The late Terry Pratchett, in his Discworld Novels, described life in Ankh Morpork, a medieval city obviously inspired on old London. There was the beggar's guild the thieves' guild, the assassin's guild, while not even mentioning the regular guilds (bakers, butchers, merchants). "Halt! Unlicensed thief!" He just robbed me at knife point and I never even saw a licence.
Homebrewer here! The workday beers/ales of that period were often just alcoholic enough to keep them from spoiling, especially "small beer" types. They saved the stronger stuff for after they were done with their day. (exceptions, of course) This is part of why there was such a problem when cheap gin hit the market. People were used to drinking by the mug-full, and the gin was several orders of magnitude stronger than what they were used to. (even without the often harmful contaminants. )
This piqued my curiosity with the part about harmful contaminants. I've found that sulphuric acid, turpentine and lime oil could be commonly included at the time. With lime oil, I had to read up on this as it didn't sound too dangerous at first, but, on researching, I see that essential oils from unripe limes can lead to blood, liver and kidney problems. I imagine other/additional contaminants may also have been present? Are you aware of any common or interesting contaminants that I haven't drawn mention to?
@James Declerk Indeed calling that an alcoholic drink you can get drunk on is almost as insane as suggesting one is going to get drunk on a couple of cans of shandy (Pre-packaged stuff I mean, you can make it way stronger doing it yourself obviously). Hell it takes some effort and willingness to deal with discomfort to down 4% fast enough to get particularly drunk, much bellow that and you are limited by the sheer inability to deal with the excess water fast enough to make room to drink more.
@@decem_sagittae True. It is never easy, but in some countries easier than it was in Tudor times. When and where would you rather be poor - London (or Sydney where I am and except for about 8 weeks a year with much better weather) today or London in Tudor times. At least you are not going to be branded for begging now.
@@decem_sagittae Depends on what definition of easy and poor is. A poor person in 2022 in a developed country lives a life a poor person in the 1500s would consider unimaginably luxurious. As the world gets richer, definitions of poor and what constitutes an easy life keeps being revised up. If they weren't, if we use say a standard comparing the average poor person throughout human history to the average poor person in the developed countries in the past 150 years, we can definitely say the latter have had historically easy lives.
Note to self: If I ever have 5 minutes to pack prior to a time jump back to Tudor London, don't forget the entire spice rack! That stuff will keep me alive for a while through trade... or someone will just kill me and take my stash.
Please don't stop with these kind of videos! Justinian's Constantinople, Shogunate Edo, Medieval Rome, Venice during the republic (maybe during the Renaissance?), Abassid Baghdad,etc... There's so much cool stuff!
I agree, i'd love to see how to survive the Georgian and Regency period as well as the early or late Victorian times, or surviving Russia dung peter the greats tzarship.
King thinks you're cute. Choose: a) Be graceful and say thank you b) Ignore the guy c) Run and hide - Chose any answer but C or cheat password to look unattractive to him in person - You've been beheaded / died in childbirth - GAME OVER -
Literally one of the most engaging and interesting historically correct tours of Tudor London. I love the old game look and Greensleeves played as old game music. Well researched and really interesting. This should be played in schools for history lessons, far more engaging than the dusty old books we had to learn from, I think kids would really engage with this. Brilliant in every way, love it!
This video seems to be mostly based on the book, “A Time-Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan London”, by Ian Mortimer. It’s a factual, popular history book, written as a tour guide to Elizabethan London, and it goes into all of this stuff, albeit, more in depth. He also has a book called “The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval London”, and Jabzy has a video on that, as well. I highly recommend both books, if you’re interested in seeing history from this perspective!
I love the idea of putting yourself into a historical context. It's the proximity to history that a lot of history lovers crave. So many narratives are top-down, but this bottom-up social history is cool. Keep doing these!
This video seems to be mostly based on the book, “A Time-Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan London”, by Ian Mortimer. It’s a factual, popular history book, written as a tour guide to Elizabethan London, and it goes into all of this stuff, albeit, more in depth. He also has a book called “The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval London”, and Jabzy has a video on that, as well. I highly recommend both books, if you’re interested in seeing history from this perspective! EDIT: Actually, I just checked, and he’s just had a new book come out called The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency London!
As someone who would watch your videos back in 2016 I'm so happy how your channel has evolved. You do some genuine research rather than reading Wikipedia articles into a microphone like so many pophistory youtubers.
@@itarry4 The music is Greensleeves, which was apparently written by Elizabeth I dad, Henry VIII when he was a young man. So a very appropriate soundtrack for this era.
@@Dave_Sisson I know what it is and who wrote it apparently but then I wasn't committing on the actual music or if it was appropriate or not. Just why he repeated it, that it was right for the time the graphics were copied from, that it was in the same style as a 8bit game would have done it back in the day and why the games did it that way.
This video seems to be mostly based on the book, “A Time-Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan London”, by Ian Mortimer. It’s a factual, popular history book, written as a tour guide to Elizabethan London, and it goes into all of this stuff, albeit, more in depth. He also has a book called “The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval London”, and Jabzy has a video on that, as well. I highly recommend both books, if you’re interested in seeing history from this perspective!
People today couldn't imagine living like this -- historically speaking it's not that long ago. I knew bits and pieces of this but you really spelled out what day to day life was like.
@@mrillis9259 How are there ‘slums’ in NYC or any of the cities you mentioned, or are you just talking about cities that might make you see… oh god a P O O R
@@mrillis9259 I don't think they worse💀💀💀💀 not by a chance. Because back then u were either noble or a peasant. There was no in between really and u didn't have a real chance to change your lineages life.
@@peskypigeonx there are poor parts of new York city. It's not a 100 percent rich and clean place. All big cities have slums or unsafe or unclean parts..
@@Brandon-nl1nf some people in historical times did change their status or get help from rich people. Like if someone was a bastard son/daughter of some powerful or famous person and they showed a talent, he or she might get a chance at success. for Example: leonardo da vinci, lady Elizabeth, later queen Elizabeth 1 and some illegitimate children of Emperors and kings of various places went from oy look at that poor bastard chid" to that person is totally super susefull and smart". I've even heard some of those "poor little kids" got titles like Duke of x , count y, sir x, etc.
Or something like this were you could be randomized into a different class of people in a different time, like one time you could take the place of a Royal, or another session you could take the place of a farmer, ect.
If you're traveling back in time to Elizabethan England you can easily stock up on Elizabethan coins. Elizabethan coins aren't that expensive to buy and are easily found. Arrive with a few hundred coins and you won't have to work or can buy a business. Arrive with enough coins and you can buy land, employ people and become landed gentry.
There should be VR games that just let you explore different places at certain historical times. Nothing super actiony, just trying to survive. Maybe experiencing different societal roles.
I thought of stuff like that, just get all of known info about history and shove it into an ai and let it generate the world. ofcourse this idea is for the future
Why not all three? The Byzantine Empire is pretty much forgotten in the West, even though it's basically just Romans moved over. Marakesh would we SUPER cool to hear, though.
I'm not even finished watching but I had to pause to give praise to the mid-80s overly digitized Nintendo version of Greensleeves that you're using here. Nice touch.
I read a 300+ page book on this topic (The Tudor Age by Jasper Ridley), but you managed to cram nearly all that information in a 43 minute video and leave out the boring parts. Great job!
@@JabzyJoe Yeah, I'm glad it was sent to me, may the Algorithm smile upon you and give you more engagement. And I've watched a few others, and I certainly wouldn't call them bad, I enjoy my history tubing to a good degree. But I love the way in which this information is packaged and presented and I just find it so super duper engaging.
Also to be even more clear, I actually first listened to this on background play, and while I DO love the visuals, they overall presentation won me over, even without the super cool pixel art, which is also fantastic.
Why isn't the algorithm picking this up? Tons of buzzwords the algorithm likes in the title but less views than your normal videos? More work is met with less reward on youtube.
@@JabzyJoe Maybe you could try to get some views from Reddit or other sites. It’s a shame because I loved your video and you should get more visibility
It's the length. The algorithm rarely recommends anything over 20 minutes in length. You have to subscribe and turn notifications on to find out about these.
How on Earth does rage bait about a grandma in Tulsa twerking at a political rally get upwards of 100k views but this has such a low view count? This has got to be the best, most immersive history video I've seen in ages. Great work! You earned my sub!
Because you idiot. Tulsa had white people kill blacks. Even the united states air force dropping bombs on them. While at such a serious historical event was disrespectful. Imagine if a jewish woman goes to a Holocaust memorial and started twerking on a dude dressed as a nazi. Saying my savior. Now do you understand?
@@Strawhalo It wasn't 'the united states airforce' it was a private citizen with an airplane that dropped a bomb. 39 people died of whom 26 were black and 13 white, dont compare it with the holocaust, stop making shit up, and stop virtue signalling.
There are tons of infotainment videos of similar or better quality. This isn't unique. I commend creators like this. You just aren't finding the good stuff, apparently. Yeah, lots of people only watch trash. Just be proud you're above that tendency.
Beggers license? Wow. 😱 So many interesting bits to this story that would make for an interesting story in themselves. The Damned Crew sound like rogues I want to hear more about.
Love this. It’s great to hear about Tudor royals but I’m interested in hearing about the normal every day to day folk. Plus as I work in the city I know these areas so well. 👏🏾👏🏾
I couldn't tell you what it is but man, this video is so relaxing. I remember being stressed out but then I found the Constainople video and in like 20 minutes I was relaxed. Great work, please make more of this wonderful videos!!
Jabzy you have made some incredible videos but even from your high standards of videos you made a fantastic one here and I love your art or animation style in this video and I am still kind of confused why you don't have at least 500,000 sub channel for your quality alone you more than deserve it.
Hey, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the 'vagabonds sentenced to slavery' thing was only between 1547 and 1550, as the 1547 Vagrancy Act was repealed and the 1531 Vagabonds Act with less harsh terms was reinstated. Thanks for the video regardless, loving the art style!
“The teaching of the law was banned within the city in 1234”. This sounds like it should have been a big event, like well documented and well studied. All I can find online is a footnote on wikipedia.
Re executions at the Tower of London, Elizabeth executed so few of her nobles, that scaffold on Tower Hill fell into disrepair in the early part of her reign that it had to be rebuilt for the first execution there in 1572. That was for the Duke of Norfolk. Whereas under Henry VIII the condemned would be executed in days, it took Elizabeth nearly 6 months before she let the execution go ahead.
Wowww, dude! The visuals are amazing!! I loved how the pokemon theme was used to tell the story. I got hooked immediately!! I could watch any history video done in this specific style. Great content as well. Wow 👌 well done guys 👊
What a masterpiece of a video! I’m sure it’s not easy to cover so many aspects of every day life 400 years ago in a single video, but you did it exceptionally well! You got yourself a new subscriber
Neil Stephenson wrote a historical fiction series called The Baroque Cycle, a large part of which takes place in London around this time. Very fun, very long ride through mostly factual history.
Loved the look for this one worked really well. Could have lived without the music through out the entire video but still nice one! Accept press gangs rarely bothered with none sailors as they weren't worth the hassle of training and making useful crew members. They'd go for merchant sailors who were already trained up.
Even when you talked about the poor living conditions in Tudor London, I would still imagine myself having a good time there. It's just too cool imagining myself living under the beauty of historic architecture and Old English culture.
Maybe try reuploading this as 2 or 3 separate videos, I'm also not sure about the thumbnail. I would call this "Everyday Life in Shakespeare's London". This really deserves to be seen by more people.
@@JabzyJoe Well, yeah, it will annoy some, can't get around that really. I would think most would be ok with though, provided they know it's a re-upload. Not sure if you should append [re-upload] to the title or just explain in the description and a pinned comment. Maybe use that community post feature to do a poll and ask the subscribers? It's just a shame that such an in depth and quality video is getting passed over and I mean it's not like that many have already seen this one and so potentially be annoyed at a re-upload :/
@@JabzyJoe I suggested the same in my own comment. Breaking up the video into many parts will also help for reference material, since currently you need to search through a 40 minute video for any particular section.
I'd love to see a miniseries shot through the perspective of a new arrival adjusting to the elements. I'd back it up a little to cover Henry VIII and the scandals but it would be experienced as a peasant all of the way with historical accuracy.
This channel has a lot of potential, keep it up. First video I’ve seen of yours and I subscribed. I think you could make it even more immersive by keeping the present tense constant. Like “is” and “will be” versus “was.”
This is absolutely fantastic. Love the art style , art and music. Deserve more views. Keep up the good work , I really like this format please please do more topics in this style !
@@JabzyJoe Please don’t be put off making more of these videos due to the lack of views. Maybe next time split the videos into shorter 15 minute videos to help the algorithm. As someone who watches a lot of history videos on RU-vid you’ve got something really unique, different and captivating. I really like this video but I’ve had to come back to it about three times to finish watching it as I don’t have 40 mins continuously free, Someone who isn’t as interested as me may not bother to come back as their attention has been given to something else. Keep up the great work I look forward to seeing more