How Brutal Were The British Prison Colonies?

[@KowboyUSA]

Nothing "rehabilitates" a human quite like throwing them into a hellish gladiator cage.

[@vexili]

Kowboy USA I mean it worked out well for us

[@biggvshavtivsdickvsii8541]

Yeah, a gladiator cage - now you’re talkin’. 😈

[@Monolith308]

Now known as detention

[@BichaelStevens]

@@vexili lolno

[@Hostefar]

Great minds, think alike

[@erickreis6516]

When you watch simple history for so long that you can spot the re-use of a german soldier face in the midle of the croud

[@Simplehistory]

XD

[@vanguard616]

He was a german ancestor to one of the soldiers in ww1

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Nice.

[@whatscout78]

@@SimplehistoryYou need to pay your fine, sir. pics.me.me/dont-xd-penalty-12304631.png

[@Sebeerful]

That guy really got around

[@d-day7567]

USA: Cookies England: Biscuits USA: Fries England: Chips USA: Prison England: Australia

[@mikespearwood3914]

British penal colonies started in North America. Only the loss of that war led them to look for a new land to establish these colonies.

[@arya0794]

@@mikespearwood3914 r/ wooosh

[@d-day7567]

I know

[@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un]

@MinecrafterAlex nothing gets past you 🤣

[@waffles6280]

Hotel:Trivago

[@nexo7181]

Wait so Australian population were just bunch if prisoners?

[@weinteruptthisprogram2051]

Necxophye UwU no, there were also Guards, Wardens, Aborigines, and some British civilians

[@danmark9255]

And imigraines

[@Sea-zu4bj]

Yes, bloodline of prisoners with a mixture of many others. Pretty much the definition of freedom now, more so than America

[@Adlore]

Out of the initial settlers, a lot were. However due to lots of immigration, first European, Irish, then Asian etc. Nowadays a lot of Australians don't have penal colony ancestors

[@damienfinnegan8272]

@@Sea-zu4bj No its not.

[@castsmith6783]

so...... australia is basically continent gulag?

[@markfryer9880]

Was mate, was a penal colony.

[@thegamingteen4447]

Um actually like gulags but more royal, more hot and more surrounded by water

[@raskolnikov7049]

Well in gulags they worked in cold, hunger and diseases.

[@jacobduggan8008]

@@raskolnikov7049 same as Tasmania

[@raskolnikov7049]

@@jacobduggan8008 i doubt there's very cold in Tasmania

[@Alldaboss]

You know after years of school in australia I never knew about the black and gold uniforms of some of the convicts until now, thanks for the video simple history.

[@Simplehistory]

Yeh, these later uniforms were inspired by medieval court jesters. So it was a form of humiliation and also to clearly distinguish them from free settlers if they escaped.

[@yareyare_dechi]

depends on the colony. they had different uniforms

[@rosebud4387]

Did you know about the black trackers(aboriginals( ))who worked for the British in tracking down convicts who escaped or bush rangers)

[@thebest-do8sk]

Americans: we send people to Alcatraz British: we send people to country

[@comradealekseiivanov2808]

@I HATE TOUCANS woah

[@jeffcone1464]

@I HATE TOUCANS Toucan Sam wants your blood mate. Watch your back

[@dustinhargrove2129]

I HATE TOUCANS don’t worry fam we got you

[@agentlord3423]

We also use to send them to america.

[@connormclernon26]

Agent Lord specifically Georgia.

[@historyofthemortals3756]

The women get the same punishments as men Me: Gender equality at its highest

[@conservativeagnostic9938]

It should be that way. Make equality equal. No more special treatment

[@fristnamelastname5549]

Feminists: Equally is OUR goal! Me: *Shows Women getting the same punishments as men. Feminists: ....

[@deeeenisttv]

@@fristnamelastname5549 to be fair, I don't think anyone would want these punishment

[@minedoimperija]

Finnally as it should be

[@owenlewis4693]

When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

[@_Matsimus_]

I want a set of those PJ’s

[@mrwhack4677]

How is there not more comments?

[@jojoanna9449]

Me tooooz

[@arrowpictures2844]

Ikr those look nice

[@zacruban7247]

Lol

[@high3747]

Peanut Butter And Jelly?

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Less brutal than the emus during the Emu War

[@philippinecircularflag2023]

Lest we forget.

[@sIurz]

Why are you two invading KZbin

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@sIurz Avery is the new Justin Y!

[@sunnyboi2371]

The terrible war crimes the emus committed #neveragain

[@neiljasonvillagracia7407]

May we remember the fallen

[@Yceb0x]

“Solitary confinement, used for minor crimes such as disrespecting authority” Disrespecting authority? Well thank goodness the Aussies don’t have *that* punishment in place today.

[@historiculgeomocule5569]

@@HerewardWake I guess inmates of penal slave camps were really lucky in that regard!

[@rosebud4387]

Irish rebels disrespected British authority.

[@JackRabbit002]

Ha Ha As a Brit now I'd be totally confined but then have you seen most of them outside.... Tracksuit wearing animals the lot of them!

[@JustinY.]

Remember, the spiders in Australia didn't avoid you. You just avoided the spiders.

[@raphael5520]

Your not dead

[@sisophon1982]

Unreasonable comment but fitted

[@lilyfurley9833]

daaaaaaaaaaamn a justin y comment before its over 1k likes

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

I hope this means you're gonna start commenting again, this is the first time I've seen you in at least a month

[@fuckyshityfuckshit]

Nah mate those spiders cant fight 1v1 fucking reckt one with me shoe the other day

[@Robbstark2024]

Australia: hey this was pretty brutal could we get an apology or something? England: Did the past really happen?

[@Yceb0x]

Robb Stark The Londoners send their regards

[@redrexi]

This was different from the usual evils the British Empire committed daily, since these people were actually not so innocent. Among them were murderers and rapists, there is not much to apologize for.

[@TheJonesdude]

Apologise? For what? Punishing criminals? Anymore of that and we'll throw more Aussies at Turkish machine guns

[@roboguard96]

Never apologise for history

[@dionwoollaston5717]

ThyerHazard it's stupid my ancestors were saxons doesn't mean I feel the need to apologize to every scot I meet because they raped, pillaged and murdered their ancestors, it was the dark ages everyone was doing it

[@mohammeddaddi2734]

Hey Simple History, could you please do one about the Algerian war. I think it would be cool to let people see the struggle a county has to go through for independence

[@secretscipio]

@Justin Jehoshaphat exactly

[@dragonborn3609]

@Justin Jehoshaphat "but your not special in the scope of things." All this guy asked for was a video on Algeria. I don't see any entitlement so I am confused on what the point of your comment really is.

[@alexandreguyot8507]

Justin Jehoshaphat so, it’s a good idea, let it go

[@mohammeddaddi2734]

The point of my comment, was to make people aware about the hardships and toil a country has to go through for independence

[@alexandreguyot8507]

Mohammed Daddi I think it’s a great idea, my grandfather fought in Algeria

[@TheTrainMaster15]

Another missed opportunity to mention Port Arthur. It was another punishment, hard labor or confinement on an island that is impossible to escape

[@historiculgeomocule5569]

Port Arthur was the worst of the worst.

[@yeboi4661]

This is something school doesn’t teach you thanks for the info

[@rhysturner7922]

Of coarse not it’s a government conspiracy to show equality with both genders getting flogged

[@mrfinland8332]

My school does

[@Admiral45-10]

In my school it's not a secret, that the UK probably invented labor camps.

[@deagle.2]

British Prison Colonies: I have the most cruel disciplinary systems ever Papa Stalin: hold my vodka

[@RitsuTainakaFin]

Not true

[@redrexi]

Kim family: Hold my I can't afford drinks

[@RitsuTainakaFin]

@@redrexino

[@redrexi]

@@RitsuTainakaFin lopetappa se kommarointi

[@brookshadlin117]

Hold my Quran.

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

The Scougers had to be kept away from the other inmates because they knew if they were caught by the other inmates they would be a dead man walking.

[@Lny_Forner]

So that's why Aussies haven't been killed by the magpie, emu, and spider hordes - prison really thoughened them up.

[@markfryer9880]

Don't forget the snakes, drop bears, Bunyips and crocs mate.

[@bingchillin3628]

Don’t forget kangaroos one kick and your dead.

[@joshuakelly1846]

Don’t forget. Sharks, jellyfish, dingoes, bindis, and a funny looking octopus

[@YorkshireMemes]

You’re welcome Australia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇦🇺

[@owenstephens526]

Why did i just a notification about this while there are comments from 3 weeks ago?

[@lucketravis5623]

owen stephens videos can be viewed early by paying subscribers

[@owenstephens526]

@@lucketravis5623 ohh thanks thought youtube was broken (more than usual)

[@Secount_eli]

Just that? *Soviet have more brutal punishment than this*

[@stayfree9167]

At least you guys stopped the German forces...

[@lonelywanderer1114]

stay inspired *stares in Canadian, French, British, and, American*

[@stayfree9167]

@@lonelywanderer1114 Stalingrad. Main battle.

[@lonelywanderer1114]

stay inspired yes, that was a smart move because Hitler was a nincompoop and attacked Stalingrad instead of Moscow. But to say that Russia joining the fight is what ended the war in Europe is as unfactual as saying only Americans fought in D-Day. Heck without those Canadian paratroopers D-Day wouldn't have been a success. So in short Russia was a big part of it but it was not the straw that broke the camel's back.

[@stayfree9167]

@@lonelywanderer1114 I never said that's what ended the war in Europe but that was the main part I would argue.

[@sdcard7129]

Is unproductive : Lashing *Does work more unproductively due to lashings* Guards : "*LASH THEM AGAIN*"

[@xaquko9718]

British logic

[@devonlord99]

Oh Hans your observation skills astound me

[@pandasniper1]

technically the lashing was not only for you. It was mostly for other people as they will think twice before making the same mistake as you

[@TonyGrant.]

For many being transported to Australia was the best break they ever got. My ancestor (John Grant) got shipped to Australia as a convict from Ireland in 1811. He worked hard and earned trust and eventually was put in charge of the estate of the colonies Assistant Surgeon. A few years later he petitioned Governor Macquarie for a mitigation of his sentence resulting in a pardon in 1820 on the condition he stayed in Australia. He was granted land (which he called Moyne Farm, named after his home in Ireland) and convicts in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. By 1828 - 17 years after transportation - he had about 4,150 of acres of land, about 10,000 livestock and over 50 men working for him - many were serving convicts. Later he was granted even more land further west at Canowindra. He ended up with massive holdings of several thousand acres and livestock. He died at 74, a very wealthy man with an estate worth about 3,000 pounds which is millions of pounds in today’s terms. None of this would have been possible if he'd remained in Ireland - he would have died very poor, probably at a young age.

[@emrox4181]

Fun fact for anyone unfamiliar with this history. It was convict etiquette to not cry, complain, or make a fuss about any of these punishments. This was done so the guards and person doing the punishment wouldn't get the satisfaction of knowing that they beat them. Thanks for reading, from an Aussie with convict ancestors. 😁🇦🇺

[@hannahsophia2156]

Can u make a video of how brutal slavery was? I'm just fascinated about the topic! Thankyou for taking your time to make educational videos for people all ages!

[@wtfistonicwater1120]

It’s like the animation gets better every video. I’m loving the hard work.

[@thenorthkoreanwifier2075]

You guys should do a video on this guy name Carl Wortley. All I know about him is that he was a Sargent in the special forces during the Vietnam War. From what I've learned he has over come some pretty intense things in the war.

[@lochlainkenndy2625]

Please do the siege of Tobruk

[@kayseek1248]

I’m from Australia, I can say that they’re brutal.

[@stayfree9167]

The English? Of course.

[@Jake5762]

Glad to see you convicts using your 15 minutes of internet wisely. Now back to breaking rocks!

[@vexili]

Thank you fellow Australian now go back in time

[@garrygilmoreseyes486]

Time traveller?

[@goodboishibe631]

Your country is not brutal.....England is brutal

[@irrelevant1242]

When you try to migrate to Australia: Australian: do you have a criminal record? Me: no, is that still required?

[@maddyg3208]

I heard that one in England in 1997. An oldie but a goodie.

[@rouymalic4463]

Solitary Confinement: *Exist* *AWACS Bandog:*Heavy Breathing**

[@topgunnergaming9267]

I'm Australian. I love how your doing Australian videos a week before the vote!

[@theonlyapple6654]

History: *exists* Simple history: *Its free Real Estate*

[@avelus5984]

I’ve learned recently about the penal colonies, and my teacher said that the British sent people to Australia as a punishment for their crimes. It was virtually impossible to escape from the island, and even if someone did, it would be a very treacherous journey to reach a safe country.

[@keegan6666]

Some tried to escape and it didn't work out for them. There was particular event of alexander pearce who was working in a chain gang working in Tasmania forest and managed to overpower their supervisor to escape into the thick Tasmanian forests with the plan to make it to the north of Tasmania, sailing across the bass strait on a raft and passing off as a emancipators or free settlers in other colonies. They got lost in the really dense rainforests and didn't have knowledge of how to get food. They eventually killed and cannibalised each other individually, with pearce being the only survivor who managed to make it back to the convict settlement that he escaped from. He was later hanged for the murder of one of the convicts, after they found body parts in his pockets.

[@lueyR]

Now all the pommy wannabe come to our country

[@C.A._Old]

it is ! ^^

[@DSMCasual]

0:54 Greatest Walking Animation Ever!

[@metalinyourhead3604]

You should do a video on Papillion and French penial colony. That would be a great story.

[@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847]

How to make it less brutal? Sing *Always look on the bright side of life.*

[@davedrewett2196]

A couple of my great grandfather’s x 4 and 5 were convicts sent to Tasmania in 1835 and 1836. One of them James Drewett got life but was out in ten.

[@Simplehistory]

Check out the Australian penal colony overview episode here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYSUYWpogtibiZI

[@bigheadman8590]

Your animations are getting better!

[@Sir_knight_trooper]

You got sent to this if you stole a hankie... royal:drops hankie Peasant: *grabs hankie off ground* "here you droped this" Royal: you stole it!! Guards!! Send him to Australia!!" Peasant: surprised pikchu face

[@1stdaybreaker707]

Martin Williamson That’s pretty much what would happen

[@HerrFresh]

Martin Williamson 😢 not all of us you know

[@_budget_builds_6715]

I love simple history videos thank you for working so hard to make these!!

[@jgjgjg739]

Can you do a video on the boer wars(both 1 and 2) Great videos

[@shotgun-n-boots4588]

You’re getting really close to 2 million subscribers

[@sviatoslavs.1305]

Someone (like 1.5 centuries ago): "Alright, Britain, how brutal are your prison colonies?" The British Empire: "Yes."

[@xxcrayonm4ncherxx]

Whats up simple history great vid

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Not as brutal as my labor camps however

[@1sm33l]

Mr. Kim jong-un why do you look like a mushroom

[@tyb8999]

Man I love history thanks for teaching me things school wouldn't

[@Wheaty03]

I was applying for Australian citizenship a few years back, I was asked if I had a criminal record, I didn't realize that it was still a requirement.

[@Mr-Ad-196]

Woah.

[@maddog5284]

My my im well over due

[@godofcodu13itch]

if you come here and commit a crime you can be deported, if you and your family have a child while here and it has a medical disability whether its mental or physical such a blindness or down-syndrome it will often be deported with its family.

[@zefanyamarcelino3555]

@@godofcodu13itch r/woooosh

[@milesellis2847]

My ancestor was transported to Van Diemen's Land and put on the road building gang. He sole a waistcoat to keep warm and was then flogged with 60 lashes and sent to Port Arthur to complete his extended sentence.

[@Dutch_T]

You should do the Bismarck ship

[@afniad426]

Nice to see another great history video at 2am.

[@minushukla9886]

Make a history over Blackbeard

[@abramhaynes5322]

Simple History has to be my favorite.

[@jeremiahardales6597]

Can you do the following videos: Anastasia Romanova and her rumors of survival The Guadalcanal campaign Battle of Leyte Gulf WW2 fighter planes such as the Zero, Hellcat and Corsair Audie Murphy John Basilone

[@MustacheCashStash125]

Convict : Gee guys, Officer John is such a dork hahaha! Officer : THAT'S IT, YOU'RE GETTING PUT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@majesticmonkiss2331]

All of this enraged their fathers, WHO PUNISHED THEM SEVERELY! This enraged his father, who punished him severely 3:31

[@weifenglim3919]

in Malaysia and Singapore we have canning which is like flogging but it goes for the butt

[@tinycurrency4233]

Australia : The original Gulags

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

I wonder where the UK will send people now? Make jokes and find out.

[@sudonim7552]

@@jayeisenhardt1337 Ministry of Love

[@xaquko9718]

@@sudonim7552 BB is proud of you

[@rocco2750]

@@jayeisenhardt1337 they don't send them anywhere,they are inviting them in

[@KowOneOhTwo]

I think it is worth noting that giant treadmills were operated by slaves in the latest Mad Max, which is directed by an Australian and takes place there.

[@yamato4169]

me: gets an f on a test my parents: 2:39

[@cbwavy]

Each punishment is so extreme in their own way 😱😱

[@chadgigachad8637]

Ubisoft be like: Yea let's make an Assassin's creed out of this

[@Lil_Prussian]

This is a very nice video I love it and would like to hear this guy in all the videos

[@philliptran4771]

Do a video on Iran-Iraq war, The only war that uses WWI tactics

[@benediktingolfsson4183]

Watching simple history drunk is underrated

[@sovietyuri7897]

British brutal colonization Hongkongnese people: i gonna pretend i didn't see it

[@flyingsac]

We're Cantonese not hong kongnese lol

[@garrygilmoreseyes486]

Against themselves? I thought that was fair game.

[@mayormayor7646]

Soviet Yuri Chinese government : Hold my Beers

[@CrafterboeyMiner]

Now it's brutal Chinese colonization

[@johnbutt2252]

Favorite channel

[@RegrettableUsername]

Can do something about the battle of the Philippine Sea or the Marianas Turkey shoot

[@calebdlugas5077]

yall should please do an episode on the Bismark.

[@tanishjain9190]

I knew treadmill was supposed to be a torture 😅

[@spongeybob2808]

Love your videos

[@Elainerulesutube]

At least criminals were dealt with in those days!

[@YeNZeC]

Yep... get treated better then most poor people.

[@cv4809]

Nowadays criminals get free healthcare service and cabble tv

[@petergray2712]

A lot of them weren't criminals, they were Irishmen that were engaged in political agitation against the British occupation. And in some cases they were tenant farmers arrested on trumped up charges by their landlords, who didn't want to bother with eviction proceedings.

[@simon_reacts1236]

England: next we will send chavs and roadmen to Australia

[@aslamnurfikri7640]

They are lucky, they're not sent to war against emus

[@Tricks27]

Give this channel 2m subs already!!

[@maddog5284]

Theres my good old British classism

[@alexbyrne184]

Loving the aussie content keep it up.

[@jerichamesclammay3107]

I thought the aboriginis were wild tribesmen who only killed the penal colonists to protect their land or something.

[@kayseek1248]

Luke Dearey don’t let them fool you.

[@Geopolitical_Muslim]

@@kayseek1248 Who?

[@jerichamesclammay3107]

@@kayseek1248 riiight.... PS: thankyou for not starting about how long ago this comment was made. You have my gratitude, friend.

[@dragonlord316]

You forgot to mention booting, and how disparaging the boot is a bootable offence lmao!

[@biggvshavtivsdickvsii8541]

You have to have watched The Simpsons in Australia episode for a good booting.

[@googleworkzone8147]

So who was more brutal.....? Comment for Hitler? Like for British Empire?

[@snipingflute4346]

The Aztec Empire.

[@swagimalitisc3494]

Its hard

[@maxace1078]

Google Workzone hitler

[@kartoffel5081]

You should do a video on the Vietnam “ghost tapes.”

[@akhi_bayyin]

Britian Rules the Waves: “... Britons shall never be slaves.” Me: *shows them this vid*

[@hamdoggyy7844]

Great video as always

[@SealiioNahka]

Hey could someone direct me to member only chat? Oh, and nice video!

[@gasmasklad6493]

0:48 must be a pretty large mirror because that’s a pretty long time to *reflect*

[@tveverything466]

2:03 So this means tredmill wil invented in 1823 by the British

[@stayhalalumarabdillah]

Very very....

[@thegreatcaeser6616]

“Where’s the toilet paper?” “Your toilet paper, is the *gympie gympie* “ “NOOOOOOO”

[@dontsubscribetothischannel8395]

Americans enter "Welcome to Australia" British Enter "Welcome to Prison"

[@newhorizon1355]

0:01 that dreaded stair climber machine at the gym. At 1:31 a slave during Coronavirus distancing.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Gee... Australia’s anthem is pretty much saying that convicts cannot escape

[@biggvshavtivsdickvsii8541]

Especially when it’s also girt by sea.

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Motto

[@michaelorourke3674]

In fact, once settled in Australia, the convicts consumed a diet, and experienced housing, superior to that received by free men and women at home. The organisation of their work was not very different from that in Britain and Ireland and, while cruel treatment did exist, the likelihood of numerous floggings during their term of sentence is shown to be a myth. See Convict workers : reinterpreting Australia's past / edited by Stephen, Cambridge University Press.

[@Nathan-ls4xt]

Seems pretty tame compared to what ISIS captives have to deal with. Could you at least do a video about that?

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

0:54 "Oooooh, chase me!"

[@jerrypalatty2344]

So Australia was a prison before becoming country.

[@markfryer9880]

Yes

[@magnorandreadolfsen6210]

Can you make a video about the heavy water sabotages in Norway in WW2 ?

[@p.h.562]

That sounds cool. I'd like to see Simple History make a video about that.

[@nova2._.]

9 likes, 44 views KZbin?

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

@Kenneth Bui it was getting old in 2008...

[@zulphur]

I recommend a visit to Fannie Bay Gaol in Darwin Australia.

[@TheRobloxExpert]

Idk what to write but uh roblox is cool

[@awkwarddoggo05]

Shut up

[@1sm33l]

Lol bro

[@1sm33l]

@@awkwarddoggo05 I'm the real doggo for I am a dank doge

[@berylnewton3630]

YES ANOTER ROBLOX FAN also *HAIL BACONS*

[@denniskibrik7310]

@@awkwarddoggo05 no u

[@holyholyholy40]

This is great! Can you do how brutal were the other British Colonies in India the middle east and South Africa?