Why Did Medieval People Cover Themselves In Bloodsucking Leeches? | Worst Jobs In History | Timeline
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- Some of the least pleasant employment opportunities open to people in the Middle Ages. Tony Robinson discovers how fullers spent their working lives stomping on newly woven cloth in vats of stale urine, while leech collectors risked infection by wading into marshes and letting the bloodsuckers cling to their legs.
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1:34 Arming Squire
5:18 Archer
6:55 Leech Farmer/Thatcher
12:13 Barber Surgeon
16:22 Wise Woman
22:39 Stone Mason
29:08 Lime Burner
32:20 Treadmill Worker
39:09 Fuller
Matthew Gooding
Thank you sir 🙏🏻
@@saj831 I live to serve 👍
legend
@@saj831 same lol
@@SweetMattieG legend
Hahaha, that barber/surgeon guy is a riot! The enthusiasm with which he proclaims 'It didn't work, but they did it anyway!' is beyond hilarious.
I couldnt watch that bit seeing skin cut is cringey
Yeah people doing meaningless suffering for the sake of suffering and still smiling at you and telling you existing is worth existing.
"bet it gave the barber a laugh"
LMAOOOOOOOOO
I was dying when he was lying in the bed "I'm so sick. I may even be at Death's door. So I've invested my few coins into this man" and then the camera pans to the barber
Chaos Churros do we need to send for the barber surgeon?
Theodoric of York, medieval barber!
@@shaggy69001 and went back for seconds.
I am not generally a sadistic individual, however, watching the look of absolute horror cross Tony's face as he sees how he'll have to suffer for historical posterity, is priceless.
Kudos to him for actually trying the jobs instead of just talking about them. Good show👍🏻👍🏽
leslie beddingfield my thoughts exactly
He's a star!!
Big same
@Savior Flair Whut?
@Savior FlairHe didn't start off well in TT jumping into Phil's trench without asking! He's another one you don't want to be mean about. I wonder if Tony ever did get *dug in* off camera?
It is so endearing to see Tony get that genuinely excited by splitting that enormous stone block! In a day when too often people feel like they have to be sarcastic or clever about everything, it's great to see someone like this. He does everything, even though he's scared of heights. Other than that scene with the eel, I really like this series.
Filming the killing and the agony of an animal that is dying is awful.
I don't know how they did it, how they don't feel the cruelty in this
@@Thanasis_Koligliatis Because they live on an island, killing fish is kinda normal.
help its a fish
@@Thanasis_Koligliatis its a god dam fish you snowflake for gods sake sop humenizing it
@@Thanasis_Koligliatis bruv its a fish, they don't feel pain like that
The sound editing is from the Middle Ages
lmao I was just about to say some thing about the sound editing lol.. and your comment is perfect lol still a cool show even with bad sound editing tho...
Absolutely barbaric
The sound editing, or overlays, makes this intolerable.
this is too bloody accurate
Don't you dare blame my precious bauldrick!
but why aren't we talking about:
"What are leeches really?"
"Worms with character."
HA
This is my favourite line from the entire episode
Dude, your quartets rock!
Awe... it amazes me the lengths tony will go for our entertainment. I just love him!
Rowan Atkinson should do an affiliated documentary series where he looks at the best jobs in the Middle Ages.
I'd go for that
Boring. It'd just be kings and queens and the landed gentry
Hahahahah
Oscar Travis Well best jobs for commoners would still be interesting
But wait - I have a better idea!
*sips worm stew* ..."I wish I was dead'" LMAO
LMAO IK I LAUGHED HAAHHA
I love how excited Tony gets when something works.
*Brilliant documentary . Not a dull moment, had some laughs and learnt something new!*
My uncle had all 4 fingers of one hand cut off in an accident in the early 1970’s. He had leeches applied to the end of his fingers after they were reattached just as explained in the first part of this show.
He reacted like a giant kid when he cracked that rock with the sledgehammer. Too cute.
I wonder how many people actually think and appreciate what people back them had to do for us to be alive today.
Valid thought. Personally, I think that would rather depend on if the person in question has time in their life for that sort of analysis, and also on if they themself subscribe to the toxic positivity notion that all life is a wonderful gift, instead of realizing it's something that just happens to us and we have no say in.
I'm often thoroughly impressed when I reflect historically, but I just as often find myself wondering if there was less religion brainwashing people, more access to reliable birth control, and women had been given more rights over their own bodies.... how different the world would now be....
THANK YOU ALL so much for making these freely available. More docs like this should be open to all (even if it’s not immediately after they’re released).
He’s really in it til the end. I appreciate his commitment for his program.
tony is a trooper, he knows what he needs to do it and even pushes through his own fears a lot of the time, time team is another classic, i miss these quality programs
He's a star!
me too. he's so committed he's willing to stand in a bath of stale urine wearing a silly hat. what a man.
He takes the British attitude of "carry on with it" seriously!
I really like hearing two voices at once because the background wasn't edited out. Makes you really understand what is being said.
I made the horrible mistake of eating a soup when that god awful worm stew came on
Hope you finished the soup until the part of the golden bathtube!
Lol I was eating during the barber surgeon bit
ill yuck
What fun
I admire Tony's willingness to experience some of these unpleasantries.
bruh lemme tell you when i turned this on i wasn't expecting to watch an eel get beheaded
that was terrible for me to watch also ....cruelty to animals on TV
It would be animal cruelty if it was done for no reason. They did this to demonstrate what people did in those times to cure their illnesses.
These were people from a different time when these sort of animals were a lot more plentiful. If this wasn't something that was historical accurate I doubt he would have done this. He himself was surprised to see they were alive but that's how it was done.
@@odrankeane-teague1601 Seeing an animal killed slowly is not of any benefit in this situation. You could at least make the argument that some scientific studies might do something like this for a purpose, but almost every situation would be done differently in any study that was associated with any kind of organization. Just about any study can be done with less cruelty, so it isn't going to pass any sort of board. That's the only way to get the funding to run any kind of study. It is absolutely not necessary for a television show on history! Or anything, honestly. It doesn't add anything. It's literally a sign of sociopathy (to use the common term) to torture an animal, and what else is killing something with nerve endings and a brain slowly? Seriously.
Ask nature ( a hawk eating a gerbil for instance) how it feels about an eel being taken out by a superior species feels
@@joannawojcik7125 How many roaches in your home have you summarily executed? How many stray cats have you ignored in the streets and left to die? Isn't that animal cruelty too? You're cruuuel!
This is truly one of my favorite documentaries on CZcams.
I love the medieval times, it is just one of the most interesting things in the world for me.
Love tony....especially because he tries everything...no one else does that. Thank you for this great documentary Tony Robinson
He understands that the human would be in pain having his hand cut off without anaesthetic...but is incapable of understanding that the eel would be in equal pain having his head cut off.
Watching that creature writhing in agony and suffering like that and to hear 'he will struggle' was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen on CZcams and I love these videos and Tony Robinson. Not this one.
It’s a part of our history. Not much of history is very enjoyable, especially when you look into rural history in the Middle Ages.
I’m so glad I was not alive at this time. Oh goodness.
Maybe you are reincarnated 🤣 and you did live back than eating worm soup🍲 and collecting leeches 😬
@@ChrisTina-qb6kl yay yummy worms 🙂
Blech! I heard that.
Yay!! More medieval documentaries if possible please
You are so beautiful.......to me...........
Well. Lolol
This is a whole series if your interested, he did another episode on the Dark Ages and similar time periods.
Priscilla Davila Ok Madam its on its way
@@ddc4531 The frick dude
Makes one wonder in what ways people 500+ years from now will be laughing and shaking their heads when looking back at us today.
Rap, piercing, tattooing.
@@soslothful piercing and tattooing is prehistorical though
Probably synthetic medicine.
Nuclear power plants on The Ring of Fire.
Antivaxxers
I really, really hope mister Robinson is well payed for all the pains and efforts he had to pass through, in order to show us how difficult life was in those days. We take for granted all we have today ignoring the struggles of the people in those times. Very interesting video.
Best line "It must go in six inches."
The Holy Roman Empire Of The German Nation I think this empire was better
No the best is : "i wish i was dead" LOL
That's what SHE said!
"That'd make your eyes water"
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the commitment of this guy is amazing. when he get into a bowl of urine i thought to myself: "Do you really need to do it? If you did not do it, and just told that this is how they did it, i would still think it's a great show!". but i guess he wants it to be as realistic as possible. i wonder whether he was happy when his producer said: "And in the next episode, we will film you walking in 20L of urine that me and the rest will produce!".
"It's the safest one we ever built, but we have only ever built one" 😂
*Blackadder* : "We need something to close the threads in this linen."
*Baldrick* : "I have a cunning plan, m'lord."
These documentaries are like visual heroin..
Nicole X and audibly they are like drowning
tehjamez
Lol, sad but true!! Some of the audio is awful :[
tehjamez , in space.
It's really weird, but I just cannot stop watching!!
heroins a lot better than this utter travesty
The Cathedrals were a work of genius despite their rudermentary practices in other areas
I believe we need more commercials. One every 6 minutes just isn’t enough.
LMFAOOO
i believe you need more adblock ^^
If it were up to youtube, 1 ad pr 10 seconds.
Thank God door addblockers
😄 😄 😄
One of the most captivating medieval documentaries I've seen. Incredible presentation, kept my damaged millenial attention span full time. Love the energy of the presenter
The audio mixing is horrible. Whenever the music swells, the narration gets buried and is inaudible.
Guy Faulkes I have no problem whatsoever. Is it possible that the problem is on your end?
My thoughts exactly! That music is way too loud, I can't hear anything they say when the music gets louder
Guy Faulkes Indeed! I turned down the audio and turned on closed captioning, the latter being rather humorous - whatever program was used did not always understand what was being said!
no way.
sounds like they ineptly pulled it from surround to stereo
Tony's reaction is priceless for whole 47 minutes 😁
HEHEHE, we love you TONY. thanks a lot for your work on these series, so much fun and so interesting with you as our host. UK's dirty jobs for sure, but in so many ways we always thought about in the past. What was it really like. your daily life sort of series on these time periods is quite wonderful. I love this series. Cheers, Tony! Thanks.
When feeling down, watch this and feel lucky you live in the 21st century...
It's great to see Timeline paying homage to Tony Robinsons past career by getting Baldrick to be a sound engineer for every episode.
I remember finding a leech on my leg once when I got home when I was 6 or so. Freaked me the f*** out when I peeled it off in confusion and blood just started pouring everywhere! I didn't feel it and it had clearly been there awhile... No idea where I got it.
Love Tony! I love learning about history in the trenches, the real people who worked in horrible/dangerous jobs to feed their family, that is if they even got paid, usually only a few coppers a day. I'll never complain again if I have to pick up dog poo.
how appropriate that Baldrick would be doing this documentary
JJanse10 i believe they considered that when they made the program captain obvious
Tony Robinson is also a historian. So that probably made the choice even easier.
LOL I was just thinking I knew this guys voice from somewhere.
WRONG HIS IS NOT A HISTORIAN AND HAS NEVER BEEN ONE!
All he has been is a PRESENTER ON HISTORY PROGRAMES !
Oh my gosh! Thank you. I knew he looked familiar! Dang it.. I just binged on B.A. over the summer too..
Tony should be on all the videos of documentaries!
My favorite presenter on one of my favorite shows ever thank you!!!
Such a refreshing professionally made documentary.
Most of the medical stuff was just hoaxers exploiting people's fear, though.
This video has some of the worst sound editing ever.
WHAT'S THAT?! I CANT HEAR YOU! OVER THE HORNS! YEAH ITS LOUD!
This sound is bad, but believe it or not I have heard worse! Why?? thats what I wanna know!!!!
It should be in the background not the foreground. 👎🏻
Jennifer LeBlanc you should be in my foreground 😍
I watched it because the subject matter interests me but the dismal sound editing made it difficult to hear what the narrator was saying. There's nothing wrong with pointing that out. One should expect better from a professionally-produced and televised documentary.
That worm stew. I think I now know why a fear of doctors seems to be a collective fear...
probably would have been better with mushrooms and onion
I heard of fear of dentists not doctors
Speak for yourself.
Must... Resist... Temptation... To... Call... Baldrick...
TheSamMarsden doooo ittt!
Well so long as you don't have a cunning plan. A plan more cunning than a fox that's just been appointed professor of cunning at Oxford University. I think Tony will let it go.
Nick Maloney nice one. Write on
MY NAME, IS NOT.... RIIIIIICK!!!!!
Tony is so cool! Love this show. And I learn some British lingo.
that eel part was genuinely distressing
I couldn't watch it 🙁😞
Awful and should not have been allowed
Nichola Scage but the worms were ok? What about the blind ppl in the wheel? Thank god, we are no longer in this erra...oh, the urine vats😖
Katie Compton go cry over a river. They probably eat them afterwards
1:34 - Arming Squire
5:18 - Archer
6:55 - Leech Farmer / Thatcher
12:13 - Barber Surgeon
16:22 - Wise Woman
22:39 - Stone Mason
29:08 - Lime Burner
32:20 - Treadmill Worker
39:09 - Fuller
Hats off! This is a seriously well done documentary.
Sound issues aside, I give props to this dude for subjecting himself to leaches, nettles and worm stew
"Oh no...come on. This is the safest machine we have ever made. But we made only one!" Hahaha, great words of encouragement there from the wheel crane gentleman.
I love how the word "delving" has stuck around, coming from the medieval quarries where it meant getting into the deeper part of the stone until now where it means digging deeper into any subject, e.g. "Let's delve into this area a bit deeper and try to understand." I'm a bit of a word nerd, so things like that always fascinate me. Look up the story of flipping someone the middle finger and saying "F you" for a very good tale!
Interesting. Do you perhaps know where the term "shut up" comes from? I was watching their documentary on the Great Plague and it was stated that people who showed signs of the plague were "shut up" in their houses (along with any family members, plague-ridden or not, I might add). Someone hypothesised that this may be the origin of shut up as a derogatory term. So, I'm curious. (And too lazy to look things up apparently).
Shannon Jordan
That sounds more like "shut in" as a noun. I've never heard someone get called a "shut up".
Interesting!! I'll look it up for sure, thx man
I like this comment.
I see Baldrick was in charge of the sound.
45:08
Woman: "It gets your toenails very clean"
Narrator: "I'm losing the will to live"
Lmfao
definitely got a chuckle outta me xD
"so. how did your day go?" "Well, I went to the barber and got both my arms amputated!" o_0
Okay, granted the ammonia from stale urine made the woolen cloth softer and finer, but just who was it in history who was one day wearing a piece of rough cloth and thought "Hang on, I wonder what would happen if I trod some stale pee into this for several hours?"
How interesting! I thoroughly enjoyed this program.
"he had to learn how to carve my meat", "I beg your pardon". ROFL
“I wish I was dead”.....😂😂🤣🤣 I’d feel the same if I was tasting worm stew. It is surprising that worms taste like chicken!
It feels like tony is trying to talk to me in a nightclub
lol
Hahahahaha the audio is so bad 🤣🤣🤣
Besides the few parts of audio this is great and very interesting to watch. It made me laugh seeing his reactions and the urine part cracked me up. Loved that he tried everything instead of just talking about it.
3:53
Him aggressively:
"He has to CARVE my MEAT as well"
The host: "Beg your pardon??" Lol
Wow. Baldrick is a lot more knowledgeable than most people give him credit for.
Terrible sound editing and cameramen with an obsession for zooming in too far on everything.
Great video. Thanks so much.
Tony Robinson is amazing....very well done...I've watched all of these many times. 👏
I got to the mashing of wool and urine and had to stop.
That's where I came, too
Yuuuuuuuuuuck!!! Glad I lived in the 20th century and now in the 21st. It's amazing how people survived back then!
Brilliant sound quality, excellent narration which you can hear perfectly and no adverts. Brilliant
Very interesting, enjoyed learning about those times and the jobs people had to endure.
Love these documentaries.
Its the safest Machine we ever made! But we made only one! 38:57
This is fascinating. Great upload.
Im always learning something from you Tony. Your shows are absolutely brilliant , cheers mate! 16:00
The Aztecs had better living conditions than dark age Britain
Even so, Muslims were way more hygienic than dark age Britains.
@@jploeg8862
Someone's jelaous.
No they weren't. They were caused by Fall of Roman Empire.
The Fall of Constantinopole happened long after the start of Dark Age.
No one can help you that you were literally destroying the good things the Romans gave you, while Muslims were gathering any knowledge they could get and using them for inventions that form the base of modern technology.
@@fisebilillah4406 , Constantinople fell at the END of the Middle Ages (1453 to be exact, meaning the Roman Empire survived for another 1000 YEARS) because of...... MUSLIIIIIIMMMSSSS!!!!!, what's more, Europeans also preserved Greco-Roman knowledge during the Middlw Ages in Monasteries and Universities funded by the Church. Muslims didn't preserve them because they were Muslims, they probably just stumbled on it while trying to conquer what's left of the Roman (inaccurately called Byzantine) Empire and then preserved it while trying to destroy the civilization that made them. Europeans began to preserve them probably before Charlemagne. What's more, the Roman Empire was still there (The West just hated them when a woman ruled the Romans so they made their rip-off) so there was nothing to preserve in the first place (except for some reason we did).
@@jploeg8862 while Muslims did attack, the west church and ottamans were at war for centuries. The dark age britons focused their technological advancements on different areas than say Aztecs or Ottomans. In reality, during wartime, the church and Ottomans behaved very similarly, except that the church really didn't take slaves while the ottamans would. Ancient warfare is very interesting as the base human interest are often more bare than modern days. Back then, they fought for money,land or status which we Now still do but hidden behind a " righteous" purpose.
I mostly heard the background music....maybe you guys should edit that?
You mean the foreground music?
Thank you for sharing your experience with us
Tony Robinson, you are a brave man, and my admiration for you is boundless. Thank you for trying everything, including worms and fulling!
Who else is watching this for a class?
i am
Jobs would still be that bad, but for those noble pioneers and their cunning plans...
(I'm depressed at how few people are likely to get that reference)
Thank You Sir Tony for all you've done. You have brought an Enlightening historical perspective, this is good.. well done.
I’m waiting for Tony to yell Mick ! Phil ? ! 😆 love Tony he embodies the Everyman in all of us. I really enjoy his enthusiasm.
Do more WWll videos please! It's my favorite subject to learn about
Knight: He has to clean my meat!
Tony: pardon?
cut
@@George_Bland: Carve.
cleave
Love this series. Thanks. Thumbs up from me
29:30 That guy has such a calming voice when describing the many horrible ways you could die
Hahahaha...”I wish I was dead”..... *after drinking the worm stew*...... 😂
I dunno...I feel like the barber surgeon shouldn't be in this doc. Maybe to some people it would be considered a bad profession. But having the knowledge and expertise and the rights to use all those tools seems pretty badass. Sure the actual surgeries would be stressful to perform when your patient is screaming in agony, but telling people that you were the town barber AND town surgeon would be cool. He was probably popular at parties.
Actually, the barber was seem as someone quite disgusting, medicine wasn't seem as a higher kind of work like now, but they could get a good sum of money with some time and traveling.
So happy to know Tony is still kicking, enjoying a long, hopefully happy life!
its a shame that the sound is a bit wonky, but luckily its not so bad as to get in the way of watching. its the first of these timeline docs i've seen, that host is a brave soul. i like the interview style, and while im never sure about the accuracy of these things, it's great inspiration and good fun in any case
poor eel..
KneeStrikes it want have a sophisticated nervous system so it’s very unlikely to feel pain
i woulda eaten that eel ! mmm unagi
I think your claim is fairly baseless, they have brains. When you poke them in the brain enough (or cut off their head) the eel stops exhibiting behavior. This seems to reason to me that some form of control of the behavior of the organism is centralized in their as evolved as our species' counterpart, yet far less complex central nervous system. Because we don't understand enough about how something like an experience is produced, I would not preclude the possibility that eels may suffer.
You would think if something squirms when it is cut that it feels.
The entire wisewoman segment was repulsive. The lady was so baseless and rude.
Cool show but whoever edited this is from the middle ages
uploading glitch
Fascinating. Thank you
WOW!! He ate the worm stew!? PROPS MY MAN!! Don't think I could do it 🤣