Queen Victoria
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Sep 15, 2026
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
As Buffalo Bill landed with the committee, three cheers were given, and cries rang out of Welcome to Old England, giving pleasing evidence of the public interest that had been awakened through the coming of the Wild West.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
A special train with saloon carriages was waiting to convey the party to London, and leaving behind them the old Kentish town, in an hour after, they arrived at Victoria Station.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
Entering the headquarters of the exhibition, Buffalo Bill and those who accompanied him found a bounteous repast set, and a generous welcome was accorded them.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
After brief social converse, a visit was made to the grounds where hundreds of busy workmen were hastening the completion of the arena, the grandstand, and stabling for the cattle.
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Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
The progress of the United States, now the largest community of the English race on the face of the earth, though not in political union with Great Britain, yet intimately connected with us by social sympathies, by a common language and literature, by ancestral traditions and many centuries of common history, by much remaining similarity of civil institutions, laws, morals, and manners, by the same forms of religions, by the same attachments to the principles of order and freedom, and by the mutual interchange of benefits in a vast commerce and in the materials and sustenance of their staple industries, is a proper subject of congratulation.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
For the popular mind in the United Kingdom does not regard and will never be taught to regard what are styled imperial interests, those of mere political dominion, as equally valuable with the habits and ideas and domestic life of the aggregate of human families belonging to our own race.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
The greater numerical proportion of these, already exceeding sixty millions, are inhabitants of the great American Republic, while the English-speaking subjects of Queen Victoria number a little above forty-five millions, including those in Canada and Australasia and scattered among the colonial dependencies of this realm.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
It would be unnatural to deny ourselves the indulgence of a just gratification in seeing what men of our own blood, men of our own mind and disposition in all essential respects, though tempered and sharpened by more stimulating conditions, with some wider opportunities for exertion, have achieved in raising a wonderful fabric of modern civilization and bringing it to the highest prosperity across the whole breadth of the western continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Jason KenneyGUEST
It's a model that took, uh, my favorite father of confederation, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, from being sentenced to death for being a Fenian rebel in the 1848 rebellion in Ireland.
Jason KenneyGUEST
Commute-- With- he was, his, he was, uh, the death sentence was, uh, commuted by Queen Victoria, moved to the United States, got involved with all sorts of Fenian rebel movements and organizations and scraps.
Jason KenneyGUEST
Eventually, because of that, moves to Montreal.
Jason KenneyGUEST
So he's back in the British Empire, okay, in the 1850s, uh, 10 years after having tried to drive the English out of Ireland.
Claudia OshryHOST
The Russian royal family.
Jackie OshryHOST
The Romanovs, Chernobyl, Queen Victoria, Medici.
Jackie OshryHOST
I feel myself going down a 9/11 one.
Claudia OshryHOST
That's, like, such a hard one, 'cause it's so recent.
Katie HopkinsGUEST
You know, I mean, I think it really- You know, the spiritualist movement and, y- you know, at least connecting with the other side has been happening since the Victorian era.
Katie HopkinsGUEST
Um, Queen Victoria was the first prominent person to ever have a seance and, and actually talk about it.
Katie HopkinsGUEST
You know, so I don't know back then if they would've been like, "Oh, that place looks haunted," but I think, you know, at least when the Warrens came about, and, and became, um, you know, prominent people within the paranormal field, you know, 1970s, 19, you know, 60s even, late 1960s, that it could have maybe started a, a little, uh, I mean, catchphrase of, "That looks haunted." [laughs]
Carol HughesHOST
Mm-hmm.
Larry ArnnGUEST
That in the first paragraph I ever read by Churchill, it's the first paragraph in The World Crisis.
Larry ArnnGUEST
It was the custom in the palmy days of Queen Victoria for statesmen to expatiate on the former glories of the British Empire.
Larry ArnnGUEST
Then there's a couple more sentences, and then it turns low, just the way his voice lowered.
Larry ArnnGUEST
Little did they know that the greatest achievements were still before them.
Jay SingletonHOST
What were they thinking? What were the core concepts of this worldview? And what were some of the ways they responded to these three questions? What happens if natural selection is disrupted? Should we try to stop suffering, and how? And three, should we try to usher in the next age of humanity, and how? And I wanna start with the eugenicists' realization that they may have already disrupted the billion-year-old process of natural selection.
Jay SingletonHOST
Okay, so in Victorian England, they were getting pretty good at keeping people alive.
Jay SingletonHOST
Not as good as we are today, but, you know, pretty good, all things considered.
Jay SingletonHOST
Sanitation was improving.
Jay SingletonHOST
It was generally a relative improvement.
Jay SingletonHOST
And most people, including those who would become eugenicists, saw this as a good thing.
Jay SingletonHOST
It fit with the general Christian belief in charity and the Victorian paternalistic sense of duty to less fortunate.
Jay SingletonHOST
So yeah, keeping people alive, healthy, looked after, totally compatible with eugenics.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
It's really great to be back again.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
and this looks like another fascinating story and really rich in detail and I guess one that's not often told we know a lot about veterans and mental health with veterans and slightly later in the 20th century and today of course but these men who were joining up to defend the empire in Victorian Britain at a young age then seeing and often instigating this terrible violence far from home I mean their stories are often lost to time is that is that fair?
Jen BaldwinHOST
Yeah, I think this is one of the points where history becomes a little uncomfortable and it's not something that people like to talk about very much.
Jen BaldwinHOST
And I wonder if some of that is simply because we want to leave those stories there, right? This is messy colonial history.
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Jen BaldwinHOST
And like so many men at this point, he's looking for work.
Jen BaldwinHOST
But returning to civilian life isn't always straightforward and simple.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
So I can see he's demobbed in November 1901, obviously a big moment in Britain's story, the year that Queen Victoria died, the end of the Victorian era.
Alice LoxtonGUEST
And many, when the veterans returning, I'm imagining there wasn't the formal support that we might have today.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The oldest confirmed ages for Aldabra tortoises exceed 150 years and there is evidence, though it is difficult to verify, that some individuals may live considerably longer than that.
speaker_5NARRATOR
A tortoise on Aldeburgh today may have been alive when Queen Victoria was on the throne.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It may have been alive when the first photographs were taken.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It may have been hatched from an egg that was laid on the same beach where its great-great-great-grandparents' egg was laid, on an atoll that looked essentially the same.
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speaker_5NARRATOR
It does not know that it is one of a hundred thousand.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It does not know that its species outnumbers the Galapagos tortoises five to one.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It does not know that the atoll it lives on is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, or that the government of the Seychelles administers its home from an office in Victoria on the island of Mahe, over a thousand kilometres to the northeast.
speaker_5NARRATOR
It does not know that the reef surrounding the atoll is one of the healthiest coral reef systems in the Indian Ocean, or that the mangroves along the lagoon margin are among the most intact mangrove systems in the western Indian Ocean basin, or that the seabird colonies on the outer islands are among the largest in the region.
Hannah GoodinHOST
Yes.
John NelsonHOST
Heritage Conyers for Queen Victoria.
John NelsonHOST
Big win for Quincy Carter.
John NelsonHOST
You knocked off Shiloh, 28-24.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
All patients come to me.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
Would not cross the street to see Queen Victoria.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
You can have all visiting, all surgery, all midwifery.
Clive CatterallNARRATOR
Make what you like of it.
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