History told with true enthusiasm is always a joy to watch! Thanks for letting this random nobody in northern Sweden learn a bit more about the history of London...
How about a video showcasing the OLDEST streets from London's, including any that might still be around from Roman times. That would also be very interesting to me.
Because London was hardly occupied between AD400 and AD900, there are very few. London Wall runs along the Roman wall, and I believe Queen Victoria Street is Roman. There was a cathedral on Tower Hill, from Roman times, but it fell down in the early medieval period. St. Paul’s cathedral is built on top of a temple to Mercury.
Wow!!I learned more about Historic London in under 10 minutes than i ever did with my history teacher .Alice Loxton,s enthusiasm and vibrancy really bring history alive.❤
I absolutely love English history. I'm so glad you do these programmes in a fun and interesting way that engages a younger audience. London is such an interesting place, so bravo for your efforts to tell the world what a great country we live in.
Alice is a STAR! These bite size history films are great. This whistle stop tour is well worth a revisit and gives plenty of scope for those of us who wish to go deeper into the excellently chosen topics. Nice one Alice! 🌟👍
Well said, Fool. Whilst we are on the subject of Alice, we have a thing we would like her to look at, which concerns Joseph, Chevalier de St George, noted Classical composer and champion swordsman of France. This guy was a celebrity, touring with an orchestra; for a time, he taught Marie Antoinette music.. There have possibly been some attempts to disguise his birth & death dates, in order to disguise the extent of Chevalier's relationship with Mozart, because Joseph de St George, Chevalier de toutes France ahem was a black guy.. 🤔🇫🇷👍
I know London pretty well, having studied and lived there (many!) years ago and also as a frequent visitor thessdays. However of course there is *so much* to learn and this vid was a delight... interesting and engaging. I particularly liked the fact that Marlboro cigarettes are thus named... who would have guessed? Subscribed!
Every time I watch this channel I get anxiety thinking about all the strangers that would be listening to me talk on crowded streets. Glad you are brave enough lol
So interesting. I wish I had been able to spend more than a couple days in London. The most exploring that I got to do was the time between rehearsal and performance at Methodist Central Hall, which was only a few hours. I saw an analogy in the seemingly haphazard arrangement of the London streets and those of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe had its origins around paths that were laid down by indigenous people long before the arrival of the Conquistadors, just as London grew up around roads and paths established centuries ago. London, of course, has grown to a scale that far outstrips that of Santa Fe, but therein lies a cautionary tale of how it may become necessary to restrict traffic into such areas as they grow over time.
More recently she says, then mentions 1848. Only 60 years after the beginning of recorded history in Australia. It boggles my mind. I suspect if I'd been a Brit, I'd be a historian. It's so fascinating.
Take a walk down Bow Lane just off Cheapside, and that gorgeous looking old lane/ally will not only take you back in time it will have you stumbling across a " hidden gem " of a butchers shop that has been on the same spot for over 100yrs. Unlike most English butcher shops who did not adapt to changes in trade this one offers a lovely hearty cooked breakfast with hand made sausages etc. You will have to que up for food, but well worth a look if your passing.
@Hiram Abiff ... What is they say about fools and assumptions?? 🤔 Actually I'm from London and have lived here my whole life, I know where you speak of,, it was called a joke, most people from London would've understood that. Now tell me, what sandbag sh,thole do you hail from?
Over here in the States the only history that I have really been able to my arms around is our expansion west, - most notably of course being the Old West - and I am very passionate about that 50 to more realistically the approx. 35 years following the war. Of course prior to this WE ALL had to come from somewhere else ! In England I feel that there is tremendous age and substance, oldness and real history beneath my feet and all around me wherever I go ! It's a very unique feeling and altogether different from the relatively brand new streets and buildings here in America. At sounds weird I know, but it doesn't feel like I possess any 'real' roots here in the states. I feel like I'm just visiting someone's house they just bought brand new !
The other 3 countries in the UK have a diverse, rich history, in addition to England. It amazes me sometimes when I stop to think about how many generations have lived and worked in the area that became my home town. We are fortunate, you are right 🙂
I once read a saying about one general difference in perspectives between a person from the USA and a person from the UK: the former thinks 100 years is a long time ago, and the latter thinks 100 miles is a long distance to travel. The European-based history in the USA is pretty new compared to the histories of the UK, Europe, and the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, all of which goes back so much farther.
Wot no Brixton Road. London General, Charlie Chaplin, first department store in UK, first street with electric lights....etc. It is like whenever anyone does a programme on volcanoes, they always go to the same ones.
The north-east corner of Trafalgar Square is also the home to one set of the official Imperial System measurements (inches, feet, yards, chains, rods, perches, etc., etc.)
Whitehall palace is still around but most people never know. The old cellars are still in use and, just as a bonus factoid, the COBRA room is in there.
Watching this I feel like I just tried to see London on the back of a rocket. Better to go, I just went this month and it was fantastic. This vid doesnt even begin to cover the wonders of this city.
I've been visiting London almost every year since 2002... there's always something new to see every time
History told with true enthusiasm is always a joy to watch! Thanks for letting this random nobody in northern Sweden learn a bit more about the history of London...
I absolutely love learning about the history of London.
How about a video showcasing the OLDEST streets from London's, including any that might still be around from Roman times. That would also be very interesting to me.
They've done a couple I'm pretty sure
Because London was hardly occupied between AD400 and AD900, there are very few. London Wall runs along the Roman wall, and I believe Queen Victoria Street is Roman. There was a cathedral on Tower Hill, from Roman times, but it fell down in the early medieval period. St. Paul’s cathedral is built on top of a temple to Mercury.
There is another channel on here that has a series called Walking Britain's Roman Roads, have you seen that one? It was so interesting
Yeah, this video is just all over the place. Really sloppy.
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I really do hope that she does more of these types of videos. It’s so interesting to learn about some of the history and quirky things of history also
Check out her Instagram channel, instagram.com/history_alice/
Great video, good to see Alice's enthusiasm which is almost bubbling over at times! And she looks lovely in that summer dress as well!!
4:07 If anyone ever doubts the amazing courage of Shackleton and his crew, they only need to look at the ship he explored the poles in.
This was great. I enjoyed this. Nice work Alice 👌👏
Wow!!I learned more about Historic London in under 10 minutes than i ever did with my history teacher .Alice Loxton,s enthusiasm and vibrancy really bring history alive.❤
I absolutely love English history. I'm so glad you do these programmes in a fun and interesting way that engages a younger audience. London is such an interesting place, so bravo for your efforts to tell the world what a great country we live in.
I new this would be good, it's the way Alice at the beginning luxuriated in her pronunciation of "grisly", more Alice please!
Haha she made a meal out of those two syllables
That’s a “new” way to spell “knew” 🤣
@@peecee1384 new......oops!
Why, how do you pronounce it? As a Londoner I find it entirely unremarkable.
@@JofromItaly perhaps emphasis rather than pronunciation then.
Love watching Alice. So eloquent and easy to listen to
Very interesting, thank you, makes me want to visit again.
Thank you Alice for this interesting and informative video, very well presented.
Your attention to detail and storytelling skills are top-notch! Loved this video!
Alice is a STAR! These bite size history films are great. This whistle stop tour is well worth a revisit and gives plenty of scope for those of us who wish to go deeper into the excellently chosen topics. Nice one Alice! 🌟👍
Well said, Fool. Whilst we are on the subject of Alice, we have a thing we would like her to look at, which concerns Joseph, Chevalier de St George, noted Classical composer and champion swordsman of France. This guy was a celebrity, touring with an orchestra; for a time, he taught Marie Antoinette music.. There have possibly been some attempts to disguise his birth & death dates, in order to disguise the extent of Chevalier's relationship with Mozart, because Joseph de St George, Chevalier de toutes France ahem was a black guy.. 🤔🇫🇷👍
Does anyone know if she's single?
@@CBTheMechanic you definitely are
Absolutely love the History Hits YT channel! A big thank you Alice for adding another great video to it!
Hooray for Alice Loxton! Star of History Hit and headed for the BBC.
Why the BBC? She announced she is leaving History Hit? :(
Hope not
BBC? Really? 😵I can't keep up with those. 😑
Very interesting and informative….excellent documentation and presentation!!
great content, excellent work from everyone involved
Alice Loxton needs to be tagged in these so I can find more of her videos, she's hilarious and charming!
I love Alice Loxton’s presentation style! Give us more docs with her in them! ♥️
Steady, lad !
Great history! I would love a longer more detailed video.
That was very interesting, thank you!
youtube actually recommended something good for a change. subbed.
Thankyou for sharing. Very interesting.
Thanks Alice thoroughly enjoyed
Woah! Woah! Woah! Slow down. Editing much too fast, I couldn't take it all in. Brain overload. But as ever very interesting. Alice again so engaging.
I know London pretty well, having studied and lived there (many!) years ago and also as a frequent visitor thessdays. However of course there is *so much* to learn and this vid was a delight... interesting and engaging. I particularly liked the fact that Marlboro cigarettes are thus named... who would have guessed? Subscribed!
Enjoyed that crazy history tour!
Excellent, thanks for this! 😊👍
Alice is a wonderful person to talk about history. Charming, exact and good voice. Happy Trails from Florida
Always a joy to watch Alice present.
1:33 "Cute couple alert". 😄
Didn't know the Sally-Anns started at the Blind Beggar pub. Very interesting video!
What a superb little video. Concise, pithy and very much to the point.
I hope you do more of these on London . . .
Pithy ❤
Love your videos
Every time I watch this channel I get anxiety thinking about all the strangers that would be listening to me talk on crowded streets. Glad you are brave enough lol
So interesting. I wish I had been able to spend more than a couple days in London. The most exploring that I got to do was the time between rehearsal and performance at Methodist Central Hall, which was only a few hours. I saw an analogy in the seemingly haphazard arrangement of the London streets and those of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe had its origins around paths that were laid down by indigenous people long before the arrival of the Conquistadors, just as London grew up around roads and paths established centuries ago. London, of course, has grown to a scale that far outstrips that of Santa Fe, but therein lies a cautionary tale of how it may become necessary to restrict traffic into such areas as they grow over time.
This is right up my street
More recently she says, then mentions 1848. Only 60 years after the beginning of recorded history in Australia. It boggles my mind. I suspect if I'd been a Brit, I'd be a historian. It's so fascinating.
Take a walk down Bow Lane just off Cheapside, and that gorgeous looking old lane/ally will not only take you back in time it will have you stumbling across a " hidden gem " of a butchers shop that has been on the same spot for over 100yrs. Unlike most English butcher shops who did not adapt to changes in trade this one offers a lovely hearty cooked breakfast with hand made sausages etc. You will have to que up for food, but well worth a look if your passing.
It's near my office and I can also recommend it.
They only brought in the hot food about four or five years ago, but as you say, it's been a success.
And then you get mugged!!
@Hiram Abiff ... What is they say about fools and assumptions?? 🤔 Actually I'm from London and have lived here my whole life, I know where you speak of,, it was called a joke, most people from London would've understood that.
Now tell me, what sandbag sh,thole do you hail from?
This was so fascinating!!!!!!
❤ to watch Alice all day long
Always love watching you here in Orlando Alice. More please.
What a great channel.
This was a good watch- slick edit,
Enjoyable presentation
Love your work 👍
nice and concise
Alice’s enthusiasm is fantastic for history
Alice so amazing
Amazing
Another good vid! I had thought All Hallows’ by The Tower was site of earliest London Church
great content, one tiny thing - the video could use some colour correction during editing to make the colours more vibrant!
Loves these
good presenter, good enough to be on tv
No words one fantastic channel congratulation
More Alice please!
Great presentation indeed and well researched
more of london and the UK & empire please.
Loved the map.
I agree with Steve Rennie, the oldest streets would be a very interesting video.
What do I have in common with Charles Dickens? I also was a court reporter in Marlnorough Street Court.
Alice is awesome, great presenter!
Thank you, you are a must watch for me when I see your name in know I’m in for a treat ! thank you Alice keep them coming please
More Alice please
Good video. I hated london the first time I visited but am starting to think I didn’t research enough. This helped.
Yeah if you love history its bizarre to hate London.
When in London in April, sat on a bus, not the double decker tourist one, and saw lots of London, including parts Roman wall. Inexpensive tour.
Good video
This was a lot of fun.
Brilliant Alice 👏
We Love Alice ❤️
Enjoyed this. Great host.
Over here in the States the only history that I have really been able to my arms around is our expansion west, - most notably of course being the Old West - and I am very passionate about that 50 to more realistically the approx. 35 years following the war.
Of course prior to this WE ALL had to come from somewhere else !
In England I feel that there is tremendous age and substance, oldness and real history beneath my feet and all around me wherever I go ! It's a very unique feeling and altogether different from the relatively brand new streets and buildings here in America. At sounds weird I know, but it doesn't feel like I possess any 'real' roots here in the states. I feel like I'm just visiting someone's house they just bought brand new !
I'm a New Yorker and I don't feel the same as you at all. New York history is epic. All of the east coast has amazing history.
The other 3 countries in the UK have a diverse, rich history, in addition to England. It amazes me sometimes when I stop to think about how many generations have lived and worked in the area that became my home town. We are fortunate, you are right 🙂
I once read a saying about one general difference in perspectives between a person from the USA and a person from the UK: the former thinks 100 years is a long time ago, and the latter thinks 100 miles is a long distance to travel. The European-based history in the USA is pretty new compared to the histories of the UK, Europe, and the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, all of which goes back so much farther.
I’m a born and bred Londoner. I ran a pub in Tooley st in the 80s. The Antigallican, sadly, no longer there.
Great video very interesting ❤️
Glad you enjoyed
Our hostess is so wonderful! But I think Caesar would be getting the better end of the deal in that pairing. lol
More of Alice! This was great!
Silly question - but why is Big Ben (incorrectly) placed in the opening map (c. 37 seconds), but not featured in the video?
Alice is a rising star. Really nicely done.
Alice is so clever knowing all this stuff
Wot no Brixton Road. London General, Charlie Chaplin, first department store in UK, first street with electric lights....etc. It is like whenever anyone does a programme on volcanoes, they always go to the same ones.
I once read that Scotland Yard was a garden where Scottish monarchs walked while visiting London and their apartments were next to Scotland Yard.
More history in 20 minutes than a year in High School!!!
I live near Denver....where there were once some cowboys and natives, also there's an amusement park.
Alice rocks!
anyone interested - you have to read "London: The Biography" by Peter Ackroyd. Amazing!
beautiful
Very good! But how old is that map you use? Around 1750? Earlier?
Neat video. 😉
The north-east corner of Trafalgar Square is also the home to one set of the official Imperial System measurements (inches, feet, yards, chains, rods, perches, etc., etc.)
Whitehall palace is still around but most people never know. The old cellars are still in use and, just as a bonus factoid, the COBRA room is in there.
Ever been in the banqueting room,part of Whitehall Palace?
Alice has a little bit the same joy and enthusiasm like Jessica Knappet. I mean this in a good way ;)
Nice to see the Boys getting a mention.......
she is much more knowledgeable than Rick Steeves that is one huge compliment and much pretier
Stay traditional! Presenter! Thanks for the video
Brilliant, thank you from a born and bred true cockney, born under the sound of the bell at Bow
They are closing the long-established Pie & Mash shop on Hoxton Street unfortunately and moving somewhere to West London.
Greetings Your Majesty.
Whitechapel is my old station. Used to to live on Newark Street, Whitechapel, E1 2ES.
Watching this I feel like I just tried to see London on the back of a rocket. Better to go, I just went this month and it was fantastic. This vid doesnt even begin to cover the wonders of this city.