The history of Yew Trees

[@fredjasper7378]

Great job with all of your thorough explanations!

[@JackJenningsGuitarist]

This Lady is on point 👍she brings everything to life ❤

[@hughowen6322]

LOVE your videos. Your restrained enthusiasm and the way that you focus on a topic makes them very pleasant to watch. Keep them coming! 🙂

[@richardevans2829]

I love your passion for history! Very informative!

[@alanbudgen2672]

Great video. I think birds like thrushes are able to eat the berries, because they can pass the stone untouched which is poisonous. This also led to many myths and legends. Was there an order for yew trees to be grown in medieval churchyards to produce a supply of bows?

[@elvenkind6072]

I'm a bit surprised you didn't mentioned how yew in Europe was (and still are) almost totally extinct, because in a period it was a special tax required to enter any British port, to bring a certain amounts of stocks of yew wood, (I think it was some prince of Flanders that complained bitterly, because when the yew was cut down, they left vast areas vulnerable to wind), because this wood was the best bow-material available, because of the mix of the dark heart-wood and the white outer wood. Also - because of how highly poisonous it was - bow makers was given a reputation of dying at a relatively young age, breathing in the dust all day.

[@fernandomilicich8160]

I love the English history. Greetings from Argentina.

[@balancedactguy]

Very Interesting Alice!!

[@ColinH1973]

Very interesting indeed, Alice and I am surprised that you didn't mention the story about the longbows of the English archers. I must say that it's always a bonus when you get your legs out!

[@AnthonyChew]

Loving all her videos, so informative, but I can't help it. "Wait, that is yew?" "No, that's not me, I am me, and you are you, and that is yew!" "What are you talking about?!" "How should I know, yews don't talk!" "How dare you, I can talk, yews don't talk." "That's what I just said!!!" "YOU ARE CRAZY!!!!" "No! YOU are crazy, trees are NOT crazy!!!"

[@andy2950]

Yew beauty ❤

[@reynardthefox]

Quite a tree Alice,I think of Ophelia in Hamlet...and here's yew for you "

[@murrayscott9546]

The bow of English yew. Let's sing together for the. Grey goose feather and the Land where the Grey goose flew. ACD. The White Company.

[@balancedactguy]

Alice is Awesome!!

[@Pocketfarmer1]

What about Henry the 5th decreeing yews be planted to commemorate of the bowmen of the battle of Agnicourt, because their bows were made of yew?

[@OneEpicEric]

Britain became Christian in 36AD after the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea (Saint Illid, buried in Cardiff) to Britain. The druids believed the Yew was symbolic of life, death and resurrection and after converting to Christianity and forming the Culdee church, many of the Yew tree holy sites became churches. If you can find a copy The Holy Kingdom by Adrian Gilbert is worth a read. You can thank me later ✝️

[@Mickymouse-lx8eb]

Great insight thanks

[@qed456]

always loved Yew trees in the various 'God's acres' scattered around.

[@Pianoguy32]

1:45 Debussy is rolling under a yew right now !

[@stevenroberts970]

Google says thier native but we're not sure did you ever know them to self propegate we think it was norman fashion to plant them in graveyards and it was because of the longbow fashion at the time have you really ever seen them anywhere else if you see them dnt you presume it is or was at sometime a graveyard?

[@johnbaldock1085]

A Yew in Hastings England (UK) beloved to have pre dated the Battle of Hastings (1066). Unfortunately it is no longer standing.

[@chrisblay]

Got one in the back garden. 👍

[@michaeldillon3113]

There is a yew in Eastling ( Kent ) that is marked up as being 2000 years old ! Any advance on 2k ???

[@Wotsitorlabart]

The age of yew trees has been greatly exaggerated.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

The idea that yew trees in churchyards were planted there by pagans doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The vast majority were planted at the time of the construction of the church buildings. This follows an early Irish church adoption of the Mediterranean practice of placing evergreens around burial sites. There are older yews but certainly in England they often signified the location of a meeting place - eg for Anglo-Saxon hundredal courts.

[@PSMCR69]

Alice Loxton = Early Bird for facts

[@greywebs1944]

Yew sussed that out Alice 🤣

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

For Pete’s sake Alice , please don’t drown out your videos with unnecessary background music .

[@20121961]

That was very interesting, and I love your enthusiasm. I must admit however to being here for entirely the wrong reason. 😁

[@Stonewall1861]

Thank you for the information. This is a very special tree indeed. A tree that as benefited humans for a great number of years. The short is a little blurry but you still look beautiful.❤

[@douglasvick9703]

Painswick by Stroud (Gloucestershire) has a Church with 99 yew trees...Despite many tries the 100th will not grow ....Aha.....Thereby hangs a tale.!!!!!!!

[@surfingtheoceanoftheinterwebs]

So the Rosemary & Thyme episode "The Tree of Death" was right especially regarding the yews and anti-cancer treatments. 🤓