LONG ROAD TO BECOMING THE COUNTRY WE KNOW! Canadian's First Time Reaction To The History Of England!

📜 About the History of England: The history of England is a rich tapestry woven with events that have shaped not just the nation itself but also the world. From ancient settlements and the establishment of the monarchy to significant events like the Norman Conquest and the Industrial Revolution, England's journey is filled with pivotal moments that reflect the evolution of society, culture, and governance. Understanding this history provides insight into the country it has become today.
Join us as we react to the documentary "The History of England"! This reaction is not just about uncovering the past but also about appreciating the complexities and nuances that have shaped England over the centuries.
🔍 What to Expect in This Video:
First Impressions: Our initial reactions to the storytelling and presentation of England's history.
Historical Context: We’ll discuss key events and figures that played a role in the formation of England as we know it.
Cultural Insights: Exploring how the historical developments influence contemporary society in England and beyond.
🤜🤛 Who We Are: We’re a couple intrigued by history and passionate about sharing our genuine reactions and insights as we learn more about the world!
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[@PeterDay81]

Aethelflaed, also known as "Lady of the Mercians", was an Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia in England, and is considered one of the most powerful female rulers of her time: Warrior Aethelflaed was a formidable warrior and the only Anglo-Saxon known to have commanded an army. She led the defense of Mercia against Viking invaders

[@WesWsly]

We've latanised the name as it was simply Merc.. a place denoting a boundary/border in this case the middle lands. Over time its just become Mercia.

[@robertpearson8798]

The more knowledge you have of the past the better you can understand the present.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

When I got my ancestry DNA analyzed I got a big chunk labelled as "Broadly Northeastern Europe and England". This reflects the movements of people like the Angles, Saxons, Normans, etc. throughout northern France, NE Germany, and the Low Countries in addition to the British Isles. They couldn't pinpoint a specific area but the paper trail I have includes immigrants from England, Germany, and the Low Countries (Holland and Flanders). My Scottish genes WERE able to be pinpointed which shows how little incursion those groups had into Scotland although my surname comes from a Scandinavian (probably Danish) mercenary soldier who joined the service of a Scottish chieftain in the 13th century and was given land in the Borders as a reward for his service and the Clan still has some of the land and a 16th century castle on it.

[@garymeyer4243]

There is a good miniseries called the Last Kingdom about this time period in England and Alfred the great, based on a series of novels by Bernard Cornwell

[@robertpearson8798]

A great and entertaining series but I’m not sure I’d take it too seriously as a work of history. In fairness though it doesn’t claim to be a documentary.

[@DigiDivide]

one of the best series i've ever seen.

[@garymeyer4243]

@@robertpearson8798 The Uetred and Bebenburg main story is certainly not, Cornwells fiction is so great the way he weaves great characters w real historical people and events

[@scottedwards33]

I was just about to write this.

[@loremasterxp3635]

Great books & series, the movie was pretty meh though in my opinion, good thing season 5 has such a great ending so the movie can be skipped during rewatches.

[@leejones2640]

As a Welsh speaking Welshman (Cymro Cymraeg, in our language) it is nice to hear that Barbells has some Welsh heritage. British history is indeed rather complex and bloody. My heritage is Cornish, Welsh, and Scots. But I am not a flag waving nationalist nut. We are all Homo Sapiens at the end of the day. I really enjoy your channel and I hope that your troubles with KZbin are resolved😊

[@loremasterxp3635]

Nothing wrong with Nationalism, but the rediculous & extreme levels of patriotism you see in places like say...China, that is indeed nutty.

[@StuartistStudio1964]

I'm definitely a Heinz 57 ethnic mix. English, Irish, Scottish (with 11th Century Flemish mercenary ancestry), French, German, and Native American (uncertain of which Nation).

[@DigiDivide]

if you guys get it over in the US... you should 100% check out the show 'The Last Kingdom'. it's all about the early history of England and is very historical accurate. far better than 'Vikings' imo.

[@rittherugger160]

I'm a bit of an American Anglophil. The history of Britiannia has been one of my hobbies. I loved the Vikings series abd only had one problem with it. The architecture was all wrong.There were too many buildings of a type that wouldn't exist for another 300 to 500 years at least. I knew that before I had ever seen even one episode of Time Team. The Anglo Saxons didn't 'take over' England. They, at one time, have control of what became England but Wessex took it all back. What did happen was that their culture came to be incorporated into that of the English. To a lesser extent Viking culture grew also.

[@airgun10]

glad to see you still here after your problems with you tube hopefully you will get the chance to react to " What dose it take to earn the British medal of honor the Victoria cross" the story of the medal and the men who earned it very humbling when you here about these heroes

[@VivienneHodson]

My ancestors and DNA proved I am 30% Swedish, 5 % Germanic and definitely English and have records before William the conqueror. in Norfolk. Our city was known as Norvik before changing to Norwich latter on in History.

[@bevan2342]

epic history’s video on the Vikings is well worth the watch 👍🏼

[@cassu6]

Interesting that they didn't go as far as William the Conqueror? I think that was the last extremely big change for England, especially in terms of culture, language and laws.

[@eddiec1961]

An interesting video and will help you to understand why there is so many castles in the UK thanks for the video.

[@FrancesThompson-e3m]

The Celts at the time of the Roman Invasion had Female Leaders like Boudicca and Cartimandua who was Queen of the Brigantes which was the biggest tribe across England. Both fearsome warriors!

[@kaiser9109]

@@FrancesThompson-e3m Yeah it appears in the records all over the place but gotta remember that was far from the norm at the same time

[@telstar4772]

A point not mentioned is the name "England" ,it originated from the Land of the Angles to Angleland to England.

[@dirtbikerman1000]

I live 1 mile away from a 2000 year old roman fort, a couple of miles away from a 1000 year old castle I live not far from sherwood forest (20 minute drive) Theres more 1000 year old castles nearby Abbeys that henry 8th destroyed 10 mins away Another historic thing close to me is a place called Scrooby where William Bradford and william brewster lived, 2 of the founding fathers of America lived there I pass there house on my dog walk Google scrooby, founding fathers, Austerfield too

[@dorothysimpson2804]

He missed out The Beaker People who are thought to have built Stonehenge. Also, King Canute the King of Denmark, Norway and England for twenty years, then his son Harthacanute ruled. Dublin was founded and ruled by the Vikings, aswell as The Isle of Man. I am over a third Scandinavian, plus Welsh, Scottish and Irish, also some Italian.

[@williswameyo5737]

The Kingdom of England united under Aethelstan from the Kingdom of Wessex, uniting the Anglo-Saxons

[@williswameyo5737]

The Anglo-Saxons pushed out the Celtic Britons from England and pushed them west,they later formed seven Kingdoms- most place names in those lands have the suffix -ex, like Sussex, Wessex, Middlesex, other kingdoms including Northumberia, East Anglia, Mercia and even Kent

[@BardOfAndromeda]

The "Ethel" names originally stem from the German "Edel" which means "noble" :)

[@WesWsly]

Although Aethel in old english translated denotes nobility, names that started with Ae like Aethel, Aelthwyn, Aethelstan etc have a more deeper importance for the peoples as it has links to the idea that Elves (which it has links in the name) and the Elvish folk were seen as high born, almost godlike and magical occupying a place below the pagan gods of old and just above normal humans. Kings would claim descent from Elves, noble born thus the names like Aethel.

[@BardOfAndromeda]

@@WesWsly Interesting, and I can well believe it. There is also the "el" motif throughout history denoting Elohim, of course. This also likely ties in with el-ves, el-egance, el-evation, el-ectricity, el-ections, el-ocution etc ...

[@never2late_mtb349]

Another great historical series to consider is the 1973 World at War narrated by Lawrence Olivier. An entertaining deep dive into some of the conflict's particular events such as the Battle of Britain and Britain's war in the Far East can be found on KZbin by Hardthrasher. Though his particular delivery might need you employing a bleep machine. But he really digs into the personalities, tactics, blunders, and outcomes.

[@estranhokonsta]

The anglo saxon could also be called vickings if we strech the definition just a little bit.

[@wasp6594]

Ironically, the Danish vikings came from Jutland, which was where the Anglo Saxon Jutes came from 400 years earlier. The Danish vikings were the descendents of Anglo Saxons. Which is why Danish and English dna is similar

[@barrypos55]

I'm a mongrel. Scots, Irish, touch of Italian..... chunk of German. And live in what was 'southern strathclyde'....Cumbria.

[@tommyLcarter20]

Big up the Channel islands!

[@jonbrookes9434]

this video annoyingly finished without mentioning the most noted part of Edgar's rule In 973 Edgar of England was rowed up to his coronation as Emperor of Britain by the kings of Scotland, Dublin, Isle of Mann and princes of Gwynedd, Daffid and Powys (Welsh princedoms) to confirm the English King as their overlord. this is put at the origin of a United Kingdom of Great Britain under English rule, but again, that idea doesn't run smoothly. If you liked Vikings, try The Last Kingdom. much better, more in-depth drama about the Viking invasion period.

[@larryairgood4320]

Come December, do .... The History of Christmas. PBS has one, and there must be others. And then there is also the very good movie for your Christmas entertainment of what inspired Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol", the movie being titled "The Man Who Invented Christmas".

[@captaincaveman5175]

Got to admit I did laugh when you said three shouldn't be any conflict or warfare lol .

[@TimoDyer]

They missed the people of Britain from 6000 BC to 410 AD.

[@estranhokonsta]

Not enough minutes in a youtube video for that.

[@williswameyo5737]

The Vikings really thrashed at the Anglo-Saxons first time at Northumberia, the Norse army led by Ragnar Lothbrok raised the monasteries too, based from the Netflix series Vikings

[@WesWsly]

Actually its never been proven that he existed or even was there. We only have a name of ragnar or something similar, there isnt even any evidence that ironside was his son.. this seems to have been added on to the story after. You shouldn't believe everything on netflix especially a show that has people fighting without any protection.

[@alexfilma16]

Vikings isn’t a Netflix series.

[@dirtbikerman1000]

I did the my heritage dna test Im 59% English 29.9% irish 8.5% baltic (Baltic/finish was a viking group) 1.6% finnish 0.8% central Asian (gangis khan) Annd a very tiny trace of Italian (Romans) Watch a video on york England its a castle city influenced by the Romans and vikings

[@donjackson5522]

Cool video. I learned a lot but wish it had gone a little more in depth. For example, what was so special about Northumberland that the Vikings/Danes and the Dublin Kingdom kept attacking there? And why didn't England ever try to take over Wales?

[@loremasterxp3635]

Dublin was actually founded by the Vikings (which refers to the Danes too) & developed into their most important trading center in the western world which they eventually lost to the Irish in the early 10th century. As for why they were always attacking Northumbria? Well because it was rich but also weak making it an easy target & they were also likely drawn to the mystersism surrounding those lands, & lastly it was also because they were sailing from Scandinavia (most of the time) so it's where one would naturally end up when sailing west. Also we conquered Wales in the late 11th century, that's why it's part of the United Kingdom to this very day. Ireland used to be too for centuries until their independence in 1921, however we kept Northern Ireland.

[@sinisterkate5308]

yeah, this started at the end of the roman empire. original peoples of this region were dark skinned people that migrated out of Africa along the Mediterranean sea. later the germanic tribes moved in, the celts were Germanic. then came the romans and so on. i bet Sam has strong middle eastern ancestry, looking at her looks. Phil - germanic/slavic.

[@gretamckenzie4245]

yes please

[@kimwilson3863]

Just to let you know the Channel Islands are not English or In the UK, they are a Crown Protectorate so you do not have English ancestors but Channel Islander ancestors.

[@radone5896]

My ancestry is Scottish, I am undecided if I will leave my comfy home in America and fight with sword in hand for the Scots to conquer all of England. (My ex-wife is English, now I fully understand why we fought).

[@donjackson5522]

I am clan Munro. Our little clan conquered Inverness. Let's goooooo.

[@merlinathrawes746]

I'm somewhat surprised there was no mention of WALES in this video. Admittedly, English history is not my particular forte. though I was aware of the Vikings in English history.

[@loremasterxp3635]

What's there to say of Wales? We came we saw we conquered. To all of my Welsh brothers & sisters I'm just kidding, you of course have your own history but we did conquer you fair & square.

[@CharlesWrice-qw6yg]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

I'm not a mutt, lol. I only had to sections in my DNA test, one for 97.6% and the other 2.4%.

[@rjart4]

That wasn't the end of the Vikings

[@prasad_ranade]

No more Napoleon reactions?

[@MrDaiseymay]

Complicated, isn't it ? depending on the age of the pupils, maybe that was why your educators avoided so much detail.

[@perryedwards4746]

Pip Pip!

[@chipperfish01]

Angles > Angleland>England

[@john0597]

Yeah hi guys I like your videos but where is the one about Napoleon like you didn't have any on Saturday is that what you were going on about KZbin wouldn't know that you show it

[@kaiser9109]

Btw the vikings were not as any more savage/violent than any of the other kindoms at the time. We just have records of the vikings from people that the vikings raided because the vikings didnt write much down, so you you can see the bias there against them.

[@DewiSant-o3y]

Anglo-Saxons were always good at propaganda. They somehow called the Welsh ' foreigners ' on their own British soil

[@benjamindesantis723]

hey do you read any of your comments im not trying to be rude but i have let you know twice already about a song request you put up a poll asking the subscribers to choose your next song and i commented on it

[@glastonbury4304]

The Vikings founded Canada in a way...

[@loremasterxp3635]

They discovered it but they most certainly did not found it.

[@glastonbury4304]

@loremasterxp3635 ...true..they didn't have a flag!! 🤷‍♂️😂😂

[@loremasterxp3635]

@@glastonbury4304 Their colonies were also abandoned by the 14th century.

[@glastonbury4304]

@@loremasterxp3635 ...also funny the US has Columbus day and he never set foot on the land that is the US today...🤷‍♂️

[@loremasterxp3635]

@@glastonbury4304 Very true.

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

now we going to have to defend from islam.

[@kennethcamilleri4678]

People do get offended when it comes to their history…..if you want to know about your country’s history…..never use KZbin as your reference….

[@DewiSant-o3y]

The Anglo-Saxons barely resisted the Vikings, but the Celtic britons were the only peoples to clear them out . The Welsh or what was called the actual britons before the UK hijacked the term politically. Lord Rhys ruthlessly kicked the Vikings out of Wales

[@telstar4772]

The English destroyed the Viking age in 1066 at Stamford Bridge. The largest Viking Army to ever invade England under their most feared leader, Harold Hardrarda were essentially wiped out. A whole generation of men were killed, they never invaded anywhere else again.

[@loremasterxp3635]

I respect my Welsh brothers & sisters but at the end of the day we conquered you which means...we won.