I'm sure there were executioners who loved their jobs, and gave psychopaths the perfect career. Most no doubt at least got used to it, or got over it. Like butchers. It's a Romantic idea that they were emotionally distraught and conflicted as depicted here. Today's prison executioners justify it by thinking the person deserves it, and they are helping the world. That way they can sleep at night. I'm sure it was the same then, but its a nice idea, and SHOULD have been thus. Just not realistically human.
@@jefolson6989 Read the diaries of some executioners from the time and you’ll find that you’re exactly right, especially those from the HRE and modern day Germany.
He did not wipe royal arse for power and privilege thoug:) Edit: "who needs friends, when you got enemas." Ill do my damdest to use that in a casual conversation:) Edit2: sorry necro.
Woluf178, I think the executioner handled and guided Tony through his emotions, from having good fun, to understanding why it's not funny and taking a moment to sonder about the people attached to the necks on the block.
toby semler How was he creepy? He spoke about the job's details and how it affected everyone involved, from the victim to the executioner himself. He made many valid points in a pure, simple, yet deep way.
I read just that decades ago, that that was one of the ways of the time for women to show how ladylike and feminine they were: to take small steps so that they appeared to float, with only their toes sometimes peeping out from under their skirts.
He should have just stayed with Catherine of Aragon, she was a loyal loving wife. Of course that would have changed time and events as we know it perhaps dramatically.
In defense of the beetles in the rouge makeup, cochineal beetles are much better for you than the synthetic dyes that were invented in the 1800s. In fact, the best food colouring and makeup are still made from cochineal beetles!
One of the most dangerous jobs was washerwoman. Falling into the river and being dragged under by their woolen dresses and petticoats was a common hazard. Historian Lucy Worsley tried it out and scared the daylights out of herself even though there was a production crew ready to rescue her.
That is true also the reason why their clothes got so heavy is because wool absorbs 80x it's weight in liquid. So basically you have to lift the weight of the dress times 80 while your knee deep in moving water. Another thing they'll have a horrible time standing up because of the force pushing on they'rer legs, in fact 3 ft of water moving 5 mph is enough to lift and move a car.
I wish they had given credit to the experts here. The woad man was the same one who was the purple dyer in the show on worst royal jobs but in that one they named him (John Edmond or Edmonds).
Egyptians had it for a while, Tudor period was just dumb aristocrats thinking they didn't need maintenance....smh what a time. These were a people who didn't bathe due to it not being holy. Even the Slavs weren't that dirty. Egyptians being the cleanliest, as they used soap as a moisturizer and bathed frequently. The Victorian era was just a bunch of fomo kings and queen shitting in corners of rooms.
Tony Robinson is a great host, he gets right in and does the jobs, very hands on, and he’s friendly, very knowledgeable and I like watching anything he’s on. Great series!
Groom of the stool isn't that exotic. Home health aides, home care assistants, carers, CNAs, or whatever other name they go by in your region do the same thing, plus a lot of other physically and emotionally demanding tasks they don't get paid near enough for. Since royalty is not involved, they are usually taken for granted, unfortunately. =(
And most are recent immigrants, at least here in Australia (I'm disabled). Care jobs have long been looked down on and underpayed. Since people with disabilities are looked down on too (in comparison to kids or the elderly) carers working with us are treated even worse than carers in childcare etc
Makes me appreciate modern times and conveniences although there are millions in the world in these modern times who do jobs similar to this every day.
Of course the male actor in female drag is struggling to breathe! In the Tudor period the corsets, they should be called 'stays', didn't have metal eyelets (the holes where the stays were laced up). Instead they were holes in the fabric reinforced with thread, so a historically accurate outfit couldn't have been physically tightened as tightly as he is in the video because lacing tightly through fabric holes would cause the fabric to stretch and rip. - The ghost of Bernadette and Meme mom.
And they weren't tight-laced! No one was tight-lacing corsets even when they were invented (much later than this, as you correctly pointed out), because newsflash: women were actually expected to DO stuff. Women had work to do, they couldn't be struggling to breathe, in actual physical pain from their corsets/stays. They were basically bras; they were just supposed to be tight enough to stop your boobs from bouncing around. I feel like no one understands corsets/stays.
@@LordofFullmetal Tight-lacing was practiced in the 19th century by fashionable noblewomen aspiring to the 'waspish waist' look. Those types of corset models are re-inforced with rigid bone inserts and clearly were intended for extreme compression. The cliché of Victorian young aristocratic ladies constantly fainting at the drop of a hat came about because they couldn't breathe properly. There is mention in several contemporary magazines, often criticising the practice, but also adverts claiming that such-and-such a corset could reduce your waist from 27 to 18 inches.
The woad story was ultra interesting when you think of the multiple steps necessary from picking the leaves to actually dying the wool. I mean WHO would have worked out all those steps to achieve that final result
@@warnegoodman "The Middle English verb scolden, the source of Modern English scold, is derived from the Middle English noun scold, which meant primarily "a person of ribald and abusive speech" and "a shrewish, chiding woman."..." I think you missed the point of my comment.
This wasn't just pulled from nowhere. Their behaviour, and the crowds around these industries, and the effects of these people upon society are what inspired their judgment. It wasn't made up out of nothing but snobbery.
FUN FACT... or at least I think it may be, Executioners were so troubled and depressed, that they often chewed the root of catnip, it was said to have a tendancy to calm.
Fuck I love Tony's enthusiasm. Old gramps is busy explaning how it's a life and how the head rolls away and the body jerks back spraying blood everywhere and Tony is like, hold that thought a minute while I get something more realistic lol!
at the woolen textile mill where my father worked (1970s)the old timer dyers also would taste the vat to gauge pH. as a result they lost a lot of teeth
Hearing Tony saying being in a dress is the worst makes me think of the one episode of The Blackadder, as baldrick, he had to be a brides maid for blackadder's wife😂 25:16
the ducking stool was even worse than it appears. typically, they wouldn't dunk you up and down quickly--they'd hold you underwater for a time, then lift you up so the crowd could hear you screaming and wailing and begging for your life. they'd be holding you under almost to the point of drowning--and because you were tied to the chair, you'd feel the helpless panic and terror of both drowning and suffocating, plus the freezing cold if it were spring, autumn, or winter. it's easy to see how mobs of people (especially men) could get nuts and, probably quite enjoying the temporary power they had over someone, drown the poor woman by being overzealous. not a great idea for law and order, letting people carry out vigilante justice like that.
So did "privy council" and "being privy to", etc. COME from the bathroom term privy, or was it the other way around? It does seem like the term must derive from "private" - or is "private" derived from "privy"? My God.
I can't help but let my morbid curiosity wonder what's it like today in the states that have the death penalty, the people that are putting the needle in the convicts arm, they have to know they are the ones responsible for the persons death.How do you go home and say,yup just another day at work.
And Japan, that's another country that has capital punishment. And you're right, honestly, psychological harm to the executioner is very likely still a thing.
In a way I'd hope the executioner did suffer psychologically or they'd be inhuman. I'm expressing that badly but a decent human being couldn't possibly just go home n say, just another day. Maybe they should make some of the people waiting on death row operate the death equipment
I believe another problem that would cause OLD HENRY to be increasingly crotchety was because of his mainly meat diet he developed piles so the poor old groom could really cop it.
The executioner described the emotion of the job very well, Tony's reaction was very real also
🤣🤣🤣
I'm sure there were executioners who loved their jobs, and gave psychopaths the perfect career. Most no doubt at least got used to it, or got over it. Like butchers. It's a Romantic idea that they were emotionally distraught and conflicted as depicted here. Today's prison executioners justify it by thinking the person deserves it, and they are helping the world. That way they can sleep at night. I'm sure it was the same then, but its a nice idea, and SHOULD have been thus. Just not realistically human.
@@jefolson6989 Read the diaries of some executioners from the time and you’ll find that you’re exactly right, especially those from the HRE and modern day Germany.
Im stoned and its 3AM and this part has me howling 🤣🤣🤣 the way the atmosphere got real tense when Tony pulled the meat out the bag is awesome
That guy was a bit too enthusiastic about it lol
There's something so darkly humourous about the sympathetic and thoughtful executioner.
True. I was surprised by his candor and was nearly moved to tears.
The executioner re-enactor is really captivating
i agree youcan tell he has deeply contemplated what the reality would have been like.
You mean de-captivating lol sorry could not resist.
@@dogwalker666 that's fantastic 😂
@@allaussietraveller9879 👍🏻
@@dogwalker666 bravo!
Did anyone else think he looked adorable when he was dressed in that fish wife costume?
Cheap Cooking Channel lol yea I was awww how cute with the little
Bonnet on
Tony is a cutie pie.
Nasti
It was quite bondagey
He looked like a Bard trying to hide from the guards by dressing up as a fish lady-
one of the coolest hosts for a documentary I've ever seen! lol this guy is taking all the old timey punishments and jobs like a champ!
Tony Robinson rocks.
The Angry Korean I couldn’t agree more.
Tony Robinson is great! He has done so many decades of history. 😊
Once, there was a meagre servant called Baldrick
He did not wipe royal arse for power and privilege thoug:)
Edit: "who needs friends, when you got enemas." Ill do my damdest to use that in a casual conversation:)
Edit2: sorry necro.
It takes a true hero to put himself thru all of the hell of the worst jobs and punishments of the past to entertain us . Thank you Tony .
The executioner guy was quite nice wasnt he
Woluf178, I think the executioner handled and guided Tony through his emotions, from having good fun, to understanding why it's not funny and taking a moment to sonder about the people attached to the necks on the block.
Pure class
toby semler How was he creepy? He spoke about the job's details and how it affected everyone involved, from the victim to the executioner himself. He made many valid points in a pure, simple, yet deep way.
toby semler He didn't though, he said it's not funny when it comes to beheading humans.
A pure English gentlemen a type of person that will be extinct in our lifetime thanks to feminism.
Yo the dude in the dress looked like he was legit floating when he walked out onto the stage at 27:40. Trippy as hell lol
I said the same thing to my son when we saw that. It really was pretty trippy. Hilarious.
I read just that decades ago, that that was one of the ways of the time for women to show how ladylike and feminine they were: to take small steps so that they appeared to float, with only their toes sometimes peeping out from under their skirts.
Mhm
My maid of honour is able to do that... it’s a lot more difficult than you’d think! She was amazing, walking the aisle. 💕
Look up pinsent tailor walking. He does it perfectly.
I think the worst job of tutor time would be being one of Henry the 8th wife's.
He should have just stayed with Catherine of Aragon, she was a loyal loving wife. Of course that would have changed time and events as we know it perhaps dramatically.
Crispy shit
You could say he ruined their lives🎶
@@davem1658 he's making a joke, calm down
A Meemur
haha!
Divorced, beheaded and died
Divorced, beheaded, survived
I’m Henry the eighth I had six sorry wives
You could say I ruined their lives
lmao "who needs friends when you have enemas"
That was great!! Lol
Indeed
The Tudor bootor lol.
😂
english humor)) indeed )))) hahahahaa)
In defense of the beetles in the rouge makeup, cochineal beetles are much better for you than the synthetic dyes that were invented in the 1800s. In fact, the best food colouring and makeup are still made from cochineal beetles!
Only the most aristocratic hands were worthy to disappear beneath the royal buttocks. That line delivered by Tony almost gives that job some dignity.
that very dedicated and earnest executioner is hillarious
I was nearly moved to tears by his honesty and sensitivity.
seems like he really used that axe and cant wait to use it again
One of the most dangerous jobs was washerwoman. Falling into the river and being dragged under by their woolen dresses and petticoats was a common hazard. Historian Lucy Worsley tried it out and scared the daylights out of herself even though there was a production crew ready to rescue her.
Also Suzannah Lipscomb
I saw that dangers of tutor live wasn't or tutor homes I think.
That is true also the reason why their clothes got so heavy is because wool absorbs 80x it's weight in liquid. So basically you have to lift the weight of the dress times 80 while your knee deep in moving water.
Another thing they'll have a horrible time standing up because of the force pushing on they'rer legs, in fact 3 ft of water moving 5 mph is enough to lift and move a car.
@@CreatingwithWinglessAngel Tudor.
got a link to any of this pls?
The man explaining about executions was so compassionate - what a lovely man
I wish they had given credit to the experts here. The woad man was the same one who was the purple dyer in the show on worst royal jobs but in that one they named him (John Edmond or Edmonds).
About sewage...thank GOD! that we live in modern times. Running water is a blessing.
Sebat Hadah unfortunately not everyone on the planet has access to clean water and adequate septic systems.
Thank God for small miracle
Egyptians had it for a while, Tudor period was just dumb aristocrats thinking they didn't need maintenance....smh what a time. These were a people who didn't bathe due to it not being holy. Even the Slavs weren't that dirty. Egyptians being the cleanliest, as they used soap as a moisturizer and bathed frequently. The Victorian era was just a bunch of fomo kings and queen shitting in corners of rooms.
This series is so freaking interesting
Tony Robinson is a great host, he gets right in and does the jobs, very hands on, and he’s friendly, very knowledgeable and I like watching anything he’s on. Great series!
And then the crowd says, no it's a pumpkin with a pathetic mustache drawn on it
Groom of the stool isn't that exotic. Home health aides, home care assistants, carers, CNAs, or whatever other name they go by in your region do the same thing, plus a lot of other physically and emotionally demanding tasks they don't get paid near enough for. Since royalty is not involved, they are usually taken for granted, unfortunately. =(
I thankfully don't require that sort of aid, but I am endlessly grateful to carers. They were my first thought in that segment.
It's probably a bad when the person you are caring for has a habit of beheadding people around them
And most are recent immigrants, at least here in Australia (I'm disabled). Care jobs have long been looked down on and underpayed. Since people with disabilities are looked down on too (in comparison to kids or the elderly) carers working with us are treated even worse than carers in childcare etc
It’s mainly because they get too keep their head, unlike the poor fellow who looked after King Henry
Awww thanks for your comment... Im a carer and i do feel unappreciated in society alot so yea 👍 👌
Baldrick, is that you, Sir?😅
Inimitable Tony Robinson!
Being a Baldrick was not an easy job, for sure!😂
After watching the scolding punishment .. it was probably the most enjoyable episode for Tony’s production team ever !! 🤣🤣🤣
I love the intro/theme song. This series is one of the best.
I agree. :)
When he tried to say “fuck off” as he was being pushed and lead on the rope it took everything in me not to cry laughing 😂
These documentaries NEVER FAIL to be extremely entertaining and extremely educational
The groom of the stool educator/reenactor cracked me right up. So funny.
Makes me appreciate modern times and conveniences although there are millions in the world in these modern times who do jobs similar to this every day.
"This is the head of a traitor!"
"No it's not! It's a huge pumpkin with a pathetic moustache drawn on it!"
LOVE this series! Absolutely STUNNING!
"the spit boy's annual turnover"
hah british comedy
'......with just a hint of cat pee'.This man is hilarious!
Of course the male actor in female drag is struggling to breathe! In the Tudor period the corsets, they should be called 'stays', didn't have metal eyelets (the holes where the stays were laced up). Instead they were holes in the fabric reinforced with thread, so a historically accurate outfit couldn't have been physically tightened as tightly as he is in the video because lacing tightly through fabric holes would cause the fabric to stretch and rip.
- The ghost of Bernadette and Meme mom.
And they weren't tight-laced! No one was tight-lacing corsets even when they were invented (much later than this, as you correctly pointed out), because newsflash: women were actually expected to DO stuff. Women had work to do, they couldn't be struggling to breathe, in actual physical pain from their corsets/stays. They were basically bras; they were just supposed to be tight enough to stop your boobs from bouncing around.
I feel like no one understands corsets/stays.
@@LordofFullmetal Tight-lacing was practiced in the 19th century by fashionable noblewomen aspiring to the 'waspish waist' look. Those types of corset models are re-inforced with rigid bone inserts and clearly were intended for extreme compression. The cliché of Victorian young aristocratic ladies constantly fainting at the drop of a hat came about because they couldn't breathe properly. There is mention in several contemporary magazines, often criticising the practice, but also adverts claiming that such-and-such a corset could reduce your waist from 27 to 18 inches.
15:30 that dude stating so glibly "who needs friends when you have enemas" hahahaha
I laughed out loud as the were dunking him into the pond 😆
History is f***ing ridiculous!
The woad story was ultra interesting when you think of the multiple steps necessary from picking the leaves to actually dying the wool. I mean WHO would have worked out all those steps to achieve that final result
Aliens
While Sir Tony was treading the laundry.. I had half felt nostalic like i was looking at baldric from black adder doing laundry 😂
I'm stealing the line "more unpopular than a cold sore in a kissing contest" 😂
"Low professional standards" for the axeman? SCARY!
i would Like my Axe man to be a Professional..
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I can't believe what Tony does to teach us! You're my hero Sir . From chch nz. 🤩🇳🇿
They need to bring that "scold" thingy back to use on all the Karens in the world 😂
I wonder if that's where we also get our verb "scold" from?
It comes from the old norse word skald, which means story teller.
@@warnegoodman "The Middle English verb scolden, the source of Modern English scold, is derived from the Middle English noun scold, which meant primarily "a person of ribald and abusive speech" and "a shrewish, chiding woman."..."
I think you missed the point of my comment.
“I want to fight all of you...” lmao
I really wanna see a character in a movie or show that’s like the executioner at the beginning, he was very captivating
Ah Tony, you are quite the guy. I love your humour. You are a good sport!
The number of puns in this is incredible, historic even
"See, it isn't funny now."
"No, it's not" *wearing giant smile"
Nervous smile. Some people react that way.
The Raddest Chad I laugh when I’m nervous.
That was a very embarrassed, nervous smile
so actors were skum.. yet the guys who wrote the plays were rock stars? shrugs.
+Chris c Things have switched.
This wasn't just pulled from nowhere. Their behaviour, and the crowds around these industries, and the effects of these people upon society are what inspired their judgment. It wasn't made up out of nothing but snobbery.
@Napoleon Hercules maybe someday you’ll grasp how ignorant you are.
@Celto Loco 😆 1000 times. Wow.
Funny though, you’ve got a goofy handle too. Just like 98% of youtube consumers.
seeing that Part with Shakespeare reminds me of the Sketch with Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie. "it' s five hours, Bill. on wooden seats"
FUN FACT... or at least I think it may be, Executioners were so troubled and depressed, that they often chewed the root of catnip, it was said to have a tendancy to calm.
"The very worst job was being a wife." Bro, I felt that. Cudos for recognizing that being a woman sucked balls for millennia.
Kudos. From the Greek kydos.
@Zachery Wilkerson being a man ain’t all that most days either.
@@Invictus13666 Oh my lord, no one said men had it 100% easy 100% of the time. >_
especially Being the hangmans one.. Not because He treated you badly But everybody Else in society.
@@Invictus13666 vomit. You literally said everything about yourself with this one comment. And it isn’t flattering.
Fuck I love Tony's enthusiasm. Old gramps is busy explaning how it's a life and how the head rolls away and the body jerks back spraying blood everywhere and Tony is like, hold that thought a minute while I get something more realistic lol!
Execution: "It feels different because in your mind that is a neckbone, that is *there*"
Tony: warcries as he brings down the axe at full swing
I laughed way too hard at the "brown nosing" comment xD
Baldrick the brave
at the woolen textile mill where my father worked (1970s)the old timer dyers also would taste the vat to gauge pH. as a result they lost a lot of teeth
There is zero correlation. Stop attempting to sound as though you have anything to contribute.
@Celto Loco aww...Someone needs a diaper change and a nap!
@Celto Loco look at his channel, he has 280 comments on this channel alone 💀 professional troll
Can you imagine trying to get Tony to "tuck"? 🤣🤣🤣
Hearing Tony saying being in a dress is the worst makes me think of the one episode of The Blackadder, as baldrick, he had to be a brides maid for blackadder's wife😂 25:16
And don't forget Lady Jane Grey. Executed at the tender age of 17.
i'm sorry but when they were dunking him in the river with the chair, i was LOSING it 😭
So, Tony is a historical English Mike Rowe?
Jason Watkins
funny
Yup.
“Who needs friends when you have enemas” oh lord did he really say that? 😂😂😂
The way the dye changes is actually pretty cool.
'...........with just a hint of cat pee' . I lost it !
Mary Tudor’s executioner was young, new to the job, and reportedly chosen by Mary’s enemies. Only a dull axe crushes.
Wode is so amazing... that was truly magical.
@Zachery Wilkerson heartiest apologies, we don't have that here in southern Alberta..... awesome stuff, hear it stinks though.....
Nothing has made me giggle
So hard before than when Tony was put in a dress and dunked repeatedly in the water lol
Love these documentaries love toy what a great show what a learning trip
I laughed so hard at the end when Tony got dunked under, best ever!
15:26 "Who needs friends when you got enemas" Lmao.
ilove this its so interesting he makes it so fun instead of boring
the ducking stool was even worse than it appears. typically, they wouldn't dunk you up and down quickly--they'd hold you underwater for a time, then lift you up so the crowd could hear you screaming and wailing and begging for your life.
they'd be holding you under almost to the point of drowning--and because you were tied to the chair, you'd feel the helpless panic and terror of both drowning and suffocating, plus the freezing cold if it were spring, autumn, or winter.
it's easy to see how mobs of people (especially men) could get nuts and, probably quite enjoying the temporary power they had over someone, drown the poor woman by being overzealous.
not a great idea for law and order, letting people carry out vigilante justice like that.
It's especially easy to see how men would get nuts and enjoy the power they had when you consider women's behaviour.
The fact that he put himself through how women were punished makes me respect him so much ❤
I would love merch from this show. I love this series…
That guy playing the executioner seems like he’s seen some shit ...
I love this series! Anything that Sir Tony is involved in is worth watching.
Spit boys got a healthy allotment of beer though! Tudor kitchens were famous all over the world
Does the actor remind anyone else of the actooors in Blackadder, the Scottish play, not Macbeth haha
So did "privy council" and "being privy to", etc. COME from the bathroom term privy, or was it the other way around? It does seem like the term must derive from "private" - or is "private" derived from "privy"? My God.
POV: your here for your history work
The dunking stool is a horrible form of torture. Nothing funny about it.
Working in the sewers in the tuder times must have been rotten!!!
yeah, it was a shit job. same as the one wiping henry's fat arse. shitty.
THAT'S ENOUGH WITH THOSE TOILET PUNS, Please!!!
sorry, but i couldn't resist. *shuts up*
never mind, but i crack worst puns then that and YOU my friend are not alone.
Hellish. Ugh!
Seeing him punished as the fish wife is the funniest thing i think i've ever seen!
You'd think if a king were truly divine he wouldn't poop at all.
No, that was Kim Jong-il. At least according to DPRK propaganda =)
I know most people won't care, but I'm pretty sure the name for the undergarment at this time was called a pair of stays, not a corset.
tony definitely took one for the team in this episode
I love how Tony Robinson signed up to dress in drag and be carried off 😂😂😂 why do I love watching poor Tony getting humiliated and tortured
I'm lost on the whole fishwife/scold thing. I've rewatched that segment at least five or six times and I'm still confused. What am I missing?
I tell ya, you gotta have respect for the people who lived in these times. How awful. I don't think I could handle it lol.
SasukeitachiUchiha They would probably laugh at a lot of our habits 😅
I'm pretty sure that stool is related to the german word "Stuhl" which means chair in english
When the executioner hands you the slitting knife then decides he's keeping it. Awkward haha.
So that's why the film company with the big fella banging the gong was called Rank lol
What is that version/recording of Greensleeves in the beginning?
You just know that dude who put the scold on was just a lil too into it lmfao
I can't help but let my morbid curiosity wonder what's it like today in the states that have the death penalty, the people that are putting the needle in the convicts arm, they have to know they are the ones responsible for the persons death.How do you go home and say,yup just another day at work.
And Japan, that's another country that has capital punishment. And you're right, honestly, psychological harm to the executioner is very likely still a thing.
In a way I'd hope the executioner did suffer psychologically or they'd be inhuman. I'm expressing that badly but a decent human being couldn't possibly just go home n say, just another day.
Maybe they should make some of the people waiting on death row operate the death equipment
1:53 TOTALLY Incognito...... No one would ever recognize him.
"...this is what got you in trouble on the first place"🤥🤫😁🤗😉😏
I believe another problem that would cause OLD HENRY to be increasingly crotchety was because of his mainly meat diet he developed piles so the poor old groom could really cop it.
My life now seems a whole heck of a lot better.
The Ducking Stool was also used to drown Witches.
That was hilarious :-)