London's Map, Explained

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

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[@matham625]

you get a lot wrong and you miss a lot (which is fair enough, especially as you are a yank) but stating "London was a hub of the slave trade" is a false and slanderous lie, propogated by Americans who wish to push the blame of slavery onto the British. (who stopped slavery) London was a Hub of world trade. what ever any of that trade was, it was trading in stocks and shares... THERE WAS NO SLAVERY IN BRITAIN ! saying "London was a hub of slavery" is like saying "Wall Street is a hub of sneaker manufacturing" no.. you can trade in shares in Nike and Addidas on wall street, but they dont make sports shoes there.

[@mikepembo8297]

@@matham625 It's the "tames" vs. "tems" that upset me :D

[@hopenield8234]

Great idea but a lot wrong. Including that the Monarch can’t enter the City of London without permission . J Draperr does great videos about London from their tour guide knowledge. Unlike you she does deep research on facts so she isn’t just promoting 100 year old myths that arose from the ceremony of the Pearl Sword which actually acknowledges the monarch’s sovereignty over the City. The City does have unusual levels of self governance but that doesn’t make it independent of the British Monarchy. There’s enough fake news on the internet without you promoting more. But your response to someone who pointed out you didn’t even pronounce Thames correctly (that being typical of you!) makes me think you have no interest in really getting things right. Just in getting more content out there. Shame. You have great ideas but it means I won’t be back. This myth arose

[@callmedatruth9479]

Could you do the map of fort Worth Texas please 🙏🏿 it's a lot of history there n I would love to see that

[@livinglondonhistory]

This is amazing- it was a pleasure working with you on this Dan and showing you around London! Hope everyone enjoys the video 🙌

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

This video wouldn’t exist without you. Thank you!!

[@FuddButter]

I just ordered your book so it will remind me when I come to the UK next, to book a tour!

[@ben3000]

How do you think London will change once Islam has claimed the city?

[@WangoBango]

You are a good guide. Shame Dan's pronunciation of the river Thames is so bad.

[@simonosborne4711]

Instead of building the Monument 202 ft high and 202 ft from the origin of the fire, why not build it 0 ft high and on the spot itself? I've always wondered this.

[@chuppl]

The king isn’t allowed in my basement studio apartment either

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

Tell him

[@aidanwotherspoon905]

If we didn’t have the second amendment, the King of England could come barging into your house right now and start pushing you around. Do you want that? Huh? Do you want someone pushing you around?

[@14caz68]

😂

[@cajungoat]

It's treason then!

[@FunctionallyLiteratePerson]

But can the king have the hidden gold from the Japanese empire

[@cleonawallace376]

As a londener myself who left back in 2001, and then lived in Rome where I worked for 6 years as a tour guide, I totally loved this! I'm reading a book set in 16th century london at the moment, and I realised that my mental map of where places like Blackfriars and Cripplegate were was totally gone. Thanks, and I will look up Jack when I next go back.

[@ojasvigoel]

Hi Daniel, I really like your videos but wanted to point out that the portion around the Tudor period is a little misleading. The end of the Tudor period was in 1603 - British Empire was not really a thing by that point, and neither was the transatlantic slave trade. This followed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and so did the addition of the ports circled on the map. Indeed, all the port facilities east of the City were built after 1800, and reflected the real growth in East India trade that happened in the late 18th century. One interesting point is that the prior development of shipping between 1600 and 1800 happened in the City itself, or the Pool of London - this is where e.g. Customs House is, and the many wharves and shipping facilities were. The overcrowdedness and lack of capacity here is what provoked the move out eastwards. Perhaps a small edit to make clear that the Tudor period was not the period in which the Empire, slave trade, or major port developments took place would be helpful!

[@Pope_Rural_I5184]

I think they meant that the Tudors where the start of it,

[@ojasvigoel]

@@Pope_Rural_I5184 it is hard to say that the Tudors or anything much prior to 1666 and the Great Fire falls under the development of the Industrial Revolution, the Docklands, or the Empire. Maybe Empire a little bit but the overall section there is pretty anachronistic.

[@jimhearsonwriter]

Jack's great - been on all his tours, and love both the detail he goes into plus his delivery. It's clearly stayed in my head too, as when some friends came down to London recently, I was spewing out facts that I'd learned from the tours!

[@joshuafloro9352]

Love these videos man! Keep up the great work!

[@ralphhebgen7067]

Thoroughly enjoyable. I was not born in London - or even in the UK - but I have lived here for 30 years and I will be buried here. Your video showed me aspects of the place I feel is my home that I never knew. Thank you for this!

[@davedeilhsm]

Cracking video, really enjoyed it. Speaking as a Brit who likes to visit London and find this hidden corners and hot foot back to Kings Cross.

[@odanabunaga2505]

great video! Just picked up Jack's book and going to enjoy walking around the City even more now

[@rosswhy]

Every time Daniel says Thaymes instead of Thames, a young Brit collapses

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

🫢 the damage I’ve done…

[@claudia-ayuso]

Just as I get ready to wrap up my time in London you make me curious about it again. Damn.

[@strafrag1]

Fabulous video, Daniel. Thanks to you and Jack. Bravo.

[@Bjamminn]

This has been a massively informative video, but I was confused by the brief moment of 'canal mania'. Did this segment of the film get cut out?

[@jujutrini8412]

Well done. I enjoyed this immensely. 👏👏👏

[@PhilliesNostalgia]

I feel like that doing a Philly video would be a little boring (maybe). But it would be cool to see a bit more as to how my neighboring city started out and kept growing

[@deepgandani2864]

Please do any Indian cities like Mumbai or Delhi in this format! This was so fun to watch.

[@raystewart3648]

Correction is needed here about the death toll in the Fire of London. An est 5000 people died in the 1666 Fire of London, but back then the common folk where not counted as they where poor, plus immigration in those days made up almost 60% of the population, thus no one knew who they where and if anyone was in a building that burnt down. Only people with high status was counted. It was the same with the counting of the dead for the Krakatoa eruption, only the Wealthy was counted as dead not the natives or poor people.

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

Ohh I need to look closer into this. Thank u!

[@MrFlyingguy]

As a Londoner, I never knew that monument was supposed to house a telescope.... take my sub with pleasure young man

[@daveherbert6215]

Where there is discord may we bring harmony were the words uttered by Thatcher as she entered Downing Street. She really kept her word just like 'privitising' Streeting will

[@CanIGetAhhh]

Surely today this is just a local government area or some form with some quirks Sydney is like that as it was originally multiple settlements. Same with Melbourne

[@SeawardPuppy]

Very intriguing episode!

[@MaazAshrafi]

Loved this, more please!

[@zeroxception]

Toodor? Tames? Trafallgar?

[@BritishBeachcomber]

13:07 Due to taxes, tolls, rent and investments over many centuries, the City if London Corporation is now worth £1.5 trillion.

[@kpwjjwemmcj]

You should do a video about Amsterdam! Great video about London thx

[@VanillaMacaron551]

I just found out that it's named that because it was a dam on the River Amster.

[@Baddroneflying]

​@@VanillaMacaron551Amstel like the lager

[@MrAlexs888]

learned alot, thanks!

[@MLV_1129]

Brits just love teasing the French. Great flim!

[@burnm6078]

They are not called Dragons, the figures which are at every entrance to the City of London.

[@keiross]

History of Berlin, pleeeeeeeeease!

[@Aengus42]

It's been done mate.

[@Archimedes115]

Map Men are under attack

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

Ahaha I could never

[@LastElf42]

@@DanielsimsSteiner Yeah Jay's way too serious compared to this satirical nonsense (Please do a collab next time you're in the UK)

[@pavelow235]

I could binge on both all day long.

[@ManualPixarPresents]

I’ll mark the settlement on your map

[@davidec.4021]

Emengency

[@LinusBoman]

Brilliantly done. For your own sanity though, I would recommend adding the words "Thames" "Tames" and "Tems" to your blocked words list in your comment settings. 😂

[@gracewenzel]

are you having “coronated” flashbacks? 😉

[@ArtemisScribe]

It's always interesting to hear how visitors to the city pronounce Thames. It feels like such a simple word to me purely down to familiarity but the sheer breadth of different pronunciations I've heard over the years is kind of incredible. I didn't know there were so many ways to pronounce such a short word.

[@maikhildebrandt9921]

@@ArtemisScribe I think it comes down to it being not very intuitive. Starts with a "th" that doesn't get pronounced like one, which is quite uncommon I think. I'm sure there are other examples, but I can't think of any right now :D It then goes on with "ames" which looks like the very common words "names" and "games" and "same", all of which are pronounced differently to how Thames is pronounced. I never really had an issue with the pronunciation being from Germany, because we call that river the "Themse" (pronounced like in English but with an added E at the end), and TH often is pronounced T in German, so the correct pronunciation feels right to me. But I can see how a lot of people can get very confused by it because it doesn't follow the most obvious pronunciation rules.

[@ArtemisScribe]

@@maikhildebrandt9921 yeah it's kind of cool to figure out that actually the way we say it is a hangover of the more Germanic roots of the language rather than anything to do with how we pronounce things now

[@kevinquinn1993]

@@maikhildebrandt9921"Thyme" comes to mind as another example. Most Americans know the proper pronunciation of the Thames River in my experience. I remember learning it in my youth. I do try to be charitable when I hear mispronunciations of various words, but I must admit hearing that one mispronounced is very cringe-inducing! 😓

[@EmpressLizard81]

Favorite line from the video: "Paris is quite nice, only because the French didn't ruin it."😂 I love a witty Brit.😆

[@wandererkent]

An older, much snarkier, equally funny Jay Foreman

[@sambell309]

It's also funny because the French did destroy the medieval layout of Paris to replace it with wide straight streets and a radial grid

[@kanedaku]

He's not lying though 😀

[@rexfrancorum]

@@sambell309 I love Medieval architecture but i must say Paris is better now since Haufmann's work on the city. Street are wider and cleaner. Paris remains one of the most beautiful city in the world (well it was before the 2000's at least). But i think London is one of the most beautiful city too.

[@jyothathi9566]

@@rexfrancorum but not one of the safest (both paris and london)

[@jareth0205]

River Tayms? Ouch. River Tems!

[@nat_penrose]

I'm from the states and kinda taken aback at how much it even grates me, he just keeps saying it!!!

[@rustinrogers]

Yeah I was a bit shocked to keep hearing that!

[@L-mo]

/ðeːmz/ or "thaymz. would have been how the Thames was pronounced in Shakespearean times. That is preserved in Rhode Island, for example, where there is a street Thames that is pronounced as /ðeːmz/ or "thaymz." The pronunciation in Britain changed to "temz" (/tɛmz/) over the years but the memo never reached the US. As with so many pronunciation and spelling differences between US and UK English, the US versions are usually the more conservative (ie older) versions. (p.s. I'm a Londoner).

[@ZhougLover]

I reckon it's a manipulative troll to get people to comment

[@EDScool12345]

It's all arbitrary.

[@skoodledoo]

23:15 It's London Overground, a National Rail service (with TfL branding) that runs through it, not the tube. I'm lucky enough to drive the trains through them every day. I still marvel at it every time I go through.

[@anthonylloyd6094]

Prior to London Overground, it was the East London Line , which was a tube line.

[@comicus01]

yeah, that was a small goof, given that it used to be part of the Underground. But! What sort of hurt my ears was the way he pronounced "Thames" when saying Thames Tunnel, He did it twice! But at least he was consistent. And I'm an American, so otherwise I sound like him.

[@Raaaahhhhbbbie]

“When the Industrial Revolution was picking up steam” was such a clever pun

[@SL89999]

Having lived in Clerkenwell near St John’s Gate & working on Fleet St for 10 years - my BEST ADVICE to NEW AND EXPERIENCED visitors to London - is to explore on foot, avoid main roads and get lost in the many narrow alley ways around London Wall, Temple, Blackfriars, Guildhall and Leadenhall in particular. It’s in these alleys you will discover some of the oldest & unique & near forgotten remnants of the city, which most tourists and residents miss. Enjoy!

[@bryansmith1920]

I'm a 70yr old born a man of Kent, moved up to London SE, became a Kentish man, from 6yrs old till, I moved, "upt noorf" @ 21yrs old, I had family all over London, the Platts, and Brownings, and of course the "Smifffs" Great City to grow up in, But yer can stuff it, when yah got kids to care for,

[@ahmedsaddique2239]

😂😂 I live in Spitalfields at the age of 9 I got lost in the Barbican and the police were called..

[@lmo7724]

When the KZbin algorithm gets it right, you get to watch something special like this.

[@chrischarman8707]

I’ve worked in London for 30 years; as a history grad you coexist and witness 2000 years of history every day as this video well illustrates

[@SamAronow]

"Wake up babe, Young Peter Sarsgaard has a new map video."

[@SamBrickell]

"Wake up babe, this joke is officially completely played out."

[@jasonhildebrand1574]

More like a young Stewart Hicks

[@DanielFoulsham]

Though I was born in London, lived there for four years and ain't lived there for 20, it always fills me with a sense of pride seeing my city rise up out the horizon any trip down there. It will always have a place in my heart, with it's lumps and bumps and ugly bits, but also it's beauty, impeccable character and incomparable vibe that will stay with me where'er I go. You may take the boy out of London, but you can't take the London out the boy. Bless you namesake, proper and well researched piece, more power to ya!

[@socratesmiranda]

Dan, I'm from Brazil and from a very young age I was interested in the urban side of places, I have a collection of maps of the places I've visited and I've always loved the historical context involved and man... your channel is a gift, I believe for everyone who loves this subject Thank you very much! Hugs from Brazil❤️🇧🇷

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

Wow I’m so glad!! Thank you!

[@defski]

It's pronounced tems, not tames 🙄

[@Bruce-h8w]

Thanks for an outstanding collaboration. You two complement each other so well. When I inherited my mother’s diaries, I discovered I had survived the 1940 blitz (barely born!). We lived under ‘bomber alley’ so were lucky to pull through.

[@borisvdr]

One of my favourite things to point out is the name of the church St Martin-in-the-Fields which is today at one corner of the very busy Trafalgar Square. When it was founded it really was "in the fields" between the City and Westminster

[@glennac]

Daniel, stunning documentary. This is the kind of content that the History Channel or Discovery use to produce. And the cable networks wonder why no one is watching. 🙄 Thanks You❣️🙏🏼

[@SebNutter]

Makes a documentary about London, fails to learn how to say Thames.

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

If that ain’t me… classic Daniel move lol

[@HweolRidda]

worse than that. The people he interviewed said the river's name many times. He obviously was not listening.

[@producedbypodcast]

As a loyal follower of you, enthusiastic geography geek and primarily, Londoner, this is what I wanted to see! Awesome content as always, Dan 🙌🔥

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

This means the world!! I’m so glad 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you so much

[@lance1246]

Babe, wake up. Another Daniel Steiner video just dropped.

[@steinarjonsson_]

0:21 This is simply not true. Any person can freely enter the City of London, and I'm a bit surprised that a freeman of the City of London doesn't seem to know that Queen Elizabeth II was an honorary freeman herself. The british crown may not be the head of state for the City of London, but they can certainly enter the City of London whenever they please.

[@skellious]

While the monarch can freely enter, by custom they wait for presentation of the sword symbolising authority over the city.

[@DJVLDN]

The idea that the King can’t enter the City without asking for permission isn’t true. It’s a common misconception. What happens is that the monarch stops at the entrance of the City (Temple Bar, on Fleet Street) and there’s a ceremony with the Lord Mayor. People misunderstood that this was the monarch being stopped and then being let in by the Lord Mayor but it’s actually a ceremony where the Lord Mayor in a way pledges allegiance to the monarch. It’s the opposite of that people think, it establishes that the monarch rules over the City, not that the City is in some way independent.

[@Newportbanking]

Hmm that’s weird that someone who lives and works there says different

[@DEFarnes]

​​​@@Newportbanking"Never let facts ruin a good story" The trouble is the City is a very unique place because it has been unique since "Time Immemorial". Things that help perpetuate the myth include: The ceremony itself, although no permission is ever asked for or given. The fact that William the Conqueror essentially did a deal with the City to say "you can keep on doing what you are doing so long as you accept me as King". The Magna Carta says "the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties by land as well as by water". Nowhere or no one else has this clause. Also in the city of London, The Lord Mayor is the next important person after the Monarch, while in the rest of the country it would be the Monarch's consort and then Heir, the rest of the royal family and probably archbishops. As well as being a bit of a City Nerd I am sometimes a contractor to the Corporation of London.

[@DJVLDN]

⁠​⁠@@NewportbankingIt’s not weird when you think about it, he’s clearly a very passionate man and unfortunately someone who is passionate about a topic will sometimes believe and repeat myths that make the thing they love more interesting than it actually is. It’s like video game / film / book lore. Obsessive fans of a piece of content will learn everything there is to know about it and then go further by coming up with their own lore, backstories, interpretations, headcanons, etc and sometimes they like that lore so strongly that they repeat it as fact and the community just accepts it as fact. But it’s still just made up. This particular myth is very similar to idea of that the American who bought London Bridge thought he was buying Tower Bridge. It’s a fun story that tourists love to hear and tour guides love to tell. It’s not true but a lot of people really want it to be true. It’s a problem that this video seems to use a tour guide as its main source. Tour guides are generally more entertainers than historians.

[@elkippy]

@@DEFarnes apologies for the pedantry but I believe it's just "Magna Carta" rather than "the manga carta"

[@DEFarnes]

@@elkippy I'm all for Pedantry!

[@lobstersneverdie5097]

No way did you do all that research and then mispronounce the name of the River Thames !!!! Still once I got over that it was a great video, even as a Londoner I was entertained and informed 😂, I even liked, commented and subscribed!

[@ianthepelican2709]

Hearing "Tames tunnel" is like hearing fingernails scratching down a blackboard. 🤬

[@TheKyleRogers]

I live for these and annoy all my friends to watch them.

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

King 👑

[@mildlydispleased3221]

There's no way you just pronounced it "River Taims"

[@tehduffman]

Nice video but how to you mispronounce Thames every time?

[@jimmeade2976]

I'm surprised you spent time in London, and no one corrected your pronunciation of the River Thames ... it's TEHMZ, not TAMEZ.

[@thehistoryofmoney2464]

10:49 Fascinating video! From a hydrological pov, a “bar” is an accumulation of sediment on the outside of a sharp bend in a river. Looking at the flow of the Thames from left to right, Temple Bar is right where I would expect a bar to accumulate flood stage sediment.

[@freppers2666]

That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s not called bar from the word barbican, meaning entrance to a fortified city/castle etc? All the gates in the city of York are called bars… Micklegate Bar, Bootham Bar, Walmgate Bar etc and they aren’t located next to the riverbank.

[@irenejohnston6802]

​York/Jorvik under Danish control. The Gate was the way and the Bar was the entrance​@@freppers2666

[@gnarboi]

Visiting London for the first time this week! Im from LA, too excited

[@johnnzboy]

Not sure I can believe that you really went to London if you pronounce the name of the river like that ;)

[@hens0w]

He might have been in greater manchester

[@Jesse-cx4si]

Says a guy who probably puts an “F” in lieutenant.

[@WangoBango]

Good video, however you spent a while in London, I can't see how you pronunciation of the river Thames is so bad. Its pronounced Tems. You're saying Tames.

[@SpiritmanProductions]

What a wonderful video. Thank you so much. 🙏

[@POTThaesslich]

If all the comments are doing is criticising the pronunciation of a word I think you've done well on the content. And Jack is a real fountain of knowledge.

[@kanedaku]

_fontaine*_

[@bradnelson3595]

It was the horrible background music that stood out. But very interesting otherwise.

[@CricketEngland]

Actually it’s know as “THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER” not “THE CITY OF LONDON” - surprised you did know that

[@tomasvegaroulet]

Would be great to see Edinburgh explained, as most the older city is still here!

[@DanielsimsSteiner]

👀

[@justmeajah]

Ahahaha thinking the same 😂

[@henreereeman8529]

Great vid but it's pronounced Tems, not Tames

[@Broken_Femur]

Being German I am kind of ashamed that I didn't recognize where the name for the street "Strand" came from because the modern day German word for beach is still "Strand" like in old English :D

[@R_5_D]

I have to say something when people mention the British Empire and slave trade. We rarely captured and enslaved people. We often bought them from the locals who were happy to sell their own people in exchange for supplies and weapons which they then used on their own people. It is a mistake to think we were the sole "evil" in that time period. We were just better at "Empire-ing"

[@cesartorres8404]

Interesting material. The problem is, however, that you mix buildings, sites and historical periods, and you go back and forth with little seriousness in some lapses. For instance, the Parliament as we know it today is built in neogothic style in the 19th century; yet someone who watches this video would be driven to believe the current building dates back to medieval times. Then, you travel seamlessly from the Tudors to the British Empire (which only emerged and developed two hundred years later) and back to the great fire of 1666. Another thing is, if you are to analyse a complete London map, one would expect some comments and elaboration on other boroughs of the city and how it evolved into its huge metropolitan area, or some data about relevant infrastructure projects (from the Battersea Power Station to Heathrow Airport to the belt motorway to the tube and its lines and expansions). And maybe, just maybe, some insight on why the southern half of the city (that is, the one south of the Thames) has always been relegated if compared to its northern counterpart). And I'm referring to modern times, not the marshlands in the Roman era... That said, my greetings.

[@ElGrandoCaymano]

No, the East India Company wasn't enslaving people, nor was it using London as a "hub" in the slave trade. Facts found on the Internet often tend to be incorrect. Also the London 'Blitz' is not short for 'Blitzkrieg, rather it's the German word for lightning!

[@PhilipCrichton]

The river Thames is pronounced /'temz/. You were pronouncing it /'teɪmz/ with an American long A diphthong. That said, well done.

[@mlj9931]

What's nice about somebody who is not from the area doing such a history is that they are struck by all sorts of things that natives take for granted but which are pretty cool. I enjoyed "his surname wasn't 'The Eighth' but 'Tudor'" (or words to that effect), though kings (and others such as prince and princesses of the UK) don't actually have surnames at all. Princes William and Harry used 'Wales' when at school because their father was Prince of Wales at the time, though they are part of the House of Windsor and descendents of male lines of the late Queen that need a surname use 'Mountbatten-Windsor', e.g. Lady Louise M-W.

[@andrewsnyders0411]

"When the industrial revolution was just picking up steam." I see what you did there, beautiful word play!

[@jetsons101]

When the Industrial Revolution was picking up steam (13:33) --- "Great play with words."

[@maritsa1838]

great video, shame you didnt take the time to figure out how to pronounce some basics like The Thames and St Katherine Docks.

[@ianthepelican2709]

The Fleet river actually still exists, it originally ran as a stream, then as population grew it slowly turned into an open sewer, was formalised into a drain and eventually covered in. The drain still flows under Farringdon Street.

[@stevet7695]

I believe that distances to and from London are measured from Charing Cross, not Trafalgar Square.

[@ljtinney]

I can't tell you how much I look forward to these! Please come to Philadelphia to do one sometime.

[@adnamamedia]

Yes! love this city

[@Mathemagical55]

This is probably the most accurate history of the City of the London on youtube. The only real mistake is Reg believing that the monarch needs permission from the Lord Mayor to enter the City.

[@the_doomcliff]

This is some of the most interesting, well put, well worder, introspective, well filmed piece of content that exists. Crazy good. Thank you so much for such quality!

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I watch jack the guy whos got the youtube channel who shows you hidden stuff around London

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Forgive me for sounding a little up myself but as an Englishman, I should like to congratulate you and thank you for this production. It is quite simply by far the very best view by any american of the "ol' country" that I've had the pleasure to come across since first I dipped into the land of You Tube in the first place. Bravo!

[@jammin023]

This was fascinating. I lived in and near London for many years so I knew some of it, but still learned a lot. Although there is so much history still extant, a lot of it is hidden away or non-obvious and you can walk past it every day without realising. I will check out some of these places on a future visit, thank you. FYI, Thames is pronounced "temz".

[@robnewton3368]

The foundations (part of) of the Roman amphitheatre are on display in the bottom level of the Guildhall art gallery. Dates back to AD70. Simply amazing to see.

[@Zharkov1969A]

Great video however The Thames is pronounced Tems rather than rhyming with aims.

[@ianh4754]

I thought all distance measurments in LOndon were take freom the monument at Charing Cross?? Also DIdn't Henry VIII put the domes on tower of london? ???

[@DEFarnes]

The description of the domes was just to say which building the White Tower was in that shot.

[@valeriegillespie7981]

ITS THAMES!!! (like temz)

[@Jesse-cx4si]

Says a guy who probably puts an “F” in lieutenant.

[@akalaotinanai]

It would make my entire LIFE if you did Athens next! Theres literally millenia of history to cover.

[@topquarkbln]

This is the best history documentary I've seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍❤️

[@derekdartes3573]

The river Thames is pronounced TEMMS. Cheers.

[@driaan_louw]

This was such a treat - I've never wanted to visit London before this! So many cool things I wanna see for myself. Such a treat to be taken on a virtual tour with Jack. I'm also amazed at how you actually covered the city from start to today - you could make a whole video on just one of the ages! The story, the maps, the cinematography...chefs kiss. Love you dude!

[@boblebob]

great video but it hurts my ears how you pronounce Thames

[@jca111]

So much research - yet he cannot pronounce Thames correctly.

[@alfiewright1396]

Jack has got that BBC accent/intonation, almost a politician's tone in a way

[@richardsmith-jr9wd]

It’s pronounced Tems not Tames! Rhymes with Tens not Tains. Ignore the spelling of Thames.

[@richardsmith-jr9wd]

Like stems without the s.

[@gibby8344]

I’m visiting London in about a month and after watching every video on your channel, I was really hoping this video would be posted. Thanks Daniel!

[@miatx6818]

Suggestion for new Map Explained video (my favorite) Do AMSTERDAM PLEASSEEE.

[@jasonhildebrand1574]

It's probably just the mustache, but every time I see you I am reminded of Stewart Hicks.

[@MCT72]

Great video. Fascinating pronunciation. Tudor, Thames and Tube are my favourites.