A History of Britain 7

[kaitlynayates]

stupid cliff hanger. 

[yossariancomplex]

Why does he always have to embellish ridiculously "It would need more than just a competent Tribal warrior chief- it was going to need someone with a vision, and not just a vision of victory but a vision of government" As if it no Tribal warrior chief has ever had the ability to govern- it is just a stupid thing to say and its born out of his Romano-centric leanings: believing anything which requires infrastructure or learning was either created by Rome or copied from it when archaeology

[yossariancomplex]

all over Europe is showing that the European people were skilled craftsmen who engaged in trade across continents, they had timbre road ways which stretched across the continent before Rome let the Tiber. They had calendars (even more efficient than the Romans), and they even had concept of social responsibility- not discarding unwanted children but taking them in. Schama needs to re-asses his extrapolations; it is not the 1950’s and we aren’t in Grammar School.

[Terrra91]

Thanks for putting this up I'm doing a painting of British history pre-1066 and it would've been very difficult if I'd hadn't have found this

[jusitke07]

Anglo-Saxons...tribes that sailed to England from the German lands of Angles and Saxony. The original human inhabitants of what is known today as England, were Celtics...not Germanics. Thus the wipe out of the Celtic tribes of England and Germanic take over. The Royal family of England used to be known as Saxe-Coburg Gotha...a German ruling Family. But since WWI, to avoid being labeled as Germans, the Royal family changed their name to...WINDSOR.

[kincsem1]

@jusitke07 no they weren't Celts, there were people here long long before them. If you're interested, a good genetic investigation into the origins of the first people here (since the last Ice Age at least hehe) is by Steven Oppenheimer, and traces the Y chromasome with supporting evidence on mitochondrial DNA, and found that pretty much everyone in Europe is descended from people from the Basque region! These islands were mostly settled by Baltic travellers descended from these Basque peoples.

[jusitke07]

@kincsem1 Don't Basque have Celtic Roots too?

[yossariancomplex]

@jusitke07 It is likely that the first people who settled Britian had before been settels in Basque.

[frenchmotorbike]

@jusitke07 No, they don't. The Basques are the oldest european people, and they language is totally isolated: no celtic, nor roman, nor germanic.

[brentonio1996]

Thanks for posting bobbymullinix

[AlizeCiz]

I find it funny that people here are arguing who oppressed the british more, romans or vikings, when the british when on to oppress millions upon millions of people themselvs. If anything this teaches us that all peoples have been victims and oppressors at some stage and so none are more 'evil' than the other...Although the mongols were evil bastards i must say

[Jejkan95]

YEEAAAAH Proud scandinavian Viking well come back one day England!!! (haha)

[castlecolten]

This series rules! Why not "A History of Germany" or "A History of Russia", etc., etc., etc.--why can't any & all of the world's historian associations pick up where Simon Schama began? And I criticize American historians, too! Maybe why we as a species keep repeating errors is our collective ignorance of and contempt for historical instruction???

[chris2002Rocklin]

@castlecolten

That sounds like a nebulous piece of rhetorical crap if every there was any.

I'd say the problem lies with the common man, who does not support historians. It's not like so many have not tried to publish every idea under the sign. If the market support was there, more history would be seen more widely.

As it is, the majority of production for writers is in fiction. Even worse is fusing non-fiction with "drama".

If the masses wanted history, there would be more published.

[nordicpatriot]

The narrator has got some crazy bias against the vikings. They werent more violent than so many other ancient peoples. The Romans that he is so fond of, raped and enslaved England much more thoroughly than the vikings ever did.

[chris2002Rocklin]

@nordicpatriot Really? On what basis? Per capita rape to soldier ratio?

They were not really up there nearly as much as the Vikings. How can you compare them? I don't think you can, unless you have an idea that escapes me (which is always possible).

[nordicpatriot]

The difference was the systematic exploitation of Britain for a period of 400 years. Organized, sinister exploitation. The vikings never held the country in such an iron grip. Queen Boudiccas uprising probably cost more British lives than all viking attacks combined.

For the Romans genocide was routine. When Cæsar conquered Gaul, he killed 1 million and enslaved another of a population of 10 million. The vikings never came anywhere close to committing such monstrous atrocities.

[chris2002Rocklin]

I was thinking of Britain, not Gaul. You said "England" and now you say "Gaul". Is this a way to say they held England with the threat of this treatment?

Still not getting it completely...

[nordicpatriot]

No, it was just an example of Roman brutality. Like Romania - litterally 'The land of the Romans' - is only called that because the 'civilized' Romans wiped out the Dacians, a now forgotten people who lived there before they arrived.

The point is very simple, that the Romans comitted atrocities on a grand scale, whereas most viking attacks were done by small groups of warriors of perhaps only a few hundred. And the vikings also traded, founded cities and did other civilized things.

[bolddavis]

I have enjoyed very much the "History of Britain"series. Thank you, bobbymullinix, for the uploads.

[Englishman3986]

I love this ducumentary

[jrnesbit]

the problem is not learning history, but understanding it. To empathize with the people of the past and to be able to see the conflicts from both sides the same.

[ianhumphreys7]

Thank you for uploading this, i found it very interesting.

[harryssearchfortruth]

Romans suck,and so dose alfred the roman.

[LustfulMind]

So how do we move on from here, to the next episode?? I've been looking for a "part 9", assuming it would automatically lead to the start of the next episode but i wasnt able to find anything with that label? What is the title/label of the next episode? Does anyone know bt any chance? Thanks in advance.

[LustfulMind]

[correction]: bt = by

[delboyplonker]

stop complaining and buy this masterful work on DVD

[bmbberntsen]

Go vikings=D

[ravenshire43]

THX for posting this.

[Bullettube]

Thanks for posting! The quality is excellent!

I love this series, but have not been able to find it for sale. Does anyone know where I can get it?

[seattlerob7]

believe it or not you can get it at wallmart or borders

[ngalai2007]

Thank you very much for posting. I watched this serie many years ago and always wanted to watch it again.

[bobbymullinix]

I'm glad I could help! :)

[gavrilo2007]

thanks for posting. Post more if you have it.

[bobbymullinix]

I actually don't have the rest. I prefer pre-Norman English history.

[juufa72]

Exactly...forget the Bastard and his plundering fo.