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1st September 2006ISBN
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The Worst Children's Jobs In History
Tony Robinson
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Television presenter of all things historical and archaeological, Tony Robinson, takes you on a guided tour through all the lousiest places for a kid to work. With profiles 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 bits of being a child long ago. And if your parents say they had it harder than you, then get them to read this book too!!! A deserving title to be shortlisted for the Blue Peter Award 'best books with facts'.
- Winner of the 2007 Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Award.
Synopsis
The Worst Children's Jobs In History by Tony Robinson"The Worst Jobs in History" 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 young 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. Tony Robinson takes you on a guided tour through all the lousiest places for a kid to 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 bits of being a child in the past.
Reviews
'Kids will love the all-round ghastliness of this history lesson.' Belfast Telegraph'
'Salutary food for thought for today's disenchanted youth.' Bookseller
About The Author
Tony presents Channel 4's archaeology series "Time Team", and played Baldrick in "Blackadder". He also devised and wrote four series of the BBC's "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men" in which he played the Sheriff of Nottingham.
His first professional appearance was at the age of thirteen in the original version of the stage musical "Oliver!" This was followed by a number of shows, films and TV appearances as a child actor. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, he spent several years in rep, and worked for two years as a theatre director, before moving on to the Chichester Festival Theatre, the RSC and the National Theatre. It was around this time that he made his first notable television appearance as the cerebral palsied Ernie Roberts in Horizon's award-winning documentary "Joey".
He has had lead roles in numerous television series including Channel 4's cult sketch show "Who Dares Wins" and ITV's sit-com "My Wonderful Life".
As a writer of children's television programmes he has won two Royal Television Society awards, a BAFTA and the International Prix Jeunesse. His childrens work includes thirty episodes of Central TV's "Fat Tulip's Garden", a thirteen-part BBC series based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey called "Odysseus – the Greatest Hero of Them All", and twenty six episodes of his Old Testament series "Blood and Honey".
His three most recent books are "The Worst Jobs in History", "Archaeology is Rubbish – A Beginner's Guide", co-written with Professor Mick Aston, and 'In Search of British Heroes'. He has also written seventeen children's books, including "Tony Robinson's Kings and Queens".
He has made many TV historical documentaries dealing with such subjects as The Peasants Revolt, the Roman Emperors, Macbeth and Robin Hood. His most recent film was “The Real Da Vinci Code”, an analysis of the Dan Brown novel, and he also made social history series "The Worst Jobs in History".
Thirteen new episodes of "Time Team", three Time Team documentaries and a week-long live televised Time Team event will be transmitted in 2005. Further series will be screened in 2006 and 07. In late July he will be among those making the last archaeological dive onto the Titanic before it becomes an international marine heritage site. The event will be covered by Channel 4.
At the end of January 2005 he toured his one-man stage show "Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out".
He is putting the entire works of Terry Pratchett onto audiotape. 39 titles have so far been completed.
From 1996 – 2000 he was Vice-President of British Actors Equity and is currently President of the Young Archaeology Club. From 2000 – 04 he was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. In July 1999 he was awarded an honorary MA by Bristol University and another in 2002 by the University of East London for services to drama and archaeology.
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