Did you like this video? Why not watch my video on the Strangest Things in the Victoria and Albert Museum next? th-cam.com/video/yXLNbeLXANE/w-d-xo.html
Notre Dame Cathedral is beginning to open back up and I was hoping you'd be there on opening day it should be open by the end of this year or next year and you should be there for a historical tour., BTW your video was excellent as usual you have never been better or gave a boring video
In my family we would be with my cousins,aunts and uncles on my dad's side of the family we would be together at Thanksgiving 🦃 as well my uncle used to have everything on that day and then we started on the Sunday before Thanksgiving we did this for years and now he's gone and so are some of my aunts and uncles My mom and sister we would go to my grandma's for a few days and then come home by New years but she's gone now she was 95 and I miss the ole gal now I spend it with my sister's inlaws and there's just a few of them
I’m from America and my favorite Christmas carol is, and always will be, The Little Drummer Boy. We had a strange Christmas custom where we left tacos and RC cola for Santa. My father loved tacos and RC cola. Lol
I am an Australian woman, living with a spinal problem that has rendered me disabled. I love history and am no longer able to walk well enough to visit my first one of my first loves, Museums. I discovered you today, while looking for a walking tour of York and I have to say, I love your channel. I have watched four of your vids in a row. I'm completely hooked.
Hon I'm an American guy and I feel so sorry for your disability but I'm glad you don't have to go anywhere else just look at your phone 🤳 you have the whole world 🌎 at your feet 🐾 I'm trying to see things that I've never seen before and hopefully one day I'll get to see it with money 💸 but if you don't have any money you aren't nothing I've fell at least 4 times in the last 40 years if I can lose my weight I'd be better than I used to be
My family has always celebrated the Winter Solstice, dressing the tree with fruit and nuts that will be eaten by the local wildlife. I enjoyed this presentation very much. My favourite “carol” is the Wassailing song.🖤🇨🇦
My mother's family is Austro-Hungarian. Something I've not heard of anywhere else was my uncle mixing change (nickles and dimes, a few quarters and ever rarer half dollars)with nuts. At some appropriate time after dinner on Christmas eve, the whole mixture would be tossed in the air for the children to scurry and collect. A nice way to get some pocket money. Needless to say - you got out of the way for the toss or risked getting bonked on the head with the coins. My father was French. It was his family's tradition to have a huge feast after midnight Mass on Christmas eve. You would have been fasting all day in preparation for holy communion at Mass and so were very hungry by 1:00 am from smelling all the cooking all day! The crowning dish was the Buche de Noel cake. A very elaborate representation of a forest log with frosting snow and even meringue mushrooms.
21:34- I always love seeing that original 1848 Christmas card, complete with wine-guzzling toddlers. Victorians have such a prim and proper image, but some of the stuff they got up to was just WILD by today's standards. Great video tour, as always.
Found this really interesting as I lived in Hackney from 1976-2007 and my mother was a museum attendant at the Geffrye in the late 1970s so I went there quite often. Good to see the place again and I’m glad the name has changed. Long overdue. Thanks for this video. Rather nostalgic. Cheers!
I enjoyed that. I have enjoyed all the videos of yours I've seen. I remember the wooden mandarin orange crates from my childhood in the sixties in Vancouver.
I love this little museum. I went around a decade ago at Christmas time. So lovely! I bet we crossed paths back then. I seem to recall that some of the building was still used as an alms home. Maybe I just imagined that. 💖
Of course we would enjoy a museum of Jewish history! How soon may we expect notification of your presentation? Hats off to you for all the museum work thus far.
Another wonderful tour! You're filling a travel gap I've had for far too long. My favourite Christmas song is "A Spaceman Came Traveling," by Chris de Burgh. I know it doesn't sound like a Christmas song, but trust me -- it IS!
A pair of traditions my family have are hiding a glass pickle in the Christmas tree and hiding an almond in a bowl of rice and whoever finds the almond gets a chocolate Santa, I did research on what group did that and came up with Danish and Germanic origin, my grandmother’s ancestry is Swiss/Prussian and her family is where those games originated from in my house 😊
Regarding the Yule Log it would appear that the common idea that the custom is Scandanavian in origin is incorrect. Professor Ronald Hutton in his book on the British ritual year ''Stations of the Sun' notes that the earliest reference to burning a log at Christmas comes from late 12th century Germany from where the custom can be seen to have spread to neighbouring countries including the northern ones by the 19th century. The earliest reference to a yule log (Christmas log) in Britain is from the early 1600's in Devon.
I absolutely LOVED this video. I learned so much! Thank you! To join in... my favorite Christmas carol is, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." I also remember "bubble lights" on my grandmother's tree, identical to one you included a shot of in your video. Nostalgia!! I wonder if there's enough info to tell the story of Manger scenes (or "crèches"). I have one that is more than 60 years old, inherited from my mother. I've always been fascinated by them.
You should take a look at Belens if you like creches! The Spanish take them to the Nth degree creating entire mini Bethlehems. It reminds me a bit of dolls houses or mini railways, but here the only limit is the space you have. You can buy figures and items depicting everyone and everything to add to your little world. What is funny is it is usually a very Spanish Bethlehem, reflecting past (and still present) life in rural Spain rather than Palestine. Hence the little guys slaughtering pigs in a trad Matanza mixed in with Romans and camels. Not to mention the cagerer (incorrect spelling) who is a little figure squatting behind the stable doing what nature has called for. Originally Catalan, this little guy used to wear the Catalan 'pixie' hood, but now it can be anyone and everyone, from Obama and Trump, to well-known celebs. People collect these figures alone. He (there are Shes now too) was supposed to bring luck, as well as indulging the Catalan love of satire. I love a good Belen! They are all different. There's Herod in his palace, with his Roman guards. There's a woman hanging her washing out. Another putting bread in her oven. A potter, A shepherd with his flock, or a child herding geese. Sometimes you have to look to find the stable! I knew one that took up 3 sides of a very big public room, in an old people's home, and they started the Kings off at one end on Christmas day and moved them through this miniature land bit by bit over the 12 days, for them to reach the stable on Epiphany They even painted the walls behind like stage backdrops, so there were mountains, sunsets, night skies... How cute was that? And such a thoughtful thing to do for people who might only connect with this world when something triggers a memory. t
@@brikwil th-cam.com/video/oKSfcLHtX2o/w-d-xo.html These are obviously public ones, but it gives you an idea, and people will actually do these routes around the various places, churches, public buildings etc and they have competitions for the best ones. The public vote on their favourites and it is quite an accolade to win
Family presents on Christmas eve & Santa Claus on Christmas morning. My Boxing Day is Jan 1st since we don't watch football we take down & put away all the ornaments & decorations. Oyster stew on Christmas eve. I don't allow lutafisk in my house.
I think it would be really nice to see you do a video on London's Jewish East End and the museum, both. I know I would certainly be interested and would very much enjoy such a video. Please do one or even two videos on those subjects, if possible. I am not much a Christmas person, but this video is extremely enjoyable and it has been great learning about the different types of celebrations and what Christmas might look like in specific time periods. Your channel has already become my favourite, and I have joined as well because I love what you do and the places you take us. Please keep up these fabulous tours. I think your channel is going to grow exponentially in the next few months. That is so hilarious that you like Boney M! I love Boney M too. I'm not sure many fellow Americans will even know what/who Boney M is. Rah Rah Rasputin! Funny how that works. By the way again, my family used to use orange crates to store our Christmas ornaments too. I still have all the decorations from my parents, which actually belonged to their grand parents. So, I have a rather large amount of Christmas ornaments that date from the 18th and 19th centuries all the way up to the mid 20th century. My mothers ancestors, from Norway, brought many Xmas ornaments over with them in the 19th century and thankfully, I still have all of them, though they are in very safe storage as of today. Lots of those figural, milk glass Xmas lights that still work as well. I am sure many of the very old ornaments I have are worth a good penny these days. I think they'll stay in the family, however. I should learn to wait till the end of these videos to comment! I have had to edit a number of times already! Thank you so much for sharing with us all!
@@TheMuseumGuide Yay! I think that will be particularly interesting, as I, and probably many others, are not all that familiar with Jewish customs and culture. I am certainly aware of some of their customs, but I would love to learn more. Especially with the recent anti-Semitic crap happening throughout the USA and elsewhere. Not only is that happening here in the US, but we seem to have a War on Women and LGBTQ people happening too. The Republican party here in the US has lost its way ( mind! ), and is foundering quickly. Not only are they espousing Nazi propaganda, they are beginning to believe it too, and that is somewhat terrifying for many of us, who find that kind of behaviour extremely sick and wrong. So, learning about a culture that is just a little different than our own in many cases, would be a great learning experience for many younger and older viewers. Different and Individual, doesn't mean bad, as we know. It is a good thing, and diversity should always be celebrated. Thank you again for sharing with us all, and I know we all are looking forward to more from you!
Our Italian American traditions mostly center around food, there are certain things (mostly desserts) that are only made on Christmas or Easter, much to my Dad's dismay. He used to rant about how it stinks he couldn't find his favorite desserts throughout the year. The big thing though is the "Feast of the 7 Fishes" (yes, fishes, not fish, I have no idea why) on Christmas Eve. I don't know if it was a Catholic thing or not as my generation was the first to not be raised Catholic, but I think it has to do with the 7 sacraments? I'm not sure, sadly everyone has passed in my family who may know the answer. For this dinner you don't serve any land-meats, just 7 different fish either family style or through different courses. My grandmother did courses but my Dad preferred family style because it was easier to just put out the different plates and everyone can help themselves. My brother and I *try* to keep this tradition going, but it's a lot of work to cook 7 different fish dishes! And it can be expensive. So we reserve it for if we're going to have company, if everyone is staying home that night we don't bother. One year though my brother did have some people over for christmas eve but they didn't do the 7 fishes and he was sulking, so his SIL brought a fishbowl with 7 goldfish as the table centerpiece. I thought that was adorable! (My brother not so much, I mean he liked the gesture and thought it was funny but then he had to care for 7 new fish! haha!) We always went to midnight service on Christmas Eve (candlelight service) after dinner and then we'd open a gift after church which was always a new ornament for me and my brother. We didn't have a formal christmas dinner or lunch, just an elaborate brunch because either we had family visiting throughout the day or we went around visiting others.
Thank you so much for sharing! I’ve heard of the Feast of 7 Fishes before! If I’m not mistaken, fishes is the correct pluralisation when referring to more than one species of fish. It sounds delicious! And your poor brother with the goldfish. 🤣
Very enjoyable video, about a museum that I didn’t know of before. It’s a great idea to have rooms representing the different eras. As an unrelated question - do any of the museums in London etc have any artefacts from Charles Lamb, Coleridge or Pepys?
Yes! The National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of London. St Olive Hart Street has many Pepys connections and artefacts. However, most of Coleridge’s artefacts are in Somerset.
Your comments are inaccurate concerning the windrush generation. Originally the ship came back from the Car after taking troops home and the owner wanted some money not wanting to bring the ship back empty. So passage to the UK was advertised. It may have been different subsequently but originally was a somewhat dubious ploy.
From firsthand accounts, we know that Caribbean people grew up regarding themselves as British subjects, and were told they were needed to help Britain recover from the War. We have documented evidence from Caribbean newspapers at the time. This is fact.
I’m not only referring to the people on the original Windrush voyage, but to the entire cohort of people to come over the next decade, as the term is commonly used. There is good info on the British Library website.
Festivals of the interregnum were more like halloween or Carnivale, slightly dangerous and too free, where people were allowed out of class strictures.... lol Bubble lights, not lava lamps.
@@TheMuseumGuide Between Victoria and Albert there are two boys, three girls and a baby sitting on something.. This an odd photo as they had nine children between 1840 and 1857 and Prince Albert died on December 14, 1861. (Some history nuts are a little pedantic :) )
Did you like this video? Why not watch my video on the Strangest Things in the Victoria and Albert Museum next? th-cam.com/video/yXLNbeLXANE/w-d-xo.html
Notre Dame Cathedral is beginning to open back up and I was hoping you'd be there on opening day it should be open by the end of this year or next year and you should be there for a historical tour., BTW your video was excellent as usual you have never been better or gave a boring video
In my family we would be with my cousins,aunts and uncles on my dad's side of the family we would be together at Thanksgiving 🦃 as well my uncle used to have everything on that day and then we started on the Sunday before Thanksgiving we did this for years and now he's gone and so are some of my aunts and uncles My mom and sister we would go to my grandma's for a few days and then come home by New years but she's gone now she was 95 and I miss the ole gal now I spend it with my sister's inlaws and there's just a few of them
I’m from America and my favorite Christmas carol is, and always will be, The Little Drummer Boy. We had a strange Christmas custom where we left tacos and RC cola for Santa. My father loved tacos and RC cola. Lol
I am an Australian woman, living with a spinal problem that has rendered me disabled. I love history and am no longer able to walk well enough to visit my first one of my first loves, Museums. I discovered you today, while looking for a walking tour of York and I have to say, I love your channel. I have watched four of your vids in a row. I'm completely hooked.
I’m so happy to help whisk you away to these museums! Thank you for watching,
Hon I'm an American guy and I feel so sorry for your disability but I'm glad you don't have to go anywhere else just look at your phone 🤳 you have the whole world 🌎 at your feet 🐾 I'm trying to see things that I've never seen before and hopefully one day I'll get to see it with money 💸 but if you don't have any money you aren't nothing I've fell at least 4 times in the last 40 years if I can lose my weight I'd be better than I used to be
I’m from America and my favorite Christmas carol is, and always will be, The Little Drummer Boy.
In Ireland we still do a form of Mumming on Saint Steven's day (Dec26) and Jan 6th is Ladies Christmas , in Irish 'nollaig na mban'
I need to come and check it out! Thank you for watching.
My family has always celebrated the Winter Solstice, dressing the tree with fruit and nuts that will be eaten by the local wildlife. I enjoyed this presentation very much. My favourite “carol” is the Wassailing song.🖤🇨🇦
I love this! Thank you for sharing.
@@TheMuseumGuide My pleasure, thank you for uploading such interesting material. I am a recent subscriber, and always like to help with a comment.🖤🇨🇦
My mother's family is Austro-Hungarian. Something I've not heard of anywhere else was my uncle mixing change (nickles and dimes, a few quarters and ever rarer half dollars)with nuts. At some appropriate time after dinner on Christmas eve, the whole mixture would be tossed in the air for the children to scurry and collect. A nice way to get some pocket money. Needless to say - you got out of the way for the toss or risked getting bonked on the head with the coins.
My father was French. It was his family's tradition to have a huge feast after midnight Mass on Christmas eve. You would have been fasting all day in preparation for holy communion at Mass and so were very hungry by 1:00 am from smelling all the cooking all day! The crowning dish was the Buche de Noel cake. A very elaborate representation of a forest log with frosting snow and even meringue mushrooms.
That is so cool - I think I have heard of the coins before! And as a Canadian, some Quebecois have Buche de Noel cake. Thank you for watching!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Im always fascinated on how other people lived and celebrated Xmas in the past.
I am too! Thank you for watching.
One point of contention is always either a star or an angel as a tree topper 😇.
Very true! It my house it was an ancient Angel with a blue light inside.
I love the white and or all aluminum Christmas tree with a color wheel , Up lighting and slowly changing colors.
So retro!
Thank you so much through this walk through. I love seeing how the traditions are adopted or evolved.
21:34- I always love seeing that original 1848 Christmas card, complete with wine-guzzling toddlers. Victorians have such a prim and proper image, but some of the stuff they got up to was just WILD by today's standards. Great video tour, as always.
They were SO BIZARRE! I love it.
Found this really interesting as I lived in Hackney from 1976-2007 and my mother was a museum attendant at the Geffrye in the late 1970s so I went there quite often. Good to see the place again and I’m glad the name has changed. Long overdue. Thanks for this video. Rather nostalgic. Cheers!
You are so welcome! I am glad it brought back fond memories, and I am happy about the name change, too.
I enjoyed that. I have enjoyed all the videos of yours I've seen. I remember the wooden mandarin orange crates from my childhood in the sixties in Vancouver.
I love this little museum. I went around a decade ago at Christmas time. So lovely! I bet we crossed paths back then. I seem to recall that some of the building was still used as an alms home. Maybe I just imagined that. 💖
Of course we would enjoy a museum of Jewish history! How soon may we expect notification of your presentation? Hats off to you for all the museum work thus far.
Sadly, the Jewish History Museum in Camden closed down! There is one in Manchester, though…
Another wonderful tour! You're filling a travel gap I've had for far too long. My favourite Christmas song is "A Spaceman Came Traveling," by Chris de Burgh. I know it doesn't sound like a Christmas song, but trust me -- it IS!
Thank you! And I will listen to that song. :) Merry Christmas!
A pair of traditions my family have are hiding a glass pickle in the Christmas tree and hiding an almond in a bowl of rice and whoever finds the almond gets a chocolate Santa, I did research on what group did that and came up with Danish and Germanic origin, my grandmother’s ancestry is Swiss/Prussian and her family is where those games originated from in my house 😊
Regarding the Yule Log it would appear that the common idea that the custom is Scandanavian in origin is incorrect.
Professor Ronald Hutton in his book on the British ritual year ''Stations of the Sun' notes that the earliest reference to burning a log at Christmas comes from late 12th century Germany from where the custom can be seen to have spread to neighbouring countries including the northern ones by the 19th century.
The earliest reference to a yule log (Christmas log) in Britain is from the early 1600's in Devon.
Thanks!
I absolutely LOVED this video. I learned so much! Thank you! To join in... my favorite Christmas carol is, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." I also remember "bubble lights" on my grandmother's tree, identical to one you included a shot of in your video. Nostalgia!! I wonder if there's enough info to tell the story of Manger scenes (or "crèches"). I have one that is more than 60 years old, inherited from my mother. I've always been fascinated by them.
I’m so happy you liked it! I need to buy a set of these lights.
You should take a look at Belens if you like creches! The Spanish take them to the Nth degree creating entire mini Bethlehems. It reminds me a bit of dolls houses or mini railways, but here the only limit is the space you have. You can buy figures and items depicting everyone and everything to add to your little world.
What is funny is it is usually a very Spanish Bethlehem, reflecting past (and still present) life in rural Spain rather than Palestine. Hence the little guys slaughtering pigs in a trad Matanza mixed in with Romans and camels. Not to mention the cagerer (incorrect spelling) who is a little figure squatting behind the stable doing what nature has called for. Originally Catalan, this little guy used to wear the Catalan 'pixie' hood, but now it can be anyone and everyone, from Obama and Trump, to well-known celebs. People collect these figures alone. He (there are Shes now too) was supposed to bring luck, as well as indulging the Catalan love of satire.
I love a good Belen! They are all different. There's Herod in his palace, with his Roman guards. There's a woman hanging her washing out. Another putting bread in her oven. A potter, A shepherd with his flock, or a child herding geese. Sometimes you have to look to find the stable! I knew one that took up 3 sides of a very big public room, in an old people's home, and they started the Kings off at one end on Christmas day and moved them through this miniature land bit by bit over the 12 days, for them to reach the stable on Epiphany They even painted the walls behind like stage backdrops, so there were mountains, sunsets, night skies... How cute was that? And such a thoughtful thing to do for people who might only connect with this world when something triggers a memory.
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@@hogwashmcturnip8930 - Simply fascinating!! Thank you for sharing that. Now I’ve learned even more!
@@brikwil th-cam.com/video/oKSfcLHtX2o/w-d-xo.html These are obviously public ones, but it gives you an idea, and people will actually do these routes around the various places, churches, public buildings etc and they have competitions for the best ones. The public vote on their favourites and it is quite an accolade to win
I haven’t watched the whole video yet but I love the hat…😂
It was the stupidest one I could find. 🤣
@@TheMuseumGuide
I thought it was kind of cute…😉
Hi. Please do the Sherlock Holmes musem on Baker Street. Do it in the winter for best effect because it looks best with the fires lit.
Great idea! I’ll put it on my short list. :)
You should do a video on old English Christmas 🎄 🎵 music plus another one for foods for Christmas
Good idea!!
Family presents on Christmas eve & Santa Claus on Christmas morning. My Boxing Day is Jan 1st since we don't watch football we take down & put away all the ornaments & decorations. Oyster stew on Christmas eve. I don't allow lutafisk in my house.
I’m with you on the lutafisk! Merry Christmas in July. :)
I think it would be really nice to see you do a video on London's Jewish East End and the museum, both. I know I would certainly be interested and would very much enjoy such a video. Please do one or even two videos on those subjects, if possible. I am not much a Christmas person, but this video is extremely enjoyable and it has been great learning about the different types of celebrations and what Christmas might look like in specific time periods. Your channel has already become my favourite, and I have joined as well because I love what you do and the places you take us. Please keep up these fabulous tours. I think your channel is going to grow exponentially in the next few months. That is so hilarious that you like Boney M! I love Boney M too. I'm not sure many fellow Americans will even know what/who Boney M is. Rah Rah Rasputin! Funny how that works. By the way again, my family used to use orange crates to store our Christmas ornaments too. I still have all the decorations from my parents, which actually belonged to their grand parents. So, I have a rather large amount of Christmas ornaments that date from the 18th and 19th centuries all the way up to the mid 20th century. My mothers ancestors, from Norway, brought many Xmas ornaments over with them in the 19th century and thankfully, I still have all of them, though they are in very safe storage as of today. Lots of those figural, milk glass Xmas lights that still work as well. I am sure many of the very old ornaments I have are worth a good penny these days. I think they'll stay in the family, however. I should learn to wait till the end of these videos to comment! I have had to edit a number of times already! Thank you so much for sharing with us all!
Thanks Cort! I am hoping to do the Jewish Museum video this year. :)
@@TheMuseumGuide Yay! I think that will be particularly interesting, as I, and probably many others, are not all that familiar with Jewish customs and culture. I am certainly aware of some of their customs, but I would love to learn more. Especially with the recent anti-Semitic crap happening throughout the USA and elsewhere. Not only is that happening here in the US, but we seem to have a War on Women and LGBTQ people happening too. The Republican party here in the US has lost its way ( mind! ), and is foundering quickly. Not only are they espousing Nazi propaganda, they are beginning to believe it too, and that is somewhat terrifying for many of us, who find that kind of behaviour extremely sick and wrong. So, learning about a culture that is just a little different than our own in many cases, would be a great learning experience for many younger and older viewers. Different and Individual, doesn't mean bad, as we know. It is a good thing, and diversity should always be celebrated. Thank you again for sharing with us all, and I know we all are looking forward to more from you!
Would LOVE to see the History of the Jews in London's East End and your trip to the Jewish Museum. Thank you so much!!!
Nice choice of video.
Thanks Stephen!
My favorite carols has to be the boars head carol
Our Italian American traditions mostly center around food, there are certain things (mostly desserts) that are only made on Christmas or Easter, much to my Dad's dismay. He used to rant about how it stinks he couldn't find his favorite desserts throughout the year. The big thing though is the "Feast of the 7 Fishes" (yes, fishes, not fish, I have no idea why) on Christmas Eve. I don't know if it was a Catholic thing or not as my generation was the first to not be raised Catholic, but I think it has to do with the 7 sacraments? I'm not sure, sadly everyone has passed in my family who may know the answer. For this dinner you don't serve any land-meats, just 7 different fish either family style or through different courses. My grandmother did courses but my Dad preferred family style because it was easier to just put out the different plates and everyone can help themselves. My brother and I *try* to keep this tradition going, but it's a lot of work to cook 7 different fish dishes! And it can be expensive. So we reserve it for if we're going to have company, if everyone is staying home that night we don't bother. One year though my brother did have some people over for christmas eve but they didn't do the 7 fishes and he was sulking, so his SIL brought a fishbowl with 7 goldfish as the table centerpiece. I thought that was adorable! (My brother not so much, I mean he liked the gesture and thought it was funny but then he had to care for 7 new fish! haha!)
We always went to midnight service on Christmas Eve (candlelight service) after dinner and then we'd open a gift after church which was always a new ornament for me and my brother. We didn't have a formal christmas dinner or lunch, just an elaborate brunch because either we had family visiting throughout the day or we went around visiting others.
Thank you so much for sharing! I’ve heard of the Feast of 7 Fishes before! If I’m not mistaken, fishes is the correct pluralisation when referring to more than one species of fish.
It sounds delicious! And your poor brother with the goldfish. 🤣
Very enjoyable video, about a museum that I didn’t know of before. It’s a great idea to have rooms representing the different eras.
As an unrelated question - do any of the museums in London etc have any artefacts from Charles Lamb, Coleridge or Pepys?
Yes! The National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of London. St Olive Hart Street has many Pepys connections and artefacts. However, most of Coleridge’s artefacts are in Somerset.
@@TheMuseumGuide Thanks heaps for your response! 💐
Wonderful video! I would love to hear more about the Jewish side as well. Thank you I really enjoyed it!
Would be very interested to see more of Jewish history on your channel.
I plan to release a video on the topic in a few months’ time. :)
Your comments are inaccurate concerning the windrush generation. Originally the ship came back from the Car after taking troops home and the owner wanted some money not wanting to bring the ship back empty. So passage to the UK was advertised. It may have been different subsequently but originally was a somewhat dubious ploy.
From firsthand accounts, we know that Caribbean people grew up regarding themselves as British subjects, and were told they were needed to help Britain recover from the War. We have documented evidence from Caribbean newspapers at the time. This is fact.
I’m not only referring to the people on the original Windrush voyage, but to the entire cohort of people to come over the next decade, as the term is commonly used.
There is good info on the British Library website.
Festivals of the interregnum were more like halloween or Carnivale, slightly dangerous and too free, where people were allowed out of class strictures.... lol Bubble lights, not lava lamps.
Re the Jewish museum - yes please :) V&A's Christmas tree with six children not five or who was the 'other' one?
It was the Duchess of Kent, Victoria’s mother. :)
@@TheMuseumGuide Between Victoria and Albert there are two boys, three girls and a baby sitting on something.. This an odd photo as they had nine children between 1840 and 1857 and Prince Albert died on December 14, 1861. (Some history nuts are a little pedantic :) )
@@lmp8932 Good eye!
Would love to see that Jewish episode you mentioned
Sadly, the Jewish Museum has closed!
@@TheMuseumGuide how tragic :(
I feel Madame Harris will make a wonderful president better than a convicted felon
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