"These days no one works at these factories except ghost. And even then, they only work at nightshifts"😂

‘Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.’

"She was not always a sour , disapproving old lady . She was once a sour , disapproving baby"😂😂😂

"The death of queen Victoria reduced the number of women in British politics by 100%" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Despite the spoiler in its title, Oliver’s Twist doesn’t have a twist at the end - which come to think of it, is a brilliant twist in itself” amazing

There’s something magical about Philomena marching up to these professionals and immediately blurting out “who are you?” lol

"Darwin eventually evolved himself... into a corpse."

Best way to view death.

- "He was your favorite?"
- "YEAH!".
- "The one who slept with his sister?".

“Chewbacca?”
“I think that’s stretching it”
Oh my fucking god😂 that’s where he drew the line

"Animals who were dead are less likely to reproduce than live ones."

Quite a controversial sentence there.

“If Shelly’s one of the greatest poets in English literature, how come nobody gives a shit about him today.”
“Thats a complicated question.”
That shit sent me.

As a historian I really love this series - it's funny, it's well put together, the questions are so basic and dumb that they actually can help give a very rough sketch of british history for those who are unaware of it. - Which likely is why the experts agreed to join into the series. That and because academics can't shut up about topics that interest us.

"When Britain fought two world wars but no world cups."  That's brutal.

that poor man at 4:53. he's so traumatized by the last questions, he boils his answer down to "Jane Austen was a woman who wrote novels" lmfao

16:10 - "It was immediately obvious to anyone that slavery was wrong, which is why it was only allowed to continue for hundreds of years."

"must be a good book if you can overlook the fact that he slept with his sister" dead

It's insane how seriously she speaks when everything coming out of her mouth is a joke. She's really gifted.

“Eventually Darwin evolved himself into a corpse, he was buried here in Westminster Abbey before evolving again into worms and dust”

The fact that the academic from the London university appears always just about on the verge of crying really makes this episode

"Workers did long, feckless hours, with no breaks and low pay, in squalid and threatening environment, conditions unthinkable to anyone today who isn't a junior doctor" - thanks Philomena for tribute to us :)