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The Worst Jobs in History: Season 2

2x02 The Worst Royal Jobs in History

  • 2006-04-30T16:40:00Z on Channel 4
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Tony Robinson examines the history of employment opportunities in the royal court, including such roles as lance-maker, laundry woman, fireworker and hall boy. He also offers an insight into one of the worst posts - purple maker - in which the worker was given the task of creating purple items by extracting the colour created when shellfish rotted in urine.
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