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Tony Robinson takes us back 500 years, to life under Tudor king, Henry VIII. Tudor towns were evil-smelling places but amongst the smelliest homes would have been that of the local 'knacker'. Tony introduces Thomas Grimes, who chopped up dead animals to make clothes, shoes or glue. But thanks to Henry VIII, who executed more bigwigs than the other Tudor monarchs put together, there was another need for Thomas's skills: as an executioner! Next, Tony...
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In this episode, Tony travels back to the 1800s, to Victorian times. In London's East End, Tony encounters thirteen-year-old Sarah Chapman, a 'Match Girl', who worked fourteen-hour shifts, six days a week in the 'Bryant & May' factory. But the worst thing was constant exposure to the chemical phosphorous. So sarah took part in one of the first workers' marches to improve conditions.Angus Innes was a Scottish navvy who blasted tons of rock from the...
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Tony Robinson takes us back to the Second World War. Beating Nazis wasn't only down to Churchill and his generals. This was a people's war, fought by bakers, office workers, delivery drivers and housewives. Tony meets Eastender, Babs Clark, who was just eight when the war began. Like thousands of others, Babs depended on the newly built Bethnal Green tube station as an air raid shelter. It was like an underground town, with a library, doctor and community...
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The Georgians experienced bad harvests and famine. For some, like Charles Smith, the only way to put a nutritious meal on the table was to poach game from the nearby estate. Poaching was amongst more than 200 offences you could be hanged for, but Charles had a cunning plan...Many chose gin, to cope with Georgian life. Elizabeth Bowman decided that she'd supply it. Tony follows her from buying ingredients in Covent Garden, to hawking it at hangings...