#178 Education! Education! Education! (Part 1)
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This week we’re chatting education: what did schooling look like in Ancient Greece and Rome? What has corporal punishment looked like in schools through history? And how has the concept of the ‘school meal’ evolved over time?
Elsewhere, why did pirates pick hooks for hands above all other options?! We think we have the answer, but if you’ve got anything to add, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
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| 0:11.9 | to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water |
| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in |
| 0:21.7 | history you might have popped up for all your options you can go to patreon.com forward slash |
| 0:27.1 | oh what a time |
| 0:27.9 | hello and welcome to O Water Time. |
| 0:42.6 | This is a history podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | We're going to go back into the past. |
| 0:45.6 | And this week, I was thinking about the past. |
| 0:48.4 | In particular, I was thinking about pirates. |
| 0:51.8 | And I was thinking, you ever have this? |
| 0:54.6 | You just wake up and you just think, like, in the middle of the night, why did they have hooks? Do you know what I mean? Interesting. And I looked into it. Oh, did you? Oh, you actually have the answer. They don't have the answer. Why did you think? Why do I think they had hooks? Well, we're a start. They lost their hands because there was so many injuries on that. |
| 1:13.7 | I mean, it must be shot. Why do I think they had hooks? Well, for a start, they obviously lost their hands because there were so many injuries on that. |
| 1:13.7 | I mean, it must be shot or bitten by a shark or caught them from ropes. |
| 1:18.2 | We take it in turns to do these intros. |
| 1:22.0 | And my intro, if it had been my turn, was I've just dropped an iPhone wireless charger on my toe, |
| 1:27.1 | which is the most modern |
| 1:28.1 | injury I've ever had. And now we're discussing our pirates used to injure themselves, which |
| 1:33.4 | obviously doesn't happen. And you've now had your foot replaced with a hook, haven't you, |
| 1:36.6 | as well? I've got a list of how pirates would lose their hands in the first place, different |
| 1:42.2 | reasons. Love this. Battles, so cannon blasts, gunfire, sword fights, the primary suspects. But also these are the ones that I didn't really think about. Accidents on board. So obviously lots of ropes, lots of pulleys, lots of heavy equipment that could easily crush or sever limbs. See, I've watched a program called A Deadliest Cat. |
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