Toilets through time (Or, a royal flush)

A guided tour through 1000 years of toilet history, from the 18-seater 'Common Jakes' to an ornate Victorian flusher via Henry VIII's constipation - and including the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Kew Palace. With Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• toilets
• history
• henry
• viii
• tower
• of
• london
• hampton
• court
• palace
• kew

[BBGenelie]

oooo thats fancy, the last toilet had pictures on it. it's like your crapping on blue china.

[nickwilliams55]

Brings a whole new meaning to the saying all that glisters is not gold!!

[zimnaya]

Lavatory, please...not and never 'toilet'. Oddly, at my school the lavatories were called 'jakes' as at Hampton Court Palace. After we had been caned (a gruesome, vicious procedure) we would run down the stairs from the Housemaster's office, into the jakes, sit down and pull the flush. The cold air rising from the water gave a very little relief from the agony of the beating we had just received.

[audgeyp]

I love how she says 'histowic royal palaces'.

[itsjustme2919]

So sometimes the King literally shit on his people, sit on the hole and bombs away...

[dieselscience]

OOOMMYGOD! Amway company sells a brand of toothpaste called "Glister."

No shit, look it up....

[GARRYKINGLIVE]

this is fascinating and Lucy is quite charming

[reevedavey]

to@badmichelle1978.you silver tongued rascal.i can picture hordes of the fair sex beating a well worn path to your door to be entwrtained with such gay badinage and rapier wit.back on planet earth i find your posting disgusting and offensive; obviously from the brain(i use that term loosely) of an ignorant,foul mouthed pig.

[melvinhendrikse]

Well. A houtstand years of lavatorial history in a nutshell, but I get the point. I once read somewhere that they (during the reign of Henry VIII) painted crosses on the wall, to prevent courtiers from pissing against it ;-). I am not sure what the exact source might have been, but I am pretty sure it was included in Alison Weir's Henry VIII King and Court.

[itachiitachi1946]

first toilet that was ever created was found in crete island and its age is 2800 years BC.

[pianor91]

@badmichelle1978 If you hate both of these very accomplished historian who have most likely made more of their lives than you have, then why are you watching videos of them?