A History of Britain 5

[Rumpenstumpen97]

this is a nice serie I see it on my english lection and my teacher thinks it's great:D

[gaiuskaiser]

Saxons=Issacs sons part of the 10 northern tribes of israel

[PaganWarrior100]

Simon Schama missed out a lot of our history. What is rather sad is that he never mentioned the Arthur legend. There is a lot of evidence which can prove that an historical figure named Arthur existed around the ''Dark Ages''. In the Chronicles of England, it claims he was crowned king of Glamorgan which is interesting because there was a King Arthwys/Athrwys who was a King of Gwent who is very well recorded. The connection with South Wales and the Arthurian legend is very strong.

[mike13lowe]

It is a quite tragic in a way, how Roman culture vanished from Britain.

[flameboy44]

The documentary doesn't speak too much about the Celtic culture of The Logrians, Cornish and Cambrians, the Brittons he is talking about, he doesn't even mention their name, which is quite bothering. He doesn't mention the fact that saxons drove those people out of Britain, to Brittany and Galicia. He also mixes Nordic and Germanic mythology. To be brief, very incomplete

[Germericanboi]

@flameboy44 Nordic mythology is Germanic mythology. The Germanic tribes originated from Scandinavia, and while there is variation the basis of these are still the same. The god's only have slightly different names where most time's it is the pronunciation and spelling that varies.

But I agree, the Celtic cultures are the original cultures of the British Isles, however, the Germanic tribes conquered them and that's why we have "England" (Land of the Angles [and Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, etc.])

[flameboy44]

@Germericanboi Agreed, but I wouldn't speak about original culture, but original people. The English tend to forget this part of early history, because they Like the myth of the "impregnable Islands". Welsh, Cornish, Brittons and Galician, on the other hand, do keep a living memory of this fact, beeing the descendants of Britain's first inhabitants, the Celts.

[flameboy44]

@Germericanboi I am also quite astonished to learn the Germanic and Nordic tribes share the same mythology. Who then invanded Scandinavia to bring Christianity there? I'm quite curious about that!

[Germericanboi]

@flameboy44 Germans of course. Having been converted themselves, they brought Christianity into Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia.

[insertclevernickname]

@flameboy44English, Irish and Scottish maybe? Good question.

[4SCARECROWS]

I wish our history channel had this. I be would thrilled if they broadcasted the history of another country with the depth length and quality as this one has.

[vettedreams]

The history of Britain and England are the most interesting of all histories. I am an American and I love anything that has to do with this subject.

[balletboy94]

@Rentaghost76 is us history better and less fag-ish in the way that we killed millions of natives and raped and pillaged a whole society, or is it the part where france basically wins us our revolution?

[underclass29]

@Rentaghost76 You’re not doing much to dispel the myth that Americans a stupid.

[MacLeamh]

@underclass29 --- Preposterous... to give utterance to such hope is to speak of a fear. Multi-national corporate broadcasting, in its programming and daily hours of advertising, implies a general stupidity that is not at all mythical. It also suggests a population that is at work longer, for less pay and with less time off than any time in the past 30 years. That's less time for being involved with families, friends and communities... and for reading (to wit, the near death of print media),

[flameboy44]

@Rentaghost76 lol, they are your ancestor, yae big pile o'jobbies

[flameboy44]

@Rentaghost76 which is why you're a fag too

[alantjost]

@flameboy44 What do you have against homosexuals, you Neanderthal bigot?

[flameboy44]

@alantjost check previous post before saying anything out of place, just like you did.

[chris2002Rocklin]

The titles are so vague and nebulous, can we not hear the season and episode numbers?

for example: BBC A History Of Britain Season 2000 Episode 9 - revolution (that is a different episode, I know...just as an example).

Please?

Or can someone find a web site or page that BBC lists them and I can help sort through and name them for each page. Lots of work but establishing standards always improves life in some measure?

[3R3MITE]

Don't be lazy and do our own research. Since you're so demanding but not willing to spend 15 seconds Googling the answer yourself, I will guide you to a the wikipedia page for "A History of Britain". Good luck.

[MacLeamh]

@chris2002Rocklin -- Look it up in Wikipedia. Capture or copy the schedule. Memorize or refer to said list. Put bud into bowl. Apply flame. Inhale... "the Cuervo Gold, the fine Columbian -- make tonight a wonderful thing."

[Bearod35]

This is awesome information.Thank you.

[eXplote92]

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[milehighcherrypie]

Thanks for this series; it's superb!! Great job.

[tompinoyger]

ze germans

[kieranxxxx]

nice