American Reacts The Heart of England
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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I was waiting to see if Connor would have any grass-gasms in this video. I was not disappointed.
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Thanks, very amusing, I must remember that.
Ngl, It's one of my favourite quirks of his xD
Haha 😂😂😂
Connor's grass-gasms are more frequent, but seem to be shorter lasting than the original kind 😂
I love Connor's enthusiasm, it's infectious! And boy does he love good grass.
We're small but mighty over here at blighty
My sister lives in a sleepy Cambridgeshire village and on a visit I went into Cambridge, punting down the Cam. It just happened to be in June at the time of the May Balls for all the colleges, celebrating end of exams. Going down the Cam you could see each college setting up for its own party. All the students were in ball gowns / tuxedos lined up to get in. It was quite spectacular.
It's all Cambridge University but it's made up of 31 colleges which were founded gradually over the years. I guess it depends what you study as to what building you'll be in. Same with Oxford.
I can’t understand why he can’t get it.
I’m not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but it’s easy to get it.
It’s confusing to Americans, they don’t have collegiate universities. What you study doesn’t determine which building you’re in. You’re based in your college, but many of the lectures etc. will be arranged University-wide and attended by students from multiple colleges.
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@@timglennon6814 He doesn't listen.
In fact Oxford is called 'The Golden Heart of Britain" .... I lived there for 9 years ..... And Look at a Map!
I live in Cambridge, it's lovely. Little bit pricy for housing, but has an incredible amount of great pubs, bars, restaurants, beautiful architecture, museums, art galleries, etc - all in a city small enough to comfortably walk or cycle anywhere you need to.
Me too mate, small world eh?
I managed to escape after 55 years and now live on the South coast, would I go back? Hell No!
I just love it when you spot any expanse of lovely green grass on your videos, to watch you drooling and apologising for drooling is hilarious !! please don't stop doing that ........
I have a photo of my father, aged about 18 months, taken with his two elder sisters, aged about four and six. They are all wearing long dresses, with smocked bodices and puffed sleeves. My father, however, in his long skirts, was not dressed as a girl - that was just what little boys wore. The photo was taken in 1898. It's a sepia image so I can't tell what colours the clothes were but back then the colour always chosen for little boys was pink - and girls wore blue so I guess the smocking was in those colours. It wasn't until the 1920s that, for some reason, the colours switched.
Well done Connor, pointing out the beautiful grass or lawns in the meny videos you show us, which we all enjoy. In the horticultural world having a good green lawn, is to be admired. So Connor, carry on talking about your love of grass. 😊
Rick didn’t mention that in Blists Hill, you can visit the bank and change modern money into Victorian replicas to buy goods at Victorian prices (I used to work in the bank and dressed up as a Victorian every day. Occasionally, I would demonstrate in the candle factory.. but candles in those days were made of tallow; rendered sheep fats, rather than wax. Candle makers were smelly and had their own pews at the back of the church). There are 10 museums in the Ironbridge Gorge all under the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust who work in association with Birmingham University. If you go there, don’t buy individual tickets to each museum, rather a museum passport is much better value.
I went there on a school trip in the late 80's.
@@Rachel_M_ soooo much more to see now 👍🏼
@@tgcrowson i might take a little weekend break when the weather warms up. Hit that point in life when you can revisit yiur youth 👍
I went on a school trip here, and to Blists Hill open Air Museum when I was 8, ....I've seen people selling the Iron Bridge coin online that you could buy there.
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Can I ask are all of the coins replica and if so what would stop someone bring their own
I would be very interested to know how many real pre decimal coins make it to the bank if any
I have coins going back to George the 4th but not many from the Victorian era
And thank you for that it's very interesting.
I knew candles were made out of fat
But the things like them having their own pews etc gives lots of perspective thanks for sharing
I feel so lucky to say I'm going to Cambridge to study beginning in the autumn!
Connor, as others have said, both Oxford and Cambridge Universities are each a collection of Colleges. I can't speak for Oxford but the first and oldest College at Cambridge is Peterhouse from AD1284, for studying Maths and Economics and the newest is Robinson College founded in 1977 but opened officially in 1981, studying from Archaeology to Veterinary Medicine.
There's a pub in Cambridge called The Eagle. It was where the double-helix structure of DNA was first announced to the world. Also, in one of the rooms the ceiling is covered with names of US airmen from WWII who wrote their names with the soot from matches. It's still a nice place to enjoy a drink but the food is absolutely shite, soo....
So often these reaction videos disappoint, because of the second rate source material, but if you're going to cram this much sightseeing into 32 minutes, this is the vid to watch. Impressive and well shot........
It's Connor being Connor and we are all here for it.
I live 20 miles from Cambridge and on a spring or summer's day it is well worth a visit. Look at the colleges as arms of the university. Each has its own identity but falls under the umbrella of Cambridge University. Kings College Chapel is amazing and I can remember the beauty of the black wooden features on each side. These days, because of traffic restrictions and parking, it is better to use the park-and-ride service or to go by train.
I live near ironbridge, love seeing it on TV, and youtube
England here. I honestly don't mind the pausing, it shows you are interested and doing this for enjoyment, education and then money. Money is good, but it's not the only thing that matters. When I finished my back garden exactly flat like these in the video, my friend reminded me that he'd told me, 'only rich people have perfectly flat gardens'. He was correct, it cost a fortune and was such hard work. I enjoy a bit of grass myself, it's the difference between bad,good and perfection. Great video, I'd never seen it before. The transportation video you want is called 'Why Europe is insanely well designed'.
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Hi Connor, great video. I visited Cambridge a few years ago, it was really nice just walking around and seeing all the old buildings and colleges. I highly recommend a visit.
I live near Warwick Castle, close to Stratford on Avon where William Shakespeare was born. They are great places to visit but they get very busy with tourists in the summer. Would recommend a visit in the autumn. Nearby is Birmingham a city about 18 miles north and is the busy industrial centre of the Midlands and gives you a real taste of what cities are like now which isn't such a pretty sight except for the centre which has been wonderfully redeveloped. It used to be called the City of a thousand trades. These small businesses thrived, unlike Manchester or Newcastle which were cities dominated by the capitalist owners of the coal, cotton or railway industries. However, Birmingham is not popular in Britain as most people loathe the accent, unlike the Liverpool and Manchester accents. But being in the heart of England it's a good centre to start a journey either North, South, East or West of the country.
The people who live in Birmingham don’t loathe the accent. How rude!
Connor I live up the hill from Ironbridge in a small town that has a clay pipe museum part of the Gorge and pass the bridge and museum daily, The bridge was assembled using wood working joints and it is said you can see Abraham Darby's silhouette in the bridge. Darby's family were Quakers. Coal port China was also made nearby and there is a Ceramic tile museum nearby too. The tiles were used on the London Underground , hospitals and exported to many palaces and great buildings around the world.
I used to live in Broseley too. 👍
Abraham Darby was born and bred in Woodsetton, Dudley. That’s only a mile or so from me. He lived there until his early teens I believe, then moved to Bristol, before moving to Coalbrook and history was made. 😊
Probably the best grass in the world especially for our cows ,and what do cows give milk and you need milk in tea ,that’s why when we are abroad you can’t get a decent cup of tea I can’t wait to get home and put the kettle on
👍😄Subliminal messaging... Just off for a cuppa now!
Hey Connor, I love Rick Steve's Europe too. Since you did Stockholm, I'll just humbly recommend his video on Denmark Outside of Copenhagen. It's probably one of the best tourism videos on Denmark I've ever seen.
I took my cousin and family who lives in Northern Vermont to Warwick castle. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Went to a much less posh university set up like this. Known as "collegiate universities". The colleges were set up different times and generally have "schools" inside them, which is a grouping of subjects, like life sciences, physical sciences, literature etc. So studied and lived in my college, which was part of my uni, which was in different places/campuses and could use facilities at all.
I am very lucky to have visited all of these places.
Buy a guide book - you need to know where you plan to visit and what you want to see, then read about it before you set off.
England's a very old place and the more you understand the more you'll appreciate.
You'll never know what you're looking at just by wandering about, going "wow!" and guessing wrongly.
Cambridge isn't a town, it's a city. Cambridge University is part of it, and the various colleges are pretty much independent parts of the university. They set their own curricula and offer different degree courses.
Oxford is very similar, but a few years ago it was popular with US fans of Inspector Morse on TV, because all the places in the series are real - pubs, colleges and the rest.
Best to go in summer, when the students are on vacation.. that way you get a chance to look inside.
Punting costs less, too!
Excellent very interesting , we are going to Oxford from Devonshire next month looking forward to it .
If visiting Cambridge I recommend the outdoor Shakespeare plays that are put on. Mostly played by students from the university. Take a sweater though. I saw the Tempest and it was very well done.
Oh I love Rick Steves, he's so sweet.
Lived in Cambridgeshire all my life and now work at the University of Cambridge, which is often ranked as being in the top 3 universities in the world each year. Oxford and Cambridge are unique in the UK for their collegiate system. Undergraduates live in one of the colleges and they provide the pastoral care to students, as well as some teaching rooms, whereas the departments and faculties that belong to the University of Cambridge take care of the teaching side (I work at the Faculty of Education, where students can study education as a social science). Each college has its own character and history, and take care of their own admissions (because they only have a certain number of beds!).
My best friend works at Kings, and gets to spend her summer lunch breaks watching students lose their punting poles in the River Cam 😅
@Nicky L They're similar to Oxbridge colleges in offering accommodation and pastoral support, but I think students still apply to the university for a place, and then are allocated a place at a college afterwards, whereas Oxbridge take a more hands on role in managing their own admissions, but I will admit that is splitting hairs a bit.
Yep been to all those places, not far from Warwick Castle is Kenilworth Castle. I have fished the river at Iron bridge and walked up to the monument at Blenheim. My sister lived not far from Cambridge and I have friends who live near Oxford.
Oxford and Cambridge Universities are split into different 'colleges' depending on what you are studying, e.g, maths, sciences, medicine, philosophy, literature, etc. All 'colleges' have their own name. The towns of Cambridge and Oxford are built around the universities. Warwick Castle has a fantastic medieval jousting competition, birds of prey exhibit held several times a year. Amazing to watch. I lived about 10 minutes away from Blenheim Palace. It is a lovely part of the country. The Magna Carta gave rise to Constitutions around the world.
When I lived in Oxford ( I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford in the USAF ) we used to have a pint or two at a Pub called The Eagle and Child. You could sit in a booth where J. R. R. Tolkien would work on "The Lord of the Rings"!
Upper-class toddlers in the US and GB were raised unisex, even in 1900. My father's father wore a baby dress when young, I have seen the photo. And not cutting a boy's hair made the first haircut the transition to boyhood ... nobles in 1700 were literal "big wigs".
Cambridge is a large town with 31 colleges scattered around, some even in the suburbs (which are often just as interesting).
Students can punt (in a boat) to get from one college to another, and you can join them.
I can see Warwick Castle from my Hi Rise home 8 miles away in Coventry.
17 miles further on I can see the Cotswolds including Broadway Tower, 31 miles in total.
I love good grass too, and I also like the lush kinda grass that you walk on, or are obliged to keep off of, in these cases............
Oxford and Cambridge are towns. Their universities consist of a collection of colleges situated in the towns and founded throughout the centuries.
I lived on one of the housing estates just down the road from Warwick Castle in the 70-80s.
Hay Conner. I never see any one get excited about a piece of grass your reaction was funny. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal
Running Blenheim palace is very difficult due to high gas bills, they really need a subsidy. I enjoyed this one Connor, well done old boy.
I live in Cambridge. It's a lovely place to live. There are lots of separate colleges, they're just all in the same city, Cambridge. There are also a lit of nice museums and pubs.
Warwick Castle literally 11 miles from my house. Has been a family day out for generations.
Hi Connor, hope you’re all good. I’m from Oxfordshire 😊
I went to University College London which was founded, as the University of London, in the 1820s so that people who were not communicant members of the Church of England could study for degrees, which was not the case at Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford and Cambridge were occasionally referred to - affectionately- as ‘certain provincial universities’. I worked in Cambridge. It’s an attractive city but always busy with tourists and traffic is pretty bad.
“Queen Ann was quite good looking”
Ok now you have to see (and if possible react to) Kevin and Perry go large 😂😂😂
I love your channel,you’ve given me so many laughs, in a good way!!👏🏻👌
Multiple Grassgasms
Hi Connor. I'm delighted, as always, to see your continued, deep and genuine interest and appreciation of my country. Many of the videos you watch showcase places I know well, and frequently better than my memory does. The grass truly does look supreme in Oxford's King's college! But then the grass IS always greener when you miss home. OR, maybe we just both have a tiny bit of bovine DNA?!?!
I had a bit of a disastrous time at Oxford, many years ago, because of undiagnosed dyspraxia.. My college was Merton. The College accepts you, and then so does the University as a whole. The University examines you, and provides lectures you may attend; but the personal teaching is at your College, at which you may live. Merton College has the oldest purpose-built college accommodation in the world (1283).
There are college lawns to die for; a testy groundsman is once supposed to have said that the magic ingredient is 'several hundred years'.
There is of course so much more to see. He did his best, giving a variety of sites to visit.
My dad did his engineering courses at Kings College Cambridge and the guy driving the steam loco at Blist's hill in the video is my auntie's brother
Yes, the best UK Universities are Oxford and Cambridge, hence we have the term “Oxbridge educated”
He's wrong about the blast furnace. Abraham darby was the son of another Abraham who lived originally near Dudley, almost at the centre of Britain. The local Lord (Leicester - Lord Dudley a favourite of Elizabeth 1st) had an ironworks nearby and his bastard son by a concubine named Dud Dudley was the first to smelt Iron using coal as the fuel. He had blast furnaces in Stourbridge (damaged in teh great flood of 1625) and Sedgley (destroyed by local iron masters) - both near Dudley and Abraham Darby 1 married into his family and founded an ironworks. Abraham then moved to Bristol making cast iron wares and his son, also Abraham got into a partnership and moved to what became Ironbridge in Shropshire. He just built a larger furnace. The story of Dud Dudley is fascinating and he relates it in his book 'Metallus Martiss and his life (worthy of a Hollywood film) is described by Samuel Smiles in his book ' The Llives of the Engineers' , Both avaiiable on the internet on Project Gutenberg.
Cambridge is a university town a collection of colleges
We have visited all ot these and Blenheim 3 times. All worth the visit.
It's good to know that the Dukes were rocked in that cradle "as babies". God forbid they'd struggle to fit into it as adults 😂😆😛
Conor - Anaesthesia and antiseptics, effectively did two important things. First of all the surgeon could work slowly without worrying about the pain of the patient or their suffering, meaning that he doesn't make mistakes, and he can tidy veins arteries and other important things up before the patient dies of blood loss and shock.
The antiseptics is obvious. 9 out of 10 people died of infection following major surgery.
I hope that helps.
I was in Ironbridge last weekend on a day out on my motorcycle. I live about 20 miles downstream of Ironbridge on the River Severn the whole Severn Valley is a marvellous place full of history.
I've been to Oxford and Cambridge. Just to see there Wonderful architecturel buildings. you have got to see it with your own eyes to appreciate the beauty of these buildings. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal
Your comment about the two boys dressed like girls ,this was the custom then.
Boys were about 4 or 5 before they were `breeched` in other words went into trousers.
Yes, I think predominently in the Victorian era (most of the C19) before zippers when clothing was less easy to fasten, it was far easier to toilet train a toddler boy by clothing him in a dress like his sister...it was far more common than just Churchill and Roosevelt, they are just famous examples.
You understand Gill I hope, I'm less replying to you than adding info for Connor, not suggesting you don't know any of that!
@@carlhartwell7978 Yes, of course .Although actually the timescale goes back much further then Victorian times. You only have to look at the many famous paintings of nobility and their families to see this.
Haha, I've been kayaking on the Cherwell in Oxford. It's funny to see people struggling on the punts. :D I've never visited Cambridge. Must remedy at some point.
Those were not tools for wood. Those were early Surgical tools for operations.
Warwick Castle is a great place for a Family Day out
I clicked and thought "oh great another clueless american reacting" - so happy to be proven wrong, your a credit to your country McJibbin you got a sub!
the punter in the hat, wasnt a student, he was a local to cambridge...had the accent
It's never that lovely weather in Cornwall
There are 35 colleges in Cambridge all different names and different learning subjects.
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Hi, He missed out one of the most important cities more or less in the middle of the area - Birmingham - the UK's second city. I live near the centre of this area, near a town called Rugby where the game was first played at Rugby School about an hours drive from Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick and around 1 1/2 hrs drive from Ironbridge in Coalbrookedale. and have visted all of them many times.
The first city that comes to mind is the 'city of dreaming spires' Oxford.
John Churchill was probably Britain's greatest soldier. He won a string of dazzling victories against the French during the War of the Spanish Succession: Blenheim, Ramilies, Malplaquet and Oudenarde. .
I love the sensitive nature of Rick's videos and their exceptional production quality. However, like many American commentators he seems never to have grasped the British way of naming rivers. We have the River Thames, the River Cam, River Clyde, River Mersey etc. Very rarely do you see the word River following the name. As in the U.S. it's also pretty common to drop the word river altogether if the name is well enough known. We might say "I'm swimming in the Thames", "I'm taking a ferry across the Mersey" much as you might say "a steamboat on the Mississippi".
Oxford and Cambridge as a whole are universities, both with individual colleges. Think of them like football or NFL teams in a league or premiership. You have the NFL as the university and the Dallas Cowboys,Tampon Bay Buccaneers and New York Giants as the colleges
John Harvard, a Londoner, studied at Emmanuel College in Cambridge. Upon moving to the Americas, he set up a school close to Boston that was modelled on his alma mater, and that area was also named Cambridge.
Remember, mate, that you guys are the only ones who call University "School". Because Oxbridge looms so large in academic circles for all the world-shaking/changing things that came out of it, it sounded really, really strange to me! I imagined Darwin and Newton et. al. running up and down the Backs dressed in shorts and caps like public-school kids. (See? everybody's mind goes a-wandering sometimes☺)
Used to live near Cambridge - now I live near Oxford! The countryside around Oxford is especially stunning.
There are of course many very good Universities across the UK but there are two specific ones which are known for being exemplary/prestigious (akin to your Ivy League). They are collectively known as Oxbridge (Oxford and Cambridge).
Cambridge is the University and consists of numreous and famous colleges.
MIT and Cal Tech ... those others study wooly headed subjects like economics or political science. Harvard, Yale and Princeton were founded by Protestant Churches ... Like similar ones in the MidWest by Catholics. Most US colleges are land-grant colleges that were formed later and have always been secular.
Oxford is usually thought of as the great hallowed university while Cambidge is the young upstart pretender ( being only 800 or so years old)
Cambridge University, is a group of colleges
Having a Decent bit of Turf (Garden Lawn) has been or is an English obsession, so good for you Mate & are you going to do any more Napoleonic Video's
No modern artillery piece ,is as impressive in action, as a Trebuchet.
He didn’t mention the wooden mathematical bridge at 9:15 which was built without any nails or screws, etc.
Morse is set in Oxford, a fantastic tv murder series starring the late great John thaw, as morse had his fatal heart attack on the Oxford quad
That case with the saw and other instruments tells you that the doktor is always and under any circumstanse ready. My gess its Navy issue,they had to work!
Connor think of Cambridge as we do the USA. Many colleges make up the whole of Cambridge University. When we visit America we say we have been to America not each of the states unless we are talking about the states themselves specifically. We put them all together under the title America.
Not quite. One University made up not of many universities, but of 31 colleges. Otherwise, your analogy is a good one.
Many English Universities are of a collegiate structure, sometimes on one campus others, usually the oldest (Oxford first had it's teaching in 1090) are spread around. My University at Lancaster (founded 1967) has it's colleges on one huge campus. Not just FDR or Winston were dressed in 'girls' clothing , it was normal for all very young children to be dressed thus.
All our churches and Cathederals have stain glass windows. My town I live in has a castle at it's centre. I was born in Coventry and I know Warwick very well. We probably take our history for granted, but you could spend a life time discovering here :)
Definitely. Even lesser known cities/towns like Coventry (my hometown too) are stacked with history.
Connor, it's best to describe Cambridge more like it's name sake in Massachusetts.... it's a University town, but home to numerous colleges, who confer the degree. The one in Massachusetts is home to Harvard, MIT and Lesley Colleges. The exception is that collectively the colleges constitute the university... together with Oxford, the two are referred to as an "Oxbridge Education" or "Oxbridge Entrance Exams"... they are two of the oldest universities in the British Isles.
They are the two oldest Universities in Britain - Oxford U is older than Cambridge U - story of its founding? The third oldest in Britain is Saint Andrews (1412).
@@marieparker3822 the story of Oxford and Cambridge is apocryphaly parodied in Terry Pratchett's Discworld with the former Dean of Unseen University in Ankh Morpork leaving to found Brazeneck College in Pseudopolis. That being said Oxford migrated to form Colleges elsewhere in the 12th century until given a Papal Bull giving them exemption and rights of similar standing to monasteries.
Oxford was begun by Alfred the Great. I have been to Warwick Castle several times, it is stunning.
Ah......Home? Well Cambridge is 20 minutes away on the Guided bus (bit like a tram or what you may call a street car). Loads of culture, excellent choices of restaurants and pubs too. Oxford was pretty similar when I went there a few years ago, except for wider streets. I suppose that many of these more southerly mediaeval towns and Cities are similar? The Universities themselves excepted.
Cambridge is the city but it is also Cambridge University and there are several colleges within the university.
The University of Cambridge is a single institution spread among more than 30 colleges. It is only the University that awards degrees, but the students belong to their individual colleges. This is often called a federal university. Oxford is similar.
Love your channel ❤Have you ever done anything on America?
If you're doing Europe, I'd recommend France, Dordogne. Great architecture, great local cuisine delicacies.
I grew up not too far from Cambridge and for a while we would go shopping there often on weekends. Never really saw the university parts of city though. We weren't there as tourists after all. It's funny how much history and heritage is in your back yard that you never really see. But I think even from a touristy point of view, as Brits, the university isn't a tourist attraction. It's a university.
The university is made up of many colleges yes
Love your reaction to grass all the bloody rain we have...
Can I suggest that in future you watch historical documentaries about England narrated by English historians (Lucy Worsley is probably the best at the moment). She has a slight (and charming) speech impediment but at least she can pronounce Marlborough correctly and knows the difference between a candle and a candlestick maker!
Magna Carta is 1215. Don't want anyone to lose a pub quiz because of that!