Some say that Tony is still ringing them bells :) We love you Tony...... Jolly good series

Ah yes, Tony having his hands on an authentic medieval blowtorch

"Nope, that's it. You've ruined Christmas."

This Yank loves this adorable, charming Brit, Tony! He could make watching paint dry interesting. XD

A vomatorium was mainly a hallway in a colluseum that was design to let as many people out asap. The hallway "vomits"

Clean up puke with hands, wipe hands on coat, eat food with hands....

I lost it at 30:23 , "just a weekor two ago, me poor old uncle Phil, wee!"

Thank you for sharing this series. I love this series and Time Team. I love how this series shows us in the modern era that no matter how hard or bad we think we have it our ancestors had it a lot worse. Thank you again.

Watching this whole series 2 years later. I love it. Watched every one. Too bad there isn't more. Tony does a great job recreating and explaining history. Thumbs up to all of em

"The epitomy of British humor, is a man in a dress..."

what I would give to set and talk to this man for the evening we all need to learn from history

I'm do immature for giggling when ever he said fagut.

There's a bittersweet tragic beauty in those old dolls. To think that they were made to bring happiness and beauty but the kids who made them didn't get it. I'm really moved.

"Oh it's fatty isn't it?" "Oh yes it's very rich!" "NO." "Fatty, NOT rich." "Fatty....." I love how poignantly he made that remark, lmao.

I don't know if they all did, but limelight also blew alcohol into the stream as well as hydrogen and oxygen. In one of the episodes of the original series of Connections, James Burke shows a period limelight and it clearly showed 3 tubes pointing at the lump of lime. I know it screws up the H20 ratio, but he never explains why the alcohol is there. I suppose it slows the reaction a little and makes it more forgiving if the ratio is a little off. Alcohol has an awful lot of energy in it and is probably a lot easier to come by and handle.

"No that's it. You ruined Christmas." Poor Tony. =D

35:32 "It was just for the spoilt......(pause)......rich children". I think she was about to say another word other than "rich". 5 letters rhymes with cats . :D

The music when the geese are walking, lol 38:26

The Puritans called Xmas a day for heathens and devils, but they shut down the churches? Huh??

My Grade 12 teacher lit a hydrogen balloon on fire--she stood by the door, I held the fire extinguisher incase the ceiling started on fire, my class mate had a candle on a meter stick. it was cool

When my parents were in their late teens/early 20s, they used to ring church bells for extra money. It's how they met each other.

thank you, sonicgamereview for letting us see these programmes. I enjoyed them very much.

"I don't want to stain my dress!" 👗 HAHA!! 😂 I love how Tony isn't afraid to get his hands dirty! He just gets right in there, and actually DOES the "Worst Jobs" (or attempts it nonetheless!) There's an American program with a similar kind of idea, and the host just stands back and observes other people do the worst jobs the entire time. That show obviously wasn't nearly as good as this one is!

8:32 "My very first..." The internet has ruined this for me.

Those white hats looks like a smurf hats... weird isn't it

i worked retail on black friday (which is the start of the christmas shopping season)...after watching this, I'm not complaining anymore about that job.

The guy who played baldrick off the Blackadder.

In Norwegian, Danish & Swedish Christmas is actually still called ´´Jul``

To geese: Come now, concentrate. :D

thanks for the beautiful playlist! watched them all :)

There will come a time when ringing the bell would be a full-time 24/7 job

Back in the late 60's, my brother and I would make our Christmas money plucking turkeys at a local farm for Thanksgivings and Christmases. I can tell you that the room was smelly and the work awful. Standing on a concrete floor for hours while your fingers became more sore than you could imagine, while the slaughtering of birds went on around you. Oh, and minimum wage was $1.65/hour back then. I'll let you do the math as to how much Christmas money we were able to make... Definitely one of the worst jobs I every had!

the dress of a turkey farmer on him was funny, but imagine trying to keep that white clean... that has to be more of a job than anything else.

*Baldric, the turkey farmer's wife!* 😁

37:51 lovely accent really enjoyable. glad I'm watching this clip.

"We've all done it before", must be Viking reenactor speak for ,"We're all too smart to volunteer".

Ah the good ol' Puritans, the original, party poopers of Christmas. They are also the ones who turned Christmas into a Capitalist day by having the shops sell goods on Christmas. Open shops, close churches and they called themselves good Christians.

I want to see the outtakes!

Thank you for pos ting this series. I have really enjoyed it.

Love the "medieval" torch.

Seen the whole series and I believe they missed one nasty job in the mines. Most of the time in any mine there is the ever-present risk of gas/methane ignition. One of the oldest ways of dealing with that was... Well, igniting it XD In medieval times there was the nasty job called "Pokutnik" in Polish, rough translation "Penant". These people literally crawled around mine tunnels with long sticks and fire are the end and set gas pockets on fire for a living. I'd say those are the first ever minesweepers, only modern minesweepers have the luxury of disarming the bomb, those guys had to explode each one on the spot. Here's a nice salt statue in Polish salt mine Wieliczka: wieliczka.fotopolska.eu/Wieliczka/b82284,Komora_Spalone.html?f=335600-foto

I once saw a 19th century doll that was modeled on Kaiser Wilhelm II as a baby, one of Victoria's grandchildren. Not a pretty baby at all.

He always makes me realize that i have a better job than some : )

Smurf hats!!!

I kind of wish we could still celebrate Christmas the Norse way, that just sounds like a kick ass and awesome way to welcome and give a big F.U. to winter

lime lighting like a spot light

Wishing you a happy Christmas Tony

(The turkey part) "It was literally plucking hell"

That dear stew must have been very good for them since they rarely got enough iron and fatty acids during the rest of the year.

i've done slip casting with clay but never wax

thank you for posting that...i feel better not being the only one.

There use to be a problem with homeless killing swans in San Francisco. They thought they'd have themselves a swan dinner. Very sad. And I doubt they had any idea how to pluck or clean the poor birds. I pondered what they did when faced with the task and no proper tools.

Every time he puts on a dress I just smile so much. xD

I am loving this guy, I don't want these worst jobs to finish.

it seems the worst christmas job in england was being an edible animal...first they take out your eye & head(if you are tudor) thenj they pluck your plumes & gut out (if yoy are a victorian animal)...this episode gave me eeeks...:(

plucking turkeys help if you dunk the turkey in boiling water

I love this programme, but can't watch it while eatin' my tea :)

Uggghhh..... NOT a smart move watching this while I was eating my dinner...!

I've never seen it before, but Panto looks fucking weird

It's a twig that likes other twigs

The humble pie looks like it might be tasty!

The Frisch cap looks like a Smurf hat.

ew pick up someones puke, I be like you pick it up you filthy drunk, your mess you clean, well I wouldn't really be saying, but I be thinking it. lol

There were stables in town for the city residents. They would have sheltered their donkeys and/or cows/nannies for milk and/or burden carrying. The alleged story of Mary and Joseph asking for a room for the night was within the city. Not in an open pasturing area. The inn would have most likely had a stable. And there were no extra rooms because everyone had come into the city to pay taxes and to be counted for the census.

so that's where we get the term lime light from

Surprised they didnt bring up the Nuckelavee

Cleans up puke and then eats an olive with, puke scented hand eeerrrrgg!!

Panto actors who specialized in animal performances and costumes were fursuiting furries.

That woman BS'ing about the Yule log being a fertility symbol. Why is it that ethnologists feel compelled to interpret anything that might vaguely resemble a weener or pastrami on rye as fertility symbols? It's incredibly lazy. Also, they burned a green log not because it was full of "vital forces". They did it because green logs take longer to burn, and just like the Roman Saturnalia, during the burning of the Yule log the servants got to take a break. They'd even soak it in water to make it burn longer.

Not just 1 turkey, 500 turkeys in just two, three days.

I Don't know if You're being sarcastic, but I love this series and I just ignore the idiots

Well, that’s not my Christmas.

32:43 Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

Tony got a bit wrong. There were no shelters for the sheep or the Shepherd in that time of Jesus birth so they where outside at night all year in all weathers. There was a pin which was a wall of wood or stone around an area with an opening that could not be closed and it has no roof. The Shepherd had to stay at the opening to keep their sheep from thieves and Predators.

At 44:56 he says Turkeys were brought to Europe by the Spanish but Spain obviously is already in Europe so how can they bring something to where it already is?

Long live christmas!

Nah mate you're wrong...I'm double chuffed to have found you..you're hilarious. You really ought to get an agent...no sense sitting in your room, handling yourself is there? :) xx

5 sec per ring 2000 rings 10,000 sec. Each day is 86400 sec so 1/8th if a day, or 3 hours to ring in Christma. So in the year 16,000 there wont be enough time in a day to ring in Christmas with this bell.

cleaned puke with undersized rag..quickly wipe hands on jacket..immediately reach for olive and eat it with probably still vomit covered hands.....hope that was fake

so interesting

Mike Rowe saw this an immediately wrote a Black Adder spec script with him playing Baldrick.

Jesus was born in a manger because all the motels were booked out for Xmas.

What can you make with turkey guts? A soup maybe?

Uh, just to sound really stupid, but turkeys were in America and I thought the traditional English Christmas dinner or feast was either with pheasant or goose? When did turkey become an English Christmas dinner?

3:50 smurf party

They say it's an "inside job".

Please be careful of sweating in the cold. I would hate to hear you or your folk were sickened or struck with hypothermia.

Hahahahahahaha, ME TOO!

3:51 he asks if woman wear them too lol

The song Good King Wenceslas was written in the Victorian era. Gene Wolfe's novel, The Devil in a Forest is based on the song.

I suppose there was a purpose of celebrating Christ's birth in December regardless of whether that was the time or not. After all if you celebrated it during March and April then perhaps it would have collided with Easter, which in many respects is the most important holiday of Christianity. Since the holiday follows the Passover calendar and switches from month to month and day to day people might be celebrating Christmas and Easter at the same time (Christ's birth and resurrection). So there was a sane reason for putting it in December to absorb the other celebrations of the time.

Hmmm, big soup

im going to celebrate ?saturnaes? this year...

LMAO!!!!!

Right, I presume you came to this conclusion after years of research? If so could you share your sources with the rest of the class.

Where's the gio-phizz?

Puck collecter is the worst of the lot.

we call him svatý václav. his patron of bohemia. not much about charity though.

28:05 OH GOD FURRIES

Tony you look soo 😍 in a ladies cap.