Sorry this one is late, I've had major issues with the syncing in this video so if it's still off let me know. Next episode is 'The Late Anglo-Saxons and the House of Denmark'.
That satisfying thump everytime someone dies is a thing of beauty. These videos are great they really help fill out the gaps I had in early British history
Yea it was really great. Especially scenes of Alfred and Edward. They tried including fiction with Uhtred’s story line but his character and acting feels so stale and boring.
Gosh I miss your deep dives, they’re such a great combination of pacing and richness. I totally understand the realities of UA-cam these days, but I just wanted you to know how much your care in this work is appreciated.
9:47 aside from what historians think and what people believe, Aethelstan took on the title "King of the English" in 927, throwing out the previously held titles "King of the Anglo-Saxons" and "King of Wessex", which you might not have mention for time, but it's a pretty big one nonetheless.
Xavier Saavedra Bruh, this shit is a thousand years old, I'm not putting a spoiler alert for that. Besides, I didn't go much in detail and you could have guessed it anyway.
Loving this series, keep up the good work. I was happy to hear the reference to Edgar at Chester as it's my hometown. There is still part of Chester today called 'Edgar's field' where the crowd watched Edgar and the other Anglo Saxon Lords row down the Dee. ^_^
Best short history videos on UA-cam! Well presented, informative and easy to follow. Keep them coming! I'm English so obviously love this series but would love to see other nations history broken down in such detail too 👍
A lot is said these days about "patriarchy" and "women being forced to stay in the home", but Europe was never like the Middle East. Most women worked (for example in the textile industry, on farms or as domestic servants). Some women owned and ran their own businesses, such as pubs. It was really only in Victorian times that the idea went around that it was a sign of status for a man to be so prosperous that his wife wouldn't have to work - and even then it was only an upper-middle class thing. Another fun fact: women in Britain actually *were* allowed to vote until 1832. Around 5% of the electorate was female until the 1832 Reform Act stripped women of the vote. That's because historically the right to vote was tied to how much tax you paid (on the reasonable basis that, if you're not actually paying tax, it's not really any of your business how the government is spending taxpayer money). Wealthy women, especially those who inherited land from their husbands or fathers (land being the main taxable asset) therefore paid enough tax to entitle them to vote.
The Counties were not abolished in 1974. Michael Portillo confirmed this in Parliament when he was a minister. Only the monarch can abolish the original Counties. This never happened. Hence Yorkshire is still in its original boundaries. 1974 merely created new councils.
you should read the book ''Shieldwall'' by Justin Hill, it tells the times of and after Ethelred the unready very well and also explains the way of life at the time
Just what is that monk doing as the screen pans down from the king to the monk in the illustrated document. At 8:48, and you have to be quick to freeze frame it, it's just as he says 'dia' in 'Regularis Condordia', you get a fleeting glimpse of a monk up to something that at first appears to involve legs being forced apart by arms, but it cuts to the next scene before whatever is going on is revealed. If you can freeze it, you definitely see an unshaven monk, head to one side, looking up, in repose on his back grasping two spindly things that although unlikely to be legs, might actually be part of something stylised that dives under him below the screen, reappearing with a pointy tail the right of the picture. Whoever drew it drew also took the trouble to draw his nipples. These are visible for a large part of the pan sequence so there's no mistaking them. The worrying thing is that they are visible under his vest, which must therefore be thin, or otherwise he has very folded skin hanging to his sides- but he looks healthy enough. Yet the illustrator took the time to add all this extra detail. This is all very peculiar!
These videos are great. They would be much better though if the narrator would slow down a bit and put in a few pauses, catch his breath and allow me to process a thought or information for a second. I love the concept of condensed information but the delivery should not be as rushed as it is.
So, what I gathered from this is: Anglo-Saxons with confusing names rule over England, but there are also some Danes and Norwegians, and Willie isn’t in the picture yet... Basically, the whole thing is a hot mess.
Not sure that Alfred, Edward and Oswald are THAT confusing, but I get your point. The real mess comes after Bill the Bastard.....and has caused many problems ever since.
Fucking I love this channel! Wish English history didn't make me want to cut vertically for attention. Lucky for me this channel manages to make it fun so I will hold off on it (or just roll down my sleeves a bit more).
Would you please expound on the economic conditions giving rise these historical movements. History is driven by the engine of economics. And please shed light on the peasantry and slaves so their roles can also be ascertained in the historical march.
So there was a brief Edward here, king of a definitely united English kingdom, but another lad over 200 years later gets the "First". That always struck me as inconsistent, but I suppose that's the way things go back then
Ceorl becoming churl later and referring to peasantry makes the word churlish make a lot more sense. Also, there are few more badass names than Erik Bloodaxe.
You would probably fit entire history of Finland into one 10 minute episode and still be more informative than this : Part of Sweden since 1200s , Part of Russia since 1809 with autonomy, Independent since 1917 , Civil War 1918, WW2 1939-1945, Between Soviets and west but not allied with either 1945-1991, EU Member 1995, original € country 2002,never applied to NATO but does their bidding.
@SteelRodent1456 Which Asian country was more stable? Certainly not China, Japan or India, like not at all. I can't speak to other nations as I don't know their history. All 3 of those countries constantly infought and fragmented many many times.
Living in Viking age england would have been very difficult and uncertain, however, its undeniable the impact that the vikings had on the unification of England. One cant help but wonder how much longer it would have taken England to unify were it not for the Viking invasions utterly obliterating all competing kingdoms to wessex. Like the video states, England was more or less unified by 927. Meanwhile, it would take both Germany and Italy another 1,000 years to accomplish that same task in 1872 and 1870 respectively.
1870 Italy and 1871* Germany. Yet, there are still three countries, England, Scotland and Wales that make up the UK (I do not count Northern Island, because it's basically the remains of England's Irish colony).
Strange that the Danish influence has lasted to the present day and it is mostly preserved in the everyday English language that we speak today because it is directly descended from the Anglo-Danish language
most of Scotland and northeast England is heavily descended from settling danes and Norwegians as well. why you see a lot more redheads and blondes there compared to the west and south
"Northumbria would permanently remain a part of the anglo Saxon kingdom and later england" me looks at any map of the U.K hmmm I'm not so sure permanent was the best choice of words
Northumbria is like the English version of the Scottish Borders. This also means they are unionist Conservative majority. Edit: well until you get closer to Lothian that is.
Sorry this one is late, I've had major issues with the syncing in this video so if it's still off let me know.
Next episode is 'The Late Anglo-Saxons and the House of Denmark'.
Why were they constantly dying? Starvation? disease? murder?
Life expectancy was very low during those periods and wouldn't see a significant change until much later.
Meh, it was worth the wait.
Ten Minute History
You're the best youtuber
Not acceptable ;) keep up the great work :) also can you or have you done a video regarding the panic wars?
I love the "plunk" sounds whenever someone dies
B-List History it is disturbingly satisfying
indeed. so simple, but hilarious
sounds like mic drop
Neema Paxima be try e
Gets me every single time
"continued the long trend of mortality and died" bloody love the small things u put in these vids
Varberg
My favourite is definitely “Franz Joseph proved he could actually die”
I love it when he said "X caught a small case of death"
@@fabulouschild2005 "He came down with a fatal case of being shot"
“And died at the ripe old age of 19”
That satisfying thump everytime someone dies is a thing of beauty. These videos are great they really help fill out the gaps I had in early British history
I guess it's time to boot up Crusader Kings II.
I know this is a year late but... Iron Century just dropped! You can play this time period now
@@jakeconstable you forgot about viking age.
@@zayan6284 Viking Age bookmark starts in 867 and has little to none of the historic figures the Iron Centiry is known for...
@@jakeconstable but you can fight vikings!
@@zayan6284 hahaha very true! You excited for ck3?
Netflix’s “the last kingdom” is based on this time period and highly recommended if you like this stuff
Yea it was really great. Especially scenes of Alfred and Edward. They tried including fiction with Uhtred’s story line but his character and acting feels so stale and boring.
@@TragicHamad hey... Destiny is All!!!
🍻🍻🍻 Skol!
I do hope we see aethstan king of all England
The books are better.
*Bernard Cornwell's "the Last Kingdom" series of books, not Netflix's.
Gosh I miss your deep dives, they’re such a great combination of pacing and richness. I totally understand the realities of UA-cam these days, but I just wanted you to know how much your care in this work is appreciated.
"Died at the ripe old age of 19"
Just like Tutankhamun!
9:47 aside from what historians think and what people believe, Aethelstan took on the title "King of the English" in 927, throwing out the previously held titles "King of the Anglo-Saxons" and "King of Wessex", which you might not have mention for time, but it's a pretty big one nonetheless.
Genuinely cheered when "Derby" got a mention. We hardly ever get mentioned in anything
I always thought people liked horse racing as well.
Apart from the lowest ever points total
@@pacco9532 wow spiteful ..... hopefully Forest get promoted so they can get less next year :-)
I love the way how all of them die by dropping in a 90 degree angle to the left or to the right.
1:38
Norse: "Please help!"
Aethelflaed: "Nope" **dies**
Well since Ethelred earned the title of "the unready" I can imagine that his rule went swimmingly
I read somewhere that "the unready" doesn't mean what it means in todays term, but more along the lines of "poorly advised".
Ethelred is going to get skullfucked by the Scandinavians.
Ognjen Garić dude spoiler alert!
Xavier Saavedra Bruh, this shit is a thousand years old, I'm not putting a spoiler alert for that. Besides, I didn't go much in detail and you could have guessed it anyway.
Ognjen Garić fine but he'll probably not say how the unready died any way so this is moot
Who else is binge watching these as a 2 hour lecture lol
Me
I find it quite exhausting to stay concentrated enough for just these 10 minutes...
Yes our last day of level 4 lockdown in New Zealand🇳🇿 these kept my sanity intact.....Thank u sir and production team🤭👍🤣
Me.
Same
Smashing video honestly I'm loving this series. Short, to the point and very interesting
I find it a bit too slowly presented. luckily there's the option of speeding up by 2, though. hence I'm fine.
The simplest explanation is that Ivar the boneless had an erectile dysfunction...
Ivar the bonerless
too bad boneless pizza is dead. I was going to say "can I get uhhhhhhh *_B O N E L E S S I V A R_* " but that's not funny anymore
This whole series of English history is fantastic.
With a title like ''the unready'' you know the dudes got some heavy backstory!
Awesome video, looking forward to the next.
Aethelred's name makes no sense, Aethelred means "noble-counsiled" and unready means "bad-counsiled"
@@urthtvbyjess That's the joke.
Loving this series, keep up the good work. I was happy to hear the reference to Edgar at Chester as it's my hometown. There is still part of Chester today called 'Edgar's field' where the crowd watched Edgar and the other Anglo Saxon Lords row down the Dee. ^_^
Chester was called dyfrdwy and was in wales in the 12th century and was capital of powys until the 9th century though?
Best short history videos on UA-cam! Well presented, informative and easy to follow. Keep them coming! I'm English so obviously love this series but would love to see other nations history broken down in such detail too 👍
As someone from who lives near corfe is is anyone to hear this pronunciation but it is a great video and deeply informative in 10 minutes.
Continued the long trend of Viking mortality. The way you talk about death is hilarious and oddly soothing.
This is my favourite series on this chanle please make more
"Which you do" dear lord you crack me up. This is my favorite channel.
I love when I learn more in 10 minutes about English history than I did in 12 years of public school.
Fraud! Only 9:59. I trust nothing you say.
There is zero-th second to add to the rest of 599 seconds(9:59). Then it's 600 seconds, or 10 minutes, of history.
It actually seems to be a technical problem with UA-cam. Ten Minute History is the most consistent in terms of length of any UA-cam channel I know.
Anybody here after watching The Last Kingdom?
😄 the last kingdom and vikings
i swear the death sound is just him bopping the mic lol
I love the dying sound cue. Its hilarious.
"Corfe" pronounced like "Morph" (as in the cartoon character). Corfe Castle is worth a visit, especially when you learn way it's a ruin.
As in the word morph which is a perfectly normal English word and doesn't need explaining?
@@MuchWhittering yes exactly
I live in Maldon. FYI it’s pronounced mol-don. There’s also a village near Maldon called Danbury abbreviated from Danes-Bury. Settled by the Danish.
Love the format of your video's, to the point, quick and fun. 👍🏼
What a time to be alive, that was
as a noble, maybe. as a worker, or a farmer, or even the worst of all - as a woman - definitely no fun at all I guess.
@@the_rover1 anglo saxon laws were pretty good to women. they had legal equality and they could own land etc.
on the continent, not so much.
@@viridisxiv766 Nixe to know, thanks.
A lot is said these days about "patriarchy" and "women being forced to stay in the home", but Europe was never like the Middle East. Most women worked (for example in the textile industry, on farms or as domestic servants). Some women owned and ran their own businesses, such as pubs. It was really only in Victorian times that the idea went around that it was a sign of status for a man to be so prosperous that his wife wouldn't have to work - and even then it was only an upper-middle class thing.
Another fun fact: women in Britain actually *were* allowed to vote until 1832. Around 5% of the electorate was female until the 1832 Reform Act stripped women of the vote. That's because historically the right to vote was tied to how much tax you paid (on the reasonable basis that, if you're not actually paying tax, it's not really any of your business how the government is spending taxpayer money). Wealthy women, especially those who inherited land from their husbands or fathers (land being the main taxable asset) therefore paid enough tax to entitle them to vote.
I bet you would know.
Ooo please do one on the birth of Scotland too.
Nice to see videos on britian it's self. I know loads about the Byzantine empire or the reconquista but not much about the island I live on. Thanks.
Britain* itself* (combination of "it" and self", not "it is self")
This series is wonderful
Next season of the last kingdom is about to be lit
Another solid episode
The Anglo-Saxon kings seem to have a habit of dying. 🤣🤣🤣
Ikr, what's up with those guys?
That makes them so different from everybody else!
The Counties were not abolished in 1974. Michael Portillo confirmed this in Parliament when he was a minister. Only the monarch can abolish the original Counties. This never happened.
Hence Yorkshire is still in its original boundaries. 1974 merely created new councils.
"Corfe"? "Cor-fey"? pronounced Corfe, as In Worf - the best Klingon Star Trek TNG ever had.
He's obviously not from Wessex.
He doesn't know how to pronounce almost anything, unfortunately. There's about one weird pronunciation per video.
'Coronated'!! *gasp* I was wholly satisfied up to this point!
I promise I've stopped saying that now.
Hahaha! Excellent news! Keep up the good work :)
The content in these are great, but my favourite is when the characters die.
you should read the book ''Shieldwall'' by Justin Hill, it tells the times of and after Ethelred the unready very well and also explains the way of life at the time
Love these videos! Thanks for sharing
Kor-fay? Great video, but I couldn't help but pick up on that, Corfe (Korf) Castle is local to me ;)
Just what is that monk doing as the screen pans down from the king to the monk in the illustrated document. At 8:48, and you have to be quick to freeze frame it, it's just as he says 'dia' in 'Regularis Condordia', you get a fleeting glimpse of a monk up to something that at first appears to involve legs being forced apart by arms, but it cuts to the next scene before whatever is going on is revealed. If you can freeze it, you definitely see an unshaven monk, head to one side, looking up, in repose on his back grasping two spindly things that although unlikely to be legs, might actually be part of something stylised that dives under him below the screen, reappearing with a pointy tail the right of the picture. Whoever drew it drew also took the trouble to draw his nipples. These are visible for a large part of the pan sequence so there's no mistaking them. The worrying thing is that they are visible under his vest, which must therefore be thin, or otherwise he has very folded skin hanging to his sides- but he looks healthy enough. Yet the illustrator took the time to add all this extra detail.
This is all very peculiar!
The Administration of Justice Act was given Royal Assent in 1977, not 1974.
Your videos are brilliant, extremely helpful and funny. Great job!
It's is gonna happen in season 4 of '' The last kingdom''
Ahhhhh spoilers!!!
That's literally the only reason I'm watching this video
"the shire system"
Me as a lord of the rings intellectual: "I know quite a lot about the shire"
Watching this cause I just finished the last kingdom season 5, glad things went well for Aethelstan
"....the long trend of Viking mortality...." LOL!
Can't wait for the history of Norman England!
Very informative and entertaining. Per usual.
i love this series plz continue
These videos are great. They would be much better though if the narrator would slow down a bit and put in a few pauses, catch his breath and allow me to process a thought or information for a second. I love the concept of condensed information but the delivery should not be as rushed as it is.
So, what I gathered from this is:
Anglo-Saxons with confusing names rule over England, but there are also some Danes and Norwegians, and Willie isn’t in the picture yet... Basically, the whole thing is a hot mess.
Not sure that Alfred, Edward and Oswald are THAT confusing, but I get your point.
The real mess comes after Bill the Bastard.....and has caused many problems ever since.
Fucking I love this channel! Wish English history didn't make me want to cut vertically for attention. Lucky for me this channel manages to make it fun so I will hold off on it (or just roll down my sleeves a bit more).
1:13 I live in Maldon was not expecting it to be mentioned xD
kieran544 I’m from burnham !
Matt Braybrook haha neighbours Burnham Is cool town i go to the Rio cinema quite often then get hammered afterwards xD
4:52 Looks like this Olaf wasn’t so keen on warm hugs...quite the opposite!
Great Work! You make confusing things less confusing. That's saying something, esp. for this period of English history.
Would you please expound on the economic conditions giving rise these historical movements. History is driven by the engine of economics. And please shed light on the peasantry and slaves so their roles can also be ascertained in the historical march.
The dialectical materialism is strong with this one.
The proper word for what happens to a King at a coronation is not coronated, but crowned.
So there was a brief Edward here, king of a definitely united English kingdom, but another lad over 200 years later gets the "First". That always struck me as inconsistent, but I suppose that's the way things go back then
i'd love this kind of history for the dutch, i don't know much about my own countries history... :D
Great video, keep it up!
We all know it was Uhtred who killed Aethelwold
Great videos - very informative, well presented. Subscribed :)
what about "Uthred son of Uthred"? did he ever recover Beebendur?
They all have the coolest names
Ceorl becoming churl later and referring to peasantry makes the word churlish make a lot more sense.
Also, there are few more badass names than Erik Bloodaxe.
Finished “The Last Kingdom” last night and instantly had to come here
Interesting how all these kings in all their marches to invade and conquer neighbouring territories meticulously avoid stepping into Wales.
"Here Abide Monsters.." 😉🙃🙂🤣😃
The last kingdom makes sense now
Fascinating! Are there still any Brits left with Danish heritage today?
there's some purge happened but they do
Can you do videos on the crusades?
Love love love the thump!
You would probably fit entire history of Finland into one 10 minute episode and still be more informative than this : Part of Sweden since 1200s , Part of Russia since 1809 with autonomy, Independent since 1917 , Civil War 1918, WW2 1939-1945, Between Soviets and west but not allied with either 1945-1991, EU Member 1995, original € country 2002,never applied to NATO but does their bidding.
Sum up Finland in one word: TREE!
Awesome! Keep it up!!
find the death animations funny
Thwack
Was there any rule that you can be a king only when your name starts with Ed-?
“Keeping the Viking tradition of...dying”
How fun
Nice dude, I can't believe English history is such a mess though...
Jujudo Every history is messy if you know where to look.
Jujudo wait until you see our elections...
They werent
@SteelRodent1456 Which Asian country was more stable? Certainly not China, Japan or India, like not at all. I can't speak to other nations as I don't know their history. All 3 of those countries constantly infought and fragmented many many times.
No country realistically has always been fully 'stable', its only to what degree of how unstable it is
Living in Viking age england would have been very difficult and uncertain, however, its undeniable the impact that the vikings had on the unification of England. One cant help but wonder how much longer it would have taken England to unify were it not for the Viking invasions utterly obliterating all competing kingdoms to wessex.
Like the video states, England was more or less unified by 927. Meanwhile, it would take both Germany and Italy another 1,000 years to accomplish that same task in 1872 and 1870 respectively.
1870 Italy and 1871* Germany. Yet, there are still three countries, England, Scotland and Wales that make up the UK (I do not count Northern Island, because it's basically the remains of England's Irish colony).
Amazing videos
You forgot to mention Uthred of bebbanburg
if Alfred is the great,
then Edward should be the greater
woooh, love these
How is there no mention of Uhtred, son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred, and whose father was also called Uhtred?
Nice one!
Strange that the Danish influence has lasted to the present day and it is mostly preserved in the everyday English language that we speak today because it is directly descended from the Anglo-Danish language
Plus place names, like a suburb of Leicester 'Oadby' '-by' being a Norse term for a village.
most of Scotland and northeast England is heavily descended from settling danes and Norwegians as well. why you see a lot more redheads and blondes there compared to the west and south
Well it's in our dna...literally!
Very, very interesting.
The charter by Edmund has text in it that looks a lot like elvish script from the LOTR universe!
'Help please!' **aethelflaed spontaneously dies**
Aethelred being killed on 9/11 was a bit of a historical curveball to say the least
"Northumbria would permanently remain a part of the anglo Saxon kingdom and later england" me looks at any map of the U.K hmmm I'm not so sure permanent was the best choice of words
Northumbria is still in England.
Northumbria is like the English version of the Scottish Borders. This also means they are unionist Conservative majority.
Edit: well until you get closer to Lothian that is.
My fave videos on this channel all open with someone dying.
There is a TV show the ends before the start of the video
Please talk a title slowe, it is hard to keep up with such fast narrative. Thank you!