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I love how well Tony has always humanized the past. He's still got a connection to his working class background, and genuinely cares about everyday people. So when he's presenting the past, he puts a lot into showing what regular folks did and what their lives were like.

I researched my own family history and discovered my great grandma x5 fought in the revolutionary war in New Jersey for America. When her husband who was charged with firing a canon was killed, she took over firing the canon, (Tough lady for those times) and she also took pitchers of water around to the wounded soldiers. Her name was Mary Ludwig Hays aka Molly Pitcher. After the war she moved to the town I live in now in Pennsylvania. There is a large statue erected in her honor in the local cemetery where she is buried. There are also plaques around town and a hotel and things named after her. I thought it was a pretty neat thing to discover!

Oh Tony I'm sure your ancestors are so incredibly proud of the man you have become.

Tony, you literally put things into focus with your genuine interest and warmth with people from all walks of life. You and your crew are the REAL historians, and the present and future generations can only benefit. A deep and sincere "Thank You."

Sir Tony has got to be the most amazing storyteller I love listening to him

Thank you, Mr. Robinson. I am crying. I am an historian, and your story, once again, brings home that history isn't just names on paper. History is made of real people.

Found out when I was doing up my Family Tree that my grandmother, aged 11, her sister, aged 10, and her younger brother, aged 8 or 9, were put in a workhouse by their own mother when she remarried, because her new husband didn't want them around. Poor little beggars. My grandmother was trained in domestic service, but emigrated to Canada and ended up working as a governess for a fairly prominent Canadian family. She worked during WW2 at building bombers, in Ontario.

"Now I travel through time for a living." How cool would it be to be able to say that?

My grandmother was a dressmaker/seamstress too. She also worked in factories/work houses. And this was during the 1940's & 1950's in New York City.

I'll never be ready for the day Tony finally gets to do the interview with his family when he finally gets to be reunited with them, the interview we all want but will never get to witness. Thank anything holy that we got blessed with Tony Robinson

Really appreciated this episode. Whilst digging around in our family history, I found that my 3x great grandfather died in a London workhouse. He brought his entire family with him. My 2x great grandmother had her first baby in the workhouse. I felt the same, sad and a bit angry. Your feeling on history change when you find situations in your own family tree.

I just loves these episodes. Thanks for all the hard work put into them.

If there’s ONE narrator I’d love to spend the day with in conversation, it would have to be Tony Robinson!

I come from a long, long line of share croppers in Tennessee and Alabama. My Grandmother was the areas midwife/healer. No fancy doctors or hospitals around in rural Alabama in 1st part of the 1900s. I feel Tony's pain and anger. I'm working on my genealogy and have gotten a few stories that were horrific. It makes me more grateful for our generations abundance. Thanks Tony!

It's a good feeling to pay tribute to the family before you that made choices, struggled, suffered and did so much that made the life of a person or persons that they would never meet, so much better. I'm not wealthy, but I'm comfortable in life without needs (plenty of wants hahahaha) and it's thanks to individuals in the past that made decisions that led to my good life.

Mr. Robinson you are a GEM ! I have learned so much from this short 25-minute video.

I've watched documentaries like this and time team since I was three. Sir Tony is absolutely peerless.

Love ya Tony! I second S. Jackman's comment about your genuine interest and warmth towards others. It's funny how much my own father resembles you! We're indigenous Mexicans, with a little bit of Spanish, where he gets his light complexion from... your vids are like watching my dad to a good British accent lol. Best, Sir Robinson, you really helped get me through Covid last October..

Absolutely enjoy these historical programs. Thank you for sharing, much appreciated.... from South Carolina USA

We often romanticize the history we love. But when faced by the reality’s it’s often heartbreaking and just another version alike what we live ,face today and will be history of tomorrow

Thanks Sir Tony, for the insight into your own family's past. They would have been proud of you.

This reminds me of the present problem in my city of homeless. There is work, but the cost of apartments is beyond someone coming from a jobless, destitute, spot.

Love Tony Robinson 🤗

Thank You, Sir Tony Robinson!

Fantastic content.

True history, told much better than the little selected blips we get in school.

Well done ✅

My grandmother was born in the workhouse and also was illegitimate. Her birth certificate stated “the holder of this certificate is not entitled to a secondary education”.

“The residual taste is quite nice”. What a sweetheart, and a fantastic personality to boot..... they just don’t make em like him anymore!!! LOL.

I absolutely loveeeee love loveeeee Tony as a host. He has such an entertaining yet still professional sense about hismelf that he carries into every program, and I'm sure every aspect of life.

We love u Tony!☺

We who have all we have ,wish we could go back into history and help our ancestors. I think that is why it affects us so much.

Tony said his ancestors lived on Jersey St. in Bethnal Green. My ancestors lived on a nearby street also in Bethnal Green. They moved out - 11 of them, a single family - in 1847, headed for NYC. From there, they moved north. All found jobs.

Tony Robinson, the real Time Lord. :)

Hooray. Tony!!! That is AWSOME!

Great show!! Will for sure keep watching!

Tony you need to investigate Newfoundland and how it changed history. You are awesome.

Great episode, thanks!

Tony's story about his dad at Eaton informed me of so much about Tony's personality 😅😊

The way he is with people 😆💕

I love all "absolute history" vid Thx for that! Very nice and intresting Timetravel History

a very touching episode ❤️

From the Humble Bolderik in black adder series to Tremendous Tony.. Salutes Sublime Sir.. ❤

Really interesting stuff! Thanks

Wonderfully done!! 🖒🖒💕

Love these personal histories!

I thought Tony seemed familiar, then it dawned on me, Baldrick from Blackadder! I looked it up to be sure and yep! 😁 As an American kid/teenager I loved that show on BBCAmerica and later found episodes on KZfaq. 😊

Love these ty very much

Another great documentary by Tonnny Robinson: The R@pe of Britain

I enjoyed hearing about your family.

Well done , Tony

and then ... SIR Tony

My great-great Grandfather ended his days in a Glaswegian poor house. Such is life.

Shocking

Cold

'At the expense of future jobs' History repeats itself

I highly recommend reading “Conditions of the Working Classes in England in 1844” by Friedrich Engels. It’s amazing to learn that her wrote that pivotal piece of literature at the age of 24.

🎉gross, Tony Robiñson

“Just pull it apart!” Poor thing. I couldn’t watch past that.

Seems my line of Robinsons went to the USA in the 1700's but somewhere a relative was listed as a turkey merchant in England. Haven't connected the dots before 1800 though.

This man's voice 😱

Wow! He's about 9 years younger than my Nan (Nanny), I thought he was a lot younger. Anyway, his Great Grandfather would probably be somewhere between my second and fourth Great Grandfather depending on when they had kids, how many kids and which one we descend from, etc. I only really know back as far as my Great greats on my maternal side and Greats on my paternal side. My Mom's Dad's (my Pap/Papaw) side, on both sides were rural but fairly well off, for the time and area. My Dad is nine years older than my Mom and his family, on both sides, were rural but also fairly well off, for the time and area. We're in north central WV, so this probably surprises people. However, my Mom's Mom's (my Nan/Nanny) side were pretty poor. My Great Grandma was basically a sharecropper, as a child, with her family, though I don't think they'd technically fit that description. They had it tough but I think they had it better than being in a workhouse (poorhouse in the US). 😳 My Great Grandma Opal told me stories. One was when she was a kid, she had to pick grubs off tobacco plants and put them in a coffee can with kerosene in it to kill them. 😣 (There are quicker ways to kill pests but that's what they had.) I believe that was when they worked for someone. After thinking about it now, I didn't realize we could even grow tobacco in WV. I'm pretty sure Grandma's family didn't live anywhere further South. They may have possibly lived in OH or PA for a time but NC and SC are generally where you think of as growing tobacco today. Interestingly, they all got a decent education.

Good program and Tony is excellent s always. I do feel perhaps they tried to include too much in a short time. It seemed a bit rushed and lacked detail because of it. Enjoyable nonetheless

I’d love for locals and settlers to blend. Combine each group’s knowledge and mix their DNA. More genetic diversity helps a population survive. Every group has things to teach and every group has things to learn.

I am very sorry your greatparents were treated so badly, Tony.

I would love to trace my family

History is a bad word in America , seems like nobody wants to recall the past , thanks for making interesting keep up the good work for the hungry minds

I've tried googling and I can't figure out what the occupation of box cutter was. Anyone know?

Gotta be one of my favourite brits

I respect Tony Robinson! Still I can not watch this video !

Sir Tony is a cunning man.

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my ancestors were renowned North Borneo warriors and headhunters, and I mean they literally were *headhunters* ...they fought wars with neighbouring tribes and brought home enemy heads as trophies and decorations (imagine heads hanging on your porch)..the headhunting practice persisted well into the early 20th century and only ended when Christian Missionaries finally reached the interior regions and "educated" the locals about how barbaric the practice was...

Authoritarian Australia take heed. Your history damns you.

if hazelnut eating catepillars taste like hazelnut, why doesnt cow taste like grass?

It’s more like Hulu for history

I'm invigorated by the richness of this material. A book with comparable insights fueled my personal growth. "Temporal Echoes: Amelia's Odyssey Through Ancestral Shadows" by Vivian Rosewood

What does a Box Cutter do? Makdes wood boses. Thats probably all they had were wood boxes.

People were dressed so nicely, and to think that was the hard working people of modest income.

is this the guy who played baldric back in the day?...or does he just sound like him.

Great women.

I have a cunning plan...

So the sold Etonians deigned to give something back to ordinary people (or at least ordinary men, because who cares about females, right?) in a way that could almost be called “leveling up”. Gee, where have I heard that before....

AAWEEESOMEEE

To everyone Australian reading this. Don’t let them implement martial law ever again!!!

Baldrick after all then

Irish convicted prisoners were slso sent to Van Diemensland. U2 even had a song about it.

My family started as "share-croppers". Sigh

I have a cunning plan sir

We had the Penal Times in Ireland/Éire

Cant believe you tasted that bug And they cook and eat them

The Industrial Revolution caused the end of the thriving Cottage Industry in Ireland

An organic chicken, I hope.

Italians?

All those Barbara Cartland romance books about the English gentleman a noble misunderstood valiant man who made his riches by working slaves to death and destroying anybody in his way comes to my mind with his noble furrowed brow crap.

Tony bug

My ancestors are mostly English, I did a lot of research, and my line goes back to aristocracy in England in the 15th-17th centuries, and as an English-Blooded American, I find the content on this channel to be fascinating to learn about the history of my ancestors. Thanks!

Why were these women treated like sub humans?

U have so many Polish in GB and there is no Poland history. Do sth w it. Maby about Skirgada / Swietoslawa - Polish, Vikings and England princes.