Tony Robinson reveals the grim occupations in Victorian Britain and explains that the workhouse was possibly the most infamous place of employment in the 19th century, and a day of picking oakum reveals the full horror of this sinister location. He also tries his hand at digging railways and ratcatching, as well as perhaps the worst job of them all, the tanner a vocation that brought with it an intolerable stench and guaranteed social rejection.

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