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- Some of the worst jobs of the Dark Ages in Britain were mining gold for the Romans, plowing fields with a wooden plow and other difficult and disgusting jobs of the period.
- Among the worst jobs of the Georgian Age (1714-1837): Artists model, Customs Riding officer, Garden ornament, bath attendant, Castrato singers, Loblolli, boy monkey, mill scavenger, going thru the mill to put shirts on the country's backs.
- Among the worst jobs of the Middle Ages (up to 1500) during the age of chivalry were Arming squire serving a Knight, dishing out medieval medical cures, being a hamster to make a cathedral, and walking in urine to support the economy.
- Among the worst jobs of the Stuart Age (1603-1714) are saltpeter man, sedan bearer, wig maker, Nit picker, household fumigator, Seeker or searcher of the dead, Plague buryer, Toad swallower, Cathedral dome painter and Violin maker who had to gather their own raw ingredients.
- 2004–8.2 (10)TV EpisodeAmong the Worst Industrial Jobs in History are: Bridge builders, Canal leggers, bone cleaner to make bone china, bufferlass, knocker-up, soap boiler, Glass blowing, making phosphorous matches, child hurrier dragging coal to the lift shaft.
- 2004–8.3 (15)TV EpisodeThe British Navy has created some truly awful jobs throughout its history. Tony Robinson investigates which were the worst of the bunch.
- Among the Worst Royal Jobs in History are: Jousting lance maker, link maker for chainmail armour, cadgman for falcons, whipping boy, food taster, Groom of the chamber, Royal messenger, Royal washerwoman, Fireworker, Boot boy, purple maker.
- Tony tries his hand at some of the most difficult and disgusting jobs from rural England's history.
- Among the worst jobs in the city are hunch backed water caddy, daring fire fighter, dangerous docker, deal porter, Pugger, Crossing sweeper hoping for tips, pure collector, fighting women, link boy, stompen fur processor, ashphalt paveier.
- Among the worst jobs of Tudor times (1485-1603) The Headsman, Groom of the Stool, Gong scourer, Boy actor, Pin maker, woad dyers that must always be 5 miles distant from Queen Elizabeth Ist, fishwives and workplace discipline.
- How did some Christmas traditions develop? Shepherding. Boar's head? Goose? Turkey? All the finery meant hard hours in sweatshops, poor pay, and unsafe conditions. These are some of the Christmas traditions Tony Robinson explores.