Thank you very much, Edward - a most well illustrated, informative and enjoyable video. The letters in particular really reach across the centuries and milennia to make these long dead people alive again.
AMAZING documentary! It was really cool to see the handwriting, and the day-to-day goings on and correspondence from these people whom lived 2000 years ago. How you only have 320 subscribers amazes me, but I'll happily be 321!
Really lovely, how wonderful that you read us the letters of the ancients and of the not-so-ancients, all of whom bring back the idea of life of yore. Thank you so much. Simply WONDERFUL.
It just amazes at times about the amount of history in such a small set of islands. Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans (who were just 3rd generation Vikings anyway).
I have wandered to many places. Pompeii; El Gem Coliseum; the outdoor theatre in Cyprus aged around 2000 years et cetera and more closely, the Yorvic site in York, England and the Roman museum in Canterbury, England. Lots of other places of course (smile). A little like the yeoman in the poem, if you stand quietly, you can transport yourself into the past. You can feel yourself in the time. You can touch the ground with your hands where men and women of 2000 years ago stood. You can see and hear the time through your mind's eye as though you have travelled in time. People of these times had pretty much exactly what we would have in our day-to-day lives just using different approaches.. Machine and computerised technology make us feel somehow different but actually, our day-to-day activities haven't really changed. Human experience and human feeling / relationships remain the same. Funnily enough, as I wandered through Pompeii, it felt like the environment I would have walked through would have been more beautiful than the inner-city lifestyle we have today. There would have been the fast food stand in the street just as today although selling seafood alarm with the public bar and theatre with sunshine in the sky. I suppose the main difference would be that you might be being chased down the street by a Roman soldier with a sword rather than a local villain. (Smile)
Great comments there Matt. Yes wandering around these places is pretty special and connects one to a human stream of existence, that yes, in its essence, has not changed that much. I went to Pompeii and Herculaneum during a break in the virus a couple of years ago and it was almost empty of people. It was a special visit and felt eerily like time and mind travel, as you said in your comment.
I have the same sense of wonder and the thrill at the letters/tablets. What always strikes me, aside from the familiarity of the people and their concerns, is that they had a sense of peace and permanence like we do. If they only knew the chaos to come and face their descendants some centuries later. It makes me think about what’s to come for our children and their children’s children.
I like this video very much....to often the stories are told in impersonal way...but this one draws you closer , to feel how those people felt. I think to often we get so absorbed in our high tech culture, we forget that those people before us have invented and built, have written and sung songs, have !lived their lives and left marks on this earth. The troubling question is, what will this generation leave behind?
Those are hobnails, it’s traction oriented because many surfaces were stone and worn leather in contact with stone has a propensity to not only wear out but become slick.
Another gem the reading of the letters was wonderful to hear History is so much more than kings and lists of dates hearing the every day thoughts is a privilege I wonder what these people would think if they realised that we would be reading them all these years later On quite another matter in your library of offerings have you recorded Queen Mab's speech from Romeo and juliet ? Stay well .
It was Boudica's husband, not her father, who died. In his will, half of his estate went to Nero and the other half to his and Boudica's daughters. The Roman's reneged on the deal, the rest you got right.
Is there any records surviving of this boxers name? I believe I’ve read some fictional books about a man called “Rufius Rufinus” or “Boxer”. Just wondered if this was maybe an inspiration.
Certainly a place to visit, need more than one day if you want to see everything. Just put on good walking shoes you’ll need them especially when walking back from the museum to the carpark.
Okay this is the second place I’ve heard that elephants were on the island. How would they have been transported from France to England? How come not one body has been found of an elephant been found?
Well shipments of wild animals from Africa to places like Rome was big business, so certainly they could pop big animals on boats! An elephant is maybe equivalent to 3 or 4 horses in space or weight....? And it would be rather miraculous if they found an elephant skeleton from Roman times in Britain, (if it's even true that Claudius rode one and they were here). But it's not strange to me at all that one or 2 could have been shipped over, died, leaving no remains found to this day!
@@edwardcalcutt3417 It just seems so odd. Yes I know shipping animals and all that but ELEPHANTS to the island? That body of water is not known to be calm either. It just sounds so … odd.
@@graceamerican3558 Indeed :) It seems he also needed to establish his position as a dominant powerful emperor (conquering a new territory is a good move), as he was almost a last choice for the throne,, had a limp and a speech impediment, and people didn't take him seriously at first.
I’ve always found the streak of Scottish nationalism that arises from Hadrian’s Wall to be fascinating. There’s an attempt to contextualize the wall as representative of the indomitable picts. As far as I can tell when you strip away the rhetoric, and if you’ve ever visited northern Scotland and the surrounding environs even today, there was simply nothing there worth the expenditure and effort to conquer or offer the franchise to. The notion that the Romans “couldn’t” conquer Scotland is pretty laughable tbh.
Ive seen an ariel Google maps image of fields near me , were i previously found a small ornament of what looks like a roman man kneeling down with a crop of weat or flowers in his hand ,anyway there are extensive lines looks just like vinderlander???
As I understand it, the peoples the romans encountered in the British isles have been roughly labelled as sharing a wider Celtic culture, while the people that started invading and occupying after the Roman occupation were then known as Angles, Saxons and Jutes from northern europe. Perhaps I made a mistake in naming them as such, not sure which moment you are referring to.
With the triangle analysis method I developed, the answer can be derived as soon as it is analyzed. Specify 3 locations. Vindolanda, 54 59 26.06 N, 2 21 38.05 W, Vatican, 41 54 8.00 N, 12 27 26.13 E, One hundredth of the Sun diameter distance Point ,from Machupicchu sun stone, 7 10 29.10 S, 56 6 56.45 E, The mutual distances of those three points are 8743km, 1814km, 115km, and the sum of the three is 10672km. Mars diameter is 6794km, Mars circumference is about 21345km. It is calculated as π=3 14159. 10672km≒21345km×0.49999, The total distance of the three sides is the half-perimeter of Mars. The extremely high accuracy is important evidence that the Anunnaki descended on earth 200,000 years ago and constructed and arranged ancient ruins with modules based on the size of the solar system bodies. Since it has not been moved since it was installed, good results can be obtained by measuring carefully. I have already completed the analysis of more than 90,000 demonstration cases. This is one example. I will explain the reason for each length. 8743km≒8501km; Triton circumference ×1.028, 1814km≒3636km × 0 499, Io diameter ×0.5, 115km ≒ Io circumference × 1.0067, PS; The hypothetical sun spot is a vestige track that the Anunnaki diligently collected the gold-laden mud deposited on the ocean floor. It is 12km wide and remains for 20000km continuously. In addition, it is characterized by a small detour to the west only here. It's a sacred point of importance and a base that I cherish! There are several other locations.
Amazing video, the letters home, and the letters to the serving soldiers, the care parcels, we haven’t changed much in 2000 years at all.
Indeed we haven't!
Roma ha conquistato,dominato, costruito e civilizzato, la grandezza,la potenza e la gloria di Roma è aeterna, Roma invicta, Roma caput mundi
I can't believe you are not more listened to! Very informative!
Thank you very much, Edward - a most well illustrated, informative and enjoyable video. The letters in particular really reach across the centuries and milennia to make these long dead people alive again.
Thank you Susan :)
AMAZING documentary! It was really cool to see the handwriting, and the day-to-day goings on and correspondence from these people whom lived 2000 years ago. How you only have 320 subscribers amazes me, but I'll happily be 321!
Thank you Scott! Happy 321st subscribeeeeeer :)
Really lovely, how wonderful that you read us the letters of the ancients and of the not-so-ancients, all of whom bring back the idea of life of yore. Thank you so much. Simply WONDERFUL.
So lovely to hear of Roman Britain with its fort at Vindolanda and to learn of the life at the fort in these times.
you have a good narration voice. The accent is smooth and easy to understand for a Canadian.
Love this. Thank you for producing it.
You have a storytelling talent and you need to keep at it and one day you will have a million subscribers. Keep it conversational
Awesome!! Pls do more videos with artifacts from Celtic and Roman Britain. So good!!
Wonderful narration. Such a breath of fresh air from the usual over exaggerated over hyped plastic cascades. Great vid thanks.
'Plastic cascades'. A brilliant expression :) Thank you for the feedback.
only discoveringyour channel now, loving it, appreciate all the work you put into this, watching from Ireland
How interesting to learn of ancient Roman Britain.
Very impressed by your presentation and knowledge. Impressed too by the Romans. Thank you for the tour. 🇨🇦
superb video and contribution to YT. Well done indeed.
Excellent work, maps, good pace
Thank you for the video and history of Roman Britain
Just found your channel! This is brilliant - subbed . Thanks
Thanks Lewis!
Excellent work,
Very interesting. Greetings from far off Sicily, much more agreeable climate for military service.
Fascinating! Thank you!
It just amazes at times about the amount of history in such a small set of islands. Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans (who were just 3rd generation Vikings anyway).
I have wandered to many places. Pompeii; El Gem Coliseum; the outdoor theatre in Cyprus aged around 2000 years et cetera and more closely, the Yorvic site in York, England and the Roman museum in Canterbury, England. Lots of other places of course (smile).
A little like the yeoman in the poem, if you stand quietly, you can transport yourself into the past. You can feel yourself in the time. You can touch the ground with your hands where men and women of 2000 years ago stood. You can see and hear the time through your mind's eye as though you have travelled in time.
People of these times had pretty much exactly what we would have in our day-to-day lives just using different approaches.. Machine and computerised technology make us feel somehow different but actually, our day-to-day activities haven't really changed. Human experience and human feeling / relationships remain the same.
Funnily enough, as I wandered through Pompeii, it felt like the environment I would have walked through would have been more beautiful than the inner-city lifestyle we have today. There would have been the fast food stand in the street just as today although selling seafood alarm with the public bar and theatre with sunshine in the sky.
I suppose the main difference would be that you might be being chased down the street by a Roman soldier with a sword rather than a local villain. (Smile)
Great comments there Matt. Yes wandering around these places is pretty special and connects one to a human stream of existence, that yes, in its essence, has not changed that much. I went to Pompeii and Herculaneum during a break in the virus a couple of years ago and it was almost empty of people. It was a special visit and felt eerily like time and mind travel, as you said in your comment.
Thankyou very much.it was very interesting. I went to vinderlander a few years ago,and was completely absorbed .
I have the same sense of wonder and the thrill at the letters/tablets. What always strikes me, aside from the familiarity of the people and their concerns, is that they had a sense of peace and permanence like we do. If they only knew the chaos to come and face their descendants some centuries later. It makes me think about what’s to come for our children and their children’s children.
I like this video very much....to often the stories are told in impersonal way...but this one draws you closer , to feel how those people felt. I think to often we get so absorbed in our high tech culture, we forget that those people before us have invented and built, have written and sung songs, have !lived their lives and left marks on this earth. The troubling question is, what will this generation leave behind?
Those are hobnails, it’s traction oriented because many surfaces were stone and worn leather in contact with stone has a propensity to not only wear out but become slick.
What a great video keep up the great information
Thank you!
Another gem the reading of the letters was wonderful to hear
History is so much more than kings and lists of dates hearing the every day thoughts is a privilege I wonder what these people would think if they realised that we would be reading them all these years later On quite another matter in your library of offerings have you recorded Queen Mab's speech from Romeo and juliet ? Stay well .
25:27 "The Boxer" is actually an ancient Greek statue, and those boxing cuffs are of Greek design 🇬🇷
The battle at the medway has in recent years been thrown into question
yeah! everyone knows that battle was in the Pacific! sheesh, what a maroon this guy is!
It was Boudica's husband, not her father, who died. In his will, half of his estate went to Nero and the other half to his and Boudica's daughters. The Roman's reneged on the deal, the rest you got right.
Thanks for the feedback :)
An informed summary.
4:50 It was Boudica's husband (not her father), Prasutagus, who had left the kingdom to be split between his daughters and the Roman Emperor.
Thank you for the correction.
@@edwardcalcutt3417 No worries. I know it was just a slip of the tongue.
Is there any records surviving of this boxers name? I believe I’ve read some fictional books about a man called “Rufius Rufinus” or “Boxer”. Just wondered if this was maybe an inspiration.
4:05 is that image from a movie/series?
Yes, from the tv show Britannia.
@@edwardcalcutt3417 thanking you. Great video
Just visited vindolanda yesterday and its a great site.
Certainly a place to visit, need more than one day if you want to see everything. Just put on good walking shoes you’ll need them especially when walking back from the museum to the carpark.
Good tip!
Royal Mail have problemes still, after 2000yrs?
"Where's this emperor then?"
"I think he's in the elephant"
He's in the trunk :)
@@edwardcalcutt3417 I think you just won the internet!
Okay this is the second place I’ve heard that elephants were on the island. How would they have been transported from France to England? How come not one body has been found of an elephant been found?
Well shipments of wild animals from Africa to places like Rome was big business, so certainly they could pop big animals on boats! An elephant is maybe equivalent to 3 or 4 horses in space or weight....? And it would be rather miraculous if they found an elephant skeleton from Roman times in Britain, (if it's even true that Claudius rode one and they were here). But it's not strange to me at all that one or 2 could have been shipped over, died, leaving no remains found to this day!
@@edwardcalcutt3417 It just seems so odd. Yes I know shipping animals and all that but ELEPHANTS to the island? That body of water is not known to be calm either. It just sounds so … odd.
@@graceamerican3558 You're right, it is odd. What extent Claudius goes to to impress the Britanni!
@@edwardcalcutt3417 Okay. You’ve got a point there. And he might know what to expect.
@@graceamerican3558 Indeed :) It seems he also needed to establish his position as a dominant powerful emperor (conquering a new territory is a good move), as he was almost a last choice for the throne,, had a limp and a speech impediment, and people didn't take him seriously at first.
I’ve always found the streak of Scottish nationalism that arises from Hadrian’s Wall to be fascinating. There’s an attempt to contextualize the wall as representative of the indomitable picts. As far as I can tell when you strip away the rhetoric, and if you’ve ever visited northern Scotland and the surrounding environs even today, there was simply nothing there worth the expenditure and effort to conquer or offer the franchise to. The notion that the Romans “couldn’t” conquer Scotland is pretty laughable tbh.
Yes there's probably truth in that.
I think U missed the part where the Celt's sent troops to assist against Rome in France so Caesar had a bone to pick as well with them.
Yes indeed! I guess also that Caesar probably wanted some bones to find :)
Gorge RR Martin basically read a bunch of history and put dragons and fantastical settings to it and made a mint.
Ive seen an ariel Google maps image of fields near me , were i previously found a small ornament of what looks like a roman man kneeling down with a crop of weat or flowers in his hand ,anyway there are extensive lines looks just like vinderlander???
It's hard to see where you are going when you ride in an Elephant.
The combs look like nit combs you get with a bottle of nit lotion lol
😁
You read Latin beautiful
Thank you.
Jesus christ are there no documentaries anymore. Has all of life been reduced to an advert and a podcast.
The rat was a cat toy.
D
England were not Celts. They were Angles.
As I understand it, the peoples the romans encountered in the British isles have been roughly labelled as sharing a wider Celtic culture, while the people that started invading and occupying after the Roman occupation were then known as Angles, Saxons and Jutes from northern europe. Perhaps I made a mistake in naming them as such, not sure which moment you are referring to.
The Angles invaded the British Isles AFTER the Roman withdrawal, so the term "Celts" is most accurate.
With the triangle analysis method I developed, the answer can be derived as soon as it is analyzed. Specify 3 locations. Vindolanda, 54 59 26.06 N, 2 21 38.05 W, Vatican, 41 54 8.00 N, 12 27 26.13 E, One hundredth of the Sun diameter distance Point ,from Machupicchu sun stone, 7 10 29.10 S, 56 6 56.45 E,
The mutual distances of those three points are 8743km, 1814km, 115km, and the sum of the three is 10672km. Mars diameter is 6794km, Mars circumference is about 21345km. It is calculated as π=3 14159. 10672km≒21345km×0.49999,
The total distance of the three sides is the half-perimeter of Mars. The extremely high accuracy is important evidence that the Anunnaki descended on earth 200,000 years ago and constructed and arranged ancient ruins with modules based on the size of the solar system bodies. Since it has not been moved since it was installed, good results can be obtained by measuring carefully. I have already completed the analysis of more than 90,000 demonstration cases. This is one example.
I will explain the reason for each length. 8743km≒8501km; Triton circumference ×1.028, 1814km≒3636km × 0 499, Io diameter ×0.5, 115km ≒ Io circumference × 1.0067,
PS; The hypothetical sun spot is a vestige track that the Anunnaki diligently collected the gold-laden mud deposited on the ocean floor. It is 12km wide and remains for 20000km continuously. In addition, it is characterized by a small detour to the west only here. It's a sacred point of importance and a base that I cherish! There are several other locations.