 4th time

they catch each others leg and each tries to overturn the other.