Historian Tom Holland on Oppenheimer, Napoleon and why the world loves British history

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  • @andyknuckles2903
    @andyknuckles2903 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    Tom Holland is a gold mine. His podcast with Dominic Sandbrook is often a highlight in my week.

    • @GrumpaGladstone1809
      @GrumpaGladstone1809 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I looked it up, will give it a whirl, thanks!!! :)

    • @robertgebruers9519
      @robertgebruers9519 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It is THE best podcast.

    • @vlndfee6481
      @vlndfee6481 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Learning constant new context and information.
      Better than any historic lessons on school.

    • @samgoodway5244
      @samgoodway5244 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The podcast GOATs.

    • @user-lp7wo7og4x
      @user-lp7wo7og4x ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'll give his podcast a go pal

  • @mithrandirthegrey7644
    @mithrandirthegrey7644 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I've always had a casual interest in history but Tom Holland for sure has made me much more interested in classical history than I ever used to be.

  • @alanfox8928
    @alanfox8928 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    it is a shame for the sake of the interview that the interviewer was so poor, but Tom Holland fantastic to listen to as always.

    • @trytwicelikemice3190
      @trytwicelikemice3190 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      His fixation on trying to bring it back to culture war issues in the middle was very weird...

    • @johnhealy6494
      @johnhealy6494 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Absolutely

    • @jamiearan
      @jamiearan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Stephen was trying to get Tom to bite on right wing talking points, but I was impressed by Tom's ability to steer from them

    • @billythedog-309
      @billythedog-309 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@trytwicelikemice3190 The fact that this is sponsored by the Daily Telegraph is purely coincidental.

    • @ddkdkdkdkdkdk1
      @ddkdkdkdkdkdk1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Total Torygraph interviewer

  • @JeansiByxan
    @JeansiByxan ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I read Dominion when it came out and it blew me away. Anything Tom Holland writes now I’ll read. His ability to pivot from the present to the past is unparallelled.

  • @localfox1000
    @localfox1000 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Nice to see the Telegraph give a platform to an elite sportsman

  • @darrenkaminsky7618
    @darrenkaminsky7618 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Tom Holland is, of course, terrific and fascinating. He has to find his way around some of the interviewer's clunkier and more short-sighted questions, but he seems to have no problem doing this with grace, agility, and brilliance. The overall lesson is that history doesn't serve a single perspective, and the events and battles of the moment fade quickly.
    A telling moment was when the interviewer asked Holland whether he'd be able to get his Islam documentary made in today's political atmosphere, obviously under the impression that he wouldn't, and Holland having to remind him--or inform him--of the atmosphere around the subject of Islam in the post 9/11 and Iraq war period, which the interviewer obviously either didn't know about or hadn't bothered to research.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No… I think this young interviewer is singly the most outstanding interviewer of intellectual quality to have arisen on the western/global stage in years.

    • @palatine7013
      @palatine7013 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@matthewstokes1608 i disagree, he's fishing for controversial debate where one doesn't exist. Another useless attempt at stirring the societal pot!

    • @StumpyVandal
      @StumpyVandal ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The interviewer was constantly trying to draw Tom into the debate on wokism and political correctness stifling all forms of expression. The right wing newspapers in the US and UK care about little else right now. It’s ridiculous given the actual problems facing society.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@StumpyVandal Tom Holland was asked provocative (not leading) questions by a perfectly reasoned and intellectual young man doing a far better job than those we typically see.

    • @darrenkaminsky7618
      @darrenkaminsky7618 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@StumpyVandal Yes, watching again that's what the interviewer is trying to do. He's subtler than some, but it's still a bit scary -- not everything can or should connect to "wokeism" or the political right's bizarre cultural obsessions.

  • @agracier8656
    @agracier8656 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Absolutely riveting interview. So insightful with his modest speaking style. A pleasure to have listened to.

    • @skp8748
      @skp8748 ปีที่แล้ว

      So disappointing he's a raging islamophobe.

  • @abcav297
    @abcav297 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Never expected Spider-Man 4 to be a single room arthouse movie with only two characters and mostly dialogue. Bravo Marvel!

  • @ssotkow
    @ssotkow ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Didn't know what I expecting when I clicked this video... thought it was another Oppenheimer review, but totally engrossed in this riveting conversation that suddenly popped up from nowhere like a dream.

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't get caught up in the latest HollyWeed Hype...Be an original thinker.

  • @samurai_wack
    @samurai_wack ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I had no interest in history until I discovered The Rest is History. I read Persian Fire a couple of months ago and found it utterly fascinating!

    • @EerieV23
      @EerieV23 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The rest of his books are just as riveting. I highly recommend them.

    • @samurai_wack
      @samurai_wack ปีที่แล้ว

      Rubicon is next on my list!@@EerieV23

    • @mrsmvcheek
      @mrsmvcheek 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am listening to that and reading in tandem Tom Holland’s book on Late Antiquity.So many interlocking ideas and events in history I knew nothing about.

  • @profiler4772
    @profiler4772 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Impressive teacher! His own enthusiasm is so fluently transferred to and captured by the listener.

  • @jamieguthrie1760
    @jamieguthrie1760 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Nice to drop in a few buzzwords of the moment using Oppenheimer in the title, but this interview was much more about the Roman Empire and how it relates and has influenced the modern West of today!
    Fascinating interview btw!

    • @arthurw8054
      @arthurw8054 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, the title might be a bit misleading, but if it's Tom Holland it's going to be superb, period.

  • @SynapseDriven
    @SynapseDriven ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Holland is genius and a very generous person because that interviewer is just daft.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      he is biased

    • @Joe-og6br
      @Joe-og6br ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As it went along I could sense a growing distain towards the interviewer.

    • @waveplay3978
      @waveplay3978 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Joe-og6br towards the end his smugness just became too much, consistently trying to get some controversial statements out of him re: current day daft culture wars

  • @ahothabeth
    @ahothabeth ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It is a joy to listen to Tom Holland; Steven Edginton not so much.

  • @patrickquinlan3056
    @patrickquinlan3056 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great interview, although I had to wait 40 minutes for a mention of Oppenheimer, Napoleon or British history. Never mind, I love listening to Tom.

  • @fredlewis6527
    @fredlewis6527 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Bloody hell that presenter had an agenda

  • @TurnCoatTechie
    @TurnCoatTechie ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Outstanding views from Tom Holland that I also share ❤

  • @scottbuchanan9426
    @scottbuchanan9426 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One figure Tom Holland didn't mention when discussing Britain's global cultural-historical influence is probably the biggest one of all: William Shakespeare.

    • @themsmloveswar3985
      @themsmloveswar3985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not sure. I reckon Shelley, Dickens, had a larger impact.
      And possibly Orwel, and Huxley.

    • @scottbuchanan9426
      @scottbuchanan9426 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Mickyway Don't think so.

  • @jonhelmer8591
    @jonhelmer8591 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great, I've found Tom's podcast on the iplayer!
    46 hours of fun.

  • @jamesbailey5008
    @jamesbailey5008 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hooked on the rest is history, love it

  • @janecote
    @janecote ปีที่แล้ว +38

    May I just say, I am very impressed by how such a young man can sound so pompous already

  • @andrewturner3580
    @andrewturner3580 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great Interview !

  • @ozzell
    @ozzell ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm fascinated by this idea of christendom being inherently destabilizing and a potential cause for a lot of social progress and post-christian ideologies.

    • @dulls8475
      @dulls8475 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It gave us the stability for social progress and post-christian ideologies.

  • @mcpanorama
    @mcpanorama ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome by Balsdon, which came out in the 1960s, is still worth reading.

  • @paullewis2413
    @paullewis2413 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love Tom Holland’s book “Persian Fire”. There’s so much to digest in this comprehensive survey of a pivotal time in European/Asian history.

  • @samuelpepys5350
    @samuelpepys5350 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Tom Holland is always great value but the title of this video needs fixing, it's a 47-minute interview and they spend all of 3 minutes discussing Oppenheimer, Napoleon and British history!

    • @supertuscans9512
      @supertuscans9512 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He’s brilliant to listen to. He’s actually made me review the way I see the Roman Empire and the influence of the Christian ethos on society ( for better and worse) even when it’s not overt, and in many ways has transgressed from being a religion to a subconscious philosophy. Fascinating!

    • @dulls8475
      @dulls8475 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@supertuscans9512 With Christianity mocked we are already on the way down.

  • @deanedge5988
    @deanedge5988 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Best interview post Pax - most revealing; least formulaic. Very cunning in its oh so polite bowling.

  • @thomasmitchell7645
    @thomasmitchell7645 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    British-vetted scientists played a key role in the development of the Soviet atom bomb.

    • @bj6515
      @bj6515 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      But it was an American who provided Russia with the blueprints then got prison for it.

    • @paulthomas-hh2kv
      @paulthomas-hh2kv ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Work on atomic bomb was non secret in Uk although Radar was for some reason. There was a Russian scientist working on the development in UK. Very interesting interview with Mark Oliphant with names and dates

  • @judithglasser3072
    @judithglasser3072 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely fantastic interview and so "on pointe" I am reading Mr. Holland PAX is totally brilliant and fascinating, full of insights and reflections. Also addicted to The rest is History with Dominic Sandbrook, two titans of history and knowledge!

  • @martinaaron609
    @martinaaron609 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hilarious - like watching Slavoj Žižek be interviewed by Harry Enfield's Tim Nice-But-Dim. Comforting and encouraging that in 2023 this is the calibre of young person that The Telegraph can manage to find. But some fascinating insight from Tom - especially r.e. the concept of "pax".

  • @bengeorge894
    @bengeorge894 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So in a parallel universe Spiderman is a middle aged British historian

  • @Metta33
    @Metta33 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very enjoyable to watch.
    Good stuff.

  • @LawrenceBottorff
    @LawrenceBottorff ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh of course Britain is our Greece here in the Colonies. It wasn't until Spinal Tap that we finally woke up to the fact than not everyone with a British accent is a genius.

  • @paulthomas-hh2kv
    @paulthomas-hh2kv ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting interview with Mark Oliphant about his career working with Ernest Rutherford

  • @JonniePolyester
    @JonniePolyester ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just heard Free Thinking episode on Julian The Apostate with Tom …very good.

  • @SusanPerkins-g5g
    @SusanPerkins-g5g 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The length of a human generation, 70-80 years, is the ultimate controller of so many of these historical swings. The true lessons of a generation are forgotten when it dies, and the next one up has not yet learned those lessons.

  • @ton1
    @ton1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Didn't know Tom Holland was a historian in his free time in between Spiderman movies.

  • @Clipgatherer
    @Clipgatherer ปีที่แล้ว +5

    37:45 Britain may not be "Greece to America's Rome"; rather, as someone observed, Britain is Alfred the butler to America's Batman. They provide good advice and experience.

    • @saattlebrutaz
      @saattlebrutaz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And Batman is an imaginary figure.

  • @DanforthFrance
    @DanforthFrance 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Interviewer is a drip.

  • @benmclaren
    @benmclaren ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Tom is brilliant but this interviewer asking the most loaded questions my god!

    • @adventussaxonum448
      @adventussaxonum448 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's like watching the BBC or Sky, but from the other direction.😅

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adventussaxonum448 which is why it is superb

    • @adventussaxonum448
      @adventussaxonum448 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Makes a nice change.😅

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How extraordinary to assert the British have had minimal influence on the USA.

    • @judithjohnson5055
      @judithjohnson5055 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was speaking of the present rather than the past

  • @flambr
    @flambr 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    his oddyssey is so readable like he's genuinely one of the best classics writers of our time

  • @dougiemarks9852
    @dougiemarks9852 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That’s my thinking about the Roman Empire done for the day

  • @frankwitte1022
    @frankwitte1022 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This interviewer was really trying so hard to shoehorn in Telegraph-talking-points🤣

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 ปีที่แล้ว

    Had the best summer ever. Unbelieveble tears, heat, but...summer. Found my lost family, a bit shuttered, still alive, still love them.
    I forgive, if it does matter to him, to Graham from Fund Daniel for what is done. Today he is still alive. Wish him the best he can get by his own.
    Corina Miriam Georgeta IJAC
    autumn, 2023

  • @leisti
    @leisti ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This interviewer is digging quite hard to get an anti-wokeness quote.

  • @GrayArmyGaming
    @GrayArmyGaming 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The ads are killing me! 😂 😂😂

  • @Joseph-ax999
    @Joseph-ax999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm amazed at the stability of the empire in spite of the many assassinations.

  • @Ozgipsy
    @Ozgipsy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow. That was a sharp observation.

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi8467 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great discussion!

  • @sesntainueve
    @sesntainueve 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Why is the interviewer so angry?

  • @jayguerero47
    @jayguerero47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Steven Edginton will be a British journalism icon, if not a legend. Stay humble, upright, and excellent, young man.

  • @CirclingDuck
    @CirclingDuck ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved him in Spiderman

  • @McNeish
    @McNeish 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love Tom Holland and been reading his books for the last 20 years but wish he’d comb his hair.

  • @DaboooogA
    @DaboooogA 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Peter Parker on fire as always

  • @kitl8081
    @kitl8081 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Tom Holland is great! I don’t know what this interviewer is doing though, he’s a mess!

  • @RANDALLBRIGGS
    @RANDALLBRIGGS ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The interviewer seems to be constantly grinding an axe.

  • @DiamondMind
    @DiamondMind 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love Tom

  • @akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804
    @akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    very interesting man

  • @gerarddearie-zd2gb
    @gerarddearie-zd2gb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Steven's lack of self-awareness when he asks about contemporary historians insisting that we must see history through culture was, is something to behold.

  • @Simzoid
    @Simzoid ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Of course a Telegraph journalist starts the question with a religious decline, as opposed to sticking to the traditionally modern term void of religious connotations. Classic. Only here for Tom, who carefully avoids falling down the Douglas Murray route - as probably the Telegraph would enjoy.

  • @mcpanorama
    @mcpanorama ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely right about Christianity.

  • @Historian212
    @Historian212 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Clickbait alert: there’s almost nothing in this video about the new films about Oppenheimer and Napoleon.

  • @trytwicelikemice3190
    @trytwicelikemice3190 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shame the interviewer has no idea how to read a vibe and had this weird insistance on pushing culture wars issues... still, excellent work by Tom Holland, respectfully navigating that to say something interesting despite the questions!

  • @Holoether
    @Holoether 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely! “Christendom was the peak theme….200 years ago”

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tomorrow is wednesday, my favorite day. So it's Freitag, the day I was born.
    Corina

  • @StumpyVandal
    @StumpyVandal ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The interviewer was constantly trying to draw Tom into the debate on wokism and whether political correctness is stifling all forms of expression. The right wing newspapers in the US and UK care about little else right now. It’s ridiculous given the actual problems facing society.

    • @Lanxe
      @Lanxe ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He definitely had an angle. Quite tiresome but I suppose that's might be what his employer wants. Always pushing for some dramatic statement from the interviewee.

    • @adventussaxonum448
      @adventussaxonum448 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@Lanxe
      Yes, it's like watching mainstream media, only from the opposite direction.

    • @HomeFromFarAway
      @HomeFromFarAway ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@adventussaxonum448there are two "mainstream medias" with intetnionally opposing views. conservatism has never not been mainstream and the left has always owned the press

    • @saattlebrutaz
      @saattlebrutaz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Those were perfectly fair questions. It's a legitimate contemporary issue. Holland's answers were reasonable and enlightening.

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman ปีที่แล้ว +11

    As an occupant of a former British colony, I think Mr Holland greatly underestimates the degree to which Britain is a very central point of reference when defining the meaning of the various liberal femocracies it has given birth to.

    • @Mrtomcree
      @Mrtomcree ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I know it’s a typo but femocracy what a lovely word

    • @jonahtwhale1779
      @jonahtwhale1779 ปีที่แล้ว

      Femunism - illustrates the communitarian nature of female nature but also the authoritarian aspect of the same.

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mrtomcree- Is it a typo though? Perfectly describes what was happening in Sweden for several decades. Indeed sums up the dysfunctional world we live in today in most of the West.

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just five minutes before, left a comment to an interview to some ambassad in bucarest from Ishrael. It was, the comment, erased because of the content. It wasn't offending, they didn't love the content.
    Wow! How could this happen?
    Corina Ijac
    6 oct 2023/7 oct.

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pop American history was the Western, and died in 1970. We got a WWII resurgence same as GB.

  • @vlndfee6481
    @vlndfee6481 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shalom means peace in Hebrew
    Is very differnent from Rome pax.
    Shalom start with in the heart by Jesus spirit.
    Pax is military ruling order.

  • @apocalypseblues3897
    @apocalypseblues3897 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    we gotta do something about that haircut man

    • @apocalypseblues3897
      @apocalypseblues3897 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      dude what is going on with this interviewer? 😮

  • @DavosTheDegen
    @DavosTheDegen ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Tom Holland looks a bit different from the last spiderman movie

    • @ssotkow
      @ssotkow ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Accumulating cobwebs, not shooting spidey webs

    • @fhujf
      @fhujf ปีที่แล้ว

      This is a multiverse version of Tom Holland.

  • @boguslawagumuchian2427
    @boguslawagumuchian2427 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How is America a cultural superpower ? What is their culture ?

    • @tyronebiggums8660
      @tyronebiggums8660 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      People around the world are influenced by American movies, television, music, innovations

    • @TalleyrandsPuppet
      @TalleyrandsPuppet 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      American culture is a huge stew, where cooks from all over the world throw their bits into the pot. What comes out is not always great, but is creative and it sells.

  • @humongousfungus8052
    @humongousfungus8052 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tom Holland is masterful as always. The guy from the Telegraph is far too tense and uptight in comparison and comes across like an overzealous schoolboy. He needs to relax his sphincter a bit before situations like this. 😉

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Non-Romans hated the Romans. Non-Christians hated the Christians. Those other people need to get over it!

  • @markcarey67
    @markcarey67 ปีที่แล้ว

    It might just be the camera angle but Tom looks like a giant next to Steven

  • @Kawabata_Akira
    @Kawabata_Akira ปีที่แล้ว

    And he was a great Spiderman as well

  • @artofmusic303
    @artofmusic303 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am a strong proponent of accurate headlines. "Oppenheimer, Napoleon and why the world loves British history" occupies approximately 5 minutes out of the 47. About half the interview is about ancient Rome. Do better, Telegraph.

  • @boonedockjourneyman7979
    @boonedockjourneyman7979 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Genius

  • @uncletravellingmatt588
    @uncletravellingmatt588 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great interview from Holland but the interviewer is awful. He is desperate to turn this into a discussion on wokeism. Wish he'd grow up and focus on real things rather than his own imaginings and insecurities.

  • @artofmusic303
    @artofmusic303 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mr. Holland came very close to saying the concept of justice cannot exist outside the framework of Christianity. Surely he doesn''t believe that.

  • @chrisdickens4268
    @chrisdickens4268 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tom hollad is great, the chatbot reading the bullet points is a bit odd...

  • @MichelGmusic
    @MichelGmusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's not in decline, it's in expansion. The whole world wants to live like the west. It has become a global culture, always in transformation, with, yes, central heating and plumbing!!

    • @davidhawley1132
      @davidhawley1132 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not China, in fact the reverse: the elites are tempted by China's authoritarianism. Secularism also seems in decline as various cultures reclaim a more traditional identity including a religious component.

  • @markwrede8878
    @markwrede8878 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Arriving throughout the world with place value math, extortion contracts, and gunpowder, the British made everyone affected by their history.

  • @philipmartin5757
    @philipmartin5757 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the ironic 'simple Jack' hairstyle...

  • @narkelnaru2710
    @narkelnaru2710 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    34:16
    Edgerton is a brilliant interviewer. His ability to speak over his guest to obliterate important pieces of information at 34:21 is superb.
    Here is another Tucker Carlson in the making.

    • @Asgath
      @Asgath ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Eminating pure toff. Yahh, yahh, yahh.

    • @Joe-og6br
      @Joe-og6br ปีที่แล้ว

      He's dreadful.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 ปีที่แล้ว

      Edgerton is excellent… We need more like him. Holland is a slippery coward here.

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 ปีที่แล้ว

    ,,I saw your face in crowded place..." , ,,how deep is" the...water.
    Corina

  • @gmk2222
    @gmk2222 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anyone got a link to his brothers podcast, I found a James holland, is that him? Thanks

    • @eddiel7635
      @eddiel7635 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that’s his brother, yeah. Military historian.

  • @supertuscans9512
    @supertuscans9512 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Too short!

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good morning.
    Bună dimineața.
    Corina Ijac

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 ปีที่แล้ว

    saw many at the local*

  • @georgewaters6424
    @georgewaters6424 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Telegraph should be embarrassed that "Steven Edginton " represents them in any form, print, online or video! Seriously get a grip!

  • @HomeFromFarAway
    @HomeFromFarAway ปีที่แล้ว +3

    good gods, I love Tom Holland but this interviewer is just a mess of naive jargon and catch phrases. 😂

  • @robertburke2246
    @robertburke2246 ปีที่แล้ว

    His documentary on Islam was interesting.

  • @dirtbag1793
    @dirtbag1793 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The interviewer keeps trying to bait Tom Holland into joining with him in a condemnation of 'Woke' culture and Holland keeps nimbly escaping the net. Good for him. This conservative obsession with the buzzword 'woke', which nobody, conservative or liberal, has any idea what it actually means, is getting tiresome. It is paying dividends of diminishing returns and I wish conservatives would move on to something of real substance instead of the usual fripperies.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 ปีที่แล้ว

      Holland is evading purposefully the questions leading to an ugliness he knows to be true… He has no spine - and is a coward.

  • @pfscpublic
    @pfscpublic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Daft question about diversity and mischief making about Islam documentary - what is it with The Telegraph gutter press?

  • @otuamab
    @otuamab ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the Best book on Trajan?

  • @corinaijac4381
    @corinaijac4381 ปีที่แล้ว

    Often I wondered, how they managed to do it. Bucarest, an area of a theseplaces person with sheeps, Bucur (joy), like David, like others-Odysseus f.ex., is on the same hourlongitude like Cairo. The Delta of the Nile was displaced, but just imagine...
    Let's say, they agreed to meet for a tea, on see, not at him, not at her. Being in time, have good weather and pleasant ships with lovely friends around, how,
    when he left it was 4 p.m. , when she left it was the same 4 p.m., to be at 5 o clock was it at the middle?, is it possible?, there is no such thing
    allways wondered, they had the funny world and managed to drink together a tea.
    Stunning!
    All my love!
    Corina Miriam Georgeta IJAC
    after 2000 years...

  • @kevwhufc8640
    @kevwhufc8640 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    History,,, i used to think everything in history books was true ,
    Until i graduated and started working as a field archaeologist.
    Boudicca killed many thousands in London and in verulamium.
    I know that didn't happen, verulamium was half the size and mostly a building site when boudicca passed through.
    The people were warned and they fled deep into woodland not far from the city, we have evidence of people cooking, remains of post hole's where people made crude short time camps .
    The city and surrounding areas have been extensively recorded by GPR, and no mass graves or anything else you'd expect to find .
    The layer of burning in the centre of the Roman city, is no more than a couple of inches thick and only in a small area of the city.
    History books claim julius Caesar invaded Britain and destroyed the catuvellauni tribe.
    ..Even though not a single piece of archeological evidence has been found,
    In fact all we have are a few words written by Caesar.
    His objectives were to destroy the catuvellauni and their settlement,
    To return lands to the kings which the catuvellauni invaded.
    Take surviving warriors back to Rome to be sold into slavery.
    We know none of that happened, the catuvellauni continued to expand into neighbouring territory, and were soon to become the most powerful tribe in middle Britain
    That couldn't have happened if Caesar had killed the warriors.
    No deposed kings had lands returned, no slaves were taken , Caesar did not defeat or destroy the catuvellauni settlement...
    There's a lot of misinformation about my city and surrounding areas in history books.
    My city cannot be the only one with written history that can't be substantiated .
    I don't trust anything that doesn't have archaeological evidence to support what's written.

    • @tincoffin
      @tincoffin ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t suppose Boudicca had a chariot with swords coming out of the wheels, did she ?

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tincoffin no evidence blades were used on chariots,
      I'd guess not , probably do more damage to the foot warriors than the enemy ;)

    • @tincoffin
      @tincoffin ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevwhufc8640 Perhaps l dreamt it 🙁

    • @tomsoyer5639
      @tomsoyer5639 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everything from over 2000 years ago is educated guesswork. Dont look at history books as the truth. Most history books are also very dated, as in decades old.