Can you add actual facts to future documentaries please......

British historian dirty jobs

Proud of you Tony. I could tell it wasn't easy. I love rock climbing but I do understand what you are going through when I go over sketchy areas.

educational and entertaining , well done . my wife and i ,live in a very rural area ,and spent our youth ,replicating the traditional homesteading ways of the southern USA . this show may encourage suitable people and discourage others from attempting to recreate history . i will definitely be sharing this wonderful production with ,like minded friends ..

Sadly it said this app is not a available here in the U.S. 😢😞

In the future, they will look at us today and think the same.

@@roostertattoos7482 i truly hope so

“Seems like a good problem to have,” might be their response.

@@WisdomThumbsyour comment is so underrated

🤙🤣😂👏👏👏

I just love how he's so down to get dirty and do all kinds of different things

As well as a terrific wit!!

LOVE “Baldrich’s” energy 😂

Could you imagine Sir Tony Robinson and Sir David Attenborough making a documentary together? I'D 🫠

I love how he is willing to do the jobs, but still wears his scarf and stuff 🤣

I was one of the lucky ones! Not high school, but in Jr. High, both grades 7 and 8, my history teachers loved role plays, field trips to living museums where we participated in activities like operating a bellows for a blacksmith, actually studying for six hors in a one room country school, daubing a hut with mud and manure, etc.

The real heroes are the one's that didn't smack Toby across the back of his Head

I'd take any one of these jobs over an amazon warehouse haha

@@oligould8575😂

Good old British understatements

LOL

A toothpick?

The prisonors of Stalin's salt mines in Siberia sometimes had to use spoons in the underground mines hunched over scraping salt.

Was expecting him to give him a tooth brush sized pick 😄

They wouldn't get my balls. I'm big and strong

meh. Medieval times have taught us that it's usually about politics - punishments that is; totally random. The death penalty doesn't stop people, the guillotine didn't, nor castrating. It'll make you think twice, but desperate times call for desperate measures is a proverb for a reason.

@@chrissmith2921, your haven't dropped so it's not a problem.

@FooBar Maximus Haha. One could argue that this punishment is always there and never stops. If you steel again, they bring in some hot wenches and laugh at you :)

corbeau M

And if you've ever just walked around an acre, much less plowed the whole thing, you know that's a full day's work for sure.

@@dogslobbergardens6606 Its also the standard amount of land you get when you buy a bit of land to build a house on in Norway. So as a kid... You quickly find out how long it takes to mow the lawn.

Acre isn't a Norse loan into English, you should brush up on your etymologies. Acre in English predates the Vikings and it's from old English aecer thus It is cognate to Norse akr not a loanword from it both being from *akraz. Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).

Agreed he's great to watch :)

RyllenKriel well, they still wouldn’t _play_ with it...

Lmao

@@CraftQueenJr says you. Fire tenders always tends to play with it a bit. Source: Boy Scouts, then drinking out in the suburban woods with other kids.

Yeah, play and tend are two completely different words so......

@@fuzzaybunnay8532 Then they are doing two different things...... open a dictionary please

See the violence inherited in the system help, help I'm being repressed

We are the knights that say neet

+David Gessin-McCully Bloody peasant!

@@christianheichel But we are the knights that say "IT"

@Life in K-Town. No, you can't stand to hear that word! It's a terrible word! Oh, I said IT! Oh I said IT again!

No kidding. I used to make quite a few handmade knives. I loved the work itself, but I got out of the business for several reasons. A major factor was that it takes up SO much time responding to emails and calls and dms from people wanting custom work for factory prices, and customers asking, "Is it done yet? I want to change something halfway through! I know you shipped it and gave me the tracking number but it's not here yet" etc etc. People are really spoiled by the convenience of just making a few clicks on their phone and having stuff show up on their doorstep in a couple days.

These days no matter how easy people have it, they'll still cry and whine saying it "isn't fair", and demand that they deserve more just for existing. They also claim to literally have "PTSD" from the slightest breeze, everything is offensive and traumatizing. And unfortunately it's because of this. That eventually we will eventually have tough times all over again, whether it's natural disaster or whatever, if people don't have their chicken tendies and social media then they won't get by. Only the blue collar survivalist types stand a chance, when it's back to survival of the fittest. Natural selection needs to make a come back some day.

@@dogslobbergardens6606 people think everything should be like Amazon Prime. Expecting custom made items to arrive the day after they are ordered is very irritating.

Also to be honest easy is a matter of perspective and I don't think a saxon would find sitting in a stuffy cubicle office with a 100 people squawking on the phone fighting acid reflux and cramps from sitting all day and smashing mouth with food as quickly as possible as a good life. You'd be surprised what the body is made for if you really put it to use.

Fish Sandwich That’s me. Except today I’m complaining about how cold it is....

Have you seen the Mitchell & Webb skit about a history presenter who can't stop waving his arms?

greetings from your future self.

Tony Robinson is a national treasure. Not only is he a great history presenter, he was also in Blackadder.

@@TheQuantumPotato hes a worldy treasure! black adder was my favourite show growing up. merry christmas from australia!

@@HollyWatson99 back at cha, California

I read that wasn't so unusual. Sad.

My granny was helping her daddy plow, instead of going to school (she was the oldest and had to help), and her foot was stomped on by an ox. It was 1920 something, they didn’t take her to the hospital. They just bound her foot up. She limped for the rest of her life, she died in 1994. The really sad part was,her ‘good’ foot developed arthritis from favoring it, and ended up worse than the broken up one.

Right? I have to think that back in the day there must have been a helluva lot of people walking around missing an eye or a finger or a couple toes...

Exactly 😂😂 spot on

“Always treat your women like you treat kite, get in her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back” Lord Flashheart

Gods, I thought he looked familiar!

😂😂😂

I have a cunning plan

Owaissa Althea Dickey precisely. I love learning about the everyday lives of common folk.

it's annoying that historians worship power and war so much. They give guys who were basicall mafia dons/terrorists credit for what the people they victimised accomplished.

Owaissa Althea Dickey, I have, for most of my life, wanted to know about the ordinary people of any era I was learning about. In college I took a British history class that ended up being all about the battles and politics and money and power, etc.. the only woman mentioned in the course was Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada. That was the only part of the course that interested me at all. I was so disappointed. This type of show is giving me the information I wanted so badly when I was a student.

It is, in part, contemporary Historiography. I think you might like it.

@venswim if you're interested in american history check out "A peoples history of the United States" by Howard Zinn. Tells it from the peoples perspective

I grew up in Norfolk :) you should visit one day if you haven’t - it’s a very beautiful place

Childs' mortal rates were immense, the loss a sort of thing of life, and faith helped a lot ("she's in a better place now") I only recently learned, my gran lost two children of four, even if she was the wife of a general practitioner mid 20th C. We've quickly forgotten how "everyday" it was for a kid not to reach adult age.

I have loved Sir Tony since he made Baldrick an endearing character. He makes everything better.

I don't know how he does it, or people do it...still do it

Yeah but he gotta get to the gym tho. Work on those lifting and climbing skills

@AGMundy - I do not know about that. I am agog when the Time Team people and others find amazing Bronze Age or Stone Age archeology, but not this man. He always seems to be disappointed (from the episodes I have seen) if the site doesn't yield ROMAN! - ROMAN! - ROMAN!

@@MossyMozart he sometimes seems a bit star-struck by later royalty/nobility as well. Which strikes me as a bit odd, because obviously he knows that a LOT of people suffered terribly and died to make those royals and nobles fabulously wealthy. But overall I enjoy his blend of enthusiasm and disgust as the OP described.

With his watch on lol

Mate...you completely get it

Putting the cart before the horse. We're lucky now that we don't HAVE to learn those other types of "skills" just to survive and we can utilize economies of scale and actually spend time pursuing some self interests instead of always being on the brink of starvation/etc. You're being brainwashed into thinking its "competition" that's the problem. Without competition, or resistance, or whatever you want to call it. We would have never progressed past that point in the past you're looking at nostalgically. Anyone from that time, let me rephrase, EVERYONE from that time would instantly trade lives with you without question. And wonder what kind of insane person would even think that way. The best part of today? You COULD still go live like that but next to no one does.

@@drshlotzkin I appreciate your (mostly) respectful disagreement and contrary argument, and agree with most of your points. No one who is starving or naked would think too much about the option of being clothed and fed, it’s just a no-brainer. We are extremely lucky, and many, many, MANY places on earth are still living in similarly destitute situations where even what little culture and society they have is stripped and a corporate-brand freedom-themed surrogate is forcibly lurched into place by basic power dynamics in economy and trade. We really have so much to be grateful for, and it could all be taken away at any time, by one simple turn of fate that leaves you homeless or bereft of the luxury we all take for granted. This, however, is the point OP is trying to reinforce. You might see these things as savage and barbaric, relics of a previous time where mankind lived in huts and lacked education of any kind, bound hand and foot in servile disposition to Mother Nature and her immiscible whims, but it was also a time of incredible opportunity to be of service to others. The hand lent in aid to someone suffering such mindless drudgery is so much more valuable than the one offered to someone who is wealthy beyond measure. We learn and grow as a species through our interactions with each other, and by relying so directly and immediately on one another, our species developed incredible union that in today’s fractured, independence obsessed society simply is incapable of expressing. You will never know what it’s like to be starving and have to share your meal with the neighbor whose crops perished in a drought. You won’t ever be able to reach out and inspire your fellow man to keep living despite such complete and total suffering, at least not in that way. We have become distant and each man has built a castle for himself and his brood, shutting away outsiders and our shared past as rugged survivalists struggling to bring food to the table every night. My point isn’t to disprove either of you, but refine OP’s sentiments and illustrate the bigger picture here. There is value in all suffering, so long as we don’t intend to suffer alone. As to your point about competition, yes, in a sense it is our competitive nature that has led us to never be satiated with the present and always look to the future, but call to your awareness the last time you saw a discovery made by someone who was lauded as the lead and head of their field. Where are the champions that supposedly pioneered our advanced society and heralded an age of reason and knowledge? You are most likely conjuring images of businessmen and engineers, I’d guess. These people had their place and were innovators in their own right, but most of their competition was with themselves over prestige and ownership of more and more complex forms of wealth. The scientists and seers that sowed the seeds for these things, such as Pythagoras, Euler, Newton, Kepler, Tesla, or Einstein all worked for their own inquiry and exploration of curiosity. They labored from a place of passion and love for discovery, not to beat another or become the top of their field. True geniuses simply find their way there naturally. Ironically, most great scientists were mocked and derided by their peers for the theories they put forth. Their fields denied them competition at face value, because what they offered would overturn the accepted norm and challenge the authority of established elites. Maxwell once said, “science progresses one funeral at a time.” Science, in its purest form, is no different than any expression of the Humanities, and is deeply dependent on the development of the individual human being to reach their full potential. This is most efficiently done through cooperation and education as a means of collaborative sharing of knowledge; the library of Alexandria was built as a repository of human learning, meant not as a means for divisive politics but union through deepened awareness. I hope these things were interesting to read, thank you for taking your time to do so.

Go online and watch a video on it and diy.

@@owfan4134 ah what you mean

Brought peace?

@@whenthemusicsover6028 Let's face it, they're the only ones who could, in a place like this...

They killed Jesus... That's what they did for us...

@@javsnow6044 But God wanted him to die

The best part of that movie was the end, where the screen goes black.

Yes, the bad old days!

I dont think they're my ancestors to be honest.

They couldn’t lay around and not leave the house for months . I feel like for me, isolation gets me and back then you couldn’t really isolate or lay around so less were depressed. Just a guesss

Ummm....the maximum human lifespan, at this time, is around 120 years. Most people (particularly men) never reach it. _The medieval era was centuries ago._ What the f*** are you smoking?

@@schechter01 The guy makes an old man joke and you come back with that? You must be fun at parties.

@@schechter01 = Fun stopper.

@@paulh2282 Or perhaps a Blackadder reference :-)

🤣 up ya codpiece Balders

Ya, and poor Tony needs a better safety man. Someone who knows you rig a second line in case your main one fails.

Tony needs to take his watch off when he's slinging dung on a house!City boy!

My neighbor is from Cornwall

There's Lithium in Cornwall. Mines reopening.

@@greylynnjr My ancestors were tin miners in and around Gwennap for at least 300 years.

There is still tin in some of the larger mines, but the price is too low to make it economically viable to mine.

@@Rover200Power Can the use of plastic replace the use of tin?

And he is realy, REALY, afraid of hights.

​@@johannesbrantedal549It showed... I've never seen him look so unhappy on any show.

modern world problems lol

I didn't even notice the music until i read your comment.

Lmaoo

you don't like some documentary with your music?

Yeah let's pull up the old employee roster, that is more than and a decade old by the way, and fire the person or team accountable for it. Good plan mate. 😐

I agree. They are using music in all genre's now, the American series are good but I have trouble hearing some of the speech due to the music being too loud.

Cuz they didnt want to make it themselves? Hahahaha

This is a good one 🙂

👌😭

Yeah, I can imagine that after weeks sailing in those conditions...I can better understand being in a pilaging mood!

That’s what I was thinking. You’d just sling a bag over your shoulder. You wouldn’t carry a bucket in hand. You could use a few and gently sling ‘em behind you when one got full, and fill another, or send them up on a line. And he needed a backup line, not one rope. He’d have felt much safer, and it’s proper procedure. Then it could have been fun once he got used to it. They should have done that, used the normal rappelling technique, with a backup belay, so he’d have control of the descent, then he could tie off and still have the belay, as it should be. I wouldn’t go over a cliff without a backup belay.

@@misskim2058 I would have refused to go over that cliff without a 5-point harness. If he were to flip over he would slide right out of the harness wrapped around his legs😬

@@misskim2058 But that wouldn't have been period correct at all. His safety harness & helmet were already a lame departure from historical accuracy.

@@schechter01 Lame, as in keeping the star alive? Harsh.

@@schechter01 they had to do it for safety measures.

My guy I think you just answered your own question. Or were you being satirical

Yea, go watch a chaps channel called primitive technology, he makes charcoal by himself. He doesn't show how long it takes, but I'm certain it's not 100 hours. He also uses mud/clay mix, which probably makes a big difference from soft moist dirt and leaves.

I get what you mean, but the Primitive Tech guy only made a small batch for his own use, so it only took a few hours, but these medieval burners had massive piles like the one shown! It would take far more time for that pile to smolder through.

Ieuan Hunt surely they worked in shifts, but probably a good bit longer than 12 hours

and would likely be making and tending multiple piles

should've been paid in dung

Jimmy Savile was the Master Audio Engineer and they paid him a salary of orphan children.

I think your cheap device is to blame because my jvc headphones sound awesome!

Oh! I just commented the same thing then saw this.

LOOOOOOOOL

I wonder if he does a focus on women’s work show. Certainly as onerous as all these male jobs

@@judydoyle1124 Yes, agreed. I am not happy the flour grinding and bread making got such flippant focus. I suppose there are limitations in TV, and things have to be condensed. But given the topic of the series, flour grinding and bread making should be its own focus. I was not happy about the mud and thatch building either. Its a serious life or death matter, yet the flippant attitude is just not conducive.

😂

they are...

@@bobbycatkitkat3122 - I bet you're fun at parties.

I’m sorry I can’t hear you over the background music

I dont mind it at all, honestly.

Yep Baldrick and Tony are both heroes here in UK but for differing reasons. 👍

Ironically, in real life, Baldrick was knighted in 2013 while Slackbladder had to make do with a (comparatively) common-or-garden OBE, several ranks below Baldrick :)

What are you talking about. There are just as great docus in the US

@@user-qb1lq9xf1d ....which is?

@@user-qb1lq9xf1d lol nope. Your TV is dreadful

try the farmseries with Ruth Goodman.Tudor/ victorian/ww2 farm

Its probably to avoid a copyright takedown notice

Most probably a 5:1 auto down mix somewhere in distribution. Those mix down matrixes are a bit non-standard, and very often the Center/dialog-channel suffers, when the rest is summed. That is probably what happened here. It surely sounds like it!

Compression for the internet messes up sound big time unless the uploader seriously does it for a living and has spent a good amount of money on equipment. Your average streamer typically would barely get a passing grade if it were a college course.

actually there were parts where i couldnt understand what he was saying because of the music being louder than the talking, so ... no i couldnt

I find this to be an issue with other BBC shows, specifically Timeline series.

Told my wife the same thing!

I didn't vote for yah!

Good one!

Help! Help! I'm being repressed. Witness the violence inherent in the system!

@@jayg1438 BLOODY PEASANT!

And we wouldn’t have Paul Allen’s card.

Impressive. Let’s see Paul Allen’s shoestring.

Do you like to disect girls?

Just wait until the oil runs out (not long now). Those of us who survive will be back to iron age technology and social organisation within twenty years. That's the future for you.

cold superstition and fear... how is that different from today?

Yes! The general populus' life gives such color and depth to what is present... It feels as if us and them are not the same species. They had almost nothing. We have all but everything.

i've read/watched a LOT of history. I've never once heard about a period of time in the british isles where people held chickens sacred.

I would have counted that, the life of my family and I are more sacred than some stinky chickens. Crazy how they would repel and hold with one hand and risk their lives, all for the preservation of the life of a chicken.

@@D33Lux They tied the rope around their waist, so it wasn't as dangerous as you think. But yeah, it was still fairly crazy.

@@D33Lux I mean, we live in a time where people refuse a vaccine for a worldwide pandemic because some dude on the internet told them it was full of 5g. Not like anything's really changed

@@tonyg25 No, people refuse it because it simply doesn't work. And no one knows the long term effects, so a wise person chooses not to risk it.

Yes , he is so enthousiastic ! I love to see how the ordinary medieval lived

I think the spike should be straight down the ground, not sideways...

Imagine the ground you are ploughing is covered with pasture, it would only be "turned" once every three or four years, so you'd need a plough share that would get under the roots and turning it to one side, hence the "side ways"'plough.

@@reallyhappenings5597 i am multitalented

@@reallyhappenings5597 lmao I came from the right thread to understand that. And I like the OPs attitude towards it

@@sc0tte1-416 I need a prostitute carpenter in my life

Grand-pa started out life, working for his dad. As a blacksmith. Thus the German Mueller...

It’s interesting how that tradition manifests today. For example, people who work behind the scenes making movies. I used to live near a guy who was a lighting technician like his father and grandfather, going back to the silent films of the 1920’s. He worked on Jurassic Park, Jim Carrey films, etc. He told me it’s next to impossible to get into that work without a legacy, or at least a very strong personal connection.

To put it another way, most opportunities you'll find that are controlled by someone else are only going to be yours through networking. And family is the tightest form of networking that exists. If you don't like networking, you'll end up seizing lower-quality opportunities, or be forced to create your own (which is a lot more effort).

@@googiegress7459 this would have been very useful information when I was younger. We are all taught we live in a democracy and a meritocracy but it's not really true

@@jamesmueller1921 except for the fact your German 'Müller', means 'Miller'. Deriving from a man who is working at, or owner of a Mill driven by wind or water ...

@Klaus Ebner Yeah, we won't need it. We will all be dead. The people who know it already will survive.

sooner than most people think

grand solar minimum.....get prepping....only reason im here is its a natural cycle of our sun causing the bigger picture problem.

@@DjGlenJon What?

@@DjGlenJon Are you talking about man-made global warming?

pun MUCH intended!

Its an English slang term for "bigger", idiot.

@@lilyflower91 It's a joke, idiot.

Ok, I'm sorry but I just love them!! But then I have English mastiffs and they so remind me of my boys. 😊

@@lilyflower91 Americans say it too, lol.

*literally

Funny cause I grew up with his history programmes before discovering blackadder later on

I think people were a lot stronger those days.

Hayley Chang well they also didn't live as long, but I think it's always good to learn about how people survived in the past

Charzey absolutely, they're really pushing their political ideological agenda. It's perhaps not altogether surprising given that the BBC is the state broadcasting corporation, but it's so sad to see none the less.

If they could make it to around 5 i read they were pretty strong but life was expected to be around 55 on the high end lol. Who knows but with all that work that had to be done just to live i bet no kids said not now i am on level 5 of my new game lmao.

More people should watch documentaries, in general! (lol) Less video gaming, more KNOWLEDGE :) . A little game play is okay, and CAN be intellectual too, but NOTHING like this!

A thousand years is nothing when you consider all that comes in a thousand years compared to over a million, a thousand is nothing, miniscule. Would you consider 80 years to be long also? i don't.

Yea we went from simplicity to monitoring your every single move

Documentaries like this make it look far worse than it was. A lot of this is exaggerated.

Actually, looking at our combined potential, it should be even more mind boggling. So relatively speaking, we haven't gone that far.

That sense of "progress" you identify is the result of fossil fuels. This will be a lot closer to life in a hundred years than life in the developed world in the 1960s.