History: Becoming the Executioner (video)

Tony Robinson (Absolute History, 1/5/21); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Why being a Tudor knacker was such a gruesome job

Host Tony Robinson finds out how a "knacker" (outcast animal carcass collector) became an executioner and how clothes were made in Tudor times. He also finds the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's sunken ship and shows us how food was prepared in Tudor England.

He takes an entertaining look at the past, visiting tumultuous periods of British history to uncover tales of everyday people and explores the history of the nation through the everyday lives of ordinary people.

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