"Toys and Games that Killed in Tudor England." Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Jan 2016 11:24 p.m. PST |
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GamesPoet  | 02 Jan 2016 3:40 a.m. PST |
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 Jlundberg | 02 Jan 2016 9:11 a.m. PST |
Gives you a feel for just how unsafe life was |
| Tango01 | 02 Jan 2016 9:53 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Griefbringer | 02 Jan 2016 9:57 a.m. PST |
A number of those dangers to the children exist also in modern times, and falling into water or getting hit by a moving vehicle is still very much an issue. However, what the article does not mention is that childhood mortality to diseases of various kinds was back then much higher than is the case these days. I must admit that I was not aware that there even were coroners investigating deaths in the 16th century England. |
| goragrad | 02 Jan 2016 10:41 a.m. PST |
Actually, there really didn't seem to be anything in that compendium that doesn't happen today. Kids on the farm are probably more likely to get run over by a tractor than kicked by a horse, but a lot of horse still out there on farms and ranches. Still have canals and ditches, etc. Cars instead of carts… |
| Dave Knight | 02 Jan 2016 10:54 a.m. PST |
Coroners were formally established in England in 1194 |
| Griefbringer | 02 Jan 2016 12:03 p.m. PST |
Coroners were formally established in England in 1194 Quite impressive, I would have thought it a more modern institution. Though I guess here in the frozen north we only get them much later. I presume that there must be a bunch of remaining coroners' reports dating back to the medieval times. |
| rmaker | 02 Jan 2016 12:50 p.m. PST |
Coroner derives from the slang word "crowner" for the official title "Crown Reporter". |
 Bobgnar | 02 Jan 2016 5:32 p.m. PST |
Besides children being drowned in their pools or lakes, killed in traffic accidents, playing with fire arms, attacked by animals such as pit bulls, many are killed by drive-by shooters, Drug overdoses and the occasional bombings, in the US and England that is, by Islamic state terrorists. More so of course in the middle east itself. Zippers caught on slides with children strangled, hit by jarts, eating lead paint, playing with lead toy soldiers, obesity, head in plastic bag, asphyxiated by swallowing some small toy, balloon, attachment to toy (The button eye of the cute teddy bear) It seems like this Day and age is a more fatal time for children then the Tudors' age. Nevertheless, if I were a kid I'd rather be alive today with video games, Star Wars movies, fast food, such a great variety of wargaming miniatures and other less interesting toys. |
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