Title: What did people do for entertainment in the 1800s? During the Industrial Revolution? | Yahoo Answers
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What did people do for entertainment in the 1800s? During the Industrial Revolution?
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Content: Only with sanitation, and realizing that dumping sewage into the river below your town, only meant the next town would catch your diseases, did things change. The wealthy had concerts in their homes , and plays in theatres they held in their homes for thier friends.... and amusements with lutenists and minstrels, and wandering poets, and story tellers were in any rather larger town. They would go from one town to the next....
The field worker had very little and usually lived a long distance from a town.... society didn't suddenly go from agricultural to factories. All --men women, and particularly children.... worked from sun up, to sun down, and had church on Sundays where they'd socialize. Most people were workers, so there was little in the way of entertainment. Symphonies such as what we have today, could only be hired by the wealthy. In the 1700's if you were lucky enough to live in a big town as a factory worker, you went to the big church on Sundays, and you heard organ music by Bach, or others, and/or string quartets or quintets, supported by the church, which you supported with your contributions. Kids had games they played... you likely can google some of them.... Children's games of the 1700's or something similar. Girls learned to sew, men learned to make and use tools, and as well, work in the emerging factories. Bottom line?