Bridgerton: What Life Was Really Like In The Gin-Crazed Georgian Era | History Of Britain
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Tony travels back to Georgian times, learning of a sailor's attempt to leave behind his scurvy existence for a Tahitian girl, and a gin entrepreneur who fell foul of the law. Plus, a hungry poacher has a cunning plan.
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tbf, Bridgerton doesn't show us ANYTHING about Georgian life.
Read the novels.
@@ImNotaRussianBot I'm referring to the abomination of a show.
Bridgerton is only to put forth liberal rewriting of history through “ entertainment “
Sage Fields, thank you for saying this. My thoughts exactly.
@@brittoncooke1890 You know the word "liberal" can be used non politically? As in, meaning free or loose? He's saying it's a loosy-goosey rewriting of history, not a leftist one. Calm down Berkeley
imagine hating the working class so much you literally make it illegal for them to get their own food and then killing them for acquiring it
Sounds like how people were harassed by police in my city for handing out free food to the needy when one of the homeless shelters closed suddenly. Yup. That happened.
Those are called 'the homeless' now. It's why affluent cities have wooded areas and train tracks
@@natureandphysics403 If u are just referring to the distain & complete lack of understanding many rich now feel for the homeless being similar to how the rich viewed those below them in the past...I agree.
-However the thing is...people like the man whose story they told were actually equal to modern day lower class to lower middle class as far as income. He was actually fairly above the true poor of the time. He was able to adequately provide for his family legally until there were a few years of bad harvests in the area which raised the prices of food substantially as well as limiting the amount available at all. Like most people in the financial classes I mentioned above he was just one major financial cost outside his norm or a massive increase in the price of necessities away from not being able to make ends meet. Today there is help available for people during such times. (Although as we see w/COVID often not enough help😒) But unlike today there wasn’t really any food banks, welfare or any such assistance for when such shortages occurred unless u had a very generous land owner. Which some were & would allow either supervised hunting of small game(esp those posing risks to future harvests) or would give the small game they & their hunting parties killed for sport to those living on their lands.
You realize that still happens in America, right? Community gardens were made illegal in many places so it would have to be bought. You can get fined or even imprisoned depending on the state.
@@roguewolf7053 I meant that wooded areas and train tracks in affluent cities are where the homeless live and die conveniently out of sight and mind to people paid $95,000 a year to do 35 hours of 'marketing' from home.
15:14 How much salt must've been in there if they used freaking sea water to make it less salty?
I thought the same thing! 🤢🤮
enough to make it last three years.
🤢🤢🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮😫😫😫😫😫😫😢😢😢😢😢😢🥺🥺🥺😢😢😢😢😢🥺😢😢😭all sailors ever
That was my first thought...
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅
I just had my first hospital visit in over 10 years last week and seperated my fingertip on a electric blade of a kitchen machine . Never ever will I complain again about the horrific experience of getting my finger sewn back together and the pain of the syringes. Wow that amputation story is truly a nightmare. Poor woman
This is why the British call the operating room a "theater" and is confusing to the rest of the world.
Wonder if they ever scalp tickets to these things. "Two, two! I got two for the Winslow tumor!"
@@Anon26535 😂🤣😂🤣
Yep. I was confused when first reading fiction books set in Europe when I was young until I read one set during the time where it described the halls surgery was performed & how people would pack in to watch both surgeries & autopsies.
- While I understand those interested in practicing medicine attending both or perhaps the occasional person curious as to what is inside the human body attending. It’s the fact that LOADS of average people would often purchase tickets to basically either watch someone be tortured in hopes of saving their life or to watch human bodies be taken apart...purely for entertainment...which I find disturbing. Same with hangings & other forms of executions. As well as many forms of public torture as punishments for crimes. That so many found the suffering of others entertaining is very disturbing. Although that element still exists today doesnt it? 😕
@@roguewolf7053 Throughout the ages, it's amazing how fascinated we are by the things we fear. We're even delighted by it. Why are we like that? Isn't it weird? We people are weird.
@@Anon26535 🤔😳💀😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏾
Tony seems like such a nice laid back friendly man. He is a great story teller and host
Time Team
Agreed! 😊
My 6th great grandfather was taken by a press gang in the 1730s in Edinburgh. He ended up being left in Boston by a french ship that had taken him prisoner. He never saw his Scotland family again.
Sad.
Human trafficking and slavery are worse now than ever.
@@spongemonkeysooz Are you High?
@@aa-vk6hd I think they are talking about over worked and underpaid people along with human trafficking issues that are especially big in America right now.
Not high at the moment. 😕Google more slavery and human trafficking now than ever before. I realize it's hard to believe as it is hidden by the corporations that take advantage of it.
“people were spending all of their earnings on the essentials and it still wasnt enough”
wow kinda sounds familiar
Oh boo hoo.
I've been poor since an idiot caused a car wreck that caused me to be disabled. None of you would hate yourselves if you were rich. You just like complaining.
Show ruined, congrats.
@@amylh322 If anything, sounds like you're the one that hates yourself. No one asked buddy and if you're looking for some pity comment, you won't get it.
No, the iphone X is not an essential.
@@metalema6 Oh god. Not anti poor boomer talking points.
Because you do that too.
I like how they make a era look sooo innocent and sweet but yet when you really see it- the truth, you see a dark age
That's why any politician who longs got the good old days abs tries to take us backwards... They're dangerous
Damn. I really wanted her to survive her leg amputation. I felt really upset she didn't. These stories are fascinating, but we almost forget they were real people like us. At least I do at times. Thanks Tony.
Shout it to a moutain,
Carve it on a tree,
Cry it out to Jesus,
"I've got to shit and pee".
I can’t imagine having my leg amputated while completely conscious!
I mean people died from just having broken bones, let alone amputation. It’s all very tragic
When you realize the rich are still keeping people down.
Yes nothing against the rich but it is digusting they way some of them and the upper middle class have no empathy for those less fortunate, and do not use there welth or influence as they are supposed to to help others.
@@e.jenima7263 Oh I get it, I grew up in a family I would have considered poor but then I worked in homecare and hospice for 2 years, I would have never have imagined the level of poverty people live in around me. Some people say "everyone should work a fast food job to understand" nah work in homecare and then youll have a better understanding and see how some people live
@@b52goats It is all about perspective. Many people would not consider themselves rich, but compared to the rest of the world, they are probably pretty wealthy. But you can always get wealthier, so you might not see it yourself... I completely agree that everyone should work at least one year in a social job like hospice or care for those who need it.
Yes and they’re vegan now! F***king irony am I right?
Being rich isn't bad it's rich people that are stupid that I'm not fond of.
I love listening to these episodes while I'm cleaning/ doing chores. This one was pretty quirky I loved it. Also that guy is the best.
He's actor Tony Robinson. Check out the old show Blackadder sometime. He's hilarious.
Quirky*
@@thenobalnacho I think my brain mixed kinky and quirky hahaha thank u
It's so hard to believe you could be KILLED for hunting a rabbit, and that to feed your hungry children. Why were these laws so unfair? It isn't as if the gentry are going to even miss a few rabbits.
This is immediately before the Enlightenment, they didn't think that poor people were really people.
The rich own the world, back then they were just more blatant about it.
They had the Bible, they just didn’t read it.
All over the book talks about feeding the poor, helping the poor, loving the poor.
Men love money more than humans.
I can see laws about "no hunting animals _on privately owned property_ " but ANY hunting of ANY animal? At all? In all of England?
wat.
@@robinchesterfield42 Problem is.. back then, all land was private property the common man didnt really own any land, he lived on his lords land, and the lords owned pretty much all of it. And guess who by law owned any land not taken up by lords etc... the good old top lord himself, the king.
Its a BS system, that sadly has quite a few at the top today, hankering for its return and scarily enough it could come back real soon.
Disgusting how the wealthy people took advantage of their position over the poor population. I felt sorry for Charles Smith who wanted to feed his family and got hanged for it and Elisabeth the gin seller who went to prison for trying to survive in a rough world.
Not much has changed. Unless we constantly hold the elites/politicians/big corporations, they will continue to constantly erode freedoms and jack prices up while their extravagant life styles and bank accounts constantly expand.
Wealthy people are still taking advantage of those less fortunate! Entitled because they have more money, looking down at those who have less.
Until there becomes a cap on how much people can make, the rich get richer; the poor get poorer. I also think those who make above a certain amount, they are required, by law, to donate to those who can barely keep a roof over their heads. On that note; the world as a whole, should implement a limit on 2 children per couple. Religion (all) aside!! I could go on, but I won't. I'm sure you get my point 😏
It’s disturbing how the government allows these big pharm companies to jack up the prices. I think the government has too much of their influence in healthcare, but what they should be doing is regulating the prices of meds and insurance. I mean, the government is supposed to be FOR the people right? Insulin is so cheap to make, yet it is so damn expensive. And for type 1 diabetics, they literally will die without it. So infuriating!!
There are people going through the same things today, in places like india people work in terrible conditions all day just to feed their family with rice
@@christinawells2024 yes, gov't is supposed to be for the people, but we all know it is the wealthy corporations, special interests and their lobbyists pulling the strings.
Thus, the middle-class is the poorer class; wages remain stagnant and the top 2% are seeing the wealth of the poorer & lower class transferred to their holdings.
If people keep voting for Republicans, you can depend on this inequality only intensifying; as Republicans represent businesses & the wealthy and Democrats represent the people, social programs & preservation of the environment.
However, they are not immune to the allure of wealth & power for themselves, see Dem Joe Manchin totally under the thumb of coal.
16 string Jack seems like quite the character
Imagine what a rockstar he would have been had he been born in the modern West?
So would love a movie of him!
Why didn't he take his money and start a new life elsewhere? If he had accumulated enough money
I actually feel bad that he was hanged?
@@FC-hj9ub Well for one as they said he craved the lifestyle of the truly wealthy which he never accomplished to his satisfaction. But he was also not an educated individual and if he had went too far away his accent would’ve made him stick out & possibly made it harder for him to find employment due to being seen as an outsider or due to negative opinions of people from outside areas. While he did most likely earned/stole enough to have settled down in a modest house & land with a family without needing to work very much. It wouldn’t have been anywhere near enough for the lifestyle he longed for. Also...from the way he is described I think he was addicted to the adrenaline & adventure of first the speed of the carriages & then the risks & rewards of being a highwayman. Even his victims seemed to find him a romantic figure & Im sure more than one rich young lady managed to see him out of sight of her father or even husband.
We also have to remember how short the average life span for a man truly was at that time. Disease, injury, SO many laws resulted in hanging and if you survived an injury or illness but were left disabled odds are you would end up slowly starving to death.😕 So it’s possible he decided to just get as much excitement, adventure & just plain enjoyment out of his life while knowing his actions would likely eventually cost him his life. Another factor may have been that being “old” in those days for any but the wealthy was most often horrible as well.
(Then 60 = modern day 80-90) Which may very well have been another factor in his life choices. Because even though his jobs as a coachman & highwayman were hard & carried risks they weren’t anywhere NEAR as body destroying as most jobs of the time for a male of his education & station.
I do wish they had said how old he was when he died. They said he was 18 when he became a coachman so I wonder how long he got to live his life of adventure & risk. To have been caught & trialed but managed to not be charged 17 times...one would think that would have to span over several years at least. I’d love to see a movie based on his life!
Just goes to show you that no matter the time, being poor has always been made into a crime. When he says that "she was arrested for trying to make a living as a poor woman in a rich man's world", it reminds me of the petty pot dealers and sex workers here in the US, getting years and years in prison, being branded as a criminal for life and being shit on by society. I've known many a people who grew up in section 8, had a full time job, 40 hr was the minimum(construction/waiting tables was the best paying) yet still had to do something on the side to make it, like selling weed or pulling tricks, if they were lucky(from a legal standpoint),it would just be stripping and maybe boxing/racing. Either way, just tying to survive when finishing high school and having a car that runs is the gold standard, was never easy. I wonder, if us "debt slaves" ever had time enough to do something about our plight, just how fast heads would roll from the ruling class?
Rant over.
EDIT: To be clear, I grew up in a 2 parent home, my parents were married and didn't have children until they were married. Neither went to college, because their parents couldn't or wouldn't help them, so dad was in the trades and mom worked at an interior design company, both full time. We were poor, not because they spent too much, we never had new cars, vacations, luxuries, etc because my parents paid cash and that was it. I got everything on my own, my car, my small cleaning business, trade school and even bought a small house at 25. Married and a 1st time mom as of 2 years ago. We get by on 1 income, which is about what both of my parents made, while I stay home. When I go back to full.time work in another 2 or 3 years, that will raise our income by about 60% and we will still live the way we do and save. We own our home, husband had a degree and I worked full time for 4 years while he went back, so he could work less. We have made many sacrifices, and even raised his exs son after she died. Was it easy?? HELL NO. IT CAN BE DONE WITH THE RIGHT ENCOURAGEMENT AND SACRAFICING ALL OF YOUR TEENS AND 20S. Most people are raised the same way the last 2 or 3 generations were, and assume they can never do better. With the way the school system is, that is no help whatsoever. College per year for in state university is about $40k/yr, which for the kids I grew up with, was at least a whole years pay for their household. No one gives loans to kids from where I grew up.
When I had group therapy at a public clinic, my sheltered middle-class upbringing was shocked to realize how many of the women in my group had "arrangements" with one or more men who would partially support them. This is how so many women end up with children by more than one man. The women were unemployable due to mental illness, and the men were not financially stable enough to marry and form families. There would be a whole network of family and others who did not have stable work lives, but who would collaborate in helping each other get by. It was all so dysfunctional and sad. But people do what they must to survive, including having children whether they can care for them or not. Many 50-year old grandmothers raising the 15-year old grand children who were now also pregnant. The grandmothers would be the strongest and most functional of the family, but suffering depression and anxiety at all the stress they were under. They needed more than mental health services, they needed something to change.
That was one eloquent rant
You should consider doing these into a full-on video or a book
@@argusfleibeit1165 nice to see other people willing to lend an ear to understand it truly can be impossible to live the charmed life others have, once you start poor it's rather hard to get out seeing as how you're constantly working to get out but all your money goes to rent here in California anyways. Hard to play catch-up without absolutely no room for spending money on frivolous items. And maybe you might save enough to buy an item to sell for more money or have enough time to get skills in a higher paying job, that takes sweet time and if you have a family forget about it(for the most part)
I've been poor all of my life, working check to check, same as my friends. But we worked our way out of it...over time. We didn't leave grandma to raise our irresponsible behavior, we didn't do time because we didn't sell drugs, and if you were whoring yourself out, well, if you lay with dogs you get fleas and they are your friends. I think some people posting here are confusing the irresponsible people, people who were never taught a moral compass, with actual poor people who don't need to break the law. Maybe you guys watched too much of the crap on tv over the past twenty years and believe you deserve six figures just for breathing. Did it ever occur to you that you are poor because you are poor and that is the end of it.
? Poor prople today have a hell of a lot more than years ago when I was poor. I don't think you would have made it.
Vegan is still diet standard of Aeon and it does rescue ones from many terrible deceptions ! Vegans don't wat the feuit of That tree! 😎
This was much more intelligent and interesting than the cheesy title card makes it out to be.
Yet we all clicked on it anyway?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The more and more I learn about this time in Britain the more I understand why people left to start a whole new country. I know this was a little later in time but still.
The first mass immigration from Europe to the new USA was about a generation after John Rann's execution, early 1800s.
Hell...I would get out of the city as fast as possible. No sanitation and too many diseases🤮. When he said that the lady just chucked her chamberpot out the window 19:57, I was done.
@Robert Freisler I don't see a contradiction between a government oppressing its own people and colonialism. You know about the historical links between the Choctaw and Irish Nations? time.com/5833592/native-american-irish-famine/
Yes, my parents immigrated and it was the best thing they did
@Robert Freisler nobody has suffered more at the hands of the British "aristocracy" than the British poor.
The poor couldn't hunt? what horrible evil people.
So that rabbit, squirrel, deer, pheasant were running around and the poor people could not catch them and eat them, I could never see people go hungry like that .
Nope.
But before enclosures and even after, there were gardens in each village and district of a larger city where visitors are people of that town or city could grab something out of the garden, and if not ripe, they could ask for food from the storage.
As far as hunting, no. That required a permit or rank of nobility.
Among the reasons my ancestors on my dad's side moved to America.
They liked the idea hunting and fishing didn't require special permits that could cost a fortune or simply not be available as fish and game in rivers, lakes, and land was reserved to the lord of the land... sometimes to the monarch only.
I agree they went too far. Limiting makes sense though. Over hunting is a huge problem and people regularly ate things to extinction back then. They do today if you let them. Many people will "live off the land" rather than get a job if they are allowed to. The only problem is, the land can't necessarily support the people doing that and they eat everything in sight killing the entire deer population, etc. There were too many people in cities for the local population of rabbits, deer, etc to support. Everyone in these cities would have starved within a few years if people could kill wildlife as they liked, whenever they liked. The right move would have been to create permit like today. A certain number of hunting permits are created that are sustainable by the wildlife populations, and everyone else needs to plan ahead and buy from the grocery store. I believe in most American small towns the poor have a certain number of hunting permits put aside just for them if they want them. They do in the eastern states anyway.
@@mortega4719 no. “There is no certain amount of hunting permits for the poor.” I buy no permit nor license, I hunt on my land. Laws vary state to state. Some animals like moose/elk/grizzly have a lottery process for which you might get a permit or you might not none are reserved for any one group.
@@blueoval250 What state is this? Not year round, though? I believe I would need a license to legally harvest a deer on my own land. If you are willing to share, people without land will ask written permission to hunt on your land.
Honestly I feel real bad for John Mara, my man could've lived his best life but they caught him just before he could reach shore. That has to take a toll on you, knowing you're so close to something so amazing before being dragged back to conditions like that
wonder who and how they caught him!!!
you know your pork is too salty when you can use SALT WATER to wash it off
A lot of the "Crimes against Game" were due to people killing rabbits on the land that they, themselves rented and lived on. They often couldn't kill rabbits that were attacking their gardens, an important food source for tenant laborers and farmers.
This makes the law so much darker than originally posited. Wow. Why not catch a few and breed them? I wonder if they considered that? Technically not illegal as you bred them... but I'm sure the authorities would have a word or two about that kind of smartassery. 😅
@@heathertaylor8904 Rural people kept rabbits, pigeons, hens, pigs, sheep, cows and goats without problems, as long as they had the space and the fodder to feed the animals. The problem was that the landowners often reserved the right to shoot wild game on their estates and hired gamekeepers to make sure that there was a steady supply. Tenants could get in trouble for trapping and killing the wild game without the landlord's permission: pheasants, rabbits and deer included. It was spelled out in the rental contract whether or not a tenant was given a deputation to shoot or trap game on the rented land.
@@tessat338 thank you so much for answering! I find this kind of thing endlessly fascinating!!
I've been watching Tony's documentaries for ages and this has to be my favourite because of the fun editing
Love when Tony does his different voices when telling a story lmao 😜 he’s great, I laugh the whole time and I love history. ✌️♥️😊
Great documentary, Tony sells himself no need for clickbait title. Has nothing to do with Bridgerton.
It’s reporting on the same time period as Bridgerton, that’s probably why it’s in the title
@@CasDaBean And it's referencing the fact that oftentimes, only the history of the high class gets told. Kinda clickbaity, but if it gets more people to learn history, I'll take it.
As an American I find it all fascinating. If I see absolute history or I see Tony I'll watch the video.
love LOVE Tony!
Exactly. it pissed me off when I saw that it was just a normal episode that I had already watched.
Quit it with the damn clickbait. I'm not going to watch the damn video if I've already seen it. It's pointless.
The way he smiles and says, “within a week, she dies” 😁
he got away with it by asking nicely xD "hey little lady, please hand me some money, I won't kill you if you do, by the way you are quite lovely. your hair shines in the sun like a still ocean in the morning". haha, now that's a thief I'd want my kids to role play.
Isn't there a Quinton Tarantino movie based off that guy or at least featuring him 🤔 😏
@@bmoisgood3228 if there is I need to see it, thanks for tellin me about it! somehow, I don't think I've ever watched a Tarantino film
@@yeetghostrat Resivor (?) Dogs is an awesome movie. His first. 😷😎😷
The rover
At that point, they're just paying him for compliments. "Tell me I'm prettier than Lady Thornbush of Florence Hollow and I shall give you some more coins."
The class system still exists thought and is still maintained throughout stupid laws, systems etc ... and poverty is still rising.
yes, it sounds so weird explaining how the poor spend every cent on food as if its a thing from the past, people do dumpster diving and its illegal (which should be the real crime here)
Blame the Tories. Also, what Adam Curtis’ “The Mayfair Set” available on YT. part 2 is especially relevant on the absurdity and failure of the market economy in specific and capitalism more generally.
@@happytofu5 it’s so sad ... it’s inhuman.
@@conzmoleman totally agree with you.
Yes. You should get everything for free!
i absolutely love these. I love hearing about peoples daily lives and struggles for the average folk, heck the major events
History is fascinating. I miss teaching it, love seeing the people making this kind of content. UA-cam has completely replaced my T.V., this is way more fun.
Thank you so much for this insight into the "average" person's experience. I don't think much has changed in some ways. There is still a huge disparity between the rich and the poor. One could equate drug dealers slinging dope with Mary trying to survive by selling her gin.
16:00 - Scurvy - Captain Cook was noted for frequent stops on his journeys, so members of his crew very rarely got scurvy.
This is my favorite series ever! I am so happy that Tony is well despite COVID. So happy as well that there is Season 2!!
One of the best historical documentaries I've watched in awhile. Great commentary, great information, great visuals and great jokes. Can't wait to watch more of these ❤
Awww... I so wanted Tough Elizabeth to be the one in three. Dear old soul, should have lived another thirty years. Dying peacefully in her sleep in her own bed surrounded by her loving descendants.
Fascinating work. Great research and story telling!
Such great production value, n interesting to watch. You guys need more views :( keep making these!!
Love Tony’s stuff. Fascinating. Thanks
As a circulating nurse, I found the description of the surgery fascinating. It's sad that the patient died.
I have been enjoying Tony Robinson since season one of Time Team. Tony is a very enjoyable story teller. Thank you Tony Robinson for all you have done to make history fun......
I love these docs! Please keep them coming Tony!
Amazing documentary! I'd love to see more content about the Georgian/Regency era, it's such a fascinating time period. :)
These Tony Robinson vids are absolute ace!
Amazing documentary! Wonderfully narrated!! The music and editing is wonderful ! The 18th century drinking specialist is so cool...
This guy is the best history host.
Neil Oliver is pretty good as well
to be honest i rather enjoy suzannah lipscomb as well!
@@cheeseccheese i love her
Is it just me or this Jack fellow would make a great character in a game in the veins of Assassin's Creed? Why didn't I hear about him ever? He has an interesting story.
Jake's meals would mostly have consisted of scraps from the great Table which was eating good to be fair for someone of Jack's status. Meat and Fish on the regular all the butter, cheese and bread you could eat. While No one blame you for having an apple stuffed in your coat at all times.
If you throw in his room which might have only been a bed in the room above the Stables and a trunk to put his things in it was certainly better than living in the over cramped house with his family.
So his actual value was probably closer to 25 quid a year.
This was a great video. Thank you! 😊
Lovely video, I enjoyed watching and learned a lot!
12:34 they are on HMS Trincomalee, a Leda class frigate of 1817 for those wondering.
I'm hooked on these documentaries.
Thanks guys. Love this
This is a Great documentary ! The stories they tell are fantastic, & VERY funny at some points 😄
What an amazingly done documentary. Tony is such a great story teller, plus the pictures, and music just all mix together so well.
On beer street you consume alcohol. On gin lane alcohol consumes you.
That puss and meow is genius.
This was incredible- thank you!
I've watched so many of these absolute thirsty episodes I've lot count. But keep finding ones I haven't watched yet so I keep. Hope there's lots more!!
Tony is such a wonderful storyteller! Love this show
I simply adore Tony.
I convolutedly love him.
24:52 “Got a hefty slap to keep her conscious” just made me laugh. What a horrible experience while the same time effective.
Tony Robinson makes this documentary well worth watching. Thank you!
When the game is truly rigged from the start.
I'm Astounded that Lord Palmerston was after Charles for poaching knowing he would hang for such a petty offense and knowing he would be leaving a family who desperately needed him to survive, behind.
I would think a lord would feel some responsibility for the people who work his land and provide his income. To begrudge a man a few pheasants to feed his little ones when you know bringing poaching charges against him will cost him his life is astounding. What a disgusting example of humanity Lord Palmerston seems to have been. A veritable reptile.
Different country and time, but...there is a REASON why stuff like "Les Miserables" was written...
He didn’t just poach. He attempted to murder someone
@@stancexpunks He tried to kill the game warden who made bounties by catching poachers and providing the necessary evidence to convict them. There was only one punishment for poaching at that time...death. So it was kill or be killed in that situation. In the US colonies the Forrest land was not for the sole use of the nobility or the king so a poor colonist never felt hungry as deer and small game were a daily part of his diet.
...Why would you think a lord would feel responsibility for literally anything beyond his own next meal & how he's going to entertain himself?
@@cam4636 Because he wouldn't last long as a lord if all he did was prey on his serfs. The same serfs who he will raise for battle to defend his land. You can get away with a certain amount of bad behavior, but he's not a king. What comes around goes around.
I love this channel; you can learn about history and be entertained at the same time.
the older times made me scared if I had been living during this time.
Well, many of us had brave ancestors who showed up and did the hard thing so you can be free. Pay them back by being grateful. Help someone in need. Don't lose it over First world problems.
That was all they knew of life. And shows like this often refuse to show the happy times. If there were no happy and hopeful times none of us would be here.
This whole episode and others from Tony crack me up! Love Tony! 💕
Who else turns pale when they start talking about cutting off the leg without anestesia?
They had opium....but yeah...ouch.
I started to feel a little dizzy even with this comment as a warning.
@@hicknopunk You'd think opium would be in ready supply... but maybe it was expensive to import at that point. Likely they just didn't give a shit about people in those days unless they could pay for anesthetic.
@@somethingelse4424 oh, you'd have to have your own supply, that's for sure. I was mostly pointing out that there was technically an option.
It would only be marginally better to cut it off with anesthetic!
id love to see more of this series it’s so good!
Wait a tic, Charles got hung for poaching and not for shooting that guy in the face that is odd!
Priorities, amirite?
Just goes to show that they didn't care about the lives of people they only cared when something directly effects them.
16 Strings Jack’s last night and even last minutes are so full of joy and optimism, sad that they killed such a bright man
well they did give him 17 chances first.
YOLO
@@dickJohnsonpeter 🤔 that’s true
anyways, he could have his own tv show
Maybe he was low key suicidal and just liked to make the most of it.😂😅
I mean he did rob hundreds of people
The problem with this channel is that it has too much quality programs and I just can’t find the time to watch it all.
Thank you so much for this!!!!!
i love how much i am learning with these!
Brilliant series. Thank you for providing such entertaining shows for those of us across the pond who crave a wee bit of history!
I love this channel, as I watched hidden killers I’m shocked humans have continued to survive!!
Tbh bridgerton was a fun watch even if it was implausible
The excellent engravings used here are just so perfect. The fine arts were really brought to perfection during those hard times.
Quality content 🙌🏼
Tony is the best! The fact that he does the accent whilst reading.
It was more like 1/3 of all women that were in "sex work." If you were a woman and had stakes or even owned a bar, it usually functioned as a brothel at night. Most "respectable" establishments functioned doubly like this.
Very interesting thank you so much
Well made, interesting 👍🏼
glad that you guys are also riding the Bridgerton hype :) gotta get more people interested in history
@@White_Oak_ why shouldn't they, I wonder? I'm one of those people, I'm into history and I love watching Bridgerton 😊
@@White_Oak_ given that the maker of the series never claimed that the show will be a documentary on life in the 19th century, isn't it silly to expect that it's going to be historically accurate?
@@White_Oak_ Not trying to be rude or anything but why would a person who's interested in history rely on TV shows that don't make any promises to be historically accurate, to know more about history? There are other avenues/sources from which you can get that. I for one watch it for the aesthetics while being fully aware that it's a fictional world and there's no point in looking for any historical accuracies.
I am enjoying every single one of these episodes with this guy n this chick that keep getting suggested to me about the old world and syphilis and stuff like that
Love this subscribed
Great doc! And whoever chose the music deserves an award 👏👍
Finally... Something about 95% of the population, instead of the top 5%.
“A hefty slap to keep her conscious” Good God man!!! 😱
Ok...”puss, puss, puss, puss” took me tf out!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Can always count on you to make good content 👏🏾
Excellent, Tony.
I’m kinna scared when this came out because i just finished watching the Bridgerton 😅
Me too 😂
This has been around way before Bridgerton they just changed the title for the fact that everyone has been watching that. 😂😂😂
What is Bridgerton?
Is it like the new Downton Abbey? Do any of you youngsters remember that old show, Downton Abbey? The one that was out like three years ago and had the red haired lady from that even older show Game of Thrones in it for maybe two seasons? Ah, those were the days.
Marie, you're definitely my favourite stranger today. For a second there I was a bit worried that I had lost more time than I am aware I have :)
Downton was one of those things that is surrounded by so much hype, it just left me wondering what am I missing here? I can't remember anything except they killed off a character I liked.
My family had to immigrate to the land of plenty, New Zealand. Plenty of food, compulsory school, plunket, school nurses, and rubbish collections. Even though we had to share a bathroom and toilet and a bath cost 5 pennies which you had to put in the califont meter, and the wallpaper was black with gold flowers we kids thought we came to paradise
Love these programs
I'm a new subscriber here. I like watching your videos. I love history and biography especially back in the old days.🥰❣
if i wanted to poach some game, i wouldn't get myself traps or a musket, i would have fiashioned myself a bow. much more silent and can get undetected because no traps are around.
it is way harder to get food with a bow. Most bow hunters of the past where not "lone wolves" as games and movies tend to depict, they had groups. It takes a awful lot of practice to hunt alone with a bow and be proficient. Maybe you have no time to practice because everyone in your house is literally starving, that's why they resorted to weapons
Not a bad idea...but extremely hard in reality, or so people say (I wouldn’t know). I suspect you would spend a lot of time in the woods with your bow and little to show for it. Plus don’t get caught with the bow either.
If you can climb and either sit or stand in a tree, your good to go wiith a bow. My husband uses bows all the time. Its difficult if there is rain or wind, but in a whole possible
The steel trap shown here is nearly identical (absolutely identical?) with a modern steel trap and rather pricy I think. But there are several other methods for catching game that are nearly silent. For birds, a mist net would be quite effective. Set it across a flyway, drive some birds toward it, pull out the bird(s), take down the net and roll it up, conceal the catch and the net, and home you go.
If the land agents saw you with a bow on private land, they would kill you before you saw them. It would be easier to befriend the agent or agents on a property and then poach with them.
I absolutely love Tony Robinson. I’ll watch anything he’s done
Loved this!
I'm a career tall ship sailor and it's very cool to learn about the history while doing the job.
Oh my god! Is that why it's called a poop deck?!
According to several sources, it’s from Latin. Wikipedia says “The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis.”
@@lauramcmillan9592 damn it. You ruined this for me lol
@@jaclyn4098 Ha, sorry! Didn't set out to ruin fun, just was curious myself so had to look it up.
How many bought tickets to the operating room and then found themselves in it later!?
Thank you for an enjoyable journey in Georgian London.
Absolutely fascinating.