The Deadly Secrets Of The Tudor Home | Hidden Killers | Absolute History

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us back to Tudor times, when the newly emergent middle classes had money for luxuries and early consumer goods, many of which contained hidden dangers.
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[@delcie______r2431]

Imagine dying while trying to poop in a river, then being called out by name in a KZbin video over 400 years later

[@sshy_indigoo]

😬

[@audreyhead3948]

I was thinking the same thing 😂 like damn dude immortalized for taking a shit and falling 😂

[@lorabetht9206]

My Nannie told me about a cousin of hers who died because he got bit on the behind by a black widow spider 🕷 while “going” outside... poor guy 😕

[@diaryofseresha]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kyle18934]

@@lorabetht9206 that is just unfortunate.

[@jamesdrrr]

tudors: why is everything infected victorians: why is everything poisonous edwardians: why is everything exploding

[@tatiaromero]

Modern us: (or would this gen be called elizabethians??) why does everything gives me anxiety

[@kimgrattage2395]

@@tatiaromero. We are the second wave of Elizabethan's in the UK, the first were governed by Elizabeth The 1st, daughter of King Henry The VIII, Henry was a Tudor King. Elizabeth The 2nd is our Queen, so in effect we ARE Elizabethan's. Next in line will be Prince Charles, then William. Luckily we won't experience Victorian and Edwardian times again in our lifetime. My late grandmother lived through the Edwardian era being born in 1907, she passed away in 2004 under the Elizabethan second wave, far more civilized than the first you will be glad to hear?

[@kimgrattage2395]

Check out the Ist Elizabethan wave. Elizabeth the 1st had a very colourful life. The daughter of Henry The VIII. In the UK we are part of the 2nd wave as you may call it due to our Queen Elizabeth The 2nd. Now in her mid 90s in age.

[@texantexaningintexas7189]

2020: why is everything racism

[@Lukos0036]

@@texantexaningintexas7189 Also 2020: Why is that man orange?

[@ThePointlessBox_]

Romans: ''hey having water handy is pretty nice, lets create majestic structures to create artificial flow and bring water to the people'' The british: *WOMAN AND BUCKET*

[@JK_Clark]

Lol. The Romans advanced our nation by a thousand years, then left and we forgot most of it during the Dark Ages until.... The Roman Renaissance.

[@goyonman9655]

@@JK_Clark forgot most of it during the fall of Rome and no the Renaissance wasn't roman it was european

[@FreeFalling2d]

😂😂😂

[@diy_cat9817]

Women: drown while washing clothes Man: dies while trying to take a dump

[@daffers2345]

I no longer have a reason to complain about folding laundry that has been washed, cleaned, properly rinsed, and fully dried indoors while I lay around watching KZbin videos ;)

[@meetvirginia7023]

daffers234 Yes me too! Tuff times

[@Cortesevasive]

@@daffers2345 who the hell folds laudry lol

[@daffers2345]

@@Cortesevasive Uh ... me? Especially undergarments like my sport bras.

[@Cortesevasive]

@@daffers2345 U clearly a neat women or a geh.

[@sammysoppy3361]

“Teeth are pretty deadly” aaaaand yet most insurance doesn’t cover dental care because it’s not considered medical and any dental plans out there only cover the most basic things. Ridiculous.

[@carlosmarte3154]

steph soppanish The reasoning for that is because it’s easy and relatively cheap to keep your teeth healthy. It’s as simple as brushing, flossing, and rinsing twice a day while making sure to stay away/limit caustic foods. The same cannot be said of infectious diseases that one usually has no control over avoiding.

[@carlosmarte3154]

Alejandro - Healthcare is most certainly not a right. The reasoning is solid from the insurance company’s standpoint. They shouldn’t have to pay out for something that, barring rare circumstances, is easily avoidable in the 21st Century.

[@carlosmarte3154]

Alejandro - Not all, but a great deal of dental issues are due to poor habits. The same can be said of obesity. Companies should not have to bear the brunt for negligent clients that smoke, eat caustic foods, or fail to brush twice-daily and floss between meals. All of those brought dental disease on to themselves. People tend to think that corporations are these otherworldly entities; they’re nothing more than a collection of people (you know, those things you care so much about?) who need that profit to pay their mortgage and keep their lights on. You are correct on my assumption of the homeless. I come from a country where socioeconomic mobility is genuinely impossible. America truly is the land of opportunity, and anyone who is able-bodied can carve out a decent life for themselves here. This privileged capitalist ass came to this country at 19, worked 2 (sometimes 3) jobs, and lived out of a rented room in a basement. I eventually gathered enough for Community College, graduated, and found a nice job for myself. Fast forward 20 years and I’m living a life that would’ve been impossible for someone born to what you would call sharecroppers. Now it’s time to come full circle with my anecdotal story. As a broke immigrant working in a factory, I ran into plenty of those same underprivileged people you speak of. There’s a reason why many (not all, but a *great* deal) of them continue to live in mediocrity...and it isn’t because of some invisible force keeping them there. Poor life decisions lead to mediocrity, and poor dental hygiene leads to dental issues. My source for my original claim: www.dentalone-va.com/a-guide-to-dental-disease-prevention/

[@pennynorthcutt5833]

Especially Medicare. You've gotta get really sick from an infected tooth, where the infection spread to other parts of the body, before Medicare will pick up the bills.

[@hwren9845]

@@carlosmarte3154 you Americans are wild lmao

[@Berserkaholic]

I give her so much credit for actually going in that cold water in a wool tudor dress.

[@e8root]

I had worse reaction to a water in much warmer water. Would immediately drown in this muddy river

[@qtexasbrumley]

@@e8root yep I'm sorry to hear that , I thought I could swim in some pants and shoes one time. Nothing nearly as bad as she was wearing.

[@Amphitera]

even today, few realize how dangerous cold water is. Even the best or floatiest swimmer who is trained to swim in full clothing and gear can go into shock and drown if the water is too cold. Cold resistance can be trained though! Hence ice swimmers exist.

[@ecuadordada9874]

@@Amphitera Thank YOU. Keep warning people. I have live on the Cooper River, Yukon & Kuskokwim Rivers in Alaska will kill you within 10 minutes from body reaction to cold. Thank you!

[@someone3187]

This also reminds me of how people died from the cold water during the sinking of the Titanic :_(

[@vintxgesappho2114]

The 533+ people who disliked this are secretly Tudors who are furious that their sugar is to blame for their teeth, not the witch that they accused and killed.

[@Mehrunes86]

Sssh!, they got friends, maybe they are gathering for TudorCon😂

[@nerdgeekcosplay909]

@@Mehrunes86 are there any dresses from that era ?

[@cleobinx]

🤣🤣🤣

[@darkfireeyes7]

Or those who see parallels to all the preservatives and artificial colors etc. used today.

[@kevinstutler7772]

I fear those are my neighbors down here in hazard county!!

[@YuBeace]

“Teeth are pretty deadly, actually.” Tell that to the insurance company!!!

[@celladoor9696]

Lol 😂

[@Marlaina]

Society pushes sugar on us in nearly everything we eat and then refuse to help with the after affects. It needs to change!

[@charleneblack2792]

Hear, hear!

[@mrs.camilliajones3560]

Right!!

[@koolkat2867]

@@Marlaina YES!

[@CosmicDimensionsArt]

Idk why these have showed up on my feed, but I can't stop watching them now.

[@fordmustang769]

OCDRobot same

[@laurajenadam]

Me too 👍

[@nola211]

OCDRobot so well made looks like a real tv show

[@drewdurant3835]

OCDRobot right. I am not even British

[@NVM_S]

Same but i love it

[@SaraS-jq1ln]

I always wonder what people 500 years from now will be having a documentary on us about.

[@KittyHerder]

The oxy epidemic, obesity, diabetes...

[@Patchuchan]

The use of fossil fuels, and pollution such as the Pacific garbage patch come to mind.

[@ElloLoJo]

Anti vaxxers, climate change denial, and definitely seconding the other two replies

[@MasterGeekMX]

Sleep pattern alterations due light coming from our screens.

[@diahan9896]

our SELFIES... different poses in every era 👌🏻

[@bowiechick]

“Wow, they really had no idea they were killing themselves with sugar!” I say, chewing a mouth full of super sour Scandinavian swimmers.

[@bcubed72]

WTF are "Scandinavian swimmers?" Where I grew up, "swimmers" were slang for...something.

[@Pomagranite167]

@@bcubed72 ima guess swedish fish XD

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

If you eat scandinavian swimmers and they taste sour... Don't swallow!!! I think that you have a relationship with a guy who needs to go to a doctor...

[@koalakid1884]

I ate thise today too! I had a starfish, sea horse and something else

[@anzemorgan-irwin8224]

I was eating a packet of nerds while watching this! 1/10 don’t recommend eating sugar while hearing how sugar kills people😂😂

[@colleta2400]

There is a Documentary I watched once where a Makeup artist showed what these people actually looked like. The wealthier the worse...I mean the people with the $$$ had no teeth from sugar, gout, no eyebrows or hair from the beauty rituals. The poor were no beauty contenders, however, in terms of physical appearance they won the lottery...for these times.

[@Klmp13]

What Documentary? I must know

[@colleta2400]

@@Klmp13 it was about 2years ago I do not remember the name. I found it here on youtube and it was a Brit doc

[@notathletic4171]

@@Klmp13 search for queen Victoria's makeup routine.

[@101Volts]

Reminds me of King Henry VIII gorging himself on an old equivalent of Burger King with 2 gallons of Soda and 2 gallons of Ice Cream. (I might be exaggerating a bit.) He died in his 50s with an infected, maybe gangrenous leg.

[@englishatheart]

​@@101Volts That's what the fat bastard gets.

[@sh115067]

Funny how about a thousand years prior, the romans had aquaducts indoor plumbing and heating

[@teresaellis7062]

Sad how technology is lost.

[@niwtru]

J Smith Same with the Native Americans

[@johnreeves2016]

@Hannah Dyson Romans also used a lot of lead piping

[@Fsrjtyttzma]

We didnt invite the Romans as I remember they invaded...

[@mats7492]

@J Smith obviously untrue.. the use of plumbing spread across europe but was lost over time

[@Diesunddas24]

A salad of lemon and sugar. That's literally teeth's nightmare fuel.

[@Snake3yesEddie]

IKR and if they had access to ice cream, I couldn’t imagine how painful it would have been if they ate something that cold after a lemon and sugar salad lol.

[@roseblood7529]

Eddie G I’m pretty sure they had ice cream (or they would have it soon)

[@harrietbryant7772]

I know it’s about as bad as it gets for teeth, but it sounds absolutely delicious!

[@constancemiller3753]

Lemonade. Add water and its lemonade.

[@punkybrewstar83]

@@constancemiller3753 Exactly my thought. Minus most of the fibre and add a bit of water.

[@TheBioExplorer]

Funny how I remember us playing with mercury from a broken thermometer as a child in school. Now as a science department head I am on constant lookout for old thermometers cached around the school so we can have them professionally removed. Still they are randomly found every few years.

[@scatdog1]

Me and my brother used to chase the mosquito vector trucks down the alley back in the late sixties and seventies. Good times 😆

[@animequeen78]

Thank you for your service in removing hazardous materials.

[@TheBioExplorer]

@@scatdog1 That's funny. I grew up on military bases and in the late 60s & early 70s we did the same thing. We'd ride behind them on our bikes and pretend we were riding in the clouds. No telling how much DDT we absorbed.

[@scatdog1]

@@TheBioExplorer lol yeah … things were a lot different back then. Both parents smoked with 3 kids in the car barreling down the road with no seatbelts on. We swam in the canals all summer going through pitch black tunnels under the road barely having enough oxygen to make it out. We dove off of the bridge That connects California and Arizona into the Colorado River. Didn’t even know what bike helmets were. I wouldn’t change it for all the video games and cell phones in the world.

[@englishatheart]

​@@scatdog1 My brother and I*

[@AlphaSniperAcademy]

Props to you for actually getting into the water with that dress on. Real dedication to the depiction of the past

[@Lemanic89]

"Page after page suggest different cures, which indicates somewhat that none of them worked" If 5-minutes Crafts did healthcare, this is how it would turn out, sadly.

[@JA-pm5yl]

This comment is criminally underrated.

[@TopFurret]

I can see their handiwork now. Break a bone? Boy do I have a glue gun hack for that

[@note_6956]

They have videos for turning strawberries white by literally soaking them in bleach overnight. The kicker is, most their audience are kids under 16-18 so we all know how THAT’S going to inevitably turn out. PS: the first sentence rhymes.

[@matt3570]

​@@note_6956 I have yet to meet one person over 14-15 that will actually watch their videos for anything but ridicule. Sadly the audience put at risk is likely even younger than that estimate. It's quite horrendous frankly.

[@gypsierose3611]

Hmmm just like today

[@daniellenelson8034]

She said “white gold” then leans towards a flame with a pipe... girl I did not think that was tobacco 😂

[@shaunyjimenez9637]

Lmaooo same

[@seanquinn5805]

That girl wasnt smokin no sugar 😂😂😂

[@anthonyinteresting4736]

@dwone jones girrrrrl ... You're better than that. Have some class and lay off the glass.

[@TherealDanielleNelson]

Hi. My name is Danielle Nelson too.

[@beni3743]

LMAO RIGHT

[@MrGlennJohnsen]

"Death from crushed testicles." Literally closed my legs to protect myself.

[@lenasamzelius5530]

Me too, and I don't even have them.

[@jerrycottrell302]

Right on , Lena !!!

[@ms.annthropic6341]

When I heard that part I was like "Yeah, that'd do it..." 😂

[@wmdkitty]

@@lenasamzelius5530 Same. Crotch damage is crotch damage, man.

[@neneyounge]

@@lenasamzelius5530 Me too!!

[@johnwebsterwallace4884]

"Crushed testicle's, caused by playing games at Christmas." Well, some things never change...except the technology.

[@maximilienrobespierre7927]

I love how that one guy in every episode has a maniacal smile every time he talks about ways people could die.

[@h.r.9563]

That or he seems extremely hurt by the trauamas of our amcestors. He has no in between. Lol

[@amandabr9562]

Yea that dude cracks me up. Do British people have a twisted sense of humor?😆

[@nokturnna83]

yap :D

[@gardenwillow]

You are hilarious. And spot on accurate.

[@doglover8596]

This channel is fantastic. It's not just fluff, you actually learn something. I love it.

[@SyobonPro]

excuse me, but what do you mean by fluff?

[@oddeyes9413]

@@SyobonPro read any textbooks lately? The ones written in 2005 vs. 2015 are absurdly changed. Like, The Trail of Tears, and all of that is removed. Mostly because they think knowing what Americans and others did would *upset* current generations.

[@electricbuttercup7954]

@@oddeyes9413 American textbooks sound pretty crap from that

[@josephinediaz1416]

Electric Buttercup that statement wasn’t true at all

[@leafymintaj8610]

Odd Eyes94 if it makes you feel better, in the state of Florida we still learn a lot about the atrocities in history. We go into lots of detail about the trail of tears and slavery, as well as colonization and the negative affects it brought. I’m not sure about other states though

[@jimtalbott9535]

"Mercury Underwear" - that'd be a great name for a band.

[@SameStory_NewEnding]

This comment is underrated!

[@marylevin9262]

HA nice 😂

[@alancanham6632]

Hahahaha

[@colleentrou4965]

Hell yah! 👍🏼

[@mariaweston5477]

HAHAHA 🤣

[@euanc1459]

best thing about this woman’s documentaries are her ‘walking in the background’ scenes. i love her

[@untetheredsoul]

... what kind of games were they playing at Christmas that resulted in death from crushed testicles?!🤔😲

[@joek7762]

The Nutcracker!

[@ladyravenmoon666]

Lol

[@vlo123veronica]

I haven't even gotten to that part but I'm not surprised 😧😧😧

[@BaskiHighT]

Jingle balls

[@Dylanquinn666]

Before 'pass the parcel' they had 'toss the lead'.

[@oddeyes9413]

The Tudor period sounds like: *Final Destination: 1500s Edition* Dear God, it's honestly surprising people survived.

[@meandoriandragon]

Victorian times were worse it looks like

[@leafymintaj8610]

meandoriandragon god Victorian times were truly awful

[@alilordoftheskies5079]

It's surprising that anyone survived any time period, truly. My god, times were rough.

[@ericag5346]

But, they didn't survive... They're all dead... Am I missing something? 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@actionjackson3522]

@@ericag5346 Survived long enough to reproduce and not leave the resulting offspring as a bunch of helpless orphans.

[@I.love.chease]

33:28 “full of leakage from men and other abominations” dude I can’t even 🤧🤣🤣

[@Sayerdify]

Kudos to Dr. Lipscomb for her brave water display. Goes to show us how fortunate we are to be here in modern times and how incredibly tough people were way back in those days before modern times. Tudor homes are beautiful.

[@JeNn0mic0n]

Makes you wonder if ppl back then thought they were fortunate to be what was considered to be “modern” for their time.

[@maloryj7165]

​@@JeNn0mic0nof course they did and they talked about how people were becoming spoiled and lazy compared to their ancestors and "kids these days" and all that. People have mostly always been the same.

[@BrattyCaffy]

“To go somewhere with a diet virtually sugar free and be given a table full of sugar” Real crackhead hours back then weren’t they

[@caidalee1994]

“Elizabeth Bennet drowned” Me, reading Pride and Prejudice: 😨

[@Great_Lake_Surfer_]

? I'm confused. I've never read this book, could someone please fill me in?

[@XyliaLi]

Gracie Anne in p&p, Elizabeth didn’t drown. It’s a romantic novel.

[@sarahkohlhagen9057]

@@XyliaLi well .. who knows how her marriage with Mr Darcy went on ..

[@vjapple3083]

Gracie Anne Elizabeth Bennet is the main character in Pride and Prejudice and its worrying seeing an actual person with her name that died from drowning

[@Hawkfire360]

I had the same reaction. “LIZZIE?!”

[@seonghyunae]

My dad actually has periodontal disease, and he never went to the dentist so we didn't actually know until he went into septic shock. Had to have all but four teeth pulled and wears dentures now.

[@nyghtmoon]

I am glad he survived. It must have been terrifying.

[@jenlfpotter3870]

That is crazy. How can you not know? wasn't there an awful lot of toothache or pain when it was close to nerves or bleeding or discolouration? There must have been if he attended regular dental checks every 3 to 6 months. I've had bleeding inflamed gums and I have very small gaps between my teeth. Even fairly deep cleaning doesn't fix the problem gums for me.

[@claudermiller]

My great-grandfather died of carbuncel in the nineteen-teens. It's an infection caused by an ingrown hair. Life was hard back then.

[@itiswhatitis1080]

So basically if you lived to be old age back then it was because of Gods mercy

[@aengusog3415]

2020 it is what it is

[@icanthinkofanythinghelpme9755]

It is what it is

[@mariahperrin9296]

God's mercy for common sense, before science :)

[@thomasb.2506]

It's also Gods mercy if we survive these days 😉

[@Mtz2604]

Eduardian hitting their 50th birthday, Woooo Eduardian hitting it's 60s birthday, achievement unlocked.

[@snarkspawner]

.... Excuse me while I watch this episode with floss pickers and mouthwash in hand instead of snacks.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

I have weak teeth. And I can feel one of my back teeth starting to tinge in the way that screams Will need a root canal soon I dunno if I can catch it in time due to needing to do other stuff and living in the middle of nowhere... So, root canal tis. At least we have antibiotics these days :/ Id have perished. Anyways I have my toothbrush at the ready

[@charlottemartin4715]

ElvinGearMaster Irma omg never related more 🤣 I’ve had multiple fillings 2 molars taken and out and I have an implant canine cos I decided to be lazy with brushing my teeth AFTER my big teeth came through 🙄. When I tell you my entire jaw started hurting watching that part omg 😖😣

[@shaunyjimenez9637]

I feel called out

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Try Care Credit card. See if the dentist will take it. You can get several months interest free if you keep your payments current. They even give you the most points without an annual fee of anyone.

[@chopppedliver]

"but the biggest cause of death, was not fire itself" *cuts to a church* me: *C H R I S T I A N I T Y*

[@amberkat8147]

Omg, lolz!

[@Marlaina]

The “religion” that they practiced was not in fact Christianity. It was superstitions fueled by fear of the unknown.

[@kynandesouza]

today i discovered not only can fire kill you, but so can bricks and laundry

[@itgetter9]

You know the woman demonstrating chimney fires was a super rebellious kid -- she has a lovely wicked grin. Probably gave her parents a few scares over the years, with her mad scientist pyro ways! ;-)

[@kingkat_]

bro i used to burn shit all the time as a kid and gave my parents a couple of scares, i couldn't imagine what she could've done lolol

[@24934637]

@@kingkat_ Same here....I was still doing that sort of thing until 9/11 happened and playing with chemicals was liable to get you arrested for terrorism even if you were only playing in your own garden!

[@sarahstrong7174]

My Uncle burnt down Grandads shed & hedge when a lad. Later he worked for Thorn Fire Prevention.

[@sukievw]

me, in my tudor home: *guess i’ll die*

[@laurieb3703]

Imma just die about it 🤷

[@star-po3gb]

sukie w wait you live in a home from 500 years ago?!? europe is wild

[@Lostouille]

@@star-po3gb we have a lot of families that live in that kind of manors/castles ._.

[@jd_1256]

Please we need an update? Are you still alive?

[@sukievw]

Josh nah man i’m dead now

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Also Dr. Lipscomb is amazing. Being able to read a Tudor English book with such ease is not a simple thing.

[@AndreasMSchroeder]

35:45 „Death from crushed testicles after playing games at Christmas“. Man, those Tudors sure didn‘t fuck around as far as entertainment is considered...

[@the-og-cerealkiller]

Pure sugar: *Becomes popular* Carbohydrates: "Am i a joke to you"

[@michelleballard.]

CerealKiller i like your sense of humor

[@michelleballard.]

CerealKiller even your user name

[@fryode]

I hope your name comes from Matthew Lillard's character of the same name in the movie "Hackers". That movie is a classic for being so cheesy.

[@the-og-cerealkiller]

Fryode Nah i just found this pun from somewhere, I don't remember where

[@I_am_a_cat_]

A pun that was hilarious... long ago when I was like... 12. Dont mind me, just an asshole cat. Lmao

[@jacquelinemarie7418]

I jumped in a really cold lake once and I was breathing just like her. I couldn’t catch my breath and I became dizzy from trying to actually breathe. I had trouble swimming out. In that moment you feel like you’re panicking and barely able to keep your head above water.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Wouldn't it be smarter to float on your back?

[@queenskyline1238]

I do swimming in December and I don’t mean indoors in a pool I mean the sea at 3 am it’s nice night swim in freezing Walter not to bad really

[@bigimskiweisenheimer8325]

Poor Walter, should have gave him a coat.

[@cleobinx]

It’s just a terrible feeling !

[@heinzbeanz3343]

@@bigimskiweisenheimer8325 Lmfao

[@caissafrass6631]

“Don’t plant deadly nightshade” Yeah, pretty sound advice

[@Living20222]

Watching this documentary made me immediately schedule an appointment with my dentist and I now have another cleaning in 6 months. Just wanted to update everyone. I never realized how scary sugar is

[@robbinlynnspencer-buchtel6896]

The Tudor era was (is) equal parts amazing, inspiring, jaw droppingly stupid & head scratching of what the heck. We've come a very long way since then, although at times it sure doesn't seem like it. The sad part is how many skills have been lost.

[@crazeddonkey]

Well said

[@idkwhattoputhere4695]

Pretty much how we will be looked back on in hundreds of years: ambitious, forward thinking but pretty self destructive comparing to later generations

[@lorrainewadsworth9019]

If there were ever to be a time machine i would love to return to the Tudor times., ive always loved it, and im 56 now. I would have to be very rich and infertile..... couldnt go through childbirth in those times.. no thankyou.

[@violetdivinespiritualreadi1824]

We haven't come far enough tho its actually much worse cause we're polluting the earth more making animals endangered and wiping out cultures all for greed money power precious resources and minerals we're depleting the earth destroying our marine life too sadly we haven't learned yet what natives been warning about that's why i respect nature my native American ancestors believe we're one with nature not superior to it.. Just to have our technology like cellphones is making others suffer who mine for cobalt and other minerals not to mention blood diamonds that's why i don't wear diamonds im very spiritual i don't want a nice shiny diamond if someone had to suffer to mine it i rather have a precious rare crystal on my wedding ring

[@oddeyes9413]

I'm actually taking the time to learn how to do some homemade breads and the like. I know it's not a lot or really anything, but learning how to cook some stuff is really cool.

[@SabeLoTodox3]

The drowning scene gave me anxiety

[@laurieb3703]

Me too. Almost had to skip it

[@ericag5346]

There was a camera guy in there with her for sure but more than likely a few people for safety behind the camera guy...

[@nora__]

Especially since this woman probably only weighs 100-110 pounds. 😰 I’m surprised they didn’t have her on some sort of tether for that.

[@captainmorgan123]

Loved every second of it

[@saramarie5744]

This Host and the experts make something I never thought I would care about the most interesting thing I have seen in ages .

[@zhain0]

imagine putting a fire out in a random town and your good deed being told 100's of years later lol

[@tracycarmack9714]

Can I just say that I am OBSESSED with this woman's hair? I want her curls so badly!!

[@smilessantana2049]

Same! Curls are angelic😍

[@nothingbutthetruth2145]

Same

[@zoehanekom4671]

Me to!

[@TherealDanielleNelson]

My sister has curls like that.

[@AshesAshes44]

With me, the tough part is getting *all* your hair to curl the same. Nothing more fun than random waves instead of curls. Then you get to fuss over a patch, cursing as it refuses to behave. Just because. Yesterday it curled just fine. 🤯

[@MrJasonshores364]

In these days of everything on television being scripted and fake I am completely obsessed with watching these or anything about history.

[@scotshabalam2432]

TV Shows usually have scripts. It gets terrible confusing when the actors just do what ever they want with no guidance.

[@npcgray5480]

@@scotshabalam2432 hes talking about those documentaries that go though the talking points in five minutes and just repeat them after ever commercial break

[@scotshabalam2432]

@@npcgray5480 I'm being a smart ass, but I did thumb up your comment for calling me out on being a smart ass so I hope you don't mind :)

[@elderlypoodle9181]

jason Shores Yes!! I need to see the real thing. I just have to know the truth. I agree with you completely

[@froznanus]

I absolutely agree!!

[@Dedfaction]

Should point out as well, that most people didn't know how to swim.

[@constancemiller3753]

If you watch the mudlarkers of the Thames they pull pottery, pipes, and the rare coins from Tudor times and the sugar gadgets. So cool.

[@veran.8661]

1:03 - she sounds so cute saying 'naughty'! ^^ I'm really starting to admire Dr Lipscomb, she's so intelligent and warm and seems so kind and she's also super pretty.

[@robertsistrunk6631]

She looks like a wet meerkat

[@gggggggggggggggggg161]

Says the 12 year old with a truck for his profile pic. @@robertsistrunk6631

[@SoramimiKeiki]

@@gggggggggggggggggg161 Guess we have an incel in the making here.

[@chrislong8571]

You're pretty too 😉

[@parkchimmin7913]

SoramimiKeiki burn it with fire!

[@beth-rg8bm]

29:40 I live in the Pacific Northwest and my parents demanded that I learn to swim in both warm and cold, fresh and saltwater! It saved my life more than once and the life of one other! Thank you mom and dad!

[@P3trarch]

I'm still surprised to see that a lot of people don't know how to swim... Crazy

[@melissacoulter3996]

I live in Florida have been able to swim my whole life and I’m confused. Isn’t swimming, swimming? I’ve swam at the beach, a pool, a spring, a river…and I wouldn’t say that it’s different from one to the other?

[@P3trarch]

@@melissacoulter3996 I have no idea why this is not taught to young kids.

[@dbseamz]

@@melissacoulter3996 I would hope they'd start with the more comfortable, warmer water...I think the basic movements are the same, maybe it's just remembering what to do even if you're cold? I'm not sure what the difference would be either. I do know saltwater is denser than fresh, and cold water is denser than warm, so the same person will be the most buoyant in cold saltwater and the least buoyant in warm freshwater, but the difference isn't big enough to change how you'd swim. Unless it's really salty water like the Dead Sea.

[@UltimateCheetah-zs2iw]

@@melissacoulter3996 I live in the northern U.S., and it is a much different animal swimming when the water is absolutely freezing. Even if you are expecting the cold, it is still hard to get yourself to more around.

[@user-vm6oz6wt5g]

"A salad of lemons sprinkled with dusted sugar..." only the English would call that a "salad."

[@miaclarke6859]

Nah tudor English people. Americans would still call it a fruit salad cause it has the name of a fruit in it

[@miaclarke6859]

@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha typical Americans. Don't even understand a joke

[@deloreswilson1798]

let them eat cake,said the French!!😏

[@WhoTheFuck2]

I'd consider this as a salad more than Snickers Salad from Wisconsin 😭😭😭

[@sunnie734]

Yeh, I'm English, and we'd never call this a salad nowadays, but America was the first place that sprung to mind. Those Americans and their "salads".

[@tandiparent1949]

& the saddest thing is that even in this day & age, people all over the world either don't have access to clean water or have to go for miles every day for the family's, often dirty, water n then back home 😪

[@fedupwithfedforever4151]

No the more sad thing is when ways of bringing clean water to those areas are devised the corruption of the local government destroys it !

[@emakelley6807]

Even sadder is billionaires could easily fix this but they don’t

[@weirdxchicky]

Damn, the sugar part made me rethink my whole dental hygene.

[@alexburnham7021]

The sugar bit was playing when I was drinking my tea, which I use lots of sugar with 😳

[@geoffreydeniscrawford7296]

The tooth ache must have been awful

[@ginam5683]

And no proper dentistry can you imagine?! 😳

[@I_am_a_cat_]

I don't even wanna begin to imagine how bad tooth pain was back then. I just had a really bad cavity, hurt like hell. Had to get my tooth pulled because of it (it was a wisdom tooth anyways, why I never got it filled instead) So I cannot even begin to imagine how bad a fully rotted tooth would feel. Ughhhh

[@UmmYusrah1]

Tooth infection s caused death

[@MrJesus-jp1zv]

I wouldn't wish dental issues on anybody.

[@leafymintaj8610]

LB Abstract Art my older brother has extremely deep tooth roots. He had to get several root canals, but they had to inject so much numbing that the injection sites became infected and then infected his teeth and abscessed.. he has lots of chronic jaw pain now and can’t eat his favorite candy, gummy bears :(

[@Thaistickthai]

Her reaction is not exaggerated. I worked at a bar and it was in our historic downtown and every spring was prone to flooding rains, well early one spring the water main in the basement burst at a joint and was filling the basement. Right away the only way to prevent substantial water filling the basement and ruining everything down there was to hold the two segments together so the water continued through on it's intended path. Well it was another employee and I struggling against this raging torrent and the water was cold, as a witch's teat. I had never experienced being exposed to water at that temp and was amazed at how uncontrollable the gasping was. I was breathing heavily from the physically demanding task of the struggle and keeping my breathing was almost more than I could manage. It made me think of sailor's or submariners drowning in frigid waters and what a terrible fate that must be...

[@MrKaiyooo]

Imagine being at a party and having to explain you are corpse archeologist.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Pathologist is the same thing now, isn't it?

[@bonnierussell7824]

Thank you do much for a documentary on actual history instead of just more aliens and vampires or worse, modern politics.

[@agabas]

To be fair, a documentary surrounding the people believing in vampires and such myths and folklore, does sound pretty interesting.

[@bonnierussell7824]

@@agabas Obviously. I'd take ghosts, vampires, and fairies or even cartoons over modern politics any day of the week. Although vampires and politicians may be related they are definitely not as cool.

[@ladybrisen777]

@@bonnierussell7824 Yea I love anything on the paranormal too. but I love British royal history too! Any of it really.. Civil war.. Versailles Marie Antoinette. I do wish they would have more documentaries on ALLLLLL of the Kings and Queens.. if there isn't enough history on one to fill an hour.. then put two together.. 30 min on one.. 30 on the other.. I personally love the Tudors.. Henry his wives.. and Elizabeth but I have seen soo much on them there isn't much that I don't know.. However, info on his father and the monarchs before them would make a GREAT show.. shows..

[@shaunyjimenez9637]

Ugh p o l i t i c s

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

Tbf it's difficult to make a documentary without injecting some modern politics. For example when talking about the horrible air pollution during the industrial revolution it's impossible to avoid talking about the regulations which made it safer and healthier to live in cities A documentary about the rise of Hitler inevitably becomes a cautionary tale about how easy it is to radicalize whole nation, that it really can start with just concentration camps for refugees (btw concentration camps are not death camps)

[@aunix16]

Sugar is, quite literally, a drug.

[@robertbennett2796]

Cheese has the same affect as drugs

[@awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481]

Food in general does. Eating is a biological imperative after all, so we're hardwired to enjoy it. Problem is that for our hunter gatherer ancestors something fatty or sugary was an incredible source of energy (slow release and fast release respectively) and our brains still go "ug ug, this giant bag of sweets help hunt mammoth!" Which considering we're more likely to be hunting for the TV remote has predictable consequences.

[@ericag5346]

I am addicted to sugar.

[@generalraines1469]

@@ericag5346 for some reason I'm the opposite, I get tired of it easily. I can barely finish half a chocolate bar 😅

[@ericag5346]

@@generalraines1469 I know people like that, it's so interesting. I'll eat your portion of birthday cake 😅😉

[@Stephen-cr3sc]

I had an employee whose husband burned trash in the fireplace. I said that was a very bad idea, I mentioned creosote She went home and voiced her concerns...He rejected them out-of-hand. I called the Fire Department and asked if someone could explain this to her, I handed the phone over to her and a fireman spent a full 15 minutes telling her her husband was wrong. She eventually divorced him. This was in the 1980s.

[@saragrant9749]

Smart woman. Sounds like a guy with a serious superiority complex.

[@Stephen-cr3sc]

@@saragrant9749 ......Actually, the husband's overblown self-image led to his life going extremely wrong. His "Everything I do is RIGHT!" obsession with himself led to serious, and eventually fatal, health issues.

[@saragrant9749]

@@Stephen-cr3sc oh! well then, I guess lesson learned… a lot too late. Sometimes that’s what it takes to get the message across sadly.

[@Stephen-cr3sc]

@@saragrant9749 ......People with self-images far in excess of their actual abilities are widespread. Overblown egos writing checks their realities can't cash gets them every time.

[@Clara-ph7my]

"Just a spoonful of sugar, makes the medicine go down" I love looking at these periods which our ancestors lived in. I love Tudor design, old cottages, old farm houses. The upkeep to restoring these beautiful listed buildings, is something else

[@MissMysteryMusic]

Am I the only one that was like "Mr. Darcy save her"! When they mentioned Elizabeth Bennett drowned. 28:30

[@Vale-gy7ym]

No, you're not hahaha

[@stahppls2293]

I have it screencapped hahaha

[@MTBR077]

Watching this documentary will spread a newfound respect of the highest caliber for dentists worldwide.

[@TheJaxx62]

Makes me wonder how many beautiful Tudor buildings were lost forever because of these fires

[@Gunnoh]

Tudors: why is everything infected victorians: why is everything poisonous edwardians: why is everything exploding me: why am I getting these videos in my recommended feed

[@CrazyBrosCael]

Gunnoh “why am I watching them?”

[@ataurus62]

Sugar is still killing folks.

[@texastea5686]

And making us fat 😒

[@Nirrrina]

And making us hurt. Sugar is really bad for fibromyalgia. If I eat to way too much sugar I flare up like crazy.

[@texastea5686]

@@Nirrrina Yes I've heard that! Watch videos from Dr. Eric Berg and Dr. Ken Berry regarding keto diet and the horrors of sugar.

[@williamarthurfenton1496]

@@texastea5686 I't's probably not a problem with it being naturally in foods, but the fact it is added in gross quantities to almost everything is the problem. Also people think a glass of orange juice is healthy, when one may as well drink a glass of Coca Cola because it's still sugar overdose.

[@texastea5686]

@@williamarthurfenton1496 Agree!

[@oopsie_daisy8625]

I watched the Victorian video and I’m already in love with this account

[@riabouchinska]

Seriously how gorgeous is that house though

[@JackJack-wf2ly]

I am absolutely 💯 % addicted to absolutely history...also does anyone else have a 😍 crush on learning from Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb? Or is it just me?...

[@JohnDoe-xf8ew]

I can't be the only one who thought she was lighting up a crack pipe @ 4:40

[@cheatsheet3325]

"White Gold." "...Oh, tobacco?"

[@braids80]

No, no, you were not.

[@worldtraveler930]

If she is freebaseing brown sugar it's more akin to dropping Acid.

[@horae2583]

lmao when she said "white gold" i thought she was about to start doing lines

[@partygarnele2405]

i thought about porcelain as she said that lol

[@claireajibola3287]

Sugar is known as white gold

[@Morrighanangel84]

It's so nice to find a KZbin channel with proper shows

[@demetter7936]

How did i only just find this channel? The videos are super high quality and frequent.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

"And if absolutely necessary, vegetables" well someone had issues with veggies. Must have sucked.

[@alisonbrowning9620]

they believed vegetables upset the humours, i would have hated it as i love my veg, their guts must have been so gummed up.

[@tandiparent1949]

Lol, look up & see how many years ago that people quit thinking that a red tomato was poisonous and could eat them.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@tandiparent1949 Tomatoes are inflammatory for the body. The seeds and the skin, supposedly.

[@leechowning2712]

It was considered a sign of poverty. At this time they actually believed that upper society, the middling sort, and the peasants were almost three separate races. Vegetables were for the "human livestock", while fruits, meats, and fish were for the middling sorts. The upper ranks would deliberately avoid anything "poor".

[@JenIsHungry]

I had cheesecake for breakfast and now I'm paranoid.

[@CraftQueenJr]

I had waffles. I am now brushing my teeth.

[@user-xv9qt2mc6s]

I admire you, guys, for all these marvelous history productions. I really do. Regards from Greece.

[@allylaande]

I’m only after discovering this channel it has grown into one of my absolute favourite.

[@tc2334]

The name for the color orange up until the 1540s was “yellow-red” (though spelled much differently)...hence why people with “orange” hair were then and are now called “redheads”.

[@mczenk5095]

Yep, spelled like geoluread

[@wilmafistfit4788]

Yes orange only became a color name after the fruit

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Leave it to my favorite color to be a weirdo

[@alphaplenn]

@@mczenk5095; ??????

[@dasffs]

@@mczenk5095 is this real? I'd love a source if so.

[@softfishy]

Imagine having a common disease that'll probably heal within a few weeks but dying from the "cure" what a bummer

[@Delicate_Disaster]

What kind of games were they playing on Christmas!? Also- 1 bear 🤣

[@pamelab7871]

I remember when I was a little child, my brother had accidentally broken a glass oral thermometer which used mercury to calibrate a person’s temperature when ill. The mercury spilled out onto our kitchen table like balls the size of BB gun pellets. My brother pushed the balls around on the surface of the table. We all laughed at the wonder of this mysterious element. We had no idea whatsoever that this was a dangerous metal.

[@pennybatzoni5583]

My most beloved son Richard Roxborough (Fogtopia) passed away on may 30th 2019 this particular song was one of Richard's favourite and was played at his funeral on Friday June 14th I am numb with grief but this song is giving me a little comfort.

[@asc.k1865]

[@picklep9812]

I hope you have found some peace in 2021. 💞

[@rosequill7925]

So thanks for scaring me into brushing my teeth

[@k.morningstar7983]

floss too--my dentist told me how little people do it and what damage not dislodging bits between your teeth + at your gumlines does some think that alzheimer's may be caused in part to plaque as well

[@rosequill7925]

@@k.morningstar7983 wrong kind of plaque. It's not teeth plaque that causes Alzheimer's it's clumps of misshapen proteins that form in the brain that just happen to also be called plaques. You're thinking of dental plaque, Alzheimer's is caused by amaloid plaques.

[@micaelacorona1350]

why are these videos so addicting, I love them

[@alistairborland4680]

Dr Lipscomb does a superb job, presenting this series of hidden killers in the home , not only is she knowledgeable regarding her series , but presents extremely well .

[@brianfuller7691]

The Victorians still had issues with Syphilis. Mercury,widely used in Tudor times, was still considered effective in Victorian times.

[@BVenge-pe4wi]

Honestly it was still around Even in the 90s. I remember breaking a mercury thermometre in school.

[@voivod6871]

@@BVenge-pe4wi Yes but not as a cure for syphilis.

[@tuvelat7302]

It did relieve symptoms somewhat.

[@rhaven50]

@@voivod6871 it wasn't a cure

[@MrPaulMorris]

Interesting to compare the super-cautious approach to mercury shown in laboratory conditions to the way it was handled even in my school days in the 1970s. Mercury was used in numerous experiments in physics classes and the main concern was the difficulty of recovering this expensive chemical if spilled. I recall in one case the tray on which the teacher was carrying out a demonstration was knocked and about half a pint of mercury spilled across the bench and onto the floor. We pupils then spent the rest of the lesson on our hands and knees helping the (not terribly happy) lab technician to collect the elusive liquid by scraping it onto folded pieces of paper drop by drop. If i recall correctly, about a quarter of the mercury was never recovered, presumably rolling into cracks and crevices to later evaporate into the school's atmosphere.

[@rulerworld1289]

😧 absolutely astounding

[@sarawatechnology7070]

Same thing happened in a class I was in. We were given mercury to roll around in our hand, and after we gave it back the beaker got spilled. But unfortunately the classroom floor had a slight slope to it so it all rolled to one side in little drops and disappeared under the molding at the bottom of the wall. We did not recover any of it and classes continued as normal

[@user-mn3yk6ym2m]

Yeah I remember the class clown used 2 break the thermometers open and play with the mercury on the desk!

[@archkull]

Yikes! I hope that classroom was very well ventilated. Touching mercury itself is not dangerous, it cannot penetrate through your skin to get absorbed into your body. Unless you have a cut for example. The vapors of it however are where the biggest risk is, because it is easily absorbed into your body through your lungs.

[@lalakuma9]

When I heard about the Notre Dame Church fire, I immediately thought of this episode for some reason.

[@bonzibuddy4483]

lol at the ADR "tobacco" edit to avoid saying cocaine. Nobody would ever call tobacco "white gold", people would think they were insane.

[@ZBott]

Sugar and alcohol was eye opening for them? Imagine them downing a 4 loco.

[@danhammond8406]

Or a redbull and jagermeister

[@magickmiiror2853]

Their bodies would probably go straight into shock

[@catwilk8213]

I still have one of those books passed down from my family pass down from generation to generation

[@annasloan2349]

That is awesome. I collect antique books but have never had one that old...about 1850s is the earliest i have. What is tue name of the book of you dont mind me asking?

[@annasloan2349]

@Sam Bacon i meant to type 1890 not 1850..i have a small prayer book...its maybe 15 or so pages of psalms and proverbs..i imagine for a woman by the ribbons being pink and the font. Its in good shape except the binding seems to hsve erroded a little bit. Religious books seem to be the easiest to come across from that century.

[@kitt3813]

The 19th century is hardly tudor is it? 19th century books are cheaply made with acidic paper and are 10 a penny.

[@Bas_tet]

@@kitt3813 Those are penny dreadfuls

[@siennasinestra2288]

Amazing

[@heidikurz6609]

The host's hair is making absolute history! So beautiful!

[@HansonJ]

The production value of this channel is insane

[@harlotteoscara686]

This channel did not produce the show. They copied and uploaded it. You can find all of these on Amazon Prime, but Amazon didn’t produce them either.

[@corinnefrusciante3706]

Both my baby and myself would’ve died at any point pre safe Caesarean section. Even with all the medical interventions available i was incredibly close to losing my daughter before she was born. Every medical professional came to look at her and said ‘you’re very lucky to have a live baby! ‘ I guess it’s so rare for babies to die in childbirth that they all had to come and see us. I had absolutely no idea until afterwards, pretty legendary of them to disguise their haste and slight panic but neither of us would’ve survived childbirth. Scary to think about

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Well, you do know it's a Caesarean because of the Emperor Caesar, so the operation has been around

[@lucamixes6342]

It's not that rare for babies to die during childbirth they probably had more medical professionals as u said you had all the medical intervention possible

[@picklep9812]

Mortality in America is quite high

[@deendrew36]

@@lazyhomebody1356 but the original C-section was a last ditch effort. Mother’s were not expected to survive, or in fact had already died during the childbirth. It was a last ditch effort to save the baby.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@deendrew36 No, I thought it was safer than that. Makes sense

[@WeissTreufel]

I wish they had mentioned cocaine. Despite it's modern illegality, it too was a big craze back in the day. It took centuries for people to finally realize what that stuff did to you.

[@pandeomonia]

Coca wasn't really noticeable until 200-400 years later. Cocaine didn't exist before 1855. Same with opium.

[@WeissTreufel]

@@pandeomonia Dude... do you even history? Opium has been used by mankind since at least 3400 BC, if not much earlier. The Mayans were chewing coca leaves at 2000 BC. The Spanish conquest of most of south america would see this drug imported to Europe post-haste. While mostly in Spanish speaking communities originally had access to it. The French eventually caught wind of it and wanted in on the trade. It didn't become well known in the English speaking world until the early Victorian era. But that surely didn't mean it wasn't around. It simply wasn't universally known such as it is today.

[@MauraAnastasia]

@@WeissTreufel They may have meant that mentioning cocaine in this program wouldn't have made sense, and that the modern version of cocaine was only created / isolated in 1855.

[@101Volts]

Ah yes, "Cocaine Toothache Drops" used to be advertised in the 1880s.

[@briandoyle6188]

Cocain definitely wasn't part of 15th century Britain...if it was I'm sure they would of been using it..

[@roseleith]

On the topic of infections caused via open cuts and wounds: a couple of years back my rescue cat bit me out of fear and its teeth sunk into my finger. I went to the hospital and received antibiotics the same day. Despite taking the correct dose, two days later infection had reached my bloodstream and a red streak went from my finger up to my armpit. Felt feverish, went back to hospital, and was told I'd caught sepsis. One week in hospital, but still love my cat, who, incidentally, bit me again once I returned home!

[@fedupwithfedforever4151]

I would have shot it !.....Actually wouldn't have had it to begin with....Vile beasts they are !

[@kristiejones7420]

Cat scratch fever is a real thing. Any animal biting me is a one strike you're out kind of thing 😤

[@casandrahampton376]

31:50 Also, I imagine, if the bank was too steep to climb up, the person was ill, had arthritis or something of the like, were exhausted or choking, drunk or concussed, or simply from the fall; hitting their head on a rock in the shallow water, getting the wind knocked out of them, or breaking a bone or tearing a ligament. I've twisted my ankle (tore ligament attached to the talus with a bit of bone avulsion) and I can tell you that I would have found it incredibly difficult to climb a steep or slick muddy bank alone. Add that to one other circumstance such as the dark, cold, breathlessness, clothing getting caught underwater, or confusion and I can see how they could die.