A History of Britain 7

This documentary goes through the history of Britain from the beginning and stops just short of the Norman Conquest. This is the final part.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• britain
• history
• celts
• celtic
• anglo
• saxon
• viking
• roman
• rome
• church
• bbc
• england
• scotland
• ilses
• orkney

[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.

[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.

[kaitlynayates]

stupid cliff hanger. 

[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.

[yossariancomplex]

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

[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]

@kincsem1 Don't Basque have Celtic Roots too?

[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.