Intriguing Tales from 18th Century London - An Online Historical Tour

[@harperwelch5147]

I often listen to your postings late at night. The apartment is quiet. My partner asleep. It’s like a comforting and calming story time for me. It’s always interesting and your casual and well informed sharings are so enjoyable and appreciated. You’ve become a familiar member of my late night, late in life, daily experience. I wanted to thank you that. Harper

[@noeldoyle4501]

Thanks so much for a very interesting history, your style and sense of humour is very enjoyable.

[@Aengus42]

I used to be the classic white van man inside the M25 mostly and i was often in the centre of town. But what used to drive me nuts was seeing all these places but never having the time to stop! This is, at last, scratching that itch. Thanks Edward! Much appreciated ☮️

[@edwardcalcutt3417]

Great to hear you have been enjoying the videos Les!

[@ljbonner]

Well, there's 55 minutes of my life very well spent. An interesting and engaging video very well executed and should entertain the masses much as Tyburn did. Thanks.

[@jimgordon6629]

The 18th century is my favorite period of British history. As you say, there was a wealth of eccentric and fascinating characters-Swift, Hogarth, Johnson, etc., and you beautifully brought this era to life! Congratulations on a job very well done!

[@andreaatkinson2251]

I really enjoyed this video. Not only entertaining, but I learnt quite a few new facts about London and it’s population back in time.

[@jeffreymorris1752]

Just found your channel. This is great stuff. Well done.

[@stellataunggyi5425]

Thanks - very interesting! I wonder if anyone here ever read Smith by Leon Garfield when they were a kid? It’s about a street urchin around this time who at one point is in Newgate prison. He attempts but fails to escape the first time by climbing up one of the chimneys , but eventually manages it by hiding under his sister’s enormous skirts! Amazing that someone in real life actually did manage to escape four times!

[@joycestewart7227]

Edward - I googled your name because it came up on my family tree! I wonder if we are somehow related! :-) I’m following you now and I’m a history buff too! Can’t wait to see what more I can learn from you!

[@ArcAudios77]

Thanks Ed, fascinating Historical coverage of the 'Great City'.

[@jardon8636]

very entertaining and informative podcast...

[@bryanthewalkietalkiecabbie2405]

Love your films Edward. Great clear facts.

[@edwardcalcutt3417]

Thank you :)

[@andreaandrea6716]

Me too!!

[@DJ-mr6um]

can't believe I haven't come across your channel yet! amazing, thank you

[@j0nnyism]

Ive just been reading Waverley by sir Walter Scott and a few of these tidbits are mentioned in that great historical novel

[@kimclarke5018]

Fascinating history lesson. Again thank you for sharing.

[@angieh8228]

An absolutely wonderful talk, thank you so much! As a student of the 18th century, your talk has given me lots of avenues to explore.

[@edwardcalcutt3417]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@unit23]

must be the supreme-human reaction....

[@stephengirling7859]

A really enjoyable and fascinating video. Great balance of narrative and amazing illustrations. Thank you. Just subbed.

[@Mounhas]

Interesting talk, thank you. Always new things to learn & no interruptions from scammy ads either!

[@andreaandrea6716]

These are absolutely marvelous!! Thank you so much!!

[@SophyaAgain]

36:00 In Thomas Hardy's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" the main character sells his wife while drunk. He was facing financial difficulty though next morning sober he try to find her without success.

[@freestylebagua]

You must love the movie Plunkett and MacCleane, even if an exaggerated view I feel it captures the essence of 1700s England as you present it.

[@siena4ever751]

Thank you. Beautiful.

[@RedcoatsReturn]

Another great education in one video..which…I watched all the way through. Truly marvelous! 😊 I predict you will very soon reach your thousand subs…more importantly in a year or two, you‘ll have more than ten thousand. Well done and keep it going 👍👍

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

I love the origins of sayings and often look them up - English is full of them. I had not come across "hangover" or "one for the road" before, so thank you - and for all the rest of it. I am very glad people are no longer hanged in London. I know that much else goes on - but still. that one at least, is laid to rest.

[@xqqqme]

If, as you say, you love to look up sayings and expressions, you definitely should for the two you cite. In Mr. Calcutt's narration, the words "seems" and "potentially" are the only suggestions that his explanations, though quite entertaining, might not be accurate.

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

@@xqqqme that's very true David. Thanks for the reminder. Almost everything of this kind is the result of someone's individual opinion of their own research. One should do one's own and have one's own opinion thereby. David is a beautiful name btw (my opinion). I called my first born David (verifiable fact). It means Beloved (something I looked up in a Baby Names book, being pre-web....but the Internet confirms). And he is my beloved. (An unprovable fact to me). No doubt, you are too.

[@novianovioTV]

Yes, that’s called History

[@j0nnyism]

The sale of wives was used by Thomas hardy as the beginning to his novel the mayor of casterbridge

[@charlotteclarke868]

I really loved this novel

[@cednescrsnjni4026]

Thank you much

[@mickosullivan3827]

1666 Redemption Through Sin by Robert Sepehr is a real good source of information regarding this very subject.

[@modtwentyeight]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@jonathanlarsrodseth8217]

This is just what I've been looking for. Great. Thank you

[@jontyarnold8522]

I love history but have always had a fascination with the 1700s, Jack Shepherd must have been quite a character, also James Figg, the 1st heavyweight champion, enjoyed the artwork of the time too…….

[@novianovioTV]

So well researched and presented. Many thanks. And, at last, someone whose narration truly complements the pictures; to form a whole. The ones where speakers just bullet point what they are saying, are irritating and pointless. And the tour de force here is completed by the brilliant readings.

[@GreggyAck]

I subscribed, obviously.

[@j0nnyism]

Is wearing mouse fur as eyebrows any less strange than injecting botulism to paralyse muscles?

[@andreaandrea6716]

!!! Great analogy!! (I'll go with mouse fur!)

[@babybutchie]

This is fabulously enjoyable. Thank you. But... people are hanged, not hung.

[@jackie0604oxon]

Yes, I was going to mention that. People are hanged, pictures are hung - that's what we were taught at school.

[@novianovioTV]

I wonder if people were hung for pedantry

[@user-ow5ll2wi1c]

Πολύ ωραίο!

[@xqqqme]

Edward, according to the listing in Wikipedia, Albion Mills was a steam powered *_flour_* mill. So it spun neither cotton nor wool and, even if it had used those raw materials, it would've produced thread or woven that into whole cloth and not garments as you say at 32:34.

[@novianovioTV]

Any chance you might preface your criticism with praise.

[@stephengirling7859]

I believe the last illustration shown of Tyburn convent also shows, on the very extreme left of the photo, what i believe to be the smallest house in London. I'll stand corrected if i'm wrong.

[@SophyaAgain]

42:18 I looooooooove Lucy!

[@travelorchidslondon]

Could you please make a video about East India Company? Thank you

[@penelopebellis2926]

Great

[@babybutchie]

Do you conduct tours?

[@topinstaller]

Would the red bricks have come from Daniel Defoe's brickworks at Tilbury?

[@jan3599]

How did they produce aerial maps in the 16th and 17th century when there were no planes?

[@xqqqme]

Gosh, if only there was some way to look up this information...some single portal into most everything known. Wouldn't that be great? Seriously, even before planes there were hot air balloons that could be tethered to the ground to create a stable platform for observation. Much farther back in history than that, there was also one's imagination.

[@Vince_uk]

Stock market and gambling, fascinating.

[@sarahlovesdonuts9601]

How does one gallop at a full trot?

[@sontayatoemsook1266]

You were born an aristocrat, you could not become one by trade

[@blueotter5990]

If you made enough money you could buy your way in through marriage to a poor aristocrat and get a title through their connections.

[@blueotter5990]

Mouse skin eyebrows, not "mouse fur". When someone is executed by the rope the past tense is "hanged" not "hung".

[@ericsparks6276]

I heard the people going to the gallows we're allowed one last free drink not several drinks to the point where they were so drunk when they were hung

[@firewaterpartners4748]

Just to be pedantic - meat is "hung", people are "hanged".

[@whdunstew2169]

If I may, it's "hanged" not "hung" - meat is hung.

[@unit23]

wish it vanished right after that pink story...

[@Abraham_Tsfaye]

When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere. Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country

[@mickosullivan3827]

I can assure you its all by design.

[@samuelbarrett9403]

Haha, what utter shite! 😂😂

[@novianovioTV]

You’re living in your own myth that there was once less litter, less opium, less drunkenness in times of old. As for women urinating in the streets; you made that up: we queue calmly however interminably

[@angloaust1575]

Probably a dreadful place to live Poor sanitation over crowded Better off in the country!

[@novianovioTV]

No; I’ve tried both in the modern era. And it’s same as it ever was: London or close to, every time. There is nothing to do in the country that you can’t do in a couple of weekends in the summer