The Worst Children's Jobs in History
Sir Tony Robinson
Subjects
- Facts & Information - lists, stats and plenty of facts
- History Time - blasts from the past
Average rating
In The Worst Children's Jobs in History Sir Tony Robinson takes you back to the days when being a kid was no excuse for getting out of hard labour. This book tells the stories of all the children whose work fed the nation, kept trains running, and put clothes on everyone’s backs, over the last few hundred years of Britain’s history. No longer will you have to listen to your parents, grandparents, uncles, neighbours, and random old people in the Co-op telling you how much harder they had it in their day. Next time you find yourself in that situation, ask them if they were a jigger-turner or a turnip-picker in their young day. No? An orderly boy, perhaps? A stepper? Maybe they spent their weekends making matchboxes? Still no? Then they have no idea about the real meaning of hard work. With profiles and testimonies of real kids in rotten jobs, this book will tell you things you probably didn’t want to know about the back-breaking, puke-inducing reality of being a child in the past. For more gruesome history facts discover Bad Kids: The Naughtiest Children in History.
Reviews
It was a good book but I was expecting more
Captain Flash Vesuvius 02.08.2024
I like it because it tells us what children did over 100 years ago! It is also might make you feel a bit sick, but the odd thing is that it was the children doing the adults jobs whilste the adults just sat around and got them to make a cup of tea rather than themselves getting up to make it them selves.This book will make you think "i wonder what people in 500 years will think of us. They will probably be horrifie! This book just makes you think how lucky you are to have such great parents and not to be flicked out the door an your 11th birthday to work in the coal mines(one of the worst jobs).I would recomend this book to people who like the mention of death and tourtre or just to any one who wants to find out about what children did over 100 years ago. It'll make you think how luck you are to get parents who make your dinners day in day outand that you could have been getting your head shoved in a pillow filled with needles and working in that for the rest of the 2 months you spent making pillows.
Madam Rose Piano-key 08.08.2022
Very interesting book
Nurse Sapphire Sherbet 31.08.2021
Blue Peter were right it has brilliant facts. Great history
Fairy Angora Bobble-hat 03.08.2021
Great book. All about gruesome and disgusting jobs for kids. Recommended to history fans and Horrible Histories books fans.
Countess Honeycomb Costa-Rica 21.08.2020
It was a very good book and i really enjoyed learning about how horrible and funny some of the jobs are. My favourite job out of all of them was the ''Paddling in pee'' job were you had to swim around in a giant bucket of pee. i would reccomend this book to people that like learning about history
Anonymous 20.08.2020
ACE!
Lady June Astronomical 11.08.2020
It is a non fiction it intrested me because of what people did if they did not go to school i would defenitly reccomend it to someone but they cant be to scremish
Nurse Cupcake Scratchings 20.07.2020
Disgusting but OK.
Earl Arthur Fascination 14.07.2020
