The Worst Jobs In History - 1x06 - Victorian

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  • @richbones8419
    @richbones8419 6 років тому +26

    If I had a teacher like this guy in school, maybe I woulda paid attn more. HAH

  • @roflmows
    @roflmows 11 років тому +10

    13:50, i love how Tony is absently shining the light into everyone's eyes xD

  • @dsparentsr
    @dsparentsr 11 років тому +14

    I can't stop watching this show. It's 6:00 am, I have to go to work!
    Did I say work? I meant IT'S 6:00 AM I HAVE TO GO TO SLEEP!

    • @megorex630
      @megorex630 11 місяців тому +1

      10 years later and same here ❤ hope you’re well, happy new year 2024 ❤

  • @christophernewton8474
    @christophernewton8474 8 років тому +12

    meat and beer for digging? sign me up

  • @ihatethisOK
    @ihatethisOK 10 років тому +9

    thanks for posting this, love listening to it. learning much too

  • @Seeker386
    @Seeker386 6 років тому +1

    Thanks for shining that really powerful light right in my face, Tony.

  • @mikalbell8125
    @mikalbell8125 11 років тому +4

    I love the guy that shows him the engine cleaner's job. He obviously enjoyed watching tony do the job.

  • @tygrahof9268
    @tygrahof9268 9 років тому +9

    Herring calling was a bit like watching paint dry, without the thrill. LOL

  • @dion789
    @dion789 9 років тому +11

    In the tannery, scraping the hair of the hide actually seems like very satisfying work to me. :)

    • @azbrowne
      @azbrowne 9 років тому +2

      Smell

    • @3piper
      @3piper 9 років тому +5

      +Dion7 No,my friend,It is not.Try doing research for D&D.The tannery was at the very end of town because the stench was so vile.Many places soaked their furs in amnonia from human and horse urine.And they did not have gloves.There was no good jobs in that era

    • @MonicaVartolomeiFDDLP
      @MonicaVartolomeiFDDLP 8 років тому

      Once you spend a lot of time in a smelly place, you stop noticing the smell. You'll notice it again after you have been away for a while. I have a small printer and I noticed the toner smell after being out of here for a while (something like a day and a half). It was even bothering me, but only a little. I tried to air the room out and clean any toner residue (there wasn't much and the printer is very small). Most of the time, I simply don't notice it. The funny thing is that if I'm out but not much, such as overnight, I may still not notice the smell a few hours later. I guess it's the same at the tannery.

    • @petuniasevan
      @petuniasevan 6 років тому +3

      That smell, which so many are dismissing, isn't just smell. It's irritating and even toxic gases like ammonia fumes. And add to that the chance of cuts in such a dirty environment. Don't forget slippery floors and the chance to wrench your back lifting those wet filthy hides.

  • @Tricob1974
    @Tricob1974 8 років тому +2

    No mention of sanitation service? Back then, maintenance of trash *and* sewage were merged into the same job. At least, according to what I've read.

  • @astardustparade
    @astardustparade 2 роки тому +1

    Omg I can’t believe Tony stuck his bare hands into the hay looking for 🐀!

  • @shadyhill60
    @shadyhill60 12 років тому +2

    Thank you so much for sharing this!

  • @maisiecarruthers695
    @maisiecarruthers695 6 років тому +8

    As we need more Tony Robinson docs I miss them

  • @williamheywood9115
    @williamheywood9115 10 років тому +8

    They used to get kids to work in the fields. I have copies of school records from the 1880's, from my local school. That record pupils being absent from school at harvest time due to "Working in the fields"It was not until the 1890's that school attendance was compulsory to the age of 12.

    • @Tsumami__
      @Tsumami__ 9 років тому +2

      Kids that live on farms today do the same thing, except they have to stay in school until 15.

    • @Rebel9668
      @Rebel9668 9 років тому +2

      ***** Summer vacation from school as they call it now has it's roots in farming as well for that was the busiest time for farm children. Everything from snapping beans and canning to hoeing crops to cutting, raking and baling hay. And having grown up farming I can attest to all this myself. Not counting all the regular chores from fence mending to feeding the livestock or cutting up and splitting wood for the stove for Winter.

    • @imluvinyourmum
      @imluvinyourmum 7 років тому +1

      Any child able to even go to school was doing well back then, they'd inherit the farm anyway and they'd make good money so school wasn't as important, just like for farm kids today.

    • @maxdecphoenix
      @maxdecphoenix 6 років тому +1

      Rebel9668 in the U.S., we have spring break as well, which is a week off school in March. historically this was for planting time. Do you not have this in the U.K.? Also, splitting wood would have been an unlikely job. Victorians wouldn't have had the concept of firewood we have today. Today we think of logs or wedges as firewood, But Agro forestry was completely different then, the majority of green space would have been coppice. Hazel or willow. With very few mature trees. So much of the country was being used for coppice, that the railways pushed to have a law passed sometime in the 1830s~ which mandated that landowners had to keep a minimum of one standard tree per acre to sell to the railways who needed dense log fuel. Home fire heating would have come from sticks, branches, coppice faggots, hedge row pruning, etc. Everything bigger was too valuable, sold to either railways or bodgers. Also comfort heating would have been a luxury only for the super rich, the poor or middle class could only justify that fuel for cooking. It was only after the rails were interlinked at the turn of the century that it became economical to start shipping coal. With cheap coal being dumped on the market depressing the cost of wood, the poor could begin to burn it purely for comfort.

  • @maryault4366
    @maryault4366 6 років тому +1

    My grandfather Archie Ault did that job before he took part in WW1, where he was wounded & honourably discharged. He left his marriage soon after when my father was a baby, & never saw him again. My dad ended up working on the railway & eventually became Station Master at Tilbury Riverside. It was only in later years after obtaining his military record from the Grenadier Guards that we found out they both had links to the railway.

  • @daniellarsson3699
    @daniellarsson3699 9 років тому +4

    Hhahahaha, you know what i just realized ? Isnt that Baldrick ?! xD

    • @Misterunnamed
      @Misterunnamed 9 років тому +1

      +daniel larsson
      Yep, Tony Robinson from Blackadder. He's actually a fantastic host and I love watching the shows he's taking part in.

    • @daniellarsson3699
      @daniellarsson3699 9 років тому

      Misterunnamed Yeah me too. Think i have seen all he has done now atleast all thats on UA-cam haha :P

  • @tobyytoby6312
    @tobyytoby6312 8 років тому +26

    14:24 "A jolly good bang though"

    • @boffeycn
      @boffeycn 8 років тому

      'Appen

    • @verzeda
      @verzeda 7 років тому +6

      Thats what us brits say after sexual intercourse

    • @mattm3400
      @mattm3400 6 років тому +7

      saw her at a swingers party once. she had several jolly good bangs that night..........

    • @lucyhodges8773
      @lucyhodges8773 5 років тому +1

      u thinkin wot i'm thinkin

  • @that1weirdkid27
    @that1weirdkid27 12 років тому +1

    This series is addictive.

  • @leslietarkin
    @leslietarkin 5 років тому +1

    With a gallon of beer and two pounds of meat, it's no wonder why my Great Grandfather loved working on the railroad.

  • @andrewCNC905
    @andrewCNC905 10 років тому +1

    1st Job reminds me of my first job in a machine shop.

  • @azbrowne
    @azbrowne 10 років тому +3

    I climbed a chimney when I was 5. I remember it to be fun.

  • @anthonyryan1584
    @anthonyryan1584 7 місяців тому

    Having watched a number of these programs, the one thing that sticks you is how did anyone manage to survive and live 46:13

  • @ChainSmashers
    @ChainSmashers 8 років тому +1

    Chimney sweep one weirds me out too.

  • @jelkel25
    @jelkel25 11 років тому +7

    Work houses were so bad people would have rather begged on the streets than go to them, It was slightly better than starvation. Maybe try Googling Victorian workhouses instead of making presumptions?

    • @NetMoverSitan
      @NetMoverSitan 10 років тому +2

      "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
      "Many people cannot go there...many would rather die"
      Guess what that's from?

    • @ChainSmashers
      @ChainSmashers 8 років тому

      One of my favourite stories of all time.

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 6 років тому

      which is still crime today ! the vegrancy act 1823 summary / midermeaour crimes of begging or being a vegrant .
      or being a vegrant with intent to commit an arrestable / indictable / felony offence
      all still in force today and used by the police to remove or arrest vegrants

  • @lindahouston9331
    @lindahouston9331 4 роки тому

    Did the tanners make a decent amount of money? Leather seems fairly expensive.

  • @jacobmolestsoprhans2535
    @jacobmolestsoprhans2535 4 роки тому

    Brilliant Content! One Thing- I want Better Quality

  • @janeyrevanescence12
    @janeyrevanescence12 12 років тому +6

    "Right, you scruffy little urchin, up that chimney!" I'm sorry, but is there something funny about the way he said that?

    • @guppy719
      @guppy719 3 роки тому

      Its supposed to be funny

  • @inkadinkadoodle
    @inkadinkadoodle 11 років тому +6

    Again, I can't reply to comments here (wtf?) ... This new system sucks.
    Anyway, does "dibbing" (or "dibbling") have any ties to the phrase "got dibs!" or "call(ing) dibs"?
    As for comments re: workhouses not being so bad, my impression of the workhouses is that they were a total nightmare, particularly for kids. There's another series on UA-cam, "Cold Case History" (BBC, "Mummified Child" episode) that speaks of the workhouses. As I understand it, it was NOT AT ALL pleasant or safe.

  • @19dec1981
    @19dec1981 6 років тому

    "I remember the day that Bear O'Shea fell into a concrete stairs.
    What Horse Face said when he saw him dead it wasn't what the rich called prayers.
    'I'm a navvy short' was the one retort that reached unto my ears
    When the going's rough then you must be tough with McAlpine's Fusiliers"
    McApline Fusiliers is a song about the navvies, written by Dominic Behan and sang by The Dubliners.

  • @heavengaze
    @heavengaze 12 років тому +1

    It's mentioned in one of the earlier episodes.

  • @petuniasevan
    @petuniasevan 6 років тому

    He didn't mention it, but the Victorians had an interesting euphemism for the dog turds that the tanners used. They called it "pure".

  • @inkadinkadoodle
    @inkadinkadoodle 8 років тому +1

    2:20 - the guy talking about the coal engine job(s) has such an annoying laugh! damn!

  • @riverhuntingdon6659
    @riverhuntingdon6659 9 років тому +28

    Poor Baldrick, still gets all the filthy jobs ! Just shows you how bad things were before the present. Still, I'd love to see the idle chavs of today breaking stones, etc, LOL !

    • @daniellarsson3699
      @daniellarsson3699 9 років тому

      +River Huntingdon You i recognized him :P

    • @afrog2666
      @afrog2666 9 років тому +6

      +River Huntingdon Actually that`s one of the jobs I have loved the most. We were diggin a cable ditch on Snøhetta, one of norways tallest mountains. Breaking stones, digging, and when we had a break enjoying the view, because it was just beautiful. And it`s good work! Nothing is worse than sitting in some office on the phone looking out the window wondering what the view smells like. I love manual labor, it`s REAL work, the kind of works that matters to people. Tearing down old houses, building new ones, or just restoring and reparing old buildings. Laying bricks, painting and so on. I also enjoy carpentry, it`s very fullfilling work :) Well that and the military, that`s also a good life when you get used to it ;) Or I was just born 100 years too late lol :p

    • @riverhuntingdon6659
      @riverhuntingdon6659 9 років тому +3

      +jan christian Frodahl Same here. I've never done an office job, and spent my working life repairing old electric trains on British Railways as it was. Couldn't sit in an office all day. I'm still at it in a way, repairing old electrical things, record players, stereos, vacuum cleaners, all sorts. I certainly couldn't just retire, I'd feel useless, and I think you would be the same :-) Speaking of Norway, I was looking earlier at the Thamshaven Electric Railway, some nice old machines there, they make all the right noises. :-) Think I was born 100 years too late too lol.

  • @daaswwerid8806
    @daaswwerid8806 7 років тому +1

    Is that Baldrick from Black Adder lolx imagine learning something from him

  • @bb2021
    @bb2021 3 місяці тому

    At one point Tony said: about the workhouse "They were punishing people for being poor.' And we are still doing that. 😥

  • @laurenhawes7201
    @laurenhawes7201 7 років тому +3

    It just seems funny imagining jack black (today) chasing after rats

  • @Benginator1
    @Benginator1 4 роки тому

    God the chimney sweeps thing is gut-wrenching

  • @s080026
    @s080026 12 років тому +1

    That was definatly a tame rat...xD I've had to catch wild rats and mice by hand, and as soon as you touch them, they swing around and bite.

  • @bedstuyrover
    @bedstuyrover 10 років тому +15

    i believe ,with great effort,i could actually accomplish the job of herring caller-though i might pass out during the calling.

    • @inanemme5603
      @inanemme5603 5 років тому

      Maybe you could knit or do something something else not requiring you to constantly look while doing it, and then sell your handiwork, making a double profit

  • @azbrowne
    @azbrowne 9 років тому +9

    It's ash and cold cinders Tony. Man up!

  • @MickeyD2012
    @MickeyD2012 8 років тому

    Fry and Laurie get a lot of recognition, you rarely see poor Baldrick though.

    • @edbadyt
      @edbadyt 8 років тому

      I don't know, after Blackadder Tony wrote and stared in an award winning kids comedy show before 20 years of presenting Time Team and it's spin offs still finding time to do other history shows like this and write books.

    • @MickeyD2012
      @MickeyD2012 8 років тому

      I'm from the states, we don't see a lot of Tony here.

  • @suzienakama1
    @suzienakama1 10 років тому +7

    Makes me grateful for my job 👍😉

  • @amydyer9764
    @amydyer9764 10 років тому +15

    I think the wokhouses were by far the worst job

    • @NetMoverSitan
      @NetMoverSitan 10 років тому +2

      ...and if some had their way, they'd bring them back.

    • @inkadinkadoodle
      @inkadinkadoodle 10 років тому +3

      I'm reluctant to call workhouse work a "job," even though technically (and to the state), it was. Even prisoners saw an end to (most of ) their sentences. People in the workhouses often couldn't get back out once they were there. So many folks died there, and the Anatomy Act of 1832 made it legal for the medical profession to claim their bodies for dissection. It was a bad deal, all around.
      I saw a version of A Christmas Carol where Scrooge is approached for charity by two men who are telling him that it's at Xmas time that it's needed most.
      Scrooge tells them that he'd rather (continue to) support the workhouses than give charity (charity that could prevent someone from having to go there).
      Now that we know a little more about the workhouses, a comment like that from Scrooge is even more revealing!
      Anyway, speaking of stuff like that, it's Dec. 14 - Happy Holidays to you!)

    • @ChainSmashers
      @ChainSmashers 9 років тому

      +Amy Dyer I'm undecided between tanner and rat catcher which is worse.

    • @KatBlueflame
      @KatBlueflame 8 років тому +2

      Merlin Jones you vile little incel virgin; nobody cares about you or your inappropriate little rants

    • @mjrotondi5086
      @mjrotondi5086 7 років тому +1

      TranDroid Gaming y don't u two take it outside somwhear? u are both ridiculous n should b embarrassed by being brave, Not, on some stupid u tube page.

  • @anaypradhan9679
    @anaypradhan9679 5 років тому +1

    Great Video
    7/10

  • @parisgala88
    @parisgala88 11 років тому

    I wonder if that tunnel explosion is what phillip larkin's poem 'The explosion' was about....not sure about the dates though.

  • @streakhey9035
    @streakhey9035 7 років тому +1

    2:51 Glasgow

  • @lilliedoubleyou3865
    @lilliedoubleyou3865 10 років тому +8

    Why don't the mention miners? I would have figured that was the worst job in the Victorian Era.

    • @derrbarn14
      @derrbarn14 10 років тому +3

      well shit ... the canary died. O_O

    • @inkadinkadoodle
      @inkadinkadoodle 10 років тому +3

      Derrick B. Meaning what?? ??
      Yeah, the canary died, along with thousands of miners, and anyone who knows even a little about mining (during the gold rush, for example) knows that "black lung" was as common a cause of death as tunnel collapses.
      Actually, mining would have been a good addition to this episode. Surely the railways used coal!

    • @inkadinkadoodle
      @inkadinkadoodle 10 років тому +1

      Mining would have been perfect here - the "golden age of steam," after all, would have been nothing without coal fires.
      (Just as a side note, I'm a few hours away from Calico Ghost Town, where one of the original mine shafts has been made into a walk-through tourist attraction. I've walked it many times - I love it! And the openings of mine shafts are visible all over the hills. It was a booming silver mine, in its day.) :))

    • @williamheywood9115
      @williamheywood9115 10 років тому +1

      My family on my farther's side were miners. My great,great grandfather went down the pit aged 14. He was so scared of the dark at first, he thought that there might be a boogie man there.

    • @CologneCarter
      @CologneCarter 10 років тому

      He didn't, because mining, although gold mining, was covered in a previous episode.

  • @GenaFrog
    @GenaFrog 8 років тому +1

    Bet T.R wanted to punch the laughing bloke on the steam engine, he was so infuriating. There was poor Tony, who had been upto his neck in soot from within the firebox, then upon trying to get out of it, that jerk just stood there doing a bellowing laugh. GRR

    • @pphedup
      @pphedup 10 місяців тому

      It was a nervous tick kind of defense-mechanism laugh dissociated from any context. My apt building repair man has the same oddity, which is why I recognized it as such.

  • @LawlerNichole
    @LawlerNichole 12 років тому +1

    24:14 so that's where my pet rat went!!! XP

  • @alleycatalog
    @alleycatalog 10 років тому +15

    That was a tame rat he caught!

    • @verzeda
      @verzeda 7 років тому +4

      alleycatalog
      could have been planted. I have a feeling what they did is give him a rat to hold, then he stuck his hands in there and pretended to catch it 😂

    • @petuniasevan
      @petuniasevan 6 років тому +4

      Yeah, I've scared up a rat while moving hay bales in a rancher's barn. They don't hold still and allow you to handle them.

    • @professorroundbottom438
      @professorroundbottom438 6 років тому +6

      Probably a borrowed pet. Just kinda hangin out and lifting its chin for a scritch, that li'l guy was used to gentle hands.

    • @Munchausen45
      @Munchausen45 6 років тому +3

      I don’t think they’d risk him Getting bit by an actual random rat…
      Even when they’re showing dangerous jobs in the show they do take certain precautions.

    • @pphedup
      @pphedup 10 місяців тому

      What about when he bit the toad in half? Yuk!

  • @tonymayne703
    @tonymayne703 8 років тому +4

    just like the jobs from the job center

    • @vtecpreludevtec
      @vtecpreludevtec 8 років тому

      tony mayne nightshift at the chicken factory

  • @pphedup
    @pphedup 10 місяців тому

    27:56 Little Charles Dickens.

  • @ImSoOffended
    @ImSoOffended 11 років тому

    it was mentioned in the Tudor episode

  • @inkadinkadoodle
    @inkadinkadoodle 10 років тому +2

    Dibbing (or dibbling) - I find it hard to believe that ANYONE would EVER deem that a job that required a SECOND PERSON to drop the seeds!!
    On the other hand - was it like that just to put a second person to work?

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger 10 років тому +4

      Probably for efficiency sake.
      Considering the size of that grid, every second longer it takes to place the seeds multiplies out to a lot of wasted time.
      Having two people was likely more than twice as efficient as having one person do both jobs.

    • @inkadinkadoodle
      @inkadinkadoodle 10 років тому

      manictiger Well, perhaps so...but wouldn't a hollow dibbing pole eliminate the need for a seed dropper? Seeds could be put down the pole directly into the little dent. No?
      Oh well...it was a system that worked, and it put two people to work instead of just one, so believe me...I'm not complaining about it! :))

    • @WalterReimer
      @WalterReimer 9 років тому +1

      *****
      You're thinking of a seed drill: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_drill
      It's an ancient invention. The guy who pioneered the idea in England was a fellow named Jethro Tull.

    • @inkadinkadoodle
      @inkadinkadoodle 9 років тому

      WalterReimer I knew Jethro Tull was the name of a historic figure (obscure history, sure, but still historic), but I didn't know he invented the seed drill. In fact, I didn't even know what a seed drill was until you told me.
      this is my "learn something new" item for the day, and i thank you! :))
      cheers, my friend. :))

    • @Rebel9668
      @Rebel9668 9 років тому

      ***** I'd never even heard of doing it that way. We always just hoed open a furrow in a straight line, dropped the seeds in and hoed the soil back over them. We used kite string and wood stakes to mark out the rows so it was easier to hoe out a straight furrow by just following beside the taut string lines. Had we been commercial farmers with much larger fields then I'm sure we would have planted with an old two row (or more) seed drill, but I'd simply never heard of that dibbling.

  • @flaccidreflex5563
    @flaccidreflex5563 6 років тому

    Watching this for homework. At 2x speed my homework should be done soon.

  • @tommyfred6180
    @tommyfred6180 6 років тому

    as a teen I could dig out about 12 ton in a day so these guys digging out 20 ton a day every day is amazing they must have been very tough guys

  • @diy_cat9817
    @diy_cat9817 4 роки тому

    I like the royalty free Gears of War music.

  • @laurenftwww
    @laurenftwww 12 років тому

    There is in the Medieval episode, I think.

  • @fullmetalelimental
    @fullmetalelimental 10 років тому +1

    OH MY GOD THE GUY PRESENTING THIS SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE DAVID TENNENT

    • @edbadyt
      @edbadyt 8 років тому +2

      So you think David Tennant, who is Scottish, sounds like Tony Robinson from southern England? I really don't see how anyone could get them mixed up.

    • @fullmetalelimental
      @fullmetalelimental 8 років тому

      I'm american, for one, and my comment was from two years ago. I don't really see how such an outdated comment is really worth anyone's time and attention.

    • @UrAGuywithWheat
      @UrAGuywithWheat 2 роки тому

      @@fullmetalelimental wow, this happened a few years ago lmao

  • @MsDjessa
    @MsDjessa 11 років тому

    Was tanner's job the same in medieval times? If it was I'm not supprised that William the Conquerer, originally William the Bastard got so angry when anyone reminded him of his origins.

  • @TheKurtis66
    @TheKurtis66 6 років тому

    Nothing beats a jolly good bang!! LMFAO

  • @laurametheny1008
    @laurametheny1008 6 років тому

    Thank you!🎄😋🚂

  • @laurenftwww
    @laurenftwww 12 років тому

    Good point. It will be the Tudor episode if it is Henry VIII. Cheers.

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo 11 років тому

    Go to 43:40 and play it over and over again. It's real amusing.

  • @Julian9ehp
    @Julian9ehp 11 років тому +1

    I disagree. Tanning isn't the worst job: that's making white phosphorus matches. That would kill you.

  • @xXxJustCallMeM
    @xXxJustCallMeM 11 років тому

    I have to collect dog poop but only once a year. We had three dogs and I had to go out and collect it every spring. Bad enough to do it once a year god knows everyday would be horrible.

  • @GooglFascists
    @GooglFascists 12 років тому

    Still no mention of the job: "Groom of the Stool", the Royal servant
    who wiped Royal arses, carried out Royal poop, and emptied and
    cleaned Royal chamber pots for next use.
    I believe the Brits are singularly embarrassed by this job title.

    • @christophertudor4727
      @christophertudor4727 5 років тому +2

      The Groom of The Stool position was evaluated in the 'Tudor' episode. This episode focuses on the grim jobs during the Victorian era.....only a meer 300 years later 😂.
      Chris (UK).

  • @ChainSmashers
    @ChainSmashers 8 років тому

    Rat catcher. Ugh! It's bad enough being bitten by an unfriendly hamster.

  • @roflmows
    @roflmows 11 років тому

    that guy totally should have changed his name to Jack Rat, or maybe Jack Ratter, or Ratty Jack :D

  • @wogiebonbon6287
    @wogiebonbon6287 4 роки тому

    I hope they were paying this gentleman good cash for doing those stuff

  • @nunyanunya4147
    @nunyanunya4147 6 років тому +2

    i think this show should be called 'spoiled pensioner complains about everything'

  • @tipthetube3219
    @tipthetube3219 Місяць тому

    One of the best documentaries on industrial rev; the children who built victorian Britain. Utterly backs up Tony. So sad😮😮

  • @shyfamless4046
    @shyfamless4046 8 років тому

    Wait, wtf did she mean by you could never get them out?

  • @saramations
    @saramations 5 років тому +2

    one thing i learned from this series is how awfully long it took europeans to develop indoor plumping and or sanitization. i don't know about the rest of the world, but throwing your shit and piss into the river/streets is just a bad idea. Also, why did it take them long to develop safety gear for cleaning ash out of places? Why didn't someone go, hmmm maybe breathing in ash into our lugs is bad and we should put a mask over our mouth?
    God, everything just felt so unsanitary in Europe. no wonder Native Americans died when they came over.

    • @saramations
      @saramations 5 років тому +1

      not to mention they slaughtered many, many dogs and cats during the black death which would have controlled the rat population. wtf.

  • @thewr0ngchild
    @thewr0ngchild 11 років тому

    It was the 'rat pit' thing that eventually lead to the domestication of the brown rat, which is why we keep rats as pets today.

  • @joelharris1335
    @joelharris1335 8 років тому +1

    I bet the way children where treated in the Victorian times was as bad as it is today.

  • @URProductions
    @URProductions 12 років тому

    What!? Did he just enter a Confined Space without conducting a gas test first?

  • @Kehoe.Studios
    @Kehoe.Studios 7 років тому

    Bruh the resolution on this vid R.I.P

  • @frankkeys2719
    @frankkeys2719 6 років тому

    May have been bad but i bet zero hour contracts are just as bad for the poor bas-ards trying to live with the fact they have no security.

  • @mitchm7563
    @mitchm7563 6 років тому

    baldrich is a vampire

  • @samhutchinson2268
    @samhutchinson2268 8 років тому +1

    Beer and Meat!

  • @PalleRasmussen
    @PalleRasmussen 12 років тому

    No, the Tudor or Royal. They use Henry the 8th.

  • @Imperium56
    @Imperium56 12 років тому

    Worst Jobs In History - Tudors. The Groom of the Stool is mentioned as a worst job there.

  • @sherlockian1215
    @sherlockian1215 4 роки тому +3

    hi high schoolers 😌

  • @MrJawbear
    @MrJawbear 11 років тому +1

    a jolly good bang

  • @superbananaman8
    @superbananaman8 12 років тому

    Im doing this 4 history homework but matt beat me to the comments :(

  • @harrykuheim6107
    @harrykuheim6107 6 років тому

    FYI....Some Indians are still living like this...Untouchables.

  • @roflmows
    @roflmows 11 років тому +1

    i've just started watching this show and i really like it (BBC is always superior to American crap)...did they ever do an American version?
    i ask because in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", he describes working conditions in a fertilizer plant...to me, THAT'S the absolute worst job in the history of humanity O.o

  • @artski09
    @artski09 4 роки тому

    shit i done two of these jobs for charity
    navvy and engine cleaner

  • @erichw6453
    @erichw6453 12 років тому

    Nobody thought to make scented rat skin gloves?

  • @johnnytastetest
    @johnnytastetest 11 років тому

    Someone apparently wiped Henry VIII`s ass and those of other monarchs during the Tudor period, but I don`t know if that job still existed during Tudor times. If Queen Victoria looked as good as Emily Blunt in her younger days, maybe it`d be worth doing? Ha.

    • @neilpower60
      @neilpower60 8 років тому

      the groom of the stool he was called

  • @atarturk
    @atarturk 12 років тому

    another episode does show that. :)

  • @glumpy6079
    @glumpy6079 5 років тому

    Tony Blobinson.

  • @LibertarianUSA1982
    @LibertarianUSA1982 10 років тому +1

    No wonder so many Europeans came to the USA

    • @Tsumami__
      @Tsumami__ 9 років тому +6

      In cities here it was just as awful

    • @TheLastHylianTitan
      @TheLastHylianTitan 8 років тому +2

      +LibertarianUSA1982 you should read some excerpts from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle."

    • @edbadyt
      @edbadyt 8 років тому

      Did they not have railways or farms in america?

  • @gsgaidan10
    @gsgaidan10 11 років тому

    damn these brits. why do they have the interesting shows. our history channel has turned to the dark side of hollywood.

  • @beawulfaafluwaeb2500
    @beawulfaafluwaeb2500 11 років тому

    Of course most of these jobs wouldn't be done by 50+ year old men.

  • @rashmon7
    @rashmon7 12 років тому

    A jolly good bang!

  • @fryinryanparadis
    @fryinryanparadis 3 роки тому

    This guy is great

  • @music_by_carlos
    @music_by_carlos 10 років тому +7

    i would love to be a hairing caler

    • @deutschesmaedchen
      @deutschesmaedchen 7 років тому +1

      Carlos Álvarez ... a herring caller?

    • @myassizitchy
      @myassizitchy 7 років тому +1

      *herring

    • @myassizitchy
      @myassizitchy 7 років тому +1

      * caLLer

    • @marekpastyrik1888
      @marekpastyrik1888 6 років тому

      omg yes harring caller just sitting there watching the sea i would paint of draw all day long

    • @maxdecphoenix
      @maxdecphoenix 6 років тому

      marek pastyrik paint!? Lol! With what money would you buy the canvas? Or the dyes? Or the lard to mix the dyes? You'd also need to be protecting your turf from other lame trying to muscle in on your spot.

  • @mustard6255
    @mustard6255 11 років тому

    Did they use wild or pet rats