A History of Britain - Celts and Romans (800 BC - 1 AD)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In today's episode, we explore the emergence of the unique cultures of Iron Age Britain, and a looming threat from across the channel.
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Links to online resources:
“The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe” by Olalde et al.
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“The British Plough: Some Stages in its Development” by Payne FG
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"The Longue Durée of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple Genetic Marker Systems and Celtic Origins on the Atlantic Facade of Europe" by McEvoy et al. 2004
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“At the Water's Edge” by Lund J
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"The Rise of the Individual In Late Iron Age Southern Britain and Beyond" by Andy Lamb
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It’s wild man. TV networks spend millions on making high production value history documentaries and this dude comes along with his mundane voice and pictures from Google and it’s literally a million times more engaging
Edit: his voice is amazing but to an Aussie he just sounds like Ringo Starr
Natt Artz i think he puts a bit more effort than that, but yes it is great
Nah! Ringo Starr is a Liverpudlian.
Which TV networks still make history documentaries? AHC seems to have a thing for Hitler, and the big H gave that shit up awhile ago. H2 became Vice or something. I see some interesting looking titles on Smithsonian, don't have the platinum package tho, and their shorts on youtube make me wary of em anyway.
Ohh you're Australian. Not seen any documentaries from down under, unless you count the 2nd Underbelly... Or Wilfred.
His accent does sound from the North, more manc than scouse to me, though. But the Beatles don't seem to posses a strong scouse accent, to me they do sound more like this guy, but I'm no linguist, or British
Shows how much Aussies know about British accents then.
But yes, very engaging indeed.
(awlright our kid Cobba?)
@@Deebz270 That mishmash of northern and Aussie slang, (You alright, (lil') bro, mate?), was that just words cobbled together or supposed to be a sentence? I'm rightly confused now, I thought our kid was a way of referring to your own sibling, but speaking to someone besides them?
I'll listen to it tonight and fall asleep. Then watch it again getting ready for the day. Then again when I make dinner. Thank you for your time and dedication to the history and storytelling!
best way to do it :D
@@Chinggis42 Whilst multitasking? Better to sit down and give it your undivided attention.
Fall.of civilisation is another good one to fall asleep to. 8 different episodes
Me too
Same here! Helps me drift off
"Though unfortunately for us, they remain undateable."
I know the feeling.
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Bless your heart. May you perfect person find you dateable
Same
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46:45
Now the motif of King Arthur finding a sword in a lake makes a lot more sense
Yes. But I don't think the bronze artifacts were simply discards of unwanted and outdated stuff. I think they were offerings of a religious nature.
@@karenbartlett1307 I don't think he thought Excalibur was outdated and unwanted.
And him extracting a sword from a stone as a boy is a metaphor for smelting.
@@carolgebert7833 You are probably right. I never thought about that
He could have his pick of several!
Thank you for including some of my drone footage. It's good to see it being put to good use in a professional and interesting documentary like this. 🙂
@@Archangelm127 It was a pleasure. I visited several sites in southern England with a DJI Phantom.
Ben Lovegrove DJ Phantom? I think I was at a rave where he played at.
Mike Appleget 😂😂😂
No problem. Off course we see your
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Beautiful
It's Midnight. Perfect time to learn about British history.
My favorite
Ha! Doing the same thing at the same time.
Doing it at 1:55 a.m. as I fall asleep
Shut up, don't call me out like that
It's 3:45 and I need some white noise to allow me a chance to get some sleep: Oh! British history in a British accent will do the trick.
The Histocrat is the new gold standard for ancient history UA-cam videos. Top-notch. Seriously, you're an inspiration, keep up the great work!
History time
I play your videos to sleep at night cause your voice is so soothing.
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
One might argue the same as a hundred divided privaleged wankers shouting across the isle...
Order! ORDER !
Koolaid heads skreetching is the proper inspiration for goverment, of course. ;)
Quiet!
Watery tart.
they wouldn't have give in it to trump
Great video! And I love the fact that you actually list your sources as opposed to a lot of other “educational” channels that don’t cite anything or backup their historical claims with evidence. Keep it up 👍
Nearly two years later.... and still being enjoyed. Thank you!!
This is the best historian on YT.
this is a life-saver at work. in between spreadsheets, i stare at my Outlook inbox, praying for a new task or death (whichever comes first). you make these times bearable. please, god, don't stop
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@@LemSportsinterviews Maybe it's a positive thing? If you felt that way about your job...
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East-facing doorways may have ritual significance, but there is also the purely practical admitting of early morning light into dark dwellings.
Indeed, I thought the same thing. People of this age had no daytime to waste and they needed to be up at the crack of dawn and get to work. So, without alarm clocks at their bedside, the early morning Sunlight coming through Eastern doors and window openings would have been their alarm call. Perhaps the 'man of the house' slept closest to the doorway for both its protection during the night and also to receive the morning light and responsibly get everyone up thereafter.
Many native American peoples have their doorways facing east as well.
Anthropologists: These people seemed to revolve their entire day around the sun. Must have been sunworshippers
Anyone before 1300's: Yeah, so we have two times: daytime and nighttime. Guess which one we can see during.
So you're saying they didn't have doors in those doorways?
There's also the fact that in Britain,the prevailing winds are from the south west!!
Should be editing my next video, but now I have to take an hour and a half break.
Same
just took a lOOk at your channel.........saw Nileti vid......... I like your presentation great stuff!!....note: you take 'history' WAYYyy back........
I also watch both your channels including Histocrat regularly. 👍 All produce high quality historical content. ❤
Just found your channel while I've been on a prehistoric/meso/neolithic history binge. While I continue to indulge in this BC era, I'm very much looking forward to your next installment. Hope all is well with you during these times.
I really like the tone and delivery of information, simple in a good way, with loads of interesting details without dumb editing repeats or crazy music!
Please please please do the next episode! This series is awesome xx
So glad you are sharing this with us. I truly appreciate your efforts and applaud all you do. Thank you so very much from Colorado USA
This series has been so enjoyable. So much information that’s explained so clearly. Mainstream documentaries could never come close to this quality.
This is the best and most interesting documentary I've watched on the early history of Great Britain. Thank you so much.
This series is extremely interesting and packed full of facts and information that is new to me, and it's not the first video series I have watched on ancient Britain. Kudos to the producer of this series - a superb production.
Always feels like a long wait between videos, but I must say it is well worth the wait. The quality is stunning. This is the kind of documentary that used to be on The Ancient Aliens, I mean History Channel, back in the day. Thank you for sharing this. Wish I could give it more than one like.
I learned so much watching this, every few minutes I'd have to google something I wasn't familiar with, but that just helped gather more info. Great video!
Have to say, I’ve watched all of the other documentaries in this series so far. Really enjoying them!!
The problem with the 'celtic invasion' theory is the lack of DNA evidence. Depsite cultural and linguistic similarities, Spanish cslets are different to British celts and both are different to central european celts. It looks therefore that 'celticness' was an idea bought into, a common religion and culture, shared among different people.
The similarity in DNA between the Brits and the Spanish is remarkable if this study is anything to go by 'eupedia': i.imgur.com/GLL0M9y.png. I have noticed a similarity between the way some Irish and Spaniards look.
I think honestly the Celtic cultures simply evolve out of earlier groups who were speaking dialects of a common language. As important as the Halstatt and La Tiene cultures are in archaeological terms, proto-celtic and italic peoples likely developed from the beaker groups that preceeded them. In this sense there is a much older celtic origin.
@@nutyyyy correct. What's now England mainly druid. Scotland/Pictland. Neither genetically continental Celt. There's evidence of Continental Celts from Iberian peninsula settling in Ireland. Then onto what's now Scotland. Also some evidence of Celts settling in England from what's now modern day Paris. I'm Scottish and see myself as a Celt. Problem here is the Angles, mainly due to Norman conquests, have had it drummed into them that the Celt is some kind of barbarian. Follows on from the Roman nonsense first seen on the continent. Nothing has really changed tbh. To this day. Go check out any Whig Historian. David Starkey etc etc.
Btw I've Pict blood. That's Brythonic ie Briton. Yet I don't and never have called myself British. That's just a recent political construct.
@@jambammz9908 youre all over the place. All migrations to britain and Ireland where from the continent, whether europe or Asia.spain is from the continent so youre contradicting yourself, and in turn they were migrants too. The angles are the problem??? There were tribal wars all over Britain, between the so called Brythonic tribes before rome and after, before the angles rule. You say your pict and dont consider yourself British???maybe you're gael, in any case sort your facts and head out lol
I thought is was all Gaulish.
This is a perfect video to connect up with the Original Time Team videos. A wonderful video to enhance the stories told on Time Team.
Here because Time Team has inspired me to delve into my family history.
Every time I watch a historical documentary, I wonder how they know the things they know when they happened so incredibly long ago. You laid out the reasoning for how we believe they lived so concisely here citing archeological digs and specific ancient wrritings. I really appreciate not just the depth of information, but the sources as well. Well done and thank you for creating this!
Would have loved to see the pre Roman British isles. Must have been an amazing place. So interesting.
Where can I book a Tour?
I searched this topic last nite and got no satisfactory results. I can only assume that UA-cam got in touch with you in the early morning hours and that you made this vid just for me. Thanks so much.
Thank you for making these high quality documentaries! Truly fascinating to see where we've been and what we did.
Would love to see you continue this "history of Britain" playlist. Your content is great!
British people : *mines and creates pretty cool and useful tools for making their lives better*
Also British people : *throws them in a freaking river*
Take from the earth, give to the sea!
The gods will be pleased
Ladies of the Lakes aren't going to forge their own swords. Blacksmith of the Lake?
This is very clear and as accurate as I can tell. I will encourage my grandsons to watch this. They are a little young yet but ...
Just like to say I'm happy your narration has come on leaps and bounds. You've dropped the "This one time at Bandcamp" style upspeak you had in earlier videos. Much better now.
Thank you for making this series. It really helped me get a better understanding of ancient British history.
Really good video. Very well narrated and presented. It's great to see you giving actual sources for your material too. As an archaeologist myself this is the kind of production the industry should be paying people to produce. Keep up the good work, looking forward to your next offering.
I actually caught this 3 hours after it was uploaded! I always feel like I click on documentaries like this, and they already have 100's of thousands of views, meanwhile this has less than 1,000. Nice to catch something early every now and then! Thank you for the upload!
Why’s it so important to you how many
Views something has? Does it affect the quality? It’s not just you, but the world seems obsessed with views and “likes”. It’s sad really. Just enjoy the great show and f*ck to everyone else.
As always, well worth the wait. Quality takes time. And so we wait for the next video.
Intelligence, deep research, great presentation, wonderful voice, credited and credible resources... EVERYTHING lacking in our current culture, and EXACTLY what I needed tonight. I could weep with gratitude. Thank you!
What a quality production. Well done my dude, new sub.
Ohh yes I’ve been waiting for this. Excellent!
Y'all are my two favorite history channels on UA-cam and I am stoked that y'all support each other.
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Why do you sound like a gremlin who just got given a slipper?
@@Ireallylikeeggs ditto!
Instablaster.
having watched (and enjoyed) all the other videos in the series, you've topped them all with this one (cant wait for industrial revolution & victorian era episode in 2027 haha). production quality has improved significantly, your voice has gone deeper too lol
This has got to be my favorite history channel
I am looking forward to staying up too late at night watching this.
Ditto
When you look into the sunlight and still say i need to listen
Lol I just started this and it's already 1:49 am. Yikes
I am currently while finishing an overdue assignment
Damn it’s 12:58 where I’m at ....
I absolutely love content like yours man. All the documentary/educational stuff here on UA-cam. Very well made. entertaining in a nice, interesting and detailed way.
Thank you very very much for the series, I'm realy impressed by the quality of your videos! Thanks again!
Love the Warcraft tavern music in the beginning ❤️
Why can I never find these videos at a reasonable hour? 6.55am alarm is closing in quick.
Add to watch later
I only recently found your channel, so am going back through some of the back catalogue - so glad I've come across it!
Thank you for the detailed content - especially going back to the Celts, as not something that was even touched in school!
Thank you for something vastly superior and far more interesting than anything on tv!.
Really great work, very informative and easy to listen to. Relaxing and informative!
The Beaker People were replaced by the Bucket People, after the arrival of KFC
Meow
I failed my history exam thanks to you.
...and that Bucket woman!
I got this video from a playlist called "boring ass shit to fall asleep to"
Me too
i loved this serie of documentaries, it's so simple and yet well explained 💗
but just a feedback: i'd love if the episodes had english subtitles, it'd make it easier for non-native speakers like me to understand what's being said, especially with these kind of ancient topics that have unusual words
It is four AM almost five now, I've been trying to sleep for an hour and I found this in a "boring shit to fall asleep to" bit this sis rather interesting I'm more awake than ever and intrigued lol
This is such a great series! Thank you for doing this.
Favourite channel on UA-cam. Many thanks for the excellent output
This is awesome! I have learnt so much and I would love to see more videos up to 1066, I didn’t know we were waiting for the Romans.
I study English language and Literature and this is one of our subjects this year. The visuals help me a lot, thanks for making my university life easier ♥
While "History Channel" is airing what American truckers and non existent aliens are doing, you've come along and showed real history is fascinating.
Keep it going. There's an interest in what our forebears actually did, and who they were.
You are definitely leaving your mark on our world for the better. Thanks.
Are you going to continue this series? It’s so fascinating. Thank you for your hard work!
ha-ha. Misheard narration... When you said “Britain and Ireland” at 4:09, I heard “Britain, an island”. This was the second instance, actually. The first time, I thought "Hmmm. ‘Britain, an island’. That’s a bit odd. Innit?“, but then the second time around, it was like “Oh... I get it”. A good robust American “Rrrrrr”, or whatever weird accent Phil Harding has, would fix _that_ ! But, actually, yourrrr narrrration is _so_ much improved over your first video, when a few viewers made such rude comments. So glad you’ve persisted. You do *great* work! Keep it up!!
This is the best documentary on pre-Roman Britain that I have ever seen.
I love that you use BC and AD. Easier to comprehend information quickly and easily. Thanks
This is so well done.
Unbelievable high quality content!
Really enjoyable documentary. Thank you for your efforts!
Aw yeah, more WoW music in the beginning. You are truly a man of culture.
That music is from CKII I believe
What a great series. Thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks!
Are we ever getting the next chapter of British history?
The next chapter in my opinion is already well documented on and written plenty about. And it would probably take like 10 hours to explain what each queen and king did, all their wars, the Vikings, and more.
Such an excellent and engaging channel! Big fan!Please do a video on just the Halstatt Culture!
Things I’d Do for the Next Episode in this Series:
1. Anything
Brilliant history, fantastic effort, very much appreciated. Please keep them coming
Pure Iron was not harder than bronze. Bronze was harder material but it was rare and was becoming more and more rare because of trade routes demise.
1. Bronze is an alloy of tin and copper. On the other hand, iron is a naturally occurring metal.
2. Bronze is denser than iron.
3. While iron has a melting point of 1600 degrees Celsius, bronze has a melting point of 1000 degrees Celsius.
4. Bronze is easier to cast, but it is harder to forge.
5. Iron rusts, while bronze does not.
6. Unlike bronze, iron has magnetic properties.
7. Bronze is also less brittle than iron. This makes it hard to work with bronze metals.
8. Bronze is stronger than simple iron, but it is weaker than carbonized iron.
Good point. I also agre that the first steel swords (because iron is impossible to find in pure form and once you produce the ore its either steel or cast iron) would probably be worse quality than the latest bronze swords. It was a lot centuries ahead to discover full potential of iron.
This series needs another part
Dude it's really awesome please do the next one about Britania cut in half by Roman domination !!!
Quickly becoming my favorite channel
Please keep going with this stuff, I love it!
Honestly just found this video and until I started reading the comments I thought this was an old history channel doc I had missed nicely done
The inhabitants of what was to become Scotland didn't speak Scottish gaelic until long after 1AD. But I'm sure anyone from SE Britain wouldn't have a scoobie what a north Briton was saying 2500 years ago -not much change there, the average Londoner has no idea what Rab C has to say
tha, tha mi a ’tuigsinn
Welsh it was that was spoken on the British isles before any other celtic language.
@@teiloturner5374 and the Picts also spoke a Brythonic tongue before it basically became what's now known as Celt. These are the oldest languages still spoken in Europe.
@@jambammz9908it wasn't dopey it's called gaelic for a very good reason, let's see if you can work it out on your own
@@teiloturner5374no such thing its gaelic
These videos are very good my friend. I don’t know why people still watch tv when there is such good quality homebrew content on UA-cam. Hope more to come
Didn't expect to see the peat bog down the road from my house in this video, but there it is lol
What point?
lol
it's so soothing, it's kind of putting me to sleep, this voice...however, excellent video, nice presentation and thank you for lack of distracting music
Love the Angus McBride illustrations! I wish more filmmakers who depict Celts would use McBride's art direction. They always just end up looking more like shit Evenescence film clips instead
I've never been interested in the bronze/iron ages but my god this was an amazing series, hopefully we see more of the history of Britain! Thank you
Hi! I am in love with your approach to history, and am grateful for the minimal ads, and your wonderful transparency about copyright. But... i am in suspense...is the "History of Britain" series continuing or am I to be left wondering what happened after 54 BC?
Can’t wait for the next instalment. Awesome stuff!
I think the slow development of iron and popularity of bronze was a direct result of the fact bronze does not corrode like iron and it doesn't poison you and give you lock jaw if you cut yourself on its corrosion like iron does.
In school history was my favorite class but unfortunately I had a teacher that would put me right to sleep I wish you were my teacher you not only make it eventful but wonderful your voice is amazing thank you for making this channel thank you this is just great I've been binge watching you like crazy:)
These are my people, I've been searching for clues on my natural tendencies all my life and this video helps illuminate a lot of them all at once.
As a kid I was an amazing archer from the get go, could construct/design stick huts without instruction, have built many stone walls that never budge, learned to ride horses bare back almost immediately. I've spent most of my adult life trying to listen to my genetics, as my ancestors were not farmers, and hunted and had full wisdom teeth. My Lawson side of the family cannot eat wheat without a reaction, and I believe that is why Britain's had a slow start out of the bronze age. They probably didn't adapt to grain as fast, and therefore did not have as much surplus calories to dispense with in technological advancement.
I'm no expert though, just a distant relative
I can't seem to find the follow on video to this one. Did it ever get made?
The Age of Empires, World of Warcraft and Civilization soundtracks really were the cherry on top of these amazing videos. Thank you for your hard work.
It's really great love to learn about how we lived long ago
Gutted the next episode hasnt been made yet!
Do doors face East so the first sunlight helps in beginning of the day tasks such as dressing and starting/stoking fires?
such a great series! It's a shame they stopped here. Would be good to do at least one more video on Britain after the Romans.
This is a great discovery! Wasn't expecting this to be so good when I clicked on it!
Besides the content, I love the narrator. Pleasant voice and I can understand him very well.
Will there ever be any more to this series?