What Was Life Actually Like In Ancient Roman London? | Life and Death Roman London

[@catsandstuff29]

This is one of the best documentsries I've ever seen. Factual, professional, no drmamtic music, no awfully acted cscenes, just pure informative bliss. I was hooked from start to finish. Thank you.

[@harrywalker968]

theres a vid on, when the romans left u.k. we had toilets, until they left, then it was 1500 yrs, till we had them again.. instead of embrasing the roman way, we reverted back to shitting in bogs.. the thames, was 1 big sewer. some tried to live like the romans, but, ... the romans used lead, dishes, make up,,sent them mad..

[@bbfire29]

couldnt agree more. can't stand 99% of the nonsense made nowadays, esp for shall-not-be-named "history" channels. this is a great return to the professional style of documentary making. the UK's BBC is also a great resource of this type of quality.

[@RadicalCaveman]

@@harrywalker968 When the British stopped shitting in bogs, the fertility of bog ecosystems greatly declined.

[@Wi11i4mJM]

History Hit are great. I like the podcasts and documentaries. Well done to Dan and all the team.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

@@RadicalCaveman How's the waterway ecosystem now, while our sewage is going straight back in rivers and the coastline?

[@gregedmand9939]

The thing that Rome did for Britain, and pretty much everywhere, was to demonstrate what a thoroughly organized effort by humanity can achieve. For good or ill. Those lessons, once learned, are rarely forgotten and are always worth re-examination for modern applications.

[@jockeyshortz84]

The people they conquered were highly capable and had very developed societies goimg back a thousand years, I get they didn't build marble cities, however they were brilliant artisans and highly cultured people. They are unfortunately portrayed as dirty savages in popular "histories" they lived in large settlements and had vast trade networks, I get your point but the Celts and Thracians etc really get short shrift in the popular imagination, but their legacy is being rehabilitated

[@gregedmand9939]

@jockeyshortz84 Of course they were, but on a much less structured basis. It's how the highly organized Legions, were able to defeat Gaulish armies, that outnumbered them ten to one. Who on a one-to-one basis as warriors, were bigger and stronger than average Legionaries. They did it with lists, training, technology, and unit discipline. The free-wheeling Celts adopted Roman methods to eventually conquer Rome itself. Lessons learned.

[@ukeyaoitrash2618]

​​@@gregedmand9939sure, but China was way way way bigger and more organized at the time - their armies regularly measured into many hundreds of thousands. Single armies - multiple times bigger then all Roman legions combined! And it isn't like people like Confucius didn't think about organisation... And that's to say nothing of ancient Chinese inventions, everything from the compass to the repeating crossbow to the seismometer...

[@fuzzy3440]

Yeah, but they didn't have a Monty Python skit explaining all the things they did for us.@@jockeyshortz84

[@gregedmand9939]

@@ukeyaoitrash2618 For sure! My comments were only about the power of human organization and what it can achieve. Rome was certainly not the only people to discover this. The most lasting traits of civilization, East or West, is what we see today.

[@Lollygagger-k4p]

Barely just touched upon was Roman medical service. The Romans had a professional army, and with that, the world's first college of physicians. The legions travelled with a medical Corps, just like today. They were very good at treating battle trauma and understood pain relief. Opium was well known in the form of various oral reatments. They also prevented a lot of infection by the use of honey mixed with wine, which they knew to be anti bacterial - even though they didn't know what bacteria was. They knew to boil all dressings and instruments before, during and after surgeries. And they knew not to suture a wound till it healed from the inside out first. Some think that a soldier had a better chance of retirement than a private citizen due to regular medical care in the army. It was only after the discovery of anti-biotics that trauma care got much better then in Roman times. The American Civil War saw absolutely hidesous medical procedures and mass infection, with death soon following. Also, cholera was common after battles but not in Roman times because the dead were cremated. Cholers ourbreaks did occur in Rome and other large cities in those days - up until just thjelast century. But, the Romans had ordinances regarding the siting of their camps and towns away from swamps with insects, and did not allow human toilets anywhere upstream of those sites. As time went on and the sites grew, it's likely those ordinances became moot.

[@leonardodalongisland]

thanks for that-very informative.

[@helenf.7221]

Wow that’s so interesting. And how backwards things truly went after rome fell.

[@streetcat1510]

Thanks for that.

[@kasvinimuniandy4178]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing

[@xsamrx4718]

I will say they didn't think much of infections when they had their Roman baths. It was a cesspit of bacteria as the water had no hole to empty and refill so thousands of bodies per week all bathing in the same water till it was manually emptied after many months and refilled. Some never got emptied and refilled!

[@user-zk1no9pj7x]

London, York, St Albans, Bath, Exeter, Lincoln, Leicester, Worcester, Gloucester, Chichester, Winchester, Colchester, Manchester, Chester and Lancaster were all Roman cities, as were all cities with names ending in -chester, -cester or -caster, which derive from the Latin word castrum.

[@marcobassini3576]

Castrum or Castellum (diminutive) - walled fortified camp used by the Roman legions - is also the word from which "castle" derives. In other languages it became: castello (Italian), castillo (Spanish), castelo (Portuguese), castel (Romanian), chateau (French).

[@kevinbailey3384]

@@marcobassini3576 In Welsh it is castell

[@marcobassini3576]

The romance languages are obviously full of Latin words, since they are the evolution of Latin across the centuries (they evolved in parallel with cross contaminations). What the Englishmen do not know is that English as well has 50% of Latin words, a thing that is obvious to speakers of romance languages (they see a similarity with their own language), but not so obvious to English speakers, since they usually do not know neither Latin nor any other romance language. Many Latin words in English were introduced many centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, in medieval times, often through French.

[@craven5328]

​@marcobassini3576 That's odd - I grew up in an English speaking country, and most people know significant parts of English are derived from Latin. In fact, most people I know are surprised to hear that English has a more significant number of words of German origin.

[@marcobassini3576]

@@craven5328 You are the exception, the average Englishman does NOT understand any romance language or Latin, and not even German (possibly they have a vague reminiscence of French, studied at school when they were teenagers and never used again). So generally they do not have any clue about the similarities of their language with the others. Probably they even forgot that their current King is of German origin (family name: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), changed in 1917 in the fantasy name of Windsor, since they were at war with Germany, and having a German king was not good.

[@SpareMom]

Whilst the Roman town structure was being described, it struck me that most towns in the USA still use this template today. We have a town square, with the courthouse in the middle, surrounded by shops in the parameter. And, during festivals, the streets are closed to traffic and booths akin to old market stalls are installed. Fascinating how Roman influence is still with us today.

[@aarons6935]

Because the U.S adopted it.

[@mattbattaglia4694]

my sister in christ, we stopped building our towns like that long ago. Since the 70s they're endless parking lots, highways, strip malls, and drive thrus.

[@roxyamused]

@@mattbattaglia4694 suburban urban sprawl is a blight on our land. It's really antisocial, and it's odd how addicted people are to that antisocial lifestyle. I've noticed that most Americans are really protective of their cars, and cars also seem super antisocial. We need to rebuild the huge empty parking lots of the derelict Circuit City and Toys 'R' Us complex. ideally with park space restoration of native flora.

[@infomercialwars]

You mean giant stroads with the same 5 chains repeating for miles on miles?

[@damianhoratiu2287]

Americans are the Romans of today. Since 1775.

[@butterfIyy1]

History Hit is a gem of a channel ✨

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

What a rich history England & Londinium ( London) have! They can be proud of it! I do not know very much about today../Greetings from Bucharest ROMANIA 🍀🤗🌹

[@sondoobie1987]

London is now dead. Its deplorable now, used to be a beacon of Britain. Ask anyone in the UK what they think about London in the 20th century.

[@orbtastic]

@@sondoobie1987 Now is 24 years removed from the 20th century...

[@Dudley-x2c]

It's full of non Brits!

[@costealucia5357]

Great to loot the world and build such history, isn't it? Too bad your ancestors did not do that, instead they protected the gate of Europe and sacrificed their women and children so ''Londinium'' won't pray 5 times a day today....BUT, Londinium was offered on a plate to islamists, for free, so...a spit to your ancestors graves, still think they can be proud it it? Learn some history....

[@dexthebs]

@@sondoobie1987 i reckon its alright

[@michellebell5092]

Utterly fascinating. I’m really starting to explore my home city ( visit every , every , station, walking the Monopoly board, and may other retirement projects I have planned) but this is a brilliant reference point . I knew a lot anyway but I loved the way the story of the Romans in London and indeed London itself was explained. Thanks you .

[@DustyAxelsen]

There needs to be a movie or TV series made about Boudica.

[@Foul_Quince]

Oh God no. It'd just end up being one of those hideous woke revisionist/feminist re-writes of history. And they'd cast a black woman.

[@difrancophile]

There is one (2023). It's not very good.

[@amandab.recondwith8006]

I'm American and visit London more than any other place in Europe because I find it incredibly beautiful, but also incredibly historical. I've never taken a formal tour (vulgar), but I have friends who have shown me much, and I'm old fashioned enough to look at actual maps. In fact, I managed to get a taxicab driver map because he got one that was less worn out (not cheap!). Every street. Every nook and cranny. I love to explore!

[@markmark63]

The history is fascinating, but y0u should also visit some of the much older cities and towns in the UK as well. My Hometown - Leicester, was already a regional capital city for almost 1,000 years before the Romans came and founded London, and the towns of Thatcham in Berkshire, and Amesbury in Wiltshire, have been continuously occupied for at least 7,700 and 8,000 years respectively.

[@shaunsteele6926]

@@markmark63 yes, as another American tourist I've had quite enough of London. Many other places in the UK I'd rather visit.

[@brandonporter550]

The next time you visit it might be called Islondanstan.

[@MrRawrgers]

As an English person it saddens me that you’ve actively chosen London as your favourite destination, its like saying that McDonald’s is your favourite restaurant

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

Racist.@@brandonporter550

[@livesouthernable]

I’m not sure why they’re laughing about people taking poppy syrup for pain and saying that’s weird. It’s not like these people could walk to Walmart and buy ibuprofen. Doctors today are still prescribing opium derivatives for pain.

[@terimorris6394]

Thought the same, why did the man mentioned it like it was a crazy idea ?! I think it was very clever for the Romans to even create that syrup !

[@livesouthernable]

@@terimorris6394 Same here!

[@genevievedolan1288]

People take opiates for tooth aches today, don’t they?

[@livesouthernable]

@@genevievedolan1288 yep, the last time I had an opiate prescribed was after a dental procedure.

[@CJ4S147]

Perhaps irony or surprise that things haven’t changed all that much

[@DJWESG1]

Yes, the first bridges (brig) over rivers (stows) were pontoons made up of ships. Key to taking over capital cities. Key to the square mile.

[@acewickhamyoshi8330]

As london was a swamp . sounds like they would have bought stone . Drydocked them at low & hightide. Like in dr who

[@kayrobin4433]

This is a fantastic documentary! So interesting and well-presented.

[@gundarsmiks4889]

Wait! This is posted 3h ago!! :) Profesional approach. Dont ever think about doing less :) good job!

[@FlexibleFlyer50]

Loved the presentation! Learned a lot! More please!!!!!!!!!!

[@witwicky735]

From indoor heated floors and plumbing to sudden decline and muddy hill forts. Roman Britain is fascinating to no end, and now I have to see these amazing exhibits. Incredibly produced program. Just really over the top this time HH. So many stories like this one, of a person born in the area of Germany, not even from Rome but Roman, and she ended up here.

[@Kenneth_Usher]

It’s quite amazing to understand that the Romans were in the UK for 300 years one wonders what they thought of the good old British weather?

[@juliemercer1458]

I was just thinking the same about the weather......I wonder if it was rubbish back then too.

[@davidfennessey2727]

After 300 years they had enough of the rain and left !!

[@marcellogenesi6390]

Don't know; maybe there was a bit of global warming then, caused by the Romans, who apparently manage to grow grapes in Yorkshire. To day they would be accused of that by David Attenborough, and Greta.

[@bryanmatos3994]

They grew accustomed to it. They were not foreign by this time many were simply Romans. Only a Roman from perhaps Turkey visiting Britain would complain about the weather and how rude northern romans are.

[@HarleyHerbert]

The Romans had managed to conquer places with such a wide variety of climates, if anything some people might have preferred the British weather compared to where they came from if they were from a hot desert or a frigid mountain region.

[@michaelcumming1233]

Wonderful documentary and channel! Learned more about Roman London in one hour than my three years living in London.

[@marcobelli6856]

Beautiful documentary thank you so much London has a crazy history!

[@billythedog-309]

ln what way crazy?

[@plumeretbonnet]

thank you. this is a gem.

[@sailorstarfairy1]

I'm really enjoying everything posted from History Hit thank you for your hard work please know it's appreciated 🤗

[@HyperSpeakerman]

Thank you for an excellent documentary, I really enjoyed it!

[@andycam4645]

A great documentary - I 've never seen London so quiet!

[@brianclear363]

ha! i walked though that roman wall just now at tower hill to go to M&S. Funny to think im taking medival shortcut though roman wall

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

In the Londinium theatre they listened to the songs of Adelicus especially her song Rollingucus in the Deepicus.

[@ThePurpleYarnivore]

😅

[@trichabruce]

Lol

[@beachcomber1able]

Was that a celebration of cunnilingus. 🤔

[@lynnfisher3037]

Adele is disgusting

[@bertplank9892]

See poor attempt at humour above....ha ha ha NOT!.

[@cathipalmer8217]

If you can make fun of taking opiates for toothache, you've clearly never had a toothache.

[@L-mo]

Especially as a Roman age toothache more often led to sepsis and death - so yeah, some poppy seed syrup was definitely not overkill

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

@@L-mo Thats why it hurts so much, its your body letting you know you need to get rid of the thooth or you might die.

[@Christofuzz-hc9xl]

Or access to opiates.

[@kyleanuar9090]

I use Listerine for toothache and swear by it's effective.

[@t2av159]

ok Pfizer shill

[@solipsist3949]

Poppy syrup would have been fairly mild, yet medically effective. Not exactly fentanyl. Fascinating video!

[@MrNobodyMoto]

Opium isn't mild.

[@maryannbrown5762]

@@MrNobodyMoto Fentanyl is much much stronger.

[@tomlxyz]

​@@maryannbrown5762 the question is how appropriate poppy syrup is as treatment, not if there's something stronger. Given that tooth pain can be pretty painful it might not be that far off

[@astralreisender]

@@MrNobodyMoto it is, in comparisson^^

[@jp8649]

@@MrNobodyMoto Yes, it is depending on the plant it's coming from and how it is being taken. Opium poppies usually have varying yields of codeine and morphine. Codeine is incredibly weak and the strength of morphine can really vary. Personally, I find morphine pretty weak unless given iV. Especially when compared to today's synthetic opioids.

[@lisaenglert3202]

Love History Hit. Thank you for all the amazing and very well done content. 🥰

[@HistoryHit]

Thanks for watching!

[@Chris-ut6eq]

Most of this is recycled from older materials which seem to be all BBC based. HH did not produce this stuff, but perhaps re-edited for YT.

[@lisaenglert3202]

@@Chris-ut6eq still it’s a great compilation wherever it comes from and I’m very glad for it to be all in one place.

[@harrywalker968]

heres some history.. study this.. viper tv sumerian tablets.. praveen mohan.. the facts by how to hunt.. . reality...not mainstream bs..

[@vixtex]

Thank you History Hit!

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

I give you that: Brits are very good in such kind of historical documentaries. I enjoy them each time... For instance dear scholar Bettany Hughes... ❤

[@danwilson1040]

Absolutely,her enthusiasm is infectious

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

@@danwilson1040 EVERTHING IS ON TOP LEVEL WHEN YOU WATCH HER! 🌹✨

[@Charlotte-vp2fu]

I love Bettany.

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

@@Charlotte-vp2fu WE SHOULD STAY IN THE QUE... 🤗🌹🤞💐

[@harrywalker968]

she,, has no idea what she,s talking about.. just basic documented mainstream blog.. most roman buildings, were allready there, repaired, or built on foundations from thousands of yrs previous.. the wailing wall, could be 300,000 yrs old.. but, said to be jewish,, total bs..

[@williamdiffin28]

High Quality Content.

[@thomasbell7033]

I'm in the US and became familiar with Sophie Jackson from "Time Team," where she appeared a few times. It's great to see someone so passionate about what they do.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

Rome was politically organized with a centralized administration. Roman civilization created a vast space in which industrial and commercial activities could be explored profitably and peacefully, with great social and geographic mobility. The predictability of business was guaranteed both by the existence of adequate legislation and by authorities that enforced it. The pacification of conquered regions was achieved both by building cities and by creating opportunities to improve life for local populations who accepted living with the Romans. London was just one of hundreds of Roman cities spread across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The rise and decline of London was no different from the rise and decline of all other Roman cities.

[@richy69ify]

How much DNA did they leave behind that went on to build the British Empire perhaps...

[@studiocelestedesign]

I'm only halfway through and every minute is absolutely fascinating and has taught me so much. Huge nods to the archaeological and forensic teams who study these clues and bring so much of it to life! Wonderful episode. Thank-you.

[@dolcevitarome6536]

That was tremendous, What a brilliant production.

[@happy_labs]

The 'deed of sale' tablets at 7:12 don't have anything I can visibly recognise as writing. Did they have to shine a special light on it or just look really closely or something?

[@scotchtowerbibletractsocie8083]

THANK YOU. I'm not going crazy then?

[@woroGaming]

If you zoom in you can see letters. Without zooming in it looks like small stains.

[@taffykins2745]

It's almost 2000 years old!!! It's worn down over time making it harder to read the chicken scratchings! Lol! (Dated AD 57)

[@richardwebb2348]

@@taffykins2745 By what process were they worn down?

[@taffykins2745]

@@richardwebb2348 2000+ years? I don't know. What do you think could have happened to a rock, soft enough to carve in, that was found buried in the dirt over a 2000 year period? I'm not a geologist familiar with the area, but I can make some pretty fair assumptions. What do you think happened?

[@sukratu]

Waiting impatiently for the second part after 400 AD.

[@chuckw2236]

What calendar are you using by saying, for example, year “8219”?

[@lauraelijah7876]

I was so confused too! I just realized he is saying AD not 80😂

[@chuckw2236]

Okay, thanks for that clarification. For a moment I thought they were using some new, politically correct calendar system.

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

​@chuckw2236 I did too.

[@carolinejames7257]

I misheard this, too. I'm accustomed to hearing/seeing 219 AD, rather than AD 219. I now understand that the most common usage is technically incorrect, which is obvious if you translate it into English - the year of our Lord 219, not 219 the year of our Lord - but I'd never actually stopped to think about that.

[@chuckw2236]

I think it comes down to the speaker speaking a tad bit too fast, with no pause in between "A.D." and "219". I don't mean to be critical, and he certainly does a fine job otherwise. Also, in America, we're used to saying "219 A.D."; not that our way is any better; it's just the way we learned it in school.

[@gwynwellliver4489]

❤ London's history is amazing.

[@Dudley-x2c]

Future looks a bit bleak though. For the English..

[@mgcocasal]

We'll be back, we just need to get better politicians.

[@simonedelgrosso4519]

Roman history...400 years under Rome. not easy to digest

[@adrianpoesiat]

A cornucopia of fascinating bits of information on the history of London

[@ranuelthebard3751]

I really enjoyed this overview of Roman London and I now have several new places I want to visit if I ever get to go. I would like to see a video that delivers on what the title promises though. An in depth look at daily life perhaps focusing on 3 or 4 individuals. What did they eat each day? In a multicultural city of the time what kinds of clothing would have been seen? What languages were spoken? How much influence did native British culture still have?

[@Scriptorsilentum]

what languages did they speak? interesting. i discovered the people who have taken time to learn anglo-saxon have no trouble readily communicating with the frisian speakers of the netherlands. there is the odd word they have to explain but the spoken forms are mutually intelligible.

[@harrisonofthenorth]

00:05 London was NOT originally a Roman city; it was originally Brythonic, which had a native shrine on White Hill, which is where the Tower of London stands today.

[@Fab666.]

London was a Roman city called Londinium, this isn’t even questionable. The area was fishing villages beforehand. Fortunately we have discovered historians and archaeologists that are quite good at their jobs

[@becsterbrisbane6275]

My god, those finger marks STILL in the makeup canister!! Amazing!

[@matthewwilson5548]

wow! another amazing presentation by the professionals at HH!!

[@gerardhogan3]

So bloody interesting. Thank you

[@LucyWynder29er]

Really fascinating, isn't it! Thoroughly enjoyed it ❤

[@voyaristika5673]

Excellent! Thank you for posting this video.

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

So many lessons to be take from the destiny of Romans( from 753 bc to 476 ad) ... The western latin remains from Roman Empire... Sometimes History repeats itself... So I do belive it is so important to study history... 😊

[@fischiwien]

Unfortunately the powers similar to the Roman Empire cancelled History from their curriculas. Greed will kill humanity.

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

@@fischiwien INDEED! I JUST HOPE HUMANITY WILL RESURECT ONCE MORE... AS IT DID SO MANY TIMES BEFORE!✨🍀✨

[@marcobassini3576]

Actually the Roman Empire survived for another 1000 years in the East, till the fall of Constantinople in XV century!!! And even beyond that the zars of Russia called Moscow the "third Rome" (being Constantinople the second Rome). The Germans themselves, for 1000 years, till the Napoleonic wars, called their kingdom "Holy Roman Empire of the German people”. Everybody wanted to be part of the History (with the capital H), an unmatched greatness spanning over 2000 years. The Romans are the Western Civilization.

[@viorelpiscanu9425]

@@marcobassini3576 I can' t argue with your oppinion! 🤗

[@victoriahhigman9611]

Thanks

[@kev3d]

Wow, this is a lot more interesting than the companion piece: Roman Los Angeles.

[@liberty_and_justice67]

Thanks!

[@HistoryHit]

Many thanks!!!

[@Alasdair37448]

Actually it's quite possible that London is actually older than the Roman occupation as some evidence of habitation pre dates the romans. There is even evidence although still debated by scientist of a hillfort in the region before the romans. The Romans were very good at turning local hubs into centers of roman control this was also true in Gaul many of france's biggest cities today were the power centers of gaulish tribes such as paris and lyon. Its very likely this is what they did with london too they took what was already probably a important spot along celtic trade routes which we know previously existed and turned it into the city of london.

[@chrislong3938]

Fantastic video in every way, and much more enlightening than I could have imagined! To think of how much more history of this period is still under the current city boggles the mind! 49:27 - The bust of Constantius Clorus along with his image on that coin really illustrates to me how good these guys were at capturing the faces of the people they were trying to depict! I've always wondered how well various painting of people from back in th eday were of truly capturing how they looked and even though it's clear that they were VERY good representations, I still felt there was room for doubt. It's depictions like this example that really drives it home at how good they were at their jobs as artists and recorders of history! The pronounced 'fold' in the cheek near his nose is clear in both depictions! I dunno... to think that if I came across this guy in real life, I would be able to pick him out without a second thought is mind blowing.

[@maryhook9478]

Pretty grim towards the end rather like today!

[@moonbathing2002]

Thanj you got doing this Owen, it can't be easy passionatly reporting on these harrowing evenrs.

[@Pancito49]

Interesting, thanks I enjoyed this part of Roman history, the people more than the great names.

[@mikepxg6406]

Great documentary.

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

Well done Video. Thank you

[@RubberToeYT]

Great video, would love to see similar things to other cities in Roman Britain like York or Lincoln

[@tonywilkinson6895]

Nice try but were they subjected to the apocalypse that London was.Be careful that your not seen as a stolen valour kind of geezer!

[@jonbaxter2254]

Those tablets are fascinating.

[@nancydailey1410]

Great show!

[@romanmichaelhamilton8729]

Wonderful documentary and best I've watched about ancient London. Marvelous work!

[@Odonanmarg]

What date would have been shown on the deed, since no one at that time used BC or AD?

[@stephendickinson7071]

Dated by the Emperor of the time. Eg. The 5th year of the reign of Augustus.

[@alanrees3087]

They might have used AUC Ab Urbe Condita: since the city (Rome) was founded en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita

[@hackcult3738]

@7:23 i thought dates as we know it today didn't come around until 5th or 6th century AD? i wonder how it was written on that tablet.....very interesting tho

[@FFS704]

There are footings of a pier, or some such wooden structure, in the Thames, near Embankment from memory which has been carbon dated to around 2,000 BC..So there was likely a settlement in London when the Romans invaded in the 1st Century BC

[@neilthornton3544]

The presence of london in Britain has only ever been as colonial headquarters . Even today power is centralised in london to an insane degree.

[@sarcasmo57]

Would have been cool to see it back then.

[@christophercarrier2902]

A nice time to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.

[@sarcasmo57]

@@christophercarrier2902 A lot like London today.

[@JenniferMcCartney-nb6lt]

If in Rome do visit the Domus Romana, a Roman house discovered underneath a palazzo. It has many items worth seeing and the layout is quite recognisably modern!

[@stephanieyee9784]

This was a fantastic video and I've added so many more places in London to my Walking list. Next time in Britain I'm going to be Very busy. 🙂

[@mayurireddy8196]

Amazing Stories paintings building many miles of stories beautiful art forms

[@ernesttravers829]

An amazing video Thanks

[@timorean320]

I read back in day that after the conquest, Romans asked if they could ship some Roman Woman there, because the locals werent very attractive.😂

[@felipecortez1042]

😂😂😂😂

[@kyleanuar9090]

Obviously they didn't get approved.

[@el_chico1313]

well hasnt chsnged much since then ^^

[@thankyouslime]

@@kyleanuar9090😂

[@SPSteve]

Fascinating. I have a great admiration for the Romans and all they achieved.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting.

[@barrylane4164]

Excellent! Thank You so much!!!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage work about Ancient London during Roman Empire Time shared by 🙏(History Hit) channel..

[@Fernandoenf2]

Amazing documentary.❤

[@VincentComet-l8e]

Fascinating information, and very interesting. However, we mustn’t forget that the Romans were not here for a pleasant holiday, or a mere jaunt. It was actually an extremely brutal military occupation, and the poor unfortunates who paid the price were the Ancient Britons. There is a very brief mention of them (‘slaves…’) but otherwise they’re completely airbrushed out of the picture. And the price they paid, to maintain the invaders in their much higher & more comfortable position, is never mentioned…

[@homuraakemi493]

Dont care didnt ask

[@boilingwateronthestove]

I mean, the fact we speak English today is down the same idea. England is the direct product of the Anglo Saxons (Anglo => Engle). They didn't spawn out of the ground in Britain out of nothingness. They invaded Britain, displaced the local Britons westwards.

[@VincentComet-l8e]

@@boilingwateronthestove I think you’re missing the point. Which is the never-ending interest and continual praise heaped upon the Romans, by historians, archaeologists etc. Who, meanwhile, have airbrushed the native inhabitants out of the picture and completely ignored them, with never a word about them. The contrast between the respective situations of the two peoples, if it was actually compared, would be so stark that probably the best thing to do is just to maintain their awkward silence.

[@DJWESG1]

Many would come for 'pleasant holidays', going on jollies was a particularly popular thing for their own middle class as it is ours.

[@purltwotogether8218]

I know quite a lot about the ancient Britons in my area (iceni) and I would imagine that a lot of slave trading in ancient Britain was from tribes selling their own or adjacent tribes' populations, as was also the case in Africa. Hunting dogs and slaves were part of the exports from Britain to the Roman Empire before the Romans invaded.

[@melaniecroft2089]

What a fantastic documentary. Well presented and very interesting. Thank you. 🇦🇺👍

[@raulpetrascu2696]

It always impresses me how fascinated the British are with even the tiny part the Romans played in their land's history. Meanwhile there are countries in south europe whose lands have been part of the Roman Empire for 1000 years and they don't care much about it

[@tristanmills4948]

I think it has a lot to do with the British Empire and the attempts to compare it to the Roman Empire. Rome also did have a large impact, from arrival, but also the departure led to the Early Middle Ages which provide a large part of the founding legends of Britain (or England) which also arose at the same time as the Empire. The opulent villas found also inspire people's imagination I think. Along with the huge amount of finds from the period compared with pre and post occupation. Personally I'm more interested in the pre and post Roman eras, especially the transition eras for the average person.

[@phoebeel]

Maybe because the Romans were so long in southern Europe that their culture is almost still heavily influencing their culture which in turn kind of de-mystifies them. They're normal boring history. But for the British, the Romans are so different, exotic and play a huge part in the complete overhaul in their culture which is why it's kind of embedded into their social knowledge that these foreigners were super important

[@atmosphere60]

@@tristanmills4948 I'd say that's spot on. I've seen academic works that trace the increasing British fascination with the Roman Empire alongside the growth of the British Empire.

[@joshuapowell2675]

I'm sure part of it has to do with how well Romans recorded their history and their long-lasting structures. It's easy to get interested in old civilizations when they leave a lot to study

[@RichieP68]

The Romans played more than a tiny part. It was a total change of civilisation.

[@george11419]

What happened after 410AD? This has never been explored. However, we do know that trade with the Romans ended. And that metals were unobtainable. Furthermore, that London went into a steep decline and was abandoned completely. The city was returned to the animals for about 75 years. It is a great pity that historians have never covered this period. Having written this comment, perhaps they will !

[@Fab666.]

The Anglo Saxon ppl arrived around 449 ad and things kicked off with them

[@andrewcombe8907]

Terrific race, the Romans. But seriously, apart from the aqueducts, roads, law and order and wine what have the Romans given us?

[@Monkeysfist221]

Over half southern Italian, I hope I did have Roman ancestors. It’s probably all too far back to know though.

[@Extraterrestrial-r1d]

Brutality and conspiracy are also from Romans... Propaganda and cunning.. and most importantly no fear of repercussions. Asians have always believed in karma.. so these temptations were little reduced in the race.

[@McLarry88]

They gave you civilization, before you were up in the trees.

[@AW-uv3cb]

@@Extraterrestrial-r1d You seriously think that Romans singlehandedly came up with brutality and conspiracy? And that Asian countries didn't have propaganda and cunning and brutality and fear of repercussions? I... I don't even know where to start, but I guess I'd like to direct you to the shogun period in Japan, the treatment of the lower castes in India, and I guess everything about the ruling class of the People's Republic of China - clearly none of these involve a lot of fear of bad karma.

[@duanium]

I wonder how peoples outside the Roman Empire had relations with the Imperial government, such as the Scandiavian region, Ireland, and beyond the Rhine in the Germanic regions. Where to find books dealing with the periphery of the Roman Empire?

[@rickjensen2717]

Excellent video; factual, objective and very well presented 👏

[@conradnelson5283]

Meaningless hand, gestures used throughout this video are legion. Very nice video. Very informative. Love, ancient London.

[@stefanfedorowich9138]

Great informatioin! Are we now putting AD in front of the year? I was mistaking it for 18 which of course, sounded very odd in the dates of AD50 mistaking it for 1850

[@balancedactguy]

Chariots drove on the LEFT side off the roads!

[@debbylou5729]

So, they weren’t even allowed on the actual road?

[@josephberrie9550]

pavements for chariots

[@balancedactguy]

@@josephberrie9550 Tarmac

[@balancedactguy]

​@@debbylou5729 According to Ancient records they had to drive on the soft shoulder while peasants and Donkey Carts could traverse the Modern paved roads...especially the sections with tarmac and poured concrete.

[@djquinn11]

All the citizens also had bad teeth. True fact from archeological evidence.

[@patrickmyers9169]

Bravo! Well done. Good show.

[@thechuckjosechannel.2702]

The Romans sure were great architects.

[@Photographer695]

Brilliant, most interesting. Thanks for sharing

[@Raz.C]

re - 3:30 ish And here I was, thinking that the Romans were interested in mining gold in England (Dolaucothi Gold Mines spring to mind)...

[@tomaszsadowski1515]

Excellent documentary.

[@martinstevens5892]

Great film, but was I the only one expecting him to give us a recipe for Roman cake. :)

[@katherinecollins4685]

Enjoyed this

[@hsmd4533]

Have the archeologists found where Minas Tirith was located yet?

[@heidimeigs5192]

Not yet, although a map has been recently found which looks promising. 👍🏻

[@ericdavid199]

That was truly amazing, the make up jar found with finger marks still inside.

[@antonpressing]

As a Germanic tribesman - I believe, the Romans didn't come from Italy but from Mars !

[@mdog111]

Thanks for this really top class documentary.

[@tekannon7803]

Excellent videocast! Am I the only one? I want to be able to go back to the early days of Roman London. What attracts me is that it was a life that probably would make ours look cold and inhospitable. Sure; there was the element of early death from a number of probabilities, but one can imagine that people in those times spoke truth to power as a way of life.

[@senoritaperdida]

Wow. That is an incredibly romanticized (no pun intended) version of what you just watched. Your enjoyment of Roman Londinum life would greatly depend on your wealth and family. And even then….There are quite a few gaps they left that are filled with tough, and often horrific, day to day life for the lower (or even slave) classes. I understand the desire to long for a time when things “made sense”, but unfortunately, there isn’t one. Humanity is, and always has been, a giant cauldron of prosperity and devastation.

[@maevemaiden]

Brilliant documentary. Too bad it’s spoiled by so many bloody ads!!! 😢🙏

[@cymro6537]

Very interesting, fascinating finds. I was however waiting for the obligatory: " *And here we have the remains of an African* " schtick - and,sure enough at 26:32I wasn't disappointed 🙄 What wasn't explained here is that the remains presented were _North_ African - not Sub Saharan (Black) African. It seems that any and every history programme, or even period dramas these days attempt to try an convince us that London - and indeed Britain ,has 'always' been multi cultural. There wasn't _any_ evidence of Sub Saharan DNA in ancient Britain.

[@blueprairiedog]

So often, people miss that Africa is diverse and HUGE. "An African" is pretty meaningless.

[@jjjez]

Yes but you’ve still managed to find a way to insult those people and exclude them even though historically that’s actually not the case. Just because there’s no dna didn’t mean that people didn’t come. Racist!

[@johng4093]

​@blueprairiedog Similar to how "Asian" could be Chinese, Indian, Turkish, etc.

[@chrisdonish]

So what you are saying is that north africans are not africans? Because i dont understand why that distinction is needed. Its very telling that you consider black british citizens to be multicultural when in reality the majority of them are closer to you in culture than any north african Muslim is but just because their color is different you see them as other. This is what happens when someone is so blinded by hate thst they lose all grip on reality.

[@cymro6537]

@@chrisdonish An 'African' is a term that's been used increasingly over this past couple of years if describing the human remains of an individual from the African continent.The fundamental fact between not distinguishing Sub - Saharan and North African is very telling.This is politically driven - _Not_ factual. The narrative is a desperate attempt to try to convince the layman that 'Africans have always been in Britain ' - this reflected in children's TV programmes and history books. Peddling lies for me is sinister - but perhaps not for you? The physical ( and genetic) differences between north and Sub Saharan Africa is vast. North Africans enslaved the Sub Saharan Africans.