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  • @durthacht
    @durthacht Рік тому +151

    Katie Wignall is an excellent presenter.

    • @LookUpLondon
      @LookUpLondon Рік тому +17

      Thank you! So kind 🥰

    • @BoogaBoy-wq3ye
      @BoogaBoy-wq3ye Рік тому +6

      ​@LookUpLondon cute aswell 😍

    • @colinfew6570
      @colinfew6570 Рік тому +6

      Her voice is so fantastic and calming

    • @chrisschepper9312
      @chrisschepper9312 Рік тому +1

      Indeed.

    • @Oooo-bi7bi
      @Oooo-bi7bi Рік тому +1

      She certainly is. I can’t help falling in love with her. She’s so cute and her voice soothing.

  • @resh..
    @resh.. Рік тому +64

    Big, big fan of Katie! Her knowledge is phenomenal and her natural ability to present + her mellifluent voice makes her a huge History Hit asset.

    • @LookUpLondon
      @LookUpLondon Рік тому +9

      Ah thank you so much! Love making these videos 🙂

    • @anignorantbrit
      @anignorantbrit 25 днів тому

      @@LookUpLondon What happened to Look up London channel? Loved your videos but there hasn't been one for over a year.

  • @monicacall7532
    @monicacall7532 Рік тому +42

    Please give us more of Katie’s videos about London’s history. She’s both knowledgeable personable.

  • @gavindownham9737
    @gavindownham9737 Рік тому +49

    Katie's knowledge and enthusiasm for history makes her a fantastic presenter we are lucky to have on History Hit

  • @Oooo-bi7bi
    @Oooo-bi7bi Рік тому +23

    What brilliant professional presenter. Effortlessly translating into layman’s terms making history entertaining and accessible to all. I do hope teachers use it .Thanks Katie Wignall and all of the team involved.

  • @jamieknight326
    @jamieknight326 Рік тому +28

    Absolutely love Kate’s presenting style. Clear, concise and with a wealth of knowledge on the topics she’s talking about. Thanks for making these. Can’t wait to see more :)

  • @kridswonderhowell4541
    @kridswonderhowell4541 2 місяці тому +1

    Katie Wignall just gained another fan club member!!! Another fun, flawless and informative adventure! 🎉🎉🎉❤🎉🎉🎉

  • @theeutecticpoint
    @theeutecticpoint Рік тому +17

    An excellent new host and an excellent show, if she still does tours of London I'm sure it a great treat for any tourist who gets her as a guide!

    • @TracyD2
      @TracyD2 11 місяців тому

      I’m going to seek her out when I go abroad to London. 🤞🏼

  • @treeliniusmaximus8412
    @treeliniusmaximus8412 Рік тому +9

    Last year my wife and I went to Malta. It was amazing to see the history of the Order of St John in the Cathedral in Valetta and across the island.

  • @shehansenanayaka3046
    @shehansenanayaka3046 Рік тому +13

    History hit tv one of my fav. Brilliant as alwys. Huge fan from Sri Lanka ❤️🔥.

  • @thomasvarley380
    @thomasvarley380 Місяць тому +1

    Absolutely awesome presenting . More from this lady please . She has mad energy and draws you in . Left me wanting MORE !!

  • @kimberlypatton205
    @kimberlypatton205 Рік тому +4

    She has such a lovely voice! Always continually keeping your interest and you can feel her love and passion for history!

  • @davidcreager1945
    @davidcreager1945 Рік тому +12

    Excellent video ! Katie's love and enthusiasm for history really shows ! It's also nice to see the Hospitalers get their due !

  • @keithfowler2013
    @keithfowler2013 Рік тому +2

    Excellent. Really enjoyed that.
    Some documentaries blur the line between Hospitallers and Templars, but that seem to be clear, they're definitely two different orders.

  • @robynneblissett6510
    @robynneblissett6510 Рік тому +1

    I live near Barletta in Italy and now I'm addicted to this period of history. Katie is also an asset for this channel, with her vibrant enthusiasm! Thank you!

  • @Bloomcycle
    @Bloomcycle Рік тому +10

    You're so lucky. I could spend the rest of my life time exploring everything about London

    • @davideddy2672
      @davideddy2672 День тому

      It is considered by many to have been the biggest and smelliest latrine in all Europe for its entire lifetime - hard to think of anything positive about London? 🤔

  • @hillerymcdonald2303
    @hillerymcdonald2303 Рік тому +2

    I love this presenter!! Her voice and demeanor are so lovely and her passion for the subject is contagious!!! Amazing video, love love.

  • @wendellfugate4225
    @wendellfugate4225 Рік тому +6

    Brilliant piece of work. I'm looking forward to the next one. Cheers!

  • @pjaybasmaignee
    @pjaybasmaignee Рік тому +17

    I don’t know who I love more Katie, Alice Loxton or Dan Snow. All amazing presenters. 😊🎉❤ There’s another guy too I just can’t remember his name. 😅

  • @SamOfChristendom
    @SamOfChristendom Рік тому +4

    Great video, I love the camera work and lovely presenting Katie

  • @andrewruddy962
    @andrewruddy962 Рік тому +4

    Wonderful, and Katie's enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you for making and sharing.

  • @georgeousgrant
    @georgeousgrant Рік тому +8

    Really enjoy Katie’s channel, an excellent presenter with exceptional knowledge. Something about that voice too, very soothing 😁👌🏻

  • @ray7419
    @ray7419 Рік тому +7

    Wonderful video. Katie is a great presenter. 👍

  • @ellafay_
    @ellafay_ Рік тому +9

    So informative! Brilliant knowledge from all involved

  • @peterb3772
    @peterb3772 Рік тому +8

    Excellent video. Love the history. Katie does a fantastic job of presenting this series 👍👌

  • @kirstyb90
    @kirstyb90 Рік тому +3

    What a great episode - Katie is a fantastic storyteller! I hope you have more episodes with her.

  • @pecelirovucago7149
    @pecelirovucago7149 Рік тому +1

    Hello from Fiji Island, thanks for sharing this amazing video!
    Very informative, and interesting to watch your presentation of the Knights Templar history, well done .

  • @williamrobinson7435
    @williamrobinson7435 Рік тому +2

    Very good! I had 4gotten about Hogarth snr and his coffee shop. Nice one Katie! ⭐👍

  • @leohickey4953
    @leohickey4953 Рік тому +1

    So much history in Clerkenwell. I used to work around the corner from this building and loved visiting. Great video as usual, Katie.

  • @jimhislop2979
    @jimhislop2979 Рік тому +1

    Fascinating and excellently presented. Thank you

  • @alisonredaif5839
    @alisonredaif5839 Рік тому +3

    What an amazing and interesting presenter! Keep it up Katie

  • @trevorward722
    @trevorward722 Рік тому

    I’m going to watch this multiple times just to hear your delightful voice.

  • @thormusique
    @thormusique Рік тому +1

    Truly a fascinating episode. There's nothing quite like History Hit, and the breadth and depth of topics covered. Cheers!

  • @Jay-ql4gp
    @Jay-ql4gp Рік тому +3

    I really enjoyed this, thank you very much!

  • @jameswettern5704
    @jameswettern5704 7 місяців тому

    This was fascinating, thank you! I used to work in the building to the left of the church for four years, and had no idea of the history.

  • @legionnairegonk4425
    @legionnairegonk4425 Рік тому +3

    Fantastic! Helping to join the dots... So that is where St John's Ambulance originated - with the Maltese cross that now makes sense. I always wondered... You learn something new every HH video.

  • @54mgtf22
    @54mgtf22 Рік тому +2

    The Order of St John also gave the world the Maltese cross as the international symbol of medical assistance.
    Hey Katie. Love your work 👍

  • @WHITERAGS
    @WHITERAGS Рік тому

    She’s well worth listening to. I really enjoy her presentations.

  • @suzannechapman4302
    @suzannechapman4302 Рік тому +1

    Thank you Katie. I had no idea that the hospitaller knights still excisted. Well, at least in some form.

  • @hugelavalava
    @hugelavalava Рік тому +1

    Another awesome video guys, love it 🤩👍

  • @Wolfiechrm
    @Wolfiechrm Рік тому

    It makes me happy to see so many videos now coming out about St. John Ambulance

  • @mark703
    @mark703 Рік тому +1

    I am proud to be a modern member of the "Order of St John" with such a long history.

  • @AshleyMartin-f3x
    @AshleyMartin-f3x 11 місяців тому

    Yes she brings you right into the story❤

  • @cijmo
    @cijmo Рік тому +1

    Excellent tour. I usually go to London at Christmas so this is one of the ones that closes for the season. This year I'm going in Sept. so maybe I'll see it. One thing for certain is that...if I miss it THIS year, it'll still be there waiting for me!

  • @gunnarelisigurjonsson2587
    @gunnarelisigurjonsson2587 Рік тому

    . More please ❤
    Fascinating and brilliant presentation

  • @desafrique53
    @desafrique53 Рік тому +1

    So many great female historians around at the moment bringing new perspectives to our understanding of the past. Katie is great!

  • @mariadange06
    @mariadange06 Рік тому

    Thoroughly enjoyed this episode.

  • @charc9009
    @charc9009 Рік тому +1

    Love Katie’s videos!

  • @TCW838
    @TCW838 8 місяців тому

    Fantastic history by an absolutely amazing presenter.

    • @HistoryHit
      @HistoryHit  8 місяців тому

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @nancyM1313
    @nancyM1313 Рік тому +3

    👍🏻😎❤love the tours
    Tyvmuch Katie

  • @sharonsimcic4676
    @sharonsimcic4676 Рік тому +2

    Outstanding video!

  • @timothywebb5100
    @timothywebb5100 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant,more of this would be very welcome

  • @priest8377
    @priest8377 Рік тому +3

    Love this series 😊

  • @pitdog75
    @pitdog75 Рік тому +1

    Great presenter, great narrator. Cheers.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely 💯 love Kate's presenting style....it was informative and enjoyable watching video about British Knights in Medieval periods....thank You ( Hit history)channel

  • @Kimmy-pw8tm
    @Kimmy-pw8tm Рік тому

    So interesting. Well done Katie

  • @andrearoyd2942
    @andrearoyd2942 Рік тому

    Thanks - interesting & calming :)

  • @awatts8980
    @awatts8980 Рік тому +3

    Katie needs a louder volume on location, otherwise very enjoyable presentation

  • @Mrtomtien
    @Mrtomtien Рік тому +1

    Very interesting documentary

  • @rebeccarussell939
    @rebeccarussell939 Рік тому

    Learning history always interested me

  • @jimjohandes
    @jimjohandes Рік тому +1

    Nicely done!!! Jim in California

  • @leechumbley5440
    @leechumbley5440 11 місяців тому

    Thank you Katie for a very interesting video with fascinating details of the Clerkenwell Priory of the Order of St. John from the 11th century to the present. I learned a lot. On the Turkish shore of the eastern Aegean Sea the Knights of St. John built a huge castle dominating the entrance to the harbour of Halicarnassus (Bodrun). The English Tower there is emblazoned with the arms of English king Henry IV. In Rhodes itself, the Inn (Auberge) of the English Knights of St. John, which stands opposite the entrance to the mediaeval Hospital of St. John, is emblazoned with the arms of English king Edward IV and of Sir John Kendall, commander of the cavalry (Turkpolier) of the Knights of St. John during their successful defense of the Ottoman siege by Mehmet II in 1480.

  • @alexshapley8331
    @alexshapley8331 Рік тому

    👍 very interesting, thanks... and now I know where St John's Ambulance came from!

  • @117Pinkyflower
    @117Pinkyflower Рік тому +2

    They need to make a movie about the Hospitalers.

  • @heehaw-i6u
    @heehaw-i6u Рік тому

    Fabulous, interesting contect - really interesting but please stop waving your arms about!!
    x

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 Рік тому

    Very interesting

  • @spalmer4609
    @spalmer4609 Рік тому

    Didn't read through all the comments so hope this isn't a duplicate. Katie has an excellent blog where she frequently posts: Look Up London

  • @jamesleyda365
    @jamesleyda365 Рік тому

    Right on......👍

  • @hazeluzzell
    @hazeluzzell Рік тому +1

    Sound is a bit iffy, but very interesting.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому +1

    Wow.

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 Рік тому

    Very cool. 🙏

  • @SophieeXw
    @SophieeXw Рік тому

    yes thanks, nice voice too

  • @lorrainecasey749
    @lorrainecasey749 Рік тому

    This girl is really good 👍🏼

  • @janetbaggi-biotelli9352
    @janetbaggi-biotelli9352 Рік тому

    Who is the girl in the musuem? She knows how to join the complex dots

  •  Рік тому +2

    Thank you very much dear Katie, you're really so beautiful by the way, now as an alternate for the Saint john's order ı kindly would like to suggest Saint Alien's disorder, we dream a new world disorder consisting of full anarchy, wisdom and freedom, how about that? Fantastic idea isn't it? So as a matter of fact consequently we are the defenders of the new world disorder which is a big idea. Please listen to heavy metal music dear Katie.

  • @Elysian777
    @Elysian777 Рік тому

    Wonderful presentation. Very well done. Good to see some of the history well preserved and appreciated.
    Shame that London bought into modernization and replaced much of their amazing historic architecture with ugly industrial cement and glass. So much less interesting than some other European capitals.

  • @kingkal81
    @kingkal81 Рік тому +2

    Can Dan Snow & your Channel do a collaboration with the go to Geography UA-cam channel Geography Now by Paul B.
    History & Geography are my favourite things both go hand in hand. This and Geography Now are my favourite educational channels.
    In the video I was thinking of doing a special video about the history of the world using both history (From empires to Revolution & historic moments) & Geography (map's & demographic changes over time).
    It could be a series if popular I would love to see the great minds of Dan & Paul together 😄

  • @jamesgomez9074
    @jamesgomez9074 Рік тому +1

    For being Scottish Kate is AWESOME on British history......

    • @test-201
      @test-201 Рік тому

      gotta love that northern mexican humour

  • @kyleanuar9090
    @kyleanuar9090 Рік тому

    Wish Waldemar Janusczak covered this

  • @ianevans2917
    @ianevans2917 Рік тому +2

    Isn't the Venerable Order of St John a Victorian construct? The original and extant Order of St John is the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta which has continued in existence since its foundation. The English Venerable Order are fortunate to have inherited what remains of the London buildings of the original Order.

    • @Wolfiechrm
      @Wolfiechrm Рік тому

      We became a recognised order during the Victorian period after Queen Victoria gave us the royal charter allowing us to put the lion and unicorn on our uniforms. In recent years we have taken the unicorn and lion off of our uniform when we created our new uniform the green shirts and black cargo trousers you see us wearing today.

  • @dm607
    @dm607 9 місяців тому

    Did I miss the crypts?

  • @KKTKTube
    @KKTKTube 14 днів тому

    Strange that Londoners talk about military bandit organization like something good.

  • @gilong81
    @gilong81 Рік тому +2

    Content was great, but what's up with the sound?

  • @BELLA_AND_RUBY
    @BELLA_AND_RUBY 11 місяців тому

    think templers go back to the 10th century as archbishop odo was the head and he was william the conquerors brother you have to do some digging but its well worth it

  • @MariMoore-nc2cg
    @MariMoore-nc2cg Рік тому

    London is the first

  • @dondevice8182
    @dondevice8182 Рік тому +2

    What a pleasure to see two women - - perfectly lovely - - but presenting a program because they know what they’re talking about, without retention and talking enthusiastically between themselves… Not just because they’re a pretty face to be on television. I have nothing against simply pretty faces when they know what they’re talking about, but to see two women, so intelligent, so unpretentious- And yes, also not disagreeable to look at :-), is a breath of fresh air.
    Thank you.

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 Рік тому +3

      Here's your trophy for weirdest, creepiest comment of the day 🏆

    • @dondevice8182
      @dondevice8182 Рік тому

      @@cleverusername9369 Ha!
      Yeah, I can see how it comes off like,that. :-/

  • @AlwaysForwardGaming
    @AlwaysForwardGaming Рік тому

    I love you... A great presenster..... :)

  • @joyful
    @joyful Рік тому

    having a hard time with the sound quality.

  • @robbiecrossing9447
    @robbiecrossing9447 7 місяців тому

    So much
    easier to listen to and watch than Janina Ramirez

  • @paulvallance4970
    @paulvallance4970 Рік тому

    I think you’ll find its knights “hospitalier” as in the French origin of the word, not “hospitaller”

    • @richardparker1490
      @richardparker1490 Рік тому +1

      Well they still exist and it's the 'Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller'

  • @badbiker666
    @badbiker666 Рік тому +2

    How many knights took a vow of poverty and yet could afford some extraordinary and expensive accoutrements. Horses, armor, weapons, and shields were not cheap. Alabaster effigies, such as the one of the Spanish knight, were very costly. Perhaps they defined poverty differently than we do in our own era.

    • @tracyanne8616
      @tracyanne8616 Рік тому +1

      I think the reason is that like The Templars, the Hospitaller knights were generally found in wealthy households, but were second sons with no expectation of inheritance. They needed to either marry well or become soldiers. So what more esteemed soldier to become than a knight of the order of the Hospitallers. Being the army de jour and highly regarded.

  • @MariMoore-nc2cg
    @MariMoore-nc2cg Рік тому

    Katie isn’t London the first city

  • @mrpink8951
    @mrpink8951 Рік тому +2

    I hate to be a pedant, but St John’s Ambulance is a secular non-profit that borrowed the name. It isn’t a successor to the Order. There are a lot of different groups that borrowed the name. Some are non-profits like the one mentioned in the video, while others are little more than social clubs. All of them seek to honor on the legacy of the name some way or another (though, I think we can agree the Ambulance and others like it are doing it best 🙂). Only a handful were ever actually affiliated with the order, and all of those are tied to surviving royal families and aristocrats in mainland Europe; Sweden, Portugal, the Netherlands, and a couple others.
    The actual original Order of St. John never ever went away, and is currently recognized as a sovereign stare by most of the modern world. Currently headquartered in Rome, they go by the exhaustingly long name of “The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta”. They are currently involved in philanthropic work, focused on medicine and emergency relief. Last I checked, they even operate a hospital train.

  • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
    @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Рік тому +1

    🙂👍

  • @mrbearbear83
    @mrbearbear83 Рік тому

    There's artefacts in the Vatican

  • @codynicholas2275
    @codynicholas2275 4 місяці тому

    I don’t remember a single reference to a crypt.

  • @murrayscott9546
    @murrayscott9546 Рік тому +1

    Long may shev wave, A most honourable order ? Those without. sin, cast the first stone

  • @eivorthewolfkissed7672
    @eivorthewolfkissed7672 Рік тому

    Who else is here because of Assassin's creed 1

  • @arjunsandhar578
    @arjunsandhar578 Рік тому +1

    W

  • @murrayscott9546
    @murrayscott9546 Рік тому

    Blown up with gun-powder ? Çlassy.! Might try that m'self somday, sometime .