3 Hours Of Exploring Britain's Secret Islands

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  • @mademoisellelanoire4632
    @mademoisellelanoire4632 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Wow, this was such a long and beautiful documentary! I love England the most and then Scotland and Wales! I truly wish the best for Great Britain! Steeped in history, folklore, breathtaking scenery and great music, this was truly a marvellous job! Thank you!

  • @cmaden78
    @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    There's nothing better than talking with someone who has obviously studied and got excited by something in history. You've interested me in something i hadn't given much thought to, but your expertise has made it fascinating ❤😊

  • @pamabernathy8728
    @pamabernathy8728 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    SO excited about this video!!! I binge read novels (well written detective novels & historical novels) based in the British Isles.
    I feel like I know the Isle of Man, thanks to a wonderful author.
    And I do some decent Cockney rhyming slang.
    I am also on a first name, email basis, with a high up executive at Tunnocks, because I have spent a ridiculous amount of money for a few dark chocolate Tunnocks Tea Cakes.
    I used to be able to order on line.
    Then, post-pandemic, post Brexit, not available.
    ONE specialty food chain where we live in Southern California occasionally stocks them, but they QUICKLY sell out.
    Ordered them because 1 of my detective series featured tea breaks, with Tunnocks.
    My husband's roots are Scottish (hence my last name, which I have had for well over 40 years -- almost twice as long as my maiden name!).
    His roots have been traced back to the 1100's.
    The Leslie Clan was on the losing side of a battle (I am mortified to say that my memory is so poor, that I recall neither the name of the war nor the year!).
    Anyway, that Abernathy was marched, in chains, from Scotland to London, thrown into a steerage on a ship, & sent to America. Maybe, 1600's? I will add CORRECT info when my dear, long-suffering husband gets home in a few minutes.
    Anyway, this LONG comment is just from reading the description!!
    Blessings, all.
    And have a safe, long weekend, anyone watching from the 🇺🇸. (Tomorrow is a holiday here, & this is treated as, "the last weekend in summer.")

    • @cmaden78
      @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like a lot of those books too. Sherlock even and lots of historical fiction Ken Follet is amazing old epic monastery/ monument building ❤😊

    • @cmaden78
      @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Even my ex husband likes Follet 😂 but he doesn't live in books like I tend to❤

    • @Bobario1
      @Bobario1 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Do you mean the battle of Harlaw in 1411?

  • @jwf6289
    @jwf6289 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Beautifully produced. I enjoyed so very much. From USA, Texan girl.

  • @JbScot
    @JbScot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My great granny was a Fair Isle knitter so I'm enjoying this fantastic documentary so much. It's a visual delight 😍 However! As a Scot with Orkney and Shetland roots who lives in Caithness, your Scottish pronunciations are setting my nerves on edge 😂

  • @pamabernathy8728
    @pamabernathy8728 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Storm petrels are so interesting. And I like their vocalizations. Wow.

  • @deborahduthie4519
    @deborahduthie4519 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Watching the 'Kelpies' was the best bit, for me. Excellent educational vid. Those Back injuries X-Rays, look painful...debilitating. Thank you

    • @butterflytigress1985
      @butterflytigress1985 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Kelpies are murderous swamp horses that lure people into bodies of water and drown them. I assume he meant "selkies" which transform from seal to man by wearing or removing a magical sealskin. Excellent educational vid indeed.

  • @kelliv2995
    @kelliv2995 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is high quality ❤ Going right into my "Save Forever" folder

  • @VincentVincent-s9t
    @VincentVincent-s9t 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A FANTASTIC PIECE OF FILM MAKING !
    Buitifull. How amazing.

  • @GC-kt4rm
    @GC-kt4rm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for this wonderful show. Why I
    had been along for the ride!

  • @connerd1313
    @connerd1313 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is what i NEED by Absolute History

  • @cmaden78
    @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much for doing this and posting it. It's really fascinating. I always find coastal communities from all over, intriguing, coming from one so different ❤😊

  • @nicolemurphy2629
    @nicolemurphy2629 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    what a brilliant watch ❤

  • @johnlord8337
    @johnlord8337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As mentioned to many other YT and historical sites, a far more convenient and logical way of moving pyramid stones, stonehenge slabs, and even these Hebridges stones ... is via a wooden timber and rail system, with a wooden platform atop the rail. Using saturated oil (meat fats, fish oils, ...) the wooden rails and the underside of the wooden platform were swabbed and greased. Then using water, one slosked on the water on the rails and platform, and one can easily pull heavy weights along these wood rails with ease of oil-water-oil slippery (non-)friction. In the case of the Hebrides, imported wooden timbers, and rail sections (oaks ?) would be used in this construction from sailing ships to the region. Using the same roller design, one picks up the back logs (rails and rail timbers) and puts them at the front of where you are pulling and pushing. One only needs continued oil and water, and less labor force than is believed, to move these blocks into position.
    Then with the same rail timbers and rails, one uses the "cribbing method" to lever up the stones atop an ever-growing pile of crossed (#) woodworks. Then one pulls the stones into their dug-in ground slot, and the woodwork cribbing is removed piece by piece, ... and another stone is brought in and levered up into place.

  • @heitorfontenele2041
    @heitorfontenele2041 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Eu não sei porque vocês não bugam seus documentários ia fazer tanto sucesso

  • @lenabreijer1311
    @lenabreijer1311 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The ruins of the priory on Lindsfarn that he is standing in front are much later, post viking era and have nothingto do with st cuthbert.

    • @danwilson1040
      @danwilson1040 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      3:48 - St.Cuthbert arrives c.1670’s ad. ?
      4:55 - St.Cuthbert introduces special sea bird laws c.676 ad. ? ( a thousand years earlier)
      There’s other dates that are referred to,but the time line does jump backwards and forwards
      After watching and rewatching several times I find myself completely confused, I’m not being negative because I really enjoyed this series of films but after reading your comment I delved in to examine timeline details etc. and Iam left scratching my head,if you’d not commented I’d have probably not noticed,so I thank you for keeping me on my toes 🙏🏻🥷
      Historically speaking 🫡of course

    • @philroberts7238
      @philroberts7238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@danwilson1040 Just a slip of the tongue. He was talking about the 600s, not the 1600s.

  • @carmencarlton3240
    @carmencarlton3240 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    To me it’s important to learn more of your country before you go to other because it’s important that we learn what make our country’s where we are born so we learn we enjoy it as much as other people who come to visit as tourist, but we’re here for

  • @ivanpeers7847
    @ivanpeers7847 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Absolutely love this programme very informative and entertaining awesome guys

  • @thomasevans5467
    @thomasevans5467 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Saint Cuthbert was a bit earlier than the 1670's i cant believe that got past the cutting room floor. Kinda makes me question any other facts thrown up if they cant make it 4min in without a mistake like that. 3:55 for reference

    • @somesongs9605
      @somesongs9605 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Only 1000 years out. Stopped watching at this point

    • @danwilson1040
      @danwilson1040 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Another one on the ball 🥎
      I felt a little guilty for criticising because aside from the initial tiny ( one thousand year) error
      I really loved this series of films,the style of the presentation,the information,the photography and cinematography all outstanding…
      I wonder how much those hand knitted jumpers are?several thousand pounds????
      They are nice but they ain’t that nice

    • @philroberts7238
      @philroberts7238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@somesongs9605 It was clearly a slip of the tongue. Admittedly, it should have been picked up in the editing, but he was explicitly referring to the early middle ages. It's a shame you missed a lot of (error-free) content, which most of us enjoyed.

    • @almightyyt2101
      @almightyyt2101 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My brain does its own edit - no one and nothing is perfect - look at NYC law - everytime something gets passed they always find 2 or 3 oddities thrown in that effs it up later - but those are gamed on purpose - dude made a error chillout or go make a documentary and well see how many foibles are in it lol my computer can open many windows and I can look things up if they sound wonky, while viewing - techtoday is amazing, simply miraculous - ppl on a desert island can work online, thats incredible!

  • @seanstump8665
    @seanstump8665 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I don't know if I've ever seen someone double step up stairs before. I thought I was the only one. I'll bet he climbs escalators too.

    • @danwilson1040
      @danwilson1040 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And also freezes his arse off in the name of continuity, jest only .
      I loved this series of films.I’m not knocking them,I wish there were more made like this .

    • @mersmithy1269
      @mersmithy1269 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Numb nuts alert😁

  • @peterm4475
    @peterm4475 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What about non existant islands? Isle of Dogs, Thanet, Ely, Portland and Purbeck come to mind.

  • @simonbroberg969
    @simonbroberg969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    6:20 Might have been different if Charlemagne hadn't been doing his "Convert of die" campiegn in Frankia. If he hadn't maybe they would have not bothered with Lindesfarne. They always try to hide that, always say there was no reason for the attack, some of do our research

    • @leapintothewild
      @leapintothewild 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂 And some know how to spell and punctuate, and not leave out entire words.

    • @philroberts7238
      @philroberts7238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then you'll know, of course, having read their literature of the time, that they considered rape and pillage to be rather fun, which is why they went 'a-viking' - to plunder the richest and weakest sites available. They did tend to settle down a bit later, though.

  • @cmaden78
    @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Maybe a similar way that the Egyptians did...or even better with water? Or troughs of water? I dont find it particularly boggling, but then again i dont feel the need for specifics😂❤

  • @tommerphy1286
    @tommerphy1286 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What about high Brazil off the west coast of Ireland

  • @pamabernathy8728
    @pamabernathy8728 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My dear husband, from whom I took my last name over 40 years ago, is a "natural" historian. To clarify, I am the most fascinated by natural history.
    And my dear husband has an incredible knowledge of history & geography. E.g., as soon as I mentioned the post-WW1 German Navy being interned in The Orkneys, he said, "Oh, ya, Scappa Flow (spelling? I didn't ask him).
    ANYWAY: my husband's ancestor that came to America arrived here in chains, after the Leslie Clan was a loser in the 1640 Battle of Dunbar.
    & my husband & our 2 adult sons are Leslie Clan.
    I, sadly, am pure German, both sets of grandparents emigrated to the US from Germany.
    My dear sister-in-law, who majored (undergraduate) in history, found the record of my maternal grandfather coming through Ellis Island in New York. There is a brick with that information included in the renovation done probably 35 - 40 years ago. Was a gift to my Mother.
    I don't know anything about my late Daddy's ancestors. His family didn't keep records or talk about it, I guess.
    Blessings.

    • @dekarzero
      @dekarzero 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Shame that you say sadly you are of German heritage. The German people have a rich and vibrant culture and history.

    • @philroberts7238
      @philroberts7238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then you may be interested to know that Scapa Flow has lent its name to one of the commonest words of cockney rhyming slang: To 'scarper' means to go, to skedaddle, to run away. Scapa Flow = Go.

  • @nettejakobs2501
    @nettejakobs2501 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Please keep the music volumen down to a lower background level, pleeeease. It is often a bit too much. It is a very interesting and educational video 😊 Greetings from Denmark

  • @cmaden78
    @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fuuny enough, i actually kind of identify with the woman who lives in the Shetlands. I live in the suburbs of Ft . Lauderdale. But i have family roots going back pretty far in Florida, and while it's not as good as it was, i was very lucky to be raised with a connection to the land and between the family grew up in and my kids I'm so proud to say it's still there and i have probably been to almost every state park in Florida. It's still a pretty cool place❤✨💚✨💙

  • @disbud596
    @disbud596 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If they are so secret, how did you find out about them?

    • @nicolemurphy2629
      @nicolemurphy2629 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      secret sources of course silly 😊

  • @ramthian
    @ramthian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

  • @DougMacGregor-d4e
    @DougMacGregor-d4e 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    weeks to sail to the Shetlands ? no.

  • @cmaden78
    @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I notic the ship flew a different flag in the Shetlands. Different flag? Different ship? Why?

    • @JbScot
      @JbScot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's the Red Ensign, a UK vessel maritime flag.

  • @kirsteneasdale5707
    @kirsteneasdale5707 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is a physical impossibility to sail round the UK. I think he means the island of Great Britain. I do wish some English TV presenters would learn how to pronounce place names properly (it is just good manners). It can’t be that difficult to ask a local speaker (I presume they come into contact with them?) before saying a piece to camera.

    • @malteesarplays5177
      @malteesarplays5177 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The UK is the combination on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Looking at any map it is certainly possible to sail around the UK. Great Britain is England Scotland and Wales and is also possible to sail around. I think you mean it is not possible to sail around England as it’s joined to Scotland and Wales.
      It would be good manners to at least know geography (or look at a world map) before correcting people with a wrong answer

  • @dee-deelove9310
    @dee-deelove9310 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The suspenseful music and intense narration gave me anxiety 😂

    • @danwilson1040
      @danwilson1040 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bless ,I’d admire your honesty though 🫡🥷

    • @dee-deelove9310
      @dee-deelove9310 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danwilson1040 the film was beautiful though 😁

    • @danwilson1040
      @danwilson1040 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dee-deelove9310 yes I agree it absolutely was beautiful
      I thoroughly enjoyed it and feel guilty for my negativity,to notice the tiny details I must have been totally engrossed
      More films like this please algorithm!?🙏🥷🏾

  • @almightyyt2101
    @almightyyt2101 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not saying Englands engineers are not top notch but when u look at the difference between what remains 80 years later its like night and day - German engineering was superior, although going by the propaganda alone u would think they couldnt build a soap box derby car - also, a lot of the so called slaves were ppl who didnt want to fight so the Germans gave them something to do - similar to the situation in Israel w the Orthodox not serving in the IDF bc of conscientious objector status - which a lot of ppl think is unfair seeing how its mandatory to serve -

  • @catsfather
    @catsfather 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ‘Secret’ islands 😂😂😂😂

  • @jonathanrouse36
    @jonathanrouse36 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don’t forget, though there’s a lot of Dorman French influence linguistically on the channel islands

  • @ericacook2862
    @ericacook2862 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Jack-o-lantern was originally a turnip so they are keeping with the origin of the Halloween tradition.

  • @51WCDodge
    @51WCDodge หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jersey has it's own language Jerriais . Based on Norse, from Normandy The land of the Northern people (By the way we own Britain) There not Watch Towers. Each floor mounted an optical range finder, These were linked to the guns in the batteries.

  • @Angelicwings1
    @Angelicwings1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I think England would have been better without Christianity in my opinion.

    • @MixedRaceAndProud1690
      @MixedRaceAndProud1690 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      What makes you say that ???

    • @adamtorressr789
      @adamtorressr789 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah right. Better without Muslims maybe

    • @Amanda-yf7vj
      @Amanda-yf7vj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@MixedRaceAndProud1690 no kidding!!! If you ain't got God you got the devil and who in their right mind would want that!?

    • @svenholmgren5015
      @svenholmgren5015 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Would have been better if it had stayed Christian. Perhaps without the Church of England and anyone twisting Christianity their own devices.

    • @2010djbrooklyn
      @2010djbrooklyn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Gay pagans

  • @Billy-p9s
    @Billy-p9s หลายเดือนก่อน

    The catholic church is not Christianity, it's idol worship!
    All scriptural Christians are saints, priests and kings in the Kingdom of God.

  • @cmaden78
    @cmaden78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ugh..notice..😂

  • @HeatherNaturaly
    @HeatherNaturaly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The one thing I took away from this documentary is, The Scotts aren't real smart or they'd have REPLANTED THE FRIGGIN TREES!! So many desolate islands could easily be restored to beautiful habitats, simply by planting TREES. If they were planted behind the stone walls, they would be able to establish without the winds destroying the young saplings.

    • @prepperjonpnw6482
      @prepperjonpnw6482 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or they could grow them in nurseries until they are 4-7 feet tall.
      Then plant them with posts to keep them upright.

    • @SaveEarthPlsBeKind
      @SaveEarthPlsBeKind 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Oh my, that's a most insulting comment, how dreadful.
      Most of Scotland is owned by rich oligarchs many who don't live on the land except for a few weeks a year. Many who desecrate our land use our amazing countryside to kill wildlife, you'll have heard of Grouse shooting, and deer killings, raptors are not spared either. They don't WANT trees on the land they thieved, (much bought for a few £s a long time ago).
      Many people in Scotland want to take the land back, and FYI, the Scottish government in the past decade have funded the planting of millions of trees on public owned land! Much more than is being reforested in England! Not to mention in the 1980s when the English rich conjured a scheme (scam) where they could avoid tax by draining Scotland's massive peat bogs, and er planting pine trees! Pine trees are acidic they wreck the bogs, this all happened under English rule! The Flow country peat bog in Caithness is a massive carbon sink, it was being restored, (deforested) with er, EU funding now no more funding because the English took us out of the EU by force, when Scotland voted 62% remain, every single constituency voted to remain in the EU in Scotland, but no, we were dragged out! Do not make disrespectful comments about my country when you clearly have absolutely no idea about the history, (btw it was the English who deforested Scotland to build their warships etc!) of Scotland.
      Scotland was also hugely quarried by the English including the crags at Arthurs seat in Edinburgh, which were taken to build some buildings in er, London, England .
      Scotland has been pillaged by the country next door and still is, re our massive oil, gas and renewables resources and even our high quality gold, all revenues from which are taken by the English treasury, and a few crumbs sent back with added contempt to boot!
      There is loads of info with which to educate yourself about Scotland's history, though it has of course been suppressed and the Scottish people were denied that in schools and educational establishments until very very recently.
      Look up the Highland clearances, though there were clearances in the lowlands, the Highlands are most written about. No need to insult a whole people, but it's nothing new I suppose. Go well, be kind.

    • @SaveEarthPlsBeKind
      @SaveEarthPlsBeKind 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Scotland doesn't have so many 'stone walls' as is the norm in England. Also 'Scots' only has one 't'!
      Educate yourself before making FRIGGIN INSULTING COMMENTS ABOUT MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLE!! IGNORAMOUS!!

    • @catsfather
      @catsfather 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The one thing we all took away from your comment is that you are not very smart if you refer to people as ‘Scotts’

  • @stealthybushcraft4545
    @stealthybushcraft4545 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude sort your hair out m8 😂❤

  • @qbarnes1893
    @qbarnes1893 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Brought to by Disney.....says it alll...

  • @trevorclark4108
    @trevorclark4108 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lose the really annoying background music, it’s unnecessary and really, really annoying

  • @Bigyam601
    @Bigyam601 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    First

  • @OdeInWessex
    @OdeInWessex หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks