David Willcock

Great collection of aweful jobs from the British past

This is for anyone who thinks life was great back in the "olden times." The author runs a British television show where he acts out the "worst jobs" depicted in these pages. He tells it like it is. Ranging in British history from Roman times up to the Victorian age, these jobs are truly terrible: boring, dangerous, stinky, low-paying, health-hazardous, or some combination thereof. I would recommend this to any history or trivia buff, especially Anglophiles.

as a companion to the series it scores a 4 without the series it would get a 3.

Doesn't go into any more real depth than the channel 4 series of the same name but an interesting read.