Historian Tom Holland on Oppenheimer, Napoleon and why the world loves British history

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  • @andyknuckles2903
    @andyknuckles2903 Рік тому +258

    Tom Holland is a gold mine. His podcast with Dominic Sandbrook is often a highlight in my week.

  • @mithrandirthegrey7644
    @mithrandirthegrey7644 Рік тому +43

    I've always had a casual interest in history but Tom Holland for sure has made me much more interested in classical history than I ever used to be.

  • @alanfox8928
    @alanfox8928 Рік тому +84

    it is a shame for the sake of the interview that the interviewer was so poor, but Tom Holland fantastic to listen to as always.

    • @trytwicelikemice3190
      @trytwicelikemice3190 9 місяців тому +28

      His fixation on trying to bring it back to culture war issues in the middle was very weird...

    • @johnhealy6494
      @johnhealy6494 9 місяців тому +2

      Absolutely

    • @jamiearan
      @jamiearan 9 місяців тому +17

      Stephen was trying to get Tom to bite on right wing talking points, but I was impressed by Tom's ability to steer from them

    • @billythedog-309
      @billythedog-309 7 місяців тому +4

      @@trytwicelikemice3190 The fact that this is sponsored by the Daily Telegraph is purely coincidental.

    • @ddkdkdkdkdkdk1
      @ddkdkdkdkdkdk1 2 місяці тому

      Total Torygraph interviewer

  • @JeansiByxan
    @JeansiByxan Рік тому +34

    I read Dominion when it came out and it blew me away. Anything Tom Holland writes now I’ll read. His ability to pivot from the present to the past is unparallelled.

  • @localfox1000
    @localfox1000 Рік тому +12

    Nice to see the Telegraph give a platform to an elite sportsman

  • @darrenkaminsky7618
    @darrenkaminsky7618 Рік тому +55

    Tom Holland is, of course, terrific and fascinating. He has to find his way around some of the interviewer's clunkier and more short-sighted questions, but he seems to have no problem doing this with grace, agility, and brilliance. The overall lesson is that history doesn't serve a single perspective, and the events and battles of the moment fade quickly.
    A telling moment was when the interviewer asked Holland whether he'd be able to get his Islam documentary made in today's political atmosphere, obviously under the impression that he wouldn't, and Holland having to remind him--or inform him--of the atmosphere around the subject of Islam in the post 9/11 and Iraq war period, which the interviewer obviously either didn't know about or hadn't bothered to research.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому +3

      No… I think this young interviewer is singly the most outstanding interviewer of intellectual quality to have arisen on the western/global stage in years.

    • @palatine7013
      @palatine7013 Рік тому +22

      @@matthewstokes1608 i disagree, he's fishing for controversial debate where one doesn't exist. Another useless attempt at stirring the societal pot!

    • @StumpyVandal
      @StumpyVandal Рік тому +18

      The interviewer was constantly trying to draw Tom into the debate on wokism and political correctness stifling all forms of expression. The right wing newspapers in the US and UK care about little else right now. It’s ridiculous given the actual problems facing society.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому

      @@StumpyVandal Tom Holland was asked provocative (not leading) questions by a perfectly reasoned and intellectual young man doing a far better job than those we typically see.

    • @darrenkaminsky7618
      @darrenkaminsky7618 Рік тому +12

      @@StumpyVandal Yes, watching again that's what the interviewer is trying to do. He's subtler than some, but it's still a bit scary -- not everything can or should connect to "wokeism" or the political right's bizarre cultural obsessions.

  • @agracier8656
    @agracier8656 Рік тому +71

    Absolutely riveting interview. So insightful with his modest speaking style. A pleasure to have listened to.

    • @skp8748
      @skp8748 Рік тому

      So disappointing he's a raging islamophobe.

  • @abcav297
    @abcav297 Рік тому +96

    Never expected Spider-Man 4 to be a single room arthouse movie with only two characters and mostly dialogue. Bravo Marvel!

  • @ssotkow
    @ssotkow Рік тому +22

    Didn't know what I expecting when I clicked this video... thought it was another Oppenheimer review, but totally engrossed in this riveting conversation that suddenly popped up from nowhere like a dream.

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 Рік тому +3

      Don't get caught up in the latest HollyWeed Hype...Be an original thinker.

  • @samurai_wack
    @samurai_wack Рік тому +25

    I had no interest in history until I discovered The Rest is History. I read Persian Fire a couple of months ago and found it utterly fascinating!

    • @EerieV23
      @EerieV23 Рік тому +3

      The rest of his books are just as riveting. I highly recommend them.

    • @samurai_wack
      @samurai_wack Рік тому

      Rubicon is next on my list!@@EerieV23

    • @mrsmvcheek
      @mrsmvcheek 3 місяці тому

      I am listening to that and reading in tandem Tom Holland’s book on Late Antiquity.So many interlocking ideas and events in history I knew nothing about.

  • @profiler4772
    @profiler4772 8 місяців тому +1

    Impressive teacher! His own enthusiasm is so fluently transferred to and captured by the listener.

  • @jamieguthrie1760
    @jamieguthrie1760 Рік тому +22

    Nice to drop in a few buzzwords of the moment using Oppenheimer in the title, but this interview was much more about the Roman Empire and how it relates and has influenced the modern West of today!
    Fascinating interview btw!

    • @arthurw8054
      @arthurw8054 7 місяців тому

      Yeah, the title might be a bit misleading, but if it's Tom Holland it's going to be superb, period.

  • @SynapseDriven
    @SynapseDriven Рік тому +51

    Holland is genius and a very generous person because that interviewer is just daft.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Рік тому +12

      he is biased

    • @Joe-og6br
      @Joe-og6br Рік тому +2

      As it went along I could sense a growing distain towards the interviewer.

    • @waveplay3978
      @waveplay3978 2 місяці тому

      @@Joe-og6br towards the end his smugness just became too much, consistently trying to get some controversial statements out of him re: current day daft culture wars

  • @ahothabeth
    @ahothabeth Рік тому +18

    It is a joy to listen to Tom Holland; Steven Edginton not so much.

  • @patrickquinlan3056
    @patrickquinlan3056 Рік тому +14

    Great interview, although I had to wait 40 minutes for a mention of Oppenheimer, Napoleon or British history. Never mind, I love listening to Tom.

  • @fredlewis6527
    @fredlewis6527 Рік тому +72

    Bloody hell that presenter had an agenda

  • @TurnCoatTechie
    @TurnCoatTechie Рік тому +8

    Outstanding views from Tom Holland that I also share ❤

  • @scottbuchanan9426
    @scottbuchanan9426 Рік тому +15

    One figure Tom Holland didn't mention when discussing Britain's global cultural-historical influence is probably the biggest one of all: William Shakespeare.

    • @themsmloveswar3985
      @themsmloveswar3985 Рік тому +1

      Not sure. I reckon Shelley, Dickens, had a larger impact.
      And possibly Orwel, and Huxley.

    • @scottbuchanan9426
      @scottbuchanan9426 Рік тому

      @@Mickyway Don't think so.

  • @jonhelmer8591
    @jonhelmer8591 Рік тому +3

    Great, I've found Tom's podcast on the iplayer!
    46 hours of fun.

  • @jamesbailey5008
    @jamesbailey5008 11 місяців тому +3

    Hooked on the rest is history, love it

  • @janecote
    @janecote Рік тому +38

    May I just say, I am very impressed by how such a young man can sound so pompous already

  • @andrewturner3580
    @andrewturner3580 9 місяців тому +3

    Great Interview !

  • @ozzell
    @ozzell Рік тому +9

    I'm fascinated by this idea of christendom being inherently destabilizing and a potential cause for a lot of social progress and post-christian ideologies.

    • @dulls8475
      @dulls8475 7 місяців тому +1

      It gave us the stability for social progress and post-christian ideologies.

  • @mcpanorama
    @mcpanorama Рік тому +3

    Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome by Balsdon, which came out in the 1960s, is still worth reading.

  • @paullewis2413
    @paullewis2413 7 місяців тому

    Love Tom Holland’s book “Persian Fire”. There’s so much to digest in this comprehensive survey of a pivotal time in European/Asian history.

  • @samuelpepys5350
    @samuelpepys5350 Рік тому +23

    Tom Holland is always great value but the title of this video needs fixing, it's a 47-minute interview and they spend all of 3 minutes discussing Oppenheimer, Napoleon and British history!

    • @supertuscans9512
      @supertuscans9512 Рік тому +4

      He’s brilliant to listen to. He’s actually made me review the way I see the Roman Empire and the influence of the Christian ethos on society ( for better and worse) even when it’s not overt, and in many ways has transgressed from being a religion to a subconscious philosophy. Fascinating!

    • @dulls8475
      @dulls8475 7 місяців тому

      @@supertuscans9512 With Christianity mocked we are already on the way down.

  • @deanedge5988
    @deanedge5988 Рік тому +2

    Best interview post Pax - most revealing; least formulaic. Very cunning in its oh so polite bowling.

  • @thomasmitchell7645
    @thomasmitchell7645 Рік тому +28

    British-vetted scientists played a key role in the development of the Soviet atom bomb.

    • @bj6515
      @bj6515 Рік тому +6

      But it was an American who provided Russia with the blueprints then got prison for it.

    • @paulthomas-hh2kv
      @paulthomas-hh2kv Рік тому +1

      Work on atomic bomb was non secret in Uk although Radar was for some reason. There was a Russian scientist working on the development in UK. Very interesting interview with Mark Oliphant with names and dates

  • @judithglasser3072
    @judithglasser3072 Місяць тому

    Absolutely fantastic interview and so "on pointe" I am reading Mr. Holland PAX is totally brilliant and fascinating, full of insights and reflections. Also addicted to The rest is History with Dominic Sandbrook, two titans of history and knowledge!

  • @martinaaron609
    @martinaaron609 10 місяців тому +3

    Hilarious - like watching Slavoj Žižek be interviewed by Harry Enfield's Tim Nice-But-Dim. Comforting and encouraging that in 2023 this is the calibre of young person that The Telegraph can manage to find. But some fascinating insight from Tom - especially r.e. the concept of "pax".

  • @bengeorge894
    @bengeorge894 Рік тому +8

    So in a parallel universe Spiderman is a middle aged British historian

  • @Metta33
    @Metta33 Рік тому +1

    Very enjoyable to watch.
    Good stuff.

  • @LawrenceBottorff
    @LawrenceBottorff Рік тому +3

    Oh of course Britain is our Greece here in the Colonies. It wasn't until Spinal Tap that we finally woke up to the fact than not everyone with a British accent is a genius.

  • @paulthomas-hh2kv
    @paulthomas-hh2kv Рік тому +1

    Very interesting interview with Mark Oliphant about his career working with Ernest Rutherford

  • @JonniePolyester
    @JonniePolyester Рік тому +1

    Just heard Free Thinking episode on Julian The Apostate with Tom …very good.

  • @SusanPerkins-g5g
    @SusanPerkins-g5g 25 днів тому +1

    The length of a human generation, 70-80 years, is the ultimate controller of so many of these historical swings. The true lessons of a generation are forgotten when it dies, and the next one up has not yet learned those lessons.

  • @ton1
    @ton1 Рік тому +3

    Didn't know Tom Holland was a historian in his free time in between Spiderman movies.

  • @Clipgatherer
    @Clipgatherer Рік тому +5

    37:45 Britain may not be "Greece to America's Rome"; rather, as someone observed, Britain is Alfred the butler to America's Batman. They provide good advice and experience.

    • @saattlebrutaz
      @saattlebrutaz 7 місяців тому

      And Batman is an imaginary figure.

  • @DanforthFrance
    @DanforthFrance 8 місяців тому +2

    Interviewer is a drip.

  • @benmclaren
    @benmclaren Рік тому +11

    Tom is brilliant but this interviewer asking the most loaded questions my god!

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Рік тому +5

    How extraordinary to assert the British have had minimal influence on the USA.

  • @flambr
    @flambr 7 місяців тому

    his oddyssey is so readable like he's genuinely one of the best classics writers of our time

  • @dougiemarks9852
    @dougiemarks9852 9 місяців тому +1

    That’s my thinking about the Roman Empire done for the day

  • @frankwitte1022
    @frankwitte1022 5 місяців тому +2

    This interviewer was really trying so hard to shoehorn in Telegraph-talking-points🤣

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 Рік тому

    Had the best summer ever. Unbelieveble tears, heat, but...summer. Found my lost family, a bit shuttered, still alive, still love them.
    I forgive, if it does matter to him, to Graham from Fund Daniel for what is done. Today he is still alive. Wish him the best he can get by his own.
    Corina Miriam Georgeta IJAC
    autumn, 2023

  • @leisti
    @leisti Рік тому +8

    This interviewer is digging quite hard to get an anti-wokeness quote.

  • @GrayArmyGaming
    @GrayArmyGaming 8 днів тому

    The ads are killing me! 😂 😂😂

  • @Joseph-ax999
    @Joseph-ax999 10 місяців тому

    I'm amazed at the stability of the empire in spite of the many assassinations.

  • @Ozgipsy
    @Ozgipsy 8 місяців тому

    Wow. That was a sharp observation.

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi8467 Рік тому

    Great discussion!

  • @sesntainueve
    @sesntainueve 3 місяці тому +2

    Why is the interviewer so angry?

  • @jayguerero47
    @jayguerero47 10 місяців тому

    Steven Edginton will be a British journalism icon, if not a legend. Stay humble, upright, and excellent, young man.

  • @CirclingDuck
    @CirclingDuck Рік тому +2

    Loved him in Spiderman

  • @McNeish
    @McNeish 7 місяців тому +1

    Love Tom Holland and been reading his books for the last 20 years but wish he’d comb his hair.

  • @DaboooogA
    @DaboooogA 8 місяців тому +1

    Peter Parker on fire as always

  • @kitl8081
    @kitl8081 Рік тому +6

    Tom Holland is great! I don’t know what this interviewer is doing though, he’s a mess!

  • @RANDALLBRIGGS
    @RANDALLBRIGGS Рік тому +6

    The interviewer seems to be constantly grinding an axe.

  • @DiamondMind
    @DiamondMind 10 місяців тому

    Love Tom

  • @akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804
    @akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804 5 місяців тому

    very interesting man

  • @gerarddearie-zd2gb
    @gerarddearie-zd2gb 7 місяців тому

    Steven's lack of self-awareness when he asks about contemporary historians insisting that we must see history through culture was, is something to behold.

  • @Simzoid
    @Simzoid Рік тому +5

    Of course a Telegraph journalist starts the question with a religious decline, as opposed to sticking to the traditionally modern term void of religious connotations. Classic. Only here for Tom, who carefully avoids falling down the Douglas Murray route - as probably the Telegraph would enjoy.

  • @mcpanorama
    @mcpanorama Рік тому +1

    Absolutely right about Christianity.

  • @Historian212
    @Historian212 Рік тому +4

    Clickbait alert: there’s almost nothing in this video about the new films about Oppenheimer and Napoleon.

  • @trytwicelikemice3190
    @trytwicelikemice3190 9 місяців тому

    Shame the interviewer has no idea how to read a vibe and had this weird insistance on pushing culture wars issues... still, excellent work by Tom Holland, respectfully navigating that to say something interesting despite the questions!

  • @Holoether
    @Holoether 11 місяців тому

    Lovely! “Christendom was the peak theme….200 years ago”

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 Рік тому

    Tomorrow is wednesday, my favorite day. So it's Freitag, the day I was born.
    Corina

  • @StumpyVandal
    @StumpyVandal Рік тому +10

    The interviewer was constantly trying to draw Tom into the debate on wokism and whether political correctness is stifling all forms of expression. The right wing newspapers in the US and UK care about little else right now. It’s ridiculous given the actual problems facing society.

    • @Lanxe
      @Lanxe Рік тому +5

      He definitely had an angle. Quite tiresome but I suppose that's might be what his employer wants. Always pushing for some dramatic statement from the interviewee.

    • @adventussaxonum448
      @adventussaxonum448 Рік тому +2

      ​@@Lanxe
      Yes, it's like watching mainstream media, only from the opposite direction.

    • @HomeFromFarAway
      @HomeFromFarAway Рік тому

      ​@@adventussaxonum448there are two "mainstream medias" with intetnionally opposing views. conservatism has never not been mainstream and the left has always owned the press

    • @saattlebrutaz
      @saattlebrutaz 7 місяців тому +1

      Those were perfectly fair questions. It's a legitimate contemporary issue. Holland's answers were reasonable and enlightening.

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Рік тому +11

    As an occupant of a former British colony, I think Mr Holland greatly underestimates the degree to which Britain is a very central point of reference when defining the meaning of the various liberal femocracies it has given birth to.

    • @Mrtomcree
      @Mrtomcree Рік тому +8

      I know it’s a typo but femocracy what a lovely word

    • @jonahtwhale1779
      @jonahtwhale1779 Рік тому

      Femunism - illustrates the communitarian nature of female nature but also the authoritarian aspect of the same.

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 Рік тому +1

      @@Mrtomcree- Is it a typo though? Perfectly describes what was happening in Sweden for several decades. Indeed sums up the dysfunctional world we live in today in most of the West.

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 Рік тому

    Just five minutes before, left a comment to an interview to some ambassad in bucarest from Ishrael. It was, the comment, erased because of the content. It wasn't offending, they didn't love the content.
    Wow! How could this happen?
    Corina Ijac
    6 oct 2023/7 oct.

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 Рік тому

    Pop American history was the Western, and died in 1970. We got a WWII resurgence same as GB.

  • @vlndfee6481
    @vlndfee6481 Рік тому +1

    Shalom means peace in Hebrew
    Is very differnent from Rome pax.
    Shalom start with in the heart by Jesus spirit.
    Pax is military ruling order.

  • @apocalypseblues3897
    @apocalypseblues3897 8 місяців тому +1

    we gotta do something about that haircut man

  • @DavosTheDegen
    @DavosTheDegen Рік тому +12

    Tom Holland looks a bit different from the last spiderman movie

    • @ssotkow
      @ssotkow Рік тому +1

      Accumulating cobwebs, not shooting spidey webs

    • @fhujf
      @fhujf Рік тому

      This is a multiverse version of Tom Holland.

  • @boguslawagumuchian2427
    @boguslawagumuchian2427 Рік тому +2

    How is America a cultural superpower ? What is their culture ?

    • @tyronebiggums8660
      @tyronebiggums8660 Рік тому +2

      People around the world are influenced by American movies, television, music, innovations

    • @TalleyrandsPuppet
      @TalleyrandsPuppet 8 місяців тому

      American culture is a huge stew, where cooks from all over the world throw their bits into the pot. What comes out is not always great, but is creative and it sells.

  • @humongousfungus8052
    @humongousfungus8052 9 місяців тому

    Tom Holland is masterful as always. The guy from the Telegraph is far too tense and uptight in comparison and comes across like an overzealous schoolboy. He needs to relax his sphincter a bit before situations like this. 😉

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 Рік тому +1

    Non-Romans hated the Romans. Non-Christians hated the Christians. Those other people need to get over it!

  • @markcarey67
    @markcarey67 Рік тому

    It might just be the camera angle but Tom looks like a giant next to Steven

  • @Kawabata_Akira
    @Kawabata_Akira Рік тому

    And he was a great Spiderman as well

  • @artofmusic303
    @artofmusic303 8 місяців тому +1

    I am a strong proponent of accurate headlines. "Oppenheimer, Napoleon and why the world loves British history" occupies approximately 5 minutes out of the 47. About half the interview is about ancient Rome. Do better, Telegraph.

  • @boonedockjourneyman7979
    @boonedockjourneyman7979 Рік тому +1

    Genius

  • @uncletravellingmatt588
    @uncletravellingmatt588 Рік тому +13

    Great interview from Holland but the interviewer is awful. He is desperate to turn this into a discussion on wokeism. Wish he'd grow up and focus on real things rather than his own imaginings and insecurities.

  • @artofmusic303
    @artofmusic303 8 місяців тому

    Mr. Holland came very close to saying the concept of justice cannot exist outside the framework of Christianity. Surely he doesn''t believe that.

  • @chrisdickens4268
    @chrisdickens4268 Рік тому +1

    Tom hollad is great, the chatbot reading the bullet points is a bit odd...

  • @MichelGmusic
    @MichelGmusic Рік тому +1

    It's not in decline, it's in expansion. The whole world wants to live like the west. It has become a global culture, always in transformation, with, yes, central heating and plumbing!!

    • @davidhawley1132
      @davidhawley1132 Рік тому

      Not China, in fact the reverse: the elites are tempted by China's authoritarianism. Secularism also seems in decline as various cultures reclaim a more traditional identity including a religious component.

  • @markwrede8878
    @markwrede8878 8 місяців тому

    Arriving throughout the world with place value math, extortion contracts, and gunpowder, the British made everyone affected by their history.

  • @philipmartin5757
    @philipmartin5757 Рік тому

    Love the ironic 'simple Jack' hairstyle...

  • @narkelnaru2710
    @narkelnaru2710 Рік тому +6

    34:16
    Edgerton is a brilliant interviewer. His ability to speak over his guest to obliterate important pieces of information at 34:21 is superb.
    Here is another Tucker Carlson in the making.

    • @Asgath
      @Asgath Рік тому +4

      Eminating pure toff. Yahh, yahh, yahh.

    • @Joe-og6br
      @Joe-og6br Рік тому

      He's dreadful.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому

      Edgerton is excellent… We need more like him. Holland is a slippery coward here.

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 Рік тому

    ,,I saw your face in crowded place..." , ,,how deep is" the...water.
    Corina

  • @gmk2222
    @gmk2222 7 місяців тому

    Anyone got a link to his brothers podcast, I found a James holland, is that him? Thanks

    • @eddiel7635
      @eddiel7635 2 місяці тому

      that’s his brother, yeah. Military historian.

  • @supertuscans9512
    @supertuscans9512 Рік тому +1

    Too short!

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 Рік тому

    Good morning.
    Bună dimineața.
    Corina Ijac

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 Рік тому

    saw many at the local*

  • @georgewaters6424
    @georgewaters6424 Рік тому +5

    The Telegraph should be embarrassed that "Steven Edginton " represents them in any form, print, online or video! Seriously get a grip!

  • @HomeFromFarAway
    @HomeFromFarAway Рік тому +3

    good gods, I love Tom Holland but this interviewer is just a mess of naive jargon and catch phrases. 😂

  • @robertburke2246
    @robertburke2246 Рік тому

    His documentary on Islam was interesting.

  • @dirtbag1793
    @dirtbag1793 Рік тому +7

    The interviewer keeps trying to bait Tom Holland into joining with him in a condemnation of 'Woke' culture and Holland keeps nimbly escaping the net. Good for him. This conservative obsession with the buzzword 'woke', which nobody, conservative or liberal, has any idea what it actually means, is getting tiresome. It is paying dividends of diminishing returns and I wish conservatives would move on to something of real substance instead of the usual fripperies.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому

      Holland is evading purposefully the questions leading to an ugliness he knows to be true… He has no spine - and is a coward.

  • @pfscpublic
    @pfscpublic Рік тому +3

    Daft question about diversity and mischief making about Islam documentary - what is it with The Telegraph gutter press?

  • @otuamab
    @otuamab Рік тому

    What is the Best book on Trajan?

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 Рік тому

    Often I wondered, how they managed to do it. Bucarest, an area of a theseplaces person with sheeps, Bucur (joy), like David, like others-Odysseus f.ex., is on the same hourlongitude like Cairo. The Delta of the Nile was displaced, but just imagine...
    Let's say, they agreed to meet for a tea, on see, not at him, not at her. Being in time, have good weather and pleasant ships with lovely friends around, how,
    when he left it was 4 p.m. , when she left it was the same 4 p.m., to be at 5 o clock was it at the middle?, is it possible?, there is no such thing
    allways wondered, they had the funny world and managed to drink together a tea.
    Stunning!
    All my love!
    Corina Miriam Georgeta IJAC
    after 2000 years...

  • @kevwhufc8640
    @kevwhufc8640 Рік тому +2

    History,,, i used to think everything in history books was true ,
    Until i graduated and started working as a field archaeologist.
    Boudicca killed many thousands in London and in verulamium.
    I know that didn't happen, verulamium was half the size and mostly a building site when boudicca passed through.
    The people were warned and they fled deep into woodland not far from the city, we have evidence of people cooking, remains of post hole's where people made crude short time camps .
    The city and surrounding areas have been extensively recorded by GPR, and no mass graves or anything else you'd expect to find .
    The layer of burning in the centre of the Roman city, is no more than a couple of inches thick and only in a small area of the city.
    History books claim julius Caesar invaded Britain and destroyed the catuvellauni tribe.
    ..Even though not a single piece of archeological evidence has been found,
    In fact all we have are a few words written by Caesar.
    His objectives were to destroy the catuvellauni and their settlement,
    To return lands to the kings which the catuvellauni invaded.
    Take surviving warriors back to Rome to be sold into slavery.
    We know none of that happened, the catuvellauni continued to expand into neighbouring territory, and were soon to become the most powerful tribe in middle Britain
    That couldn't have happened if Caesar had killed the warriors.
    No deposed kings had lands returned, no slaves were taken , Caesar did not defeat or destroy the catuvellauni settlement...
    There's a lot of misinformation about my city and surrounding areas in history books.
    My city cannot be the only one with written history that can't be substantiated .
    I don't trust anything that doesn't have archaeological evidence to support what's written.

    • @tincoffin
      @tincoffin Рік тому

      I don’t suppose Boudicca had a chariot with swords coming out of the wheels, did she ?

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 Рік тому

      @@tincoffin no evidence blades were used on chariots,
      I'd guess not , probably do more damage to the foot warriors than the enemy ;)

    • @tincoffin
      @tincoffin Рік тому

      @@kevwhufc8640 Perhaps l dreamt it 🙁

    • @tomsoyer5639
      @tomsoyer5639 7 місяців тому

      Everything from over 2000 years ago is educated guesswork. Dont look at history books as the truth. Most history books are also very dated, as in decades old.