Vicki Explores ... Battle

[@MercenaryPen]

Geoff looks different in this one ;)

[@DavidShepheard]

Genius!

[@firefly24601]

Andrea is so fun and informative! More Andrea please!

[@JackJackProductions]

Vicki Explores should have its own channel

[@fintytin5771]

Absorbing stuff as always Vicki !! - keep up the great work.!!!

[@DavidDewis]

Went to school in Battle and live in Hastings. Been waiting for you guys to do some videos down this way.

[@andrineslife]

Andrea is an absolute delight, what a lovely video!

[@harleancarpenter8043]

Loved the video, and Andrea made a great companion for this too

[@ninjagoggles]

Love it!!! Also love the Vicki Explores music!

[@djackmanson]

Enjoyed this! I thought the quick pose in front of the huge wings, and the flourishing of the flags to reveal both hosts, were great little touches.

[@brucewilliams8714]

I had a wonderful time walking around the battlefield with an audio guide. Hugely impressive information displays. It intrigued me that William trekked inland from Hastings (too much shingle) to look for Battle as a place to fight!

[@Andrewjg_89]

In deepest wettest East Sussex. Despite its quite chilly. But such wonderful stuff and amazing history.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Always learn something new from your explorations

[@bethoconnell1241]

Love this!! What a great co-host to go into Battle with :)

[@avfcfan2]

The green shields with blue dragons on is my wife's reenactment group :-) at least 20 of them every year Hrafn Broethr in Birmingham

[@HenrysAdventures]

Great video! As well as All the Castles I'd love to see All the Abbeys!

[@tededmunds8476]

I didn't realise this was an annual thing. Great memories of going along as a child in the mid-90s. There was a cash incentive for spectators to pick up any wayward arrows once the 'battle' was over. Didn't find a single one...

[@bakedbeanzontoast9078]

Love this channel, I can just nerd out on all the info in each episode, thanks for doing it, btw Vicki is a right card.👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@nw24153ns]

Fascinating presentation, great video to inspire us to find out more without droning on and on as some people tend to do in KZbin videos . 🤔

[@ninjagoggles]

Argh! Just watched it again, but I can only like it once!! I want to challenge the knitter (pretty sure it's crochet) of the helmet, and would like to talk about nålebinding, which I have recently learned how to do, and was more likely for the Vikings (and "French" Norsemen) to have been wearing. Nålebinding is SO COOL, and somewhere between knitting and crochet. /Dork

[@qwertyTRiG]

I have friends in the SCA who do nålebinding.

[@hpot53]

Always look forward to the next one!

[@rubyait]

I love this video. Others can chip at the historical accuracy; I am enjoying one of my favorite parts of Britain with my favorite hostess.

[@batman51]

Is Andrea a member of the Sealed Knit?

[@flyingbananatree5661]

love the out takes!

[@NilesGimp]

A fabulous video . Please, mam, I want some more.

[@pagrant]

Maybe one day I will explore some of these places

[@Leonard_Smith]

Where have you been hiding Andrea? Great pairing, and not a bad video!

[@timdaugherty5921]

Andrea is just precious!!!

[@thetransavenger]

nice to see my local station getting a call out i the begining

[@albertbatfinder5240]

So William of Normandy chose 25 December for his coronation because he knew the general populace would be watching the Queen’s Xmas Message.

[@christopherspencer8110]

Doctor Who, actually. Vuldretrada of Snittlegarth was the companion and the episode was filmed on tapestry.

[@csatlantic2748]

Vicki excels again.

[@Ice_Karma]

7:48 OK, I'm amused it says "Alight here for ***1066 Battle of Hastings***". =D

[@1973Washu]

It is important to remember to bring a spare set of trousers if you are going into battle.

[@airfoxtrot2006]

Great video!

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

Oh...a Canadian guest star...from Canadaland 👌

[@WhiteTiger333]

Love your "Vicki Explores" animated graphic (at 00:39). Hmmmm...interesting choice of penance for King William. It isn't as if he had to personally build it. :D

[@johnstilljohn3181]

Brilliant, as ever...

[@telemachus53]

Why does it say: "Change at Battle for the..." and not "Alight at Battle for the..."? ( 1:20 )?

[@william-uk]

On Southeastern, unless my memory is failing me, all the on train announcements use "Change at" for plaçes you may wish to change, and the on platform signs always say "Alight".

[@telemachus53]

@@william-uk But you can't change here - you can only alight - for Battle.

[@melissavredline1264]

The battle was nicely captured and edited - I didn't know what was going on though...

[@Karlinski73]

When I first saw the announcement of "Vicki Explores Battle" I was expecting some sort of head-to-head with another explorer. :-)

[@ChasMusic]

Once again, Vicki's explorations make me want to get on an aeroplane and cross the pond. I wonder about the people fighting each other with matching weapons, for example, the two short sword fighters. In a real battle, I doubt people look around and say, do you have a short sword too? Okay, let's fight. No? (Gets shot through with an arrow.) But it is an impressive spectacle and I'm sure a lot of fun and that all involved work quite hard at it to be authentic (without the deaths and injuries of course).

[@skyblazeeterno]

My local stop High Brooms got name checked on leaving Tonbridge - we are famous! I would say that as Tonbridge is in Kent and Battle is in Sussex the festival/day is far more important to people in that county and unlikely to have anyone on the train dressed up

[@dalem1140]

Just ordered a knitted knights helmet 👌

[@abencutler]

Nice trip Vicki.

[@rosiefay7283]

4:02 "Harold got his army" Do you mean that the soldiers who fought at Battle had just fought at Stamford Bridge? I thought it was a different army... 6:40 So William chose Christmas Day as being a good day to bury bad news?

[@VickiPipe]

Hi Rosie, as I understand it Harold marched as much of his army down as he could, picking up other random men (farmers and anyone else he could muster) along the way.

[@russellwarren9595]

what would you do different if you ever find yourself in Battle again? and what advice would you give someone going into the heart of Battle for the first time?

[@Hi-by2pt]

Andrea should have her own KZbin channel

[@robertewalt7789]

We have re-enactments in the US also. Civil War (1861-5), Revolutionary War (1775-83), maybe French & Indian War (? - 1763).

[@britishreaction54]

Do you ever re-enact the war of 1812?

[@robertewalt7789]

I think so. Maybe in New Orleans. Maybe in Canada, near Niagara Falls, where there were three battles. In NJ, where I live, it’s Revolutionary War, lots of battles to re-enact.

[@SamSitar]

you're very informative.

[@JohnTalbot-k6xi]

Great Fun by Train (!!) More should go

[@DRS-ib7oo]

Viki, there is a carriage on the WensleyDale Railway that is featured in the movies of Harry Potter and is carriage 99718

[@alexcropper7179]

The battle was fought in Battle? How fortuitous was that!

[@jacquelineharrod6386]

@Amtsf 😊😊😊😄😄😄

[@SamAronow]

“You’d have to hold this and an axe for nine hours!” Clearly you’ve never been an extra.

[@SamSitar]

both axe and shield look very heavy.

[@blairoutproject]

she can hold my chopper for as long as she likes.....

[@SouthernFanOfficial]

Ahhh, Tonbridge the station I see everyday 😂😂😛😛

[@outminded6622]

You guys haven't gone to all the stations in the UK. Romney, hyth and dymchurch railway.

[@DavidShepheard]

They didn't go to the Isle of Wight either. :-P

[@outminded6622]

@@DavidShepheard true

[@Hi-by2pt]

All the stations visited all the national rail which excludes heritage railway

[@gobears6487]

I’m amazed if no one gets hurt! 😳

[@DavidShepheard]

More people get injured doing Morris Dancing than reenactment.

[@LouisOnAir]

William didn't see being King of England as his destiny, he just really wanted a better title than 'Bastard'

[@DFandV]

Could you imagine back in those days that you have a census. Where your title is "Bastard"

[@SaturnCanuck]

Fascinating. Also, Andrea is NOT from the UK, is she?

[@SaturnCanuck]

Canada rules. me too!

[@francinevanzanten8368]

The difference between Vicky and Geoff making a KZbin video? Geoff starts talking within seconds, Vicky takes her time.

[@QALibrary]

Question what was Battle called before there was a battle????????

[@DerekHartley]

It was mostly just a field.

[@pras12100]

Some people have said it was called Senlac Hill but this is probably apocryphal. There was no settlement there. See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senlac_Hill

[@dgattenb]

Awesome battle of wits

[@Ribeirasacra]

I thought I was watching Mark Felton ⚔️

[@bbrauer5]

BBC show Time Team came to the conclusion that the battle was not fought in the fields they said it did. Rather, the battle was fought in the village. No archaeology evidence has ever been found to support the theory that the battle was in the fields.

[@gr328]

@Sandcastle • Nevertheless, it's true...

[@bbrauer5]

@Sandcastle •Time Team S20 Special - 1066 The Lost Battlefield on KZbin

[@bbrauer5]

@@gr328Time Team S20 Special - 1066 The Lost Battlefield on KZbin

[@gr328]

@@bbrauer5 Yes mate I was agreeing with you. @Sandcastle meant the programme wasn't on the BBC but C4.

[@w0033944]

Doc Martens coming in handy there.

[@Ice_Karma]

4:05 "[...] and marched straight back down [...]"-why can I not get kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6OyhoqtoM53hqs out of my head?? XD

[@euanfyfe3914]

Ha! I left out the most important word "no" before "evidence".

[@twothreebravo]

"So Who was going to take the throne" Me: Correct

[@davejones3192]

one idea: try a town which is packed full of history, just go to christchurch history society's website and visit it and make a video

[@Northerner_Transport_Hub]

Omg I went here

[@eastpavilion-er6081]

That battle scene is very interesting. However I saw another battle reenactment in China, showing a battle in Tang Dynasty (~700 CE) and the warriors looks more civilized than that.

[@JennyQT]

12th October yea this is not the wrong date

[@SquirtyBertie]

3:05 to 4:15 You've just summed up a term's worth of GCSE History in 1 minute!

[@unniFI]

Battle

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

That could be how the saxon counties got their Hundreds

[@evancortez2]

Is Andrea American?

[@CJonestheSteam72]

All the decisive foreign military invasions 🙂

[@euanfyfe3914]

Unfortunately there is evidence whatsoever that any fight took place at Battle Abbey. A much more likely site for the Battle of Hastings is Crowhurst, about 2.5 miles to the South East. The monks were less than honest about past events.

[@Rob-jf9jn]

My T shirt is what they know if I can’t float my pizza looking at the outer planets. But a coffee mug is always on the donkeys back when the shop roof closes its biscuit. That was the intelligent words for the day 🤪👍😀

[@Lulu-jl5zd]

More tea required... that would have seen you through...

[@roberthorwood4276]

why didn't the 1066 Battle of Hastings take place in Hastings? otherwise, why isn't it called the Battle of Battle or am I missing something? Ha ha.

[@kirstenjw4304]

The Bayeux Tapestry, shows that Harold was killed by an arrow in the eye. Very famous tapestry.

[@pintpullinggeek]

Or perhaps he was cut to pieces and then trampled under a horse. The tapestry doesn't make clear which of the deaths in that section may be Harold and there are other contemporary accounts that give a different version of his death.

[@kirstenjw4304]

@@pintpullinggeek He died a loooooong time ago. Who really knows how. The arrow in the eye is a popular version. Dead man which ever way you look at it.

[@britishreaction54]

Much better without Geoff butting in every 30 seconds.

[@thebongmaster]

VikiSplores! \o/