Toilets through time (Or, a royal flush) 

Only Lucy Worsley can talk about toilets and still cause me to fall head over heels in love with her !!! She absolutely warms my heart !!!

THANKS FOR THE HISTORY on this subject we take our toilets for granted my grandson will not know what a outhouse was.

When I'm at work tomorrow, I'm going to ask my boss for a "Great House of Easement" break....

It simply boggles the mind that a place such as Versailles was built without toilet facilities.

Lucy puts this across brilliantly. Air of a head-girl at a school having to talk about something a bit unmentionable, and the listeners not being quite sure what to expect. Tudor piss indeed! And a slight naughtiness in sitting on the Optimum at the end.

I'm pretty sure they had better cameras than this back in 2008.

Brings a whole new meaning to the saying all that glisters is not gold!!

This video was 13 years ago and I just recently found it. My curiosity about ancient toilet is somewhat solved lol

As a child in the 1950s we had an outhouse. At night we used an enamel pail that my grandmother called a 'slop jar'. If you had to do anything except pee she became really angry. If we stayed the night with her, we learned to do our serious business before dark.

HenryVIII : Enema of the State!!....sorry folks, I just couldn't resist....!!

I now have a different understanding of the phrase a Royal Flush! lol...lol😁

I'm glad I was privy to this information. This video is flush with opportunities for puns. I was bowled over. People were relieved to have piss pots. The servants had to empty the chamber pot or the loo...it was their doody and was a crappy job. This is a commodius amount of puns.

But *I* want decorations on the inside of *my* toilet bowl! Maybe I'll just go up to Wal-Mart and buy some Christmas window decals....

This channel is great. I want to visit and explore the UK.

she's very knowledgeable,articulate and rather cute.

We do take flushings loos for granted these days... If we all had to empty our own loo then we d realise the pong,but sawdust makes a good composting loo... When we go camping thats when we realise that running hot/cold water & a flushing loo is a luxury...😜

I'm Deaf, so the captions were a gracious gift (considering the quality)... but, am I correct in saying the camera servos (or whatever they are) that zoom in... makes noise, especially at the end? I could swear I could feel the whirl of the zoom motor in my speakers!

oooo thats fancy, the last toilet had pictures on it. it's like your crapping on blue china.

Lucy worsleys audition before tv stardom

I get it a royal flush nice work!!!!!!!

Brilliant , 'the jacques' became the modern day 'john'. I never knew that humble word had such grand origins! Now I will view 'johns' in a new light...

This must all have to do with why it is called "the Throne"! LOL

Where does the waste ultimately go?

I am traumatized I thought Royalty did not have to take a dump. I am now seeing the queen wipe her arse in my minds eye and at her age splattering the pan like a hand grenade. I would imagine Charlie boy has some one to wipe his arse as he does have someone to place toothpaste on his brush. Its those little extras that make you Royal.

you've missed out , that from the time of the Normans , unlike the Tower of London , they used multiple cesspits in their Castles , and just maybe , they were using composting toilets . Sometimes i think you Historians/Archaeologists miss the details , perhaps because of the narrow focus of your study , you can't look at these systems in the same way a plumber could.

this is fascinating and Lucy is quite charming

if any one ever asked if Lucy paid her dues to be where she is now ... this video is proof ... yes ... yes she did

The guy in the background 😂 😂

Interesting to see such beautifully decorated commodes. Perhaps it was to offset a basically nasty function. But hey, everybody "goes"

Lucy saying ...piss pot... in her lovely posh accent is a joy.

Of all Henrys palaces, I wd most like to have seen Nonsuch. Even the name tells you how special it was! What a shame we haven't got it to 'balance' Hampton Court, essentially Wolseys house, I thought...still it didn't save him from the axe. Henry was not grateful for the gift, despite Hampton Crt being the most splendid house/palace in England at the time....

Gentlemen, I present you with a Royal Flush. 😎

Flush toilets were nothing new. The Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete had working flush toilets That was way back in The Bronze Age. The island was also ruled by women. Go figure.

I’m watching this on the toilet

How long does it take for all the fectial waste to dry out and what did they find ?

Dear madam good morning...i think modern time toilets wth flushing system is better then those tuder toilets of the history....

love it

Its a dirty job Lucy ! But someone's got to tell us the dirty history !!!

"You are MY SON Tyrion...."

240p? Really? Which pixel is Lucy?

I eat only meat, a pure carnivore diet for nearly 2 years now (I'm 52) and have no constipation, full satisfying smooth easements. Much better comfortable movements than when I ate fruit and vegetables as well.

Ancient Romans had toilet holes in long benches over running water, those being the first flush toilets, an improvement over what followed later in Victorian London, until Thomas Crapper (no joke) came along.

What is this - a home movie?

Lucy is sooo adorable and soo attractive 🌹

here is a silly question, will that still be unsanitary after abandon for 1000 years?

Well. A houtstand years of lavatorial history in a nutshell, but I get the point. I once read somewhere that they (during the reign of Henry VIII) painted crosses on the wall, to prevent courtiers from pissing against it ;-). I am not sure what the exact source might have been, but I am pretty sure it was included in Alison Weir's Henry VIII King and Court.

Toilets absolute bloody luxury when l were a lad .........

What is your dream gal? One that knows this much about toilets and how people used to take dumps 😂

No he was actually Thomas Crapper, I kid you not, and according to Melvyn Bragg in his documentary series, The Adventure of English BBC 2003 this word, the verb 'to crap', came from Europe and actually was in use b4 flush toilets (which TC made bowls for). excellent series by Bragg which is also a book. It needs to be as so many words are explained it is totally enthralling. There are 6 one hr episodes which you can get entire as a Bit Torrent file if you want to download it, as I did. 5 stars!

Henry sat on a thunder box

This must be a very old clip of Lucy, before her BBC contract

Explore Golgumbaz with Guide Jahangir, Bijapur, South India 🇮🇳

Good Housekeeping Seal of Disaproval

redo this take she 'nailed it'

Lucy is quite funny

Have read where the loos where the waste fell down the walls had be barred off. Attackers could & would gain entry through these openings. A little slippy/ slidy/ sloppy one may imagine....

Slessorpr.....After Nonsuch Palace was built, Henry only visited it once and after he died,it was eventually torn down because it was costing too much to keep up

Down south, they used “slop jars” up into the 60’s, one in each bedroom. Boy O boy, did they stink. They emptied them in the morning. P U.

I see you still have cleaned up this video i saw it once before and it was clear as day so with your high tech can't you fin this video?

What are you doing on you tube???!! Don't think I'd hve sat on that last one but it's over to you.

But a pair doesn't beat a royal flush -six

Cool 😀

Lavatory, please...not and never 'toilet'. Oddly, at my school the lavatories were called 'jakes' as at Hampton Court Palace. After we had been caned (a gruesome, vicious procedure) we would run down the stairs from the Housemaster's office, into the jakes, sit down and pull the flush. The cold air rising from the water gave a very little relief from the agony of the beating we had just received.

Actually that's the modern version I was thinking of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice speech "All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold. Had you been as wise as bold, Young in limbs, in judgement old Your answer had not been inscroll'd Fare you well, your suit is cold".

I wish this could be fix..its not suitable for HD vids

“Piss pot” xD

1:20 I wouldn't touch much of anything up there, just in case. And at 1:14 that crappy (sorry) bit of wire will not keep anyone from taking a dump (sorry again) down that hole.

how did i get here

Okay, so it streaked down the side of the white castle walls....then what?......turned into a giant hill?

So sometimes the King literally shit on his people, sit on the hole and bombs away...

I thought QE I had a plumbed toilet but got rid of it because of the smell, maybe because it didn’t have the modern day equivalent of a pea trap?

Well done! This made I larrf

Real Tudor Piss! 🤣

Actually, meat doesn't cause constipation, it's the grains & other carbs that do, so meat wouldn't have been the cause for Henry VIII's enemas ;D

I used to hate history... I can credit my interest to the lovely Dr Lucy & Suzannah Lipscomb... I'd include Dan Snow if he weren't in all the piggin adverts...and he's not as lovely :p

This has been dubbed so many times you can no longer see anything from it

Apparently the camera they are using lacked innovation.

shitter was full

This looks like some kind of audition video due to the poor camera quality no microphones lighting and no background music

She is lovely

I wove wucy...........!!! 😍🥰😘😜

Man if this video was in 480p I would of been ok with it but dang this is some bad picture quality lol. ooh this video is from 08 LOL

its a very blurred video ut needs culling

They should never broadcast this unless it was fully restored you give the film companies the bad raputation

Качество съемки ужасающее.

So not the completely white tower

Sadly the quality of the footage is sooo bad😢😢

Was this her audition tape?

thumbs down - vid quality so bad I can't tell what is going on.....

The TMI channel

This video is out of focus.

I like Lucy's presentation, but I fail to understand her fascination with the fact that the chamber pot contained residue of tudor urine. That is too much.

Hmm. I had thought that the name "John" came from the inventor of the flush toilet, John Crapper (no pun intended).

Please focus.

Probably was filmed by a potato.... But Lucy's so cute, who cares?

I saw more toilets than pixels.

Historical 240p

Toilet paper ? Sponges I think...

I'll stick with B&Q bathrooms.

I want to run away with Lucy and then . . . then . . . protect her. From something. But she probably doesn't need protecting. In summing up, I nevertheless still want to run away with her and protect her.