Tony tells the story like the viewer is a friend. He is not afraid to laugh at himself, get dirty or dress up according to the occasion. Great guy!!

When you watch all of these episodes the thing that strikes you is how incredibly useful urine has been until very modern times...

Tony Robinson must be the sweetest man you know. He treats the crews amazingly well and is so polite during this show. Kudos to you!

There was a gunpowder mill outside the town I grew up in. You could occasionally smell it when the wind was just right. We called it the Stink Mill. The smell was indescribably horrible. I can still sort of remember the penetrating stench in the back of my throat. Now I know why. It also blew up every few years... one of my neighbors was killed in an explosion back in the early 1970 s

I love the host!! Such a good sport!

@21:30 I noticed Tony stayed back to hold the door open for the crew.

I got to be honest I didn’t even know who Tony Robinson was two weeks ago and since then I have binge watched a lot of his specials on history and other things he is one of my favorite TV presenters he tells a story like he is your friend and genuinely really likes the topic he is teaching and learning about really cool guy.

"Oh wow! Look at that!" One of the reasons I am a massive fan of Sir Tony is his genuine glee about things.

Conclusion: A lot of people in the old times were ripped cause you need muscles to do that kind of work.

Incredible....... I've done so many jobs in my life, but I realize now I've been spared the truly horrible ones. One of my worst was working in an animal hospital when I was 11 years old, cleaning the cages of the animals being 'wormed', after being given something to purge their bodies. Another was simply cutting up chickens at the local market when I was 15. But it was done in a room where the temperature was lowered very chilly, and soon I lost all my appetite for eating dinner, especially meat. It lasted about 6 days before I walked! Thank you Tony for the education, as well as the entertainment, which is true of course for all your films...... Bravo!

2:37 - Was not expecting him to casually drop that in there 😂👏👏👏

Tony Robinson is an amazing host and presenter! Love this program!

Absolutely fascinating program! Probably should not have decided to enjoy a snack while watching though. Live and learn. Happy to watch all the other episodes! (Sans snacks)

So... who's the guy that thought "Hey, i can take this bit of horse hair, sheep bladder and made a musical instrument?"

Man, I really wanted to see the rest of the process of making the violin string.

Hail to Sir Tony Robinson, who isn't afraid of toads and even sheep guts. I've enjoyed his part in Time Team immensely, and this is just as interesting.

Tony Robinson is great whatever he’s doing.

Tony's child like delight at witnessing the car being blown up was absolutely delightful! Love you Sir!👌❤🇳🇿 from Christchurch New Zealand

I'm absolutely in love with those two kittens he's holding. My favorite style is black cats but the favorite for life is calicos because my sweet kitty at home is one.

I need Tony and Mike Rowe to do a series together

I find it amazing, you need certain items to make gunpowder, but yet nobody wants it around them... I also enjoy how Tony makes the show interesting to watch... Should show this in schools and watch how interesting history can be!!

Tony is a consummate entertainer. His narrative is informative and he always makes me laugh.

Muskets have a much lower rate of fire than semi automatic paintball guns.

Crikey, I was gagging along with Tony on that frog eating part

Poor kitties. :(

I think it's fun that "Baldrick" is hosting a series about "History's Worst Jobs". It's sooooo in character!

@ 25mimits I can't be the only one hearing Eric Idle's voice. "Bring out your dead!".

My current violin is strung completely in gut, plain for the top strings and one overspun in silver wire for the bottom string. Gut strings have always been made since ancient times and are still available in all forms today. Actually the most important innovation of the Stuart period was the development of overspun strings for better bass notes.

Seriously, my new favorite to watch!.... Thank you for your insanely awesome passion to give us truth

I have to give Tony credit , he is a good sport to even attempt to do these horrible tasks for the camera . Gutting the sheep would do it for me . Even thou I am a violinist I couldn't do that ., no thanks ..

I absolutely love these worst jobs with Tony, he has far passed my expectations of the kind of man I thought he was! Just because you don't really like someone I think you should nearly always give someone a chance and never judge people or let other people's views and beliefs curupt yours which I am guilty of but people can change, I'm proof of that too. I don't like the animals being killed, nothing will change that!

I'm a wheelchair user. I could use some straps like for the sedan chair to make it safer for people (and me) when they need to lift me over stairs or something! I'm always scared they'll injure themselves (never happened yet but there's always a first time). I have been dropped a couple of times though (luckily no bad injuries, touch wood)

To all those people who think they were born in the wrong era, you haven't watched Tony Robinson because THIS is probably what your life would have been like.

"You have your strap on Andrew", haha ha. Well done Tony.

Tony Robinson has done so much. He must have learnt so much. Not only documentaries but comedy. A true polymath. Very like Stephen Fry with whom he worked.

Watching all of these documentaries with Tony doing all of these historically bad jobs in the various eras reminds me that he's the ye olden version of the American show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, who does the exact same thing with today's worst jobs.

Bangs and stinks, the best kind of video! And lots of educational and fun information to boot. Reminds me of the Romans collecting urine for whitening togas. Every fullers establishment had a vat outside for people to pee into. So in ancient Rome, you never had to worry about being short taken 😅

6:54 it's the world's first shape charge. Brilliant engineering... though super rudimentary in it's deployment

I’m sure I was hoisted by my own petard in a past life

20:43 that spoon moved on its own!

14:38 "Have you got your strap-on Andrew?" Why, what are they up to!?

Killing the cats and dogs made the plague burst fourth to spread unhindered. Ferrets and other weasels were offten killed too.

One thing puzzles me Tony, how did you manage to get so much custard out of such a small cat?

I love this series thank you for uploading.

This is when you're happy about your previous video selections. I would not have picked this if not for the YT algos.

20:43 The force is strong with her

"This is digusting, Whats next? the urine, ofcourse it is"

The Petard anticipated the 'shaped charge', it seems.

Those paintball guns were a lot more accurate and could fire faster than muskets. Now if they forced them to wait between shots that might have been a valid test.

Years ago I went to the pharmacy to buy salt peter for tanning a deer pack. As a woman, the pharmacist thought i had some nefarious use in mind. I had no idea of its other uses until he told me. Small-town, I ended up running home and returning with the pelt. You'd have thought I was trying to buy a machine gun.😂

I like Tony Robinson. He is funny and brave, the show is really cool.

One of your BEST! Good form Tony!

Not sure how rickety the scaffolds were for Thornhill. But I’ve seen drawings and explanations of how Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel was painted and he basically had a level floor up there. He wasn’t hanging off of anything. The floor was actually close enough to the ceiling that he could lay on his back. The Sistine Chapel isn’t as high up as St Paul’s and the dome would introduce difficulties but it was also a long time after the Sistine Chapel was painted. Not sure why he’d be hanging off of rickety narrow scaffolds...

I love this show.Thank you.

This series is highly addictive. Love it.

I always wondered, could't they have boiled the wig before going thru it with a nit-comb and lavender oil?

Prophetic really watching this in the UK in week one of the covid-19 lockdown.

14:27 The height difference between the two rugby boys and Tony is hilarious, pair that with what he’s saying and I can’t help but laugh. I think I laughed for a good three minutes straight for the entirety of the secment. I can’t help it though. Its just too funny.

Yay, more Baldrick!

James 1st 1603 - 1625 Charles 1st 1625 - 1649 Charles 2nd 1660 - 1685 James 2nd 1685 - 1689 William 3rd and Mary 2nd 1689 - 1702( joint monarchs ) Anne 1702 - 1714

Love that random video cut to the kitty while they're gutting the sheep. The editor was like, "Ugh, this is vile. Here's a pretty kitty to tide you over for two seconds."

27:42 and thats when PETA was born.

Did anyone else see what I just saw?. 👁️ When the lady was just about to pick up the cup with the spoon in it, the spoon just moved to the other side of the cup by its self, like the lady didn't touch the cup yet, see for yourself after #20:36, it's like a ghost or paranormal activity had interfered and been nice to move the spoon to the other side of the cup... Amazing.. 🇮🇪🍀🍀🍀😎..

4:07 "once purified, saltpeter needs to be combined with 2 other chemicals to make the black powder"............but you forgot to tell us. Sulphur & Carbon.

@8:55 : The Tippmann 98 Custom. An EXCELLENT work horse of a Semi for any Site / Scenario rental, that and the A5 you can't go far wrong with. Easy [comparitively] to strip clean, do field repairs on etc. Parts are very affordable and very available too. These Markers are a great first own [CO2] [these don't suffer near as bad as others from frost seizing as any others if you're trigger happy on CO2] for a Semi option for the wannabe Walk On player on a budget. Get started with one of these and if it turns out you get hooked enough to save up for something special, you'll at least be getting game play and experience whilst you save the mega bucks a full spec tournament Marker's gonna cost you and you'll have the game time in to know which Markers you're being taken out by most so as to make a well educated upgrade purchase that actually suits you. It's an ideal spare Marker to have clean and ready to roll too, should your fancy one go down and need more attention than your turn around time allows [between games]. The Tippmann can get your game played so you can fix your fancy main Marker in less rush. When you get one of these, or a lot of them if you're doing the rentals, learn it, know how to strip clean / service it and carry a few spares, ESPECIALLY O-Rings and ideally springs, you can put your own parts kit together cheaper than buying a kit, which will likely have parts you'll not wear / bugger up in a hurry starting with a new / nicely refurbed Tippmann. As long as you swap out the O-Rings [I suggest swap for Teflon rings where you can, but keeping ]rubbers' is smart since they're much easier in a hurry and can be swapped back when you have unrushed time to get your baby back at it's sexiest] at the slightest sign of wear [nicks, rough spots, slackness], these are the least troublesome starter Marker ever. These Markers will run and run. In fact, I overhauled about a hundred of them for one Operator who hadn't had them strip cleaned for over 6 full punter days play and only about half a dozen of them WOULDN'T have been good to go in the state they were in [albeit not performing best accuracy / range] BEFORE I touched them. I still full serviced the lot and the cost of spares for the whole hundred was negligible really. If you're going to compete, I definitely suggest adding an 'Anti Tamper' on the back of these, when I was Judging, you'd have been chronied on and off and the velocity adjuster would have had to be more than hand tight before I'd have let you on my fields competing with one. Out of the box, you can still lock the velocity acceptably anyway, but I really couldn't count the amount of players I've sent back to tighten those and chronied again. In testing amongst consenting adults, all Pro Judges, Tippmanns will behave fine and without quirks at 360 fps on CO2 at 10°C in Woodland, UK. For educational research only, of course. Expensive Markers, tricked up some, have a lot more going on with them that can go wrong or need regular accurate adjustment and expensive spares, don't always keep players fully 'in game' it must be noted, especially in Winter Woodland play. Useful to keep your Tippmann with you to fall back on when your upgrade is being temperamental. Looked after and in the hands of a decent player, these Tippmanns can be very tasty. It's kinda 'The AK47 Of Paintball Markers', no ?

Documentaries and edutainment are never better than when the entire film crew needs to evacuate a room for personal safety.

20:43 what happened to that spoon? It’s possessed!

Timeless Tony

My dude was burning sulfur dioxide 😳😩🤣 Truly willing to risk it all for the show 🤣😉❤️

My Boss: what are you doing???? Me: Working of course! Definately not watching a 44 minute video on why the Brits collected their citicens Urin. That would be crazy

🔔🔔Bring out your dead! 🔔🔔

If I lived in these times, I would have died of the smells

The paintball rate of fire seems way to fast for the time..

The petard seems much more like a modern breaching charge rather than a hand grenade. As a former combat engineer, grenades were never put forward as a method of door breaching.

Sheep Guts...huh. In Middle School in Eigth Grade Music Class, I was taught that the strings were made out of 🐈's gut. Now this horrified me as I had 🐈🐈🐈 at this time.

The poor cats though :(

"And now we'll add urine" "Of course we are"

Marvelous!

Great introduction.

As late as Victorian times, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's favorite mode of transprt was the sedan chair.

the frog thing was really disgusting lol

Thanks

4:58 .,.., sorta reminds you of the WTC footage of the.,...,.. roof going up....🌑

Thornhill had apprentices or assistants who must have done the basic blocking out of the designs. The motifs like coffers, rosettes, decorative bands, and even the perspective architecture could have been done reliably by assistants. They are so regular and repetitive and they just have to turn that out by the square yards (no metric system at the time). Wouldn't Thornhill have used his time to do the more difficult figures, faces etc? Maybe even the drapery could have been done by assistants. Lely, a fashionable painter to the court, had a production line of sorts. He did the actual portraits and special details, apparently, but left the zoot to his shop. They didn't say whether the painting was oil or fresco. I'm sure Michelangelo had assistants because they had to work fast with fresco. It doesn't make them hacks or frauds to use assistants as they would have known how to work in his style. But one man couldn't paint almost 150,000 sq feet by himself even in two years? That is like painting a wall 150 feet high by 1000 feet long in intricate time consuming details.They must have worn out hundreds of brushes too. Tony didn't say how many hours per day they worked. It might have taken months just to set the basic lines of the design in place. And maybe they had a more generous platform on which to work. Wouldn't you think the arcade had to be set out accurately all at once and not risk getting the spacing wrong?

"Imagine handling rotting bodies", yes, I did that this morning.

I like the medival breaching plate.

Ah, that was Lesley Smith from "Most Haunted"! Poor Tony DOES get stuck with the "worst jobs"!

I admire him hugely doing this without latex gloves "the anatomist's friend".

11:30 they should ave the defenders firing much, much slower. Muskets at that time weren't firing at the speed of semi-auto paintball guns.

0:50 am I the only one who got extremely nervous about how close that car got to collision?

11:40 Christ Church College, quadrangle, Great Hall, Cathedral & Tom Tower, Oxford.

I love his documentaries so much! But is it bad I can only see him as Baldrick?

Like for the year of his life that Tony gave up to teach us about Stuart period bug control.

There is no way I’d survive a trip in a Time Machine to olden days - I’d be dead within 48 hours just from stress alone

That blowed up real good.

The music in this series is great

Anyone else notice at 20:30 her hand didn't touch the spoon?

In Pepys diary he tells how he scolded a house maid by putting her in the basement where the cess pit (an above ground box) was also kept. He was very like his times. But that had to be a very obnoxious cellar to endure. I've noticed when I have to clean the inlet to my septic tank, the amount of water entering does dilute the active ingredients. I use short showers and never tub bathe. There wouldn't have been a lot of water in Pepys pit so there must have been an overpowering ammonia vapor. I think the poor girl could have suffocated. .

Insurgents still use very similar design to the petard for making improvised directional explosives. Never understood why sedans dont just have wheels.

31:40 I know he is from a different time and it's a serious-ish history documentary. But I want to know does he not know what he is staying or is he just being more subtle than we are today?