The worst jobs in history

audiobook (Unabridged) two thousand years of miserable employment

By Tony Robinson

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A no-holds-barred look at the most unenviable jobs of the last two thousand years As befits the man behind Baldrick, Tony Robinson sets out to investigate life in the underbelly of history Whether it's swilling out the crotch of a knight's soiled armour after the battle of Agincourt, risking his neck in the rigging of HMS Victory, or as 'Groomer of the Stool' going to places where none of Henry VIII's six wives would venture - Tony endures it all to get to the bottom (sometimes literally) of the story Covering the Roman invasion to the reign of Queen Victoria, Tony's challenge is to seek out the worst jobs of each era
The worst jobs in history