England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt - Extra History - Part 1

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  • 📜 England's South Sea Bubble - Part 1 - Extra History
    When Robert Harley steps in as England's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, he discovers that not only is the government deeply in debt, but no one knows quite how much debt it owes. Because vicious political infighting between the Tory and Whig politic parties made it difficult to pass new tax laws, Harley turned to a private financier named John Blunt to help find enough money for England to keep up with its expenses for the year. Using Harley's government resources, Blunt instigated a series of get-rich schemes that drove artificial demand for unsustainable land and lottery investments with tremendous short term gains. Before the year was done, Blunt had successfully covered the shortfall for the government that year - albeit at the cost of driving England's already outrageous debt even higher.
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  • @Centurian128
    @Centurian128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4209

    That moment you realize that Dan never got to cover Julius Caesar or the Spanish Inquisition before he left :(

    • @MYTRYAAIN
      @MYTRYAAIN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      Yo three months later, why'd he leave? Joined the channel after he left.

    • @dorkfish1275
      @dorkfish1275 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      @@MYTRYAAIN idk, but he did a wise move.

    • @darrenbutler9819
      @darrenbutler9819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      @@dorkfish1275 why Wise? It's a great channel that talks about all kinds of history

    • @dorkfish1275
      @dorkfish1275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +343

      @@darrenbutler9819 Have you seen how downhill everything other than their history series has gotten?

    • @darrenbutler9819
      @darrenbutler9819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      @@dorkfish1275 what do you mean exactly?

  • @MogofWar
    @MogofWar 9 ปีที่แล้ว +726

    0:08 "This time it's going to be a daring tale of high seas, adventure, and romance--Nah I'm just kiddin' this is going to be all about finance, and economics."
    Most stories about the prior are really stories about the latter anyway.

  • @vicentetemes5793
    @vicentetemes5793 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3316

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, but even less people expect the South Seas' Bubble.

    • @Greg_Ulmer
      @Greg_Ulmer 9 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      fewer

    • @vicentetemes5793
      @vicentetemes5793 9 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      eggertstwart Shut up Stannis.

    • @KennyHazy97
      @KennyHazy97 8 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      +Vicente Parker It is a very odd topic for an Extra History series. Who could've possibly put forward so many votes on Patreon to choo--it was Walpole.

    • @byzantium1416
      @byzantium1416 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      So negative amounts of people expect the south seas bubble? My god....

    • @yusufhussein1343
      @yusufhussein1343 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vicente Temes I

  • @tomjack1000000
    @tomjack1000000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    When Dan talks about loving extra credits and following other topics it just makes me sad, miss ya dude

    • @W-I463
      @W-I463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Why did he leave?

    • @spiritorange8325
      @spiritorange8325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Stellvia Hoenheim Dont be spreading false information

    • @itzbeendakavgaming5632
      @itzbeendakavgaming5632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@W-I463 Not 100% sure, but he said Extra Credits was just a University project.

    • @CommissarMitch
      @CommissarMitch 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Considering he is now happy doing PlayFrame for years and talking a lot about animation and doing video games for a living, I would say he succeeded.

  • @suneenough
    @suneenough 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1556

    Yes, Mr. *Blunt* must have been very *sharp.*

    • @bliffity2692
      @bliffity2692 9 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      A pun is a punishable crime alone, but when you use the already made pun on the video of the creator of the pun in which they made the pun, you must commit seppuku.

    • @MegaKoutsou
      @MegaKoutsou 9 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      +Bliffity PUNishable action? Was that intended?

    • @bliffity2692
      @bliffity2692 9 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      gijijijijijijijijijijji
      *FACK*

    • @mementomori1320
      @mementomori1320 8 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      What if his rival Mr. Sharp was quite blunt

    • @privatemcawesome4782
      @privatemcawesome4782 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Bliffity Sudoku* Common typo

  • @TheManWithTheFlan
    @TheManWithTheFlan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1842

    In this case, they *did* expect the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      That was their first mistake. XD

    • @Azmodeus87
      @Azmodeus87 10 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      probably why there was no spanish inqusition.

    • @shack_em6752
      @shack_em6752 10 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

    • @Burkutace27
      @Burkutace27 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Blue Wolf Pack That's been driven so far into the ground it's burrowed through the crust, mantel, core and burst out through the other side.

    • @shack_em6752
      @shack_em6752 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Burkutace27 and found...
      THE SPANISH INQUISITION....AND DIDN'T EXPECT IT!!!!

  • @americana_incarnate1717
    @americana_incarnate1717 7 ปีที่แล้ว +399

    British General: Sir who shall why fight next?
    The King: EVERYOONE!!!!

    • @jamesgors6650
      @jamesgors6650 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Cabinet: So which countries are we fighting?
      King: *Yes*

    • @Pikashockdragon
      @Pikashockdragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *Insert The King being chased by a mob of Soldiers*
      The King: O.o EVERYONE BUT ME!!!!!!!

  • @kainebishop3970
    @kainebishop3970 9 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    It's the educational TV I always wanted as a child.

    • @plyinglemon
      @plyinglemon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Kaine Bishop I know I'm two years late responding, but you're onto something. If they made an educational history show for kids when I was a kid, I would have never stopped watching it.

    • @homemadefilms5718
      @homemadefilms5718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Way better than whatever the history channel is nowadays

    • @Exeggutor_Enjoyer
      @Exeggutor_Enjoyer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@homemadefilms5718 The worst part is, it used to be good, but the stupid stuff is more profitable.

  • @joshuakusuma5953
    @joshuakusuma5953 8 ปีที่แล้ว +863

    A Wolf of Wall Street style movie with Blunt would actually be pretty interesting.

    • @seanwilliam2856
      @seanwilliam2856 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      How bout the south seas bubble but in the direction of inaucci

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@seanwilliam2856 HOOK IT TO MY VEINS

    • @gaycharles391
      @gaycharles391 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      i was thinking the same. the original pump and dump scheme

    • @kamanashiskar9203
      @kamanashiskar9203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Blunt was the Lion of the Corporation of London.

    • @MaxwellAerialPhotography
      @MaxwellAerialPhotography 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Does thou think any of these happening are legal?
      Absolutely fucking not legal my friend.

  • @fabiolean
    @fabiolean 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    This entire series is my favorite thing right now. I LOVE obscure and interesting moments in history, and I feel like there are a lot of lessons to be learned in the spaces between the classical roster of Great Men and Wars.

  • @Riastrad-hq6ds
    @Riastrad-hq6ds 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Hey, it’s happening again! Time to rewatch this series for the seventh time.

  • @Thorntonian
    @Thorntonian 10 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    I actually realy want to see an episode on the wars of the three kingdoms. It's rarely talked about here in the UK despite being a radical & vitally important part of our history. The most we get is "english civil war" history, which goes something like this-
    "Charles 1 was ignorant, and he didn't listen to people, and then all these puritans-who were boring and wanted to ban christmas- decided to fight the king, and the king lost, so Oliver Cromwell- who was boring and banned christmas- took over, but then he died, and Charles 2 took the throne, and everyone loved him because he threw lots of parties!"

    • @headlesswaifer5797
      @headlesswaifer5797 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thorntonian Why do the war of three kingdoms? Why not the battle of five armies?

    • @Thorntonian
      @Thorntonian 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tristan Phillips... I honestly don't even know what you're trying to say here.
      Possibly an unrelated note, but have we met? Your name seems familiar.

    • @headlesswaifer5797
      @headlesswaifer5797 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't believe we've met. But I'm making a joke about the Hobbit.

    • @Thorntonian
      @Thorntonian 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tristan Phillips I got the joke, i'm just not sure how it relates.

    • @TimCheong
      @TimCheong 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thorntonian Three kingdoms war will be awesome. That's what got me into loving history in the first place.

  • @tjswanson7577
    @tjswanson7577 10 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    Boy, who would have thought that Britain's centuries old financial practices could accurately be described as "Shenanigans"?
    REALLY looking forward to the rest of these!

  • @thewayfarer8849
    @thewayfarer8849 9 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    The funny thing is that the rumour is that a similar note was made when Osborne took his job, left by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the Labour government scrawling "good luck" underneath it. And another fact, our Chancellor of the Exchequer has *no qualifications in economics, he studied as a journalist
    My country

    • @MrCubFan415
      @MrCubFan415 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The Wayfarer Hello from across the pond in 🇺🇸!

    • @dkupke
      @dkupke 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Hey, right now here in the states we have a secretary of energy who’s educational background is in animal husbandry.

    • @thegardenofeatin5965
      @thegardenofeatin5965 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The United States and the United Kingdom seem to be in a competition over who can perform the biggest political fuckup. Brexit was a good try, but I think the United States won.

    • @ReaverLordTonus
      @ReaverLordTonus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Leftover problems from the fall of the RBS?

    • @TheOmegaXicor
      @TheOmegaXicor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thegardenofeatin5965 The game isn't over yet, wait and see our next move... :P

  • @MakotoCamellia
    @MakotoCamellia 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3243

    Still paying on the debt 300 years later? Sounds like England graduated from an American private college. ;)

    • @azelfdaboi5265
      @azelfdaboi5265 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      yea

    • @bigo8647
      @bigo8647 6 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      Well, too many wars, too many Colonies uprising, too many soldiers to be fed and paid and transport, too many guns needed.
      And then the Colonies achieve independence so the money King George III spent in the American Revolutionary War gave him no revenue.
      And then later on we have to consider the debt with China before the Opium Wars.

    • @lunag.1521
      @lunag.1521 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      r/woooooosh

    • @jonathanhardy2345
      @jonathanhardy2345 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Americas economy can only work by maintaining a certain amount of debt

    • @billyosullivan4514
      @billyosullivan4514 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or an England uni

  • @TheJboy88
    @TheJboy88 10 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Do you mean to tell me that my country has been stuck trying to pay off the same debt for the last 300 years?
    Makes you wonder why all those Chancellors even WANT the job.

    • @falconJB
      @falconJB 10 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      You get to control the money of the nation in country that is OK with you just ignoring 100s of years of debt, who wouldn't want that job.

    • @TheGerkuman
      @TheGerkuman 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jeremiah B
      Plus you may get to be Prime Minister one day.

    • @1998anirudh
      @1998anirudh 10 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      It's a job well done if you're able to placate angry creditors who demand immediate repayment by paying off debt by borrowing money in the hope that in sometime in the future you will have enough surplus to be able to pay off the debt created by borrowing money to pay of the original debt . Deep , isnt it ?
      The art of the job is pushing immediate debt into the future WITHOUT ending up in a debt trap .

    • @tibfulv
      @tibfulv 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In fairness, the old debt is pretty small now. The debt from the two world wars is bigger. And since the economy expands and inflation happens, even those debts are diminished so that the most recent debt dominates. Though austerity should handle that.

    • @mannerheommhagel6761
      @mannerheommhagel6761 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jay I'm also british

  • @ARSP333
    @ARSP333 10 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    As someone who is in the process of getting their business degree (with plans to specialize in accounting) this seems extremely interesting. I can't wait to see more.

    • @TheSlimyDog
      @TheSlimyDog 10 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yeah. I'm enjoying this a bit more than the Sengoku Jidai. All those names x_x

    • @shieldgenerator7
      @shieldgenerator7 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      TheSlimyDog
      Oh those names! I could never keep track of who was who between episodes

    • @1998anirudh
      @1998anirudh 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      TheSlimyDog
      I kept track by looking at the colour of their armour .

    • @TheSlimyDog
      @TheSlimyDog 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pinkie Pie I tried but failed. Also kept forgetting which clan each one was from. Would have been a tiny bit better if they color coded it that way.

    • @mickeymalone7577
      @mickeymalone7577 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah so many lords at war and i have a feeling the lotto scheme i this episode is going to come back and bite britain in the butt

  • @shropshirec
    @shropshirec 10 ปีที่แล้ว +714

    So apparently, Britain was the modern American stereotype before America got it's independence.

    • @branhan215124
      @branhan215124 10 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      Like mother like daughter

    • @TheBespectacledN00b
      @TheBespectacledN00b 10 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      There was a writer who claimed "an American is an Englishman left to his own ends" around that kinda time.

    • @Sahsa590
      @Sahsa590 10 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      The two cultures are more alike then different. Hell Americans cared about the royal baby for some reason.

    • @Farscryer0
      @Farscryer0 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Alexander Kamensky Monarchies, even constitutional ones like in Great Britain, have always been a curiosity for us Americans. I imagine said curiosity is even more pronounced over in Australia, though I doubt its various news centers cover it overmuch like ours do.

    • @TheBespectacledN00b
      @TheBespectacledN00b 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Farscryer0 I am not sure, because Australia has the Queen as their head of state.

  • @samwolfenstein5239
    @samwolfenstein5239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1349

    I T W A S W A L P O L E

    • @robertwalpole360
      @robertwalpole360 8 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      It always is. ;)

    • @JolNarBinks
      @JolNarBinks 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Sam Wolfenstein Walpole was the first English PM, and his rule lasted 22 years. It's not surprising that he pops up everywhere.

    • @farenhite4329
      @farenhite4329 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      God damn it Walpole.

    • @infamousempire8302
      @infamousempire8302 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      This series is the origin of that meme

    • @youtubebackup3184
      @youtubebackup3184 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sam Wolfenstein another man of culture I see

  • @ju.c1262
    @ju.c1262 5 ปีที่แล้ว +552

    This single word covers the South Sea Bubble.....
    S T O N K S

    • @isfren5482
      @isfren5482 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes

    • @m.suhaidi4966
      @m.suhaidi4966 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Omg u made my spill my soymilk,hahahah

    • @zEr-ne5ri
      @zEr-ne5ri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar what do you mean?

    • @goose4919
      @goose4919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar Its a meme of a very unrealistic person looking at literal stock footage.

    • @josephpenarrieta9619
      @josephpenarrieta9619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Two words: Confused stonks

  • @IIxIxIv
    @IIxIxIv 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What a great episode, showing that you don't need combat to see awe-inspiring actions, morally wrong but very influential decisions and masterminds at their best. I'm really looking forward to the next one!

  • @CoolExcite
    @CoolExcite 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This is probably my favorite extra history so far. I am also suprised you explained something like this without getting me confused

  • @punchline96-d8w
    @punchline96-d8w 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    With the Gamestop thing going on I think it's a good time to rewatch this series

    • @NerrawGnap
      @NerrawGnap 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What “Gamestop thing”?

  • @Ploxtifs_OldAndDeadAccountXD
    @Ploxtifs_OldAndDeadAccountXD 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It’s 2024, and we have apparently learned NOTHING from the South Sea bubble….
    Money printer go BRRRRR

  • @snakes3425
    @snakes3425 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1513

    Suggestions
    The War of the Spanish Succession
    Golden Age of Piracy
    Great Depression
    The Three Kingdoms Period of China
    The Chinese Civil War
    Russian Revolution
    The Gallic Wars

    • @adventureinc1568
      @adventureinc1568 9 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      +snakes3425 The War of the Quadurple Alliance?
      (1718)

    • @snakes3425
      @snakes3425 9 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      +Captain Inc
      That would be good also a few more
      The English Civil War
      The Greco-Persian Wars
      The Panic of 1857
      The Life of Simon Bolivar
      The Mexican Revolution
      The Nine Years War/League of Augsburg
      Great French War/French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars
      German Unification
      Italian Unification
      Classical Greece
      The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
      The Hundred Years War
      War of the Roses
      Franco-Prussian War
      Napoleon III
      Crimean War
      The Rise and Fall of Napoleon I
      The French Revolution
      Louis XVI-XVI
      The Seven Years/French and Indian War

    • @adventureinc1568
      @adventureinc1568 9 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      snakes3425 Pretty good, here are mine.
      Russian Civil War 1921-1923
      War of 1812.
      Warring States Period
      El Capone
      Black Beard
      War of Texan Independence
      War of Mexican Independence
      Haiti Rebellion
      100 Years War
      30 Years War
      Anglo-Russian War 1812
      Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
      Rise of the Ottoman Empire.

    • @JoPauloSo
      @JoPauloSo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +snakes3425 Portuguese Discoveries!

    • @richmondcabunilas2199
      @richmondcabunilas2199 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +snakes3425 World's First Circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian de Elcano (1517-1521)

  • @WhatJoUp2
    @WhatJoUp2 10 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    OMG I'm getting hyped over financial history! What have you done to me!?

    • @FonVegen
      @FonVegen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      They did what teachers should do

    • @WhatJoUp2
      @WhatJoUp2 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FonVegen Well, I think teacher don't do this because of the audience. If theachers did this the whole class would be like whatever and there would be one or two like us extremely exited. That would be nice but their job is to ensure everyone learns. That's why I'm proud of making part of an audience full with people like you :D

    • @FonVegen
      @FonVegen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      João Pinto Well, thank you ^^
      I wasn't trying to criticize teachers, although I guess it looks a lot like it; I just wanted to say that this is a lot more fun than learning numbers all the time; of course it isn't a realistic method for scholl as it is, but it would definitely be awesome ^^

    • @WhatJoUp2
      @WhatJoUp2 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sory then, I thought you were. Hope I didn't sound too harsh

    • @FonVegen
      @FonVegen 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      João Pinto No problem there ^^
      I tend to say things differently than I intend to, it's alright to correct me :)
      Only way to learn, after all ;)

  • @Zerepzerreitug
    @Zerepzerreitug 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "Look mom! I'm learning economics and I'm not snoring while I do so!"
    "so proud of you son!"

  • @CappuccinoGuil
    @CappuccinoGuil 10 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Another part of history I NEVER heard of. Seems promising. Can't wait to learn more about it :D

  • @yalfaharr4395
    @yalfaharr4395 8 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    1 year later and we haven't seen either Cesar or the Spanish Inquisition

    • @luska5522
      @luska5522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      4 years now

    • @chipua2230
      @chipua2230 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      At this point I’m expecting the Spanish Inquisition

    • @russellbrown6888
      @russellbrown6888 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@chipua2230 That's probably their tactic. Wait until everybody has forgotten they mentioned the Inquisition and then spring a series on them out of nowhere.

    • @ianhamilton9600
      @ianhamilton9600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      June 2021 Jewish pirates is the closest we’ve gotten to Spanish Inquisition and cleopatra is closest to Julius Caesar

  • @bentoth9555
    @bentoth9555 8 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition... to be beaten by the South Seas. I'll see myself out.

  • @BrentZeimen
    @BrentZeimen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    After this episode, I'm way more excited for the rest of the series than I have any right to be. Great job EH!
    As a side note, also great choice of ending music.

  • @JordanSmith-yi3ji
    @JordanSmith-yi3ji 10 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Hooray! Economics!

    • @sumguy0110
      @sumguy0110 10 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Hooray! Soul crushing depression and confusion!

    • @crabbington7736
      @crabbington7736 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Today's story will be about pirates and action.NOPE JK its about economics n boring money stuf

  • @Borzogo
    @Borzogo 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    YES! Back already! I love Extra History. Sometimes even more than the original series! :)

  • @DomyTheMad420
    @DomyTheMad420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the best part about this series is the whole intro
    "we threw it in on a lark"
    BOI. this is my GO-TO historical fun freaking mind-blower.
    i tell a shortened version of this story several times a year

  • @Bopl_
    @Bopl_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This in my opinion is the best EH series they have made

  • @Overhazard
    @Overhazard 10 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    Interesting that the Tories and Whigs could not get along at all and attempted to block anything the other party tried seemingly out of a pure sense of rivalry. Reminds me a lot of the Democrats and Republicans in the United States today, who can't get anything done because they see the other party as enemies to be defeated and subdued. That's the impression I get reading and watching the news, anyway.

    • @David-fm6go
      @David-fm6go 7 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      The interesting thing is about the way it ended. The Whigs won. I don't mean they won two elections or three. They won, all of them. They destroyed the Tories. So much so that the Tories never existed against in real terms. Those people from 1783-1840 who were called "Tories" (Pitt, Addison, Wellington, Burke etc) were actually Conservative Whigs . One of them even said, "the government of the last century is and could only have been a Whig Gov't", despite the fact that since 1783 Pitt the Younger and his "friends" had basically run Britain for 30 years at that point, with only a short interlude after Pitt died in 1806.
      Part of this was because the Tories were barred from gov't office for several decades, another is because they associated themselves twice with the Jacobite pretenders, which is not a way to ingratiate yourself to the loyal voters of the land, and especially younger generations. And indeed once the older generation passed away in the 1750's, the Tories went from having a significant enough presence in Parliament during Bonnie Prince Charlie's uprising, to having nothing by the 1760's.
      A similar thing happened in the US, with the Federalist Party in place of the Tories and Democratic-Republicans in place of the Whigs. There were actually many similarities between the Federalists and Tories and between the DRs and Whigs. The most important of which was the former holding on to anachronistic view of government. Tories to Jacobitism, the Federalists to elitist over populism.
      Just like with the Whigs, when the DRs owned the whole political landscape, they split in two. And the Democrats strained every effort to label their National Republican and later American Whig counterparts as latter day Federalists and elitists, just like dissident British Whigs would label their opponents as Tories. Lord North was labeled a Tory when he was Prime Minister, though he ended up forming an alliance with Charles James Fox that formed the basis for the Whig party in the 19th century (later forming the Liberals). Meanwhile, Pitt and eventually after maneuvering between both sides, Edmund Burke, formed the basis of what would become the Conservative Party.

    • @sor3999
      @sor3999 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      No, you're absolutely right. It's not just the impression you get on TV.

    • @lividphysics1237
      @lividphysics1237 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agreed

    • @PennyDreadful1
      @PennyDreadful1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The republicans are way worse actually. If you are even mildly moderate. You are either very rare or a democrat.

    • @dkupke
      @dkupke 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And also worth pointing out: its in a situation like that where bottom feeders like Blunt see opportunity.

  • @passonthestar3689
    @passonthestar3689 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    rewatching this exquisite series

    • @gonzapra1
      @gonzapra1 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here :)

    • @vizthex
      @vizthex 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Binge re-watching all of the Extra History series (While checking out the NMS Update) :D

  • @tbestig4164
    @tbestig4164 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hard to make economics entertaining, but this series did great with it. Always my favorite extra history episodes

  • @Quasimodo1957
    @Quasimodo1957 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    John Blunt. What an SOB. Thanks for making the financial story of how people were screwed so simple. I'm a history buff and you guys are great!

  • @ToadJimmy
    @ToadJimmy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for helping support our channel and the amazing people that work here!

  • @Mountain_Man_
    @Mountain_Man_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It amazing its been 8 years since the video came out I remember when it came out when I was a freshman in college

  • @MarcusDarkstar
    @MarcusDarkstar 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I like how sympathetic Extra History makes Mr. Harly when otherwise we'd view him simply as a purely corrupt politician...However it shows sometimes in imperfect political systems corruption and sketchy practices is the only way forward. (Note personally such measures should always be temporary until government reforms etc are enacted)

  • @Theprimescollective
    @Theprimescollective 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This seems really awesome, and I've never heard of it before, so good on you guys.
    Keep up the good work!

  • @bluewarbler9034
    @bluewarbler9034 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As one of my junior seminars (spring 2023), I wrote a paper on the effects of the South Sea bubble on Irish economics and how it led to (1) the immediate delay of a plan for a national bank and (2) the eventual creation of a national bank despite prevailing public sentiment. A fascinating sequence of research.

  • @jonathananderson3618
    @jonathananderson3618 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've showed all your videos to my friends, they love your history segments because they find how you teach it amazingly interesting.

  • @kuatokuatokuato
    @kuatokuatokuato 10 ปีที่แล้ว +581

    But ... Nobody expects the inquisition :(

    • @vavakxnonexus
      @vavakxnonexus 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I am.

    • @riquelme3764
      @riquelme3764 10 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Well i certainly didnt expect the inquisition in this episode.

    • @Aragorn195
      @Aragorn195 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Not Even the Spanish Inquisition

    • @stabosaurus
      @stabosaurus 10 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Next episode will look like it's a continuation on the South Seas Company, but halfway in: BAM! Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! I'm calling it.

    • @AnthonyPaoliMasakiSays
      @AnthonyPaoliMasakiSays 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Perhaps it's a ploy to keep you from expecting them?

  • @buntado6
    @buntado6 8 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    You know, I would inmensily thank you if someday you made a series regarding South America, specially the independence of countries brought for by Simon Bolivar. But the reason I ask this is because I want to test something: I am venezuelan myself, and sometimes I wonder if the reason the history of my own country is unnapealling to me is because of the way it has been teached to me, the grudge it generates in me by seeing how this nefarious government uses it in it's own political campaign, or that I simply wish to hear stories that I haven't heard before. Your videos are very inmersive, so... I'm kinda putting my hopes on you on this matter.

  • @sevenb9495
    @sevenb9495 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fact that this was one of your EARLY episodes is what I adore about this channel.

  • @ethanomcbride
    @ethanomcbride 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the series that made me fall in love with Extra History.

  • @DoubleATam
    @DoubleATam 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It really does feel like an "action-ey" exciting thing despite there being no combat involved! In a way reminds me of Phoenix Wright and the like.

  • @EchoL0C0
    @EchoL0C0 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You guys read the TH-cam comments? That's awesome!
    I love the way you guys cover important historical events that are often overlooked.
    Also, this episode also reminded me of a game about the opium war called High Tea that is on Kongregate. No idea why.

  • @mariuspontmercy2736
    @mariuspontmercy2736 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Gotta love some good old-fashioned 1700's-style Enronomics.

  • @Kreiser_VII
    @Kreiser_VII 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can't stop watching this, I must've watched this whole series like 10 times this month alone

  • @troyzema4014
    @troyzema4014 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I freaking love extra history. I don't care what historical event you guys do, the videos are so informative and entertaining I cant get enough

  • @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874
    @strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 9 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Can you do an Extra History series on the Thirty Years' War?

  • @Stounyx
    @Stounyx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This feels very relevant in relation to the NFT bubble

  • @JDubs1464
    @JDubs1464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It’s crazy how over half a decade later, we have yet to see the life of Caesar or the Spanish Inquisition

  • @이용재-b2h
    @이용재-b2h 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read that story in the book, but i couldn't find this extra story in TH-cam Korea. So thank you for making this video and subtitle :)

  • @JayLeePoe
    @JayLeePoe 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mark of a good video, young lady: I'm watching it again having known the history before. Because I think you tell it well and it's a sadly undersold part of our shared histories as Americans.

  • @amyreynolds7244
    @amyreynolds7244 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am so excited about this series! I've already watched the video twice. Goodness, how do you make "X-treme Finance!" look this cool?

  • @Liletter
    @Liletter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    PLEASE do Marie Curie, she’s my idol, and she deserves a lot of recognition, why? Because:
    -First woman to ever win a Nobel Prize.
    -First person to win two of them.
    -First woman in all of Europe to earn a doctorate degree.
    -Discovered Radium and Polonium.
    -Coined the term “radiation”.
    -Is generally awesome.

  • @wintermute93
    @wintermute93 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great work guys, who knew debt could be so interesting? (But plz talk about caesar too)

  • @jonasgeerthsen6005
    @jonasgeerthsen6005 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Coming back to rewatch this series (again), just because it's so, so awesomely made.

  • @drizzt102
    @drizzt102 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This entire series is magic. This type of financial magic is beautiful

  • @williamhowland9977
    @williamhowland9977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    revisiting in light of recent news in stonks

  • @MetalSmith
    @MetalSmith 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the use of FFXI Music. Selbina's theme works beautifully here :D

    • @joebot86
      @joebot86 ปีที่แล้ว

      Years later, thanks for helping me find the song, I swear the used to say what it was in the end credits.

  • @MonzennCarloMallari
    @MonzennCarloMallari 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Wow. I wasn't expecting anything about economics with this series. Thanks :)
    Gives me hope that maybe they'll do the Great Depression one day. Or maybe the robber barons.

  • @xenonnboy
    @xenonnboy ปีที่แล้ว

    Still the best series this channel has done!

  • @jakefletcher8311
    @jakefletcher8311 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i found your channel last night and i love it can't wait for the crusades part 2

  • @Duncan23
    @Duncan23 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'd love to see a series on the history of the HRE/ hapsburg monachy

  • @notcatisa
    @notcatisa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Damn i didn't know England was Greece at one point.

    • @vasilykatuma5689
      @vasilykatuma5689 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you like not N BECAUSE IT! turned others nation's into...greeceS,ISNT anymore...

    • @HistoryNerd808
      @HistoryNerd808 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@vasilykatuma5689 Do you even English?

    • @vasilykatuma5689
      @vasilykatuma5689 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HistoryNerd808 THANK GOD, after your LEAVING, in a generation or two,our children wont have to, PIMPS of nations!

    • @HistoryNerd808
      @HistoryNerd808 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@vasilykatuma5689 What are you talking about?

    • @vasilykatuma5689
      @vasilykatuma5689 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HistoryNerd808 This will happen after brexit...finally your england will show its ROTTEN TEETH behind its polished (with the blood of others...) front...that.

  • @EthanDyTioco
    @EthanDyTioco 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I’m watching this to get to the bottom of the Walpole meme

    • @Ttæœ
      @Tt朠4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what is that meme and feel free to meme me to death for not knowing

    • @EthanDyTioco
      @EthanDyTioco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ttæœ I think Walpole gets mentioned in episode 5 of this series, but tl;dr he's a mad lad who was the reason behind a lot of things happening

    • @Ttæœ
      @Tt朠4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EthanDyTioco thanks

  • @lukeblondell6358
    @lukeblondell6358 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This 3-episode series was awesome! It was fascinating as all hell.

  • @DJMichael356
    @DJMichael356 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    You know you guys have the best channel on TH-cam it’s the only one that does anything useful

  • @Voxavs
    @Voxavs 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I'm surprised this story is not a major motion picture yet.

  • @JoshSweetvale
    @JoshSweetvale 8 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Is Blunt the guy Littlefinger is based on?

    • @pontuslidekil6840
      @pontuslidekil6840 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      would not surprise me if he was.

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You'd probably have to go much further back, since GoT is based loosely on the Wars of the Roses

    • @dragonkingofthestars
      @dragonkingofthestars 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      that would be Walpole.

    • @arrasvonschlieffen9286
      @arrasvonschlieffen9286 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      if you think of it, Littlefinger was based not on a certain man, but on an image that one man created - Machiavelli

    • @JoshSweetvale
      @JoshSweetvale 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​@@arrasvonschlieffen9286Nooo.
      No.
      Machiavelli lesson #1: The only thing worse than being a tyrant is being petty.
      Littlefinger is everything Machiavelli warns against.

  • @darkside9020
    @darkside9020 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just rewatched this after seeing the film The Favourite (with the incredibly talented Olivia Coleman) it was interesting to names from the film pop up in this, and to see Harley's motivations to lobby for peace in the war with Spain

    • @AtlasNovack
      @AtlasNovack 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Refreshingly Cynical dude, me too. Love when there’s crossover between EH and other things I’ve seen, or hell, when EH crosses over with EH.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I too got a lot of enjoyment out of knowing the insane, movie-worthy story happening just offscreen.

  • @blakestewart2700
    @blakestewart2700 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hands down the best series you've done

  • @wavegunner2323
    @wavegunner2323 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the best series of all the extra history's.

  • @fireaza
    @fireaza 10 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    South Sea Company won the vote? I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @vavakxnonexus
      @vavakxnonexus 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The shall make the Inquisition Episode right after this one. Because nobody expects the Inquisition.

    • @Sticker704
      @Sticker704 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @DarthSears
      @DarthSears 10 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Nobody was expecting the Spanish Inquisition!
      ...To lose.

    • @cielopachirisu929
      @cielopachirisu929 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sticker704 Seems he did.

    • @e443
      @e443 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Spanish Inquisition is a conspiracy invented by the jews, you guys!

  • @DomyTheMad420
    @DomyTheMad420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:00 it took me 6 years before i thought to myself:
    "wait. isn't National debt one of those debts that is virtually never actually paid off? they just keep adding onto it "for ever" ("as long as the country's GDP grows more then the debt, we're fine") ?"

  • @mithingthooth_5449
    @mithingthooth_5449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I miss this narrator

    • @Sclerus
      @Sclerus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me too

    • @FreeWhiteBuffalo
      @FreeWhiteBuffalo 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What was theyre name

  • @jordancadiz6095
    @jordancadiz6095 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Idk why but this extra history episode makes me feel warm and fuzzy like Christmas.

  • @duncanproffitt9399
    @duncanproffitt9399 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love history and wish to be a history teacher after high school and Extra History is one of my favorite resources to find about different moments of history.

  • @militantnoobs5075
    @militantnoobs5075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:13 Whew! I thought this was going to be exciting or something.

  • @Rakned
    @Rakned 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It would be cool if somebody threw together some sort of diagram describing Blunt's plan in more detail than it receives in the video.

  • @martinsto8190
    @martinsto8190 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Anyone want a extra H. series on the life of Ceasar?
    They kinda covered the Spanish inquisition with their Jewish Pirates episodes, so that's not needed anytime soon.

  • @khalidolenja8028
    @khalidolenja8028 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Years later this is still 9ne of if not my favorite topic covered.

  • @Thoralmir
    @Thoralmir 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This topic has given me an EXCELLENT idea to make sense of some plot points for a fanfic I'm writing.

  • @CommissarWallace
    @CommissarWallace 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Can I suggest the War of Spanish Succession? That's a lot of political chicanery and incredibly influential.

    • @historybuff222
      @historybuff222 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No, all the 18th century, when one could see a European in its natural habitat.

    • @CommissarWallace
      @CommissarWallace 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Robl Nathan the 18th century, where Europeans spent most of their time in other peoples' lands.

  • @bthsr7113
    @bthsr7113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    With crypto currency, NFTs, and other scams, this series has only become more important.

  • @pyepye123
    @pyepye123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Suggestion:
    Han empire in china
    Yue fei chronicle
    Great videos. Keep up the good work!

  • @PanPan-fm3uf
    @PanPan-fm3uf 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I watch this all the time, and have been since it was released. I think it may be the best

  • @eldermoose7938
    @eldermoose7938 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is honestly my favorite series in the entire extra history library

  • @VixVixious
    @VixVixious 10 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    Ahem... there was already Great Britain in the very early 1700s, because Great Britain is the geographical name of the island. You mean there was no United Kingdom yet! (thanks CGP Grey)

    • @falconJB
      @falconJB 10 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      You are thinking of the modern idea of Great Britain they are talking about the Kingdom of Great Britain, Grey's video does not apply to this period of history.

    • @VixVixious
      @VixVixious 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jeremiah B In the beginning of the video they imply that Great Britain arose after Scotland and England were reunited, and that's still a wrong implication, given that Great Britain is a geographical term.

    • @Treviisolion
      @Treviisolion 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      VixVixious When it was first united it was called the Kingdom of Great Britain as it did not include the Kingdom of Ireland and as such only was the Kingdom of the island of Great Britain, hence the name. After 1801 the Kingdom of Ireland was merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After most of Ireland seceded, the name was changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which CGP Grey explains.

    • @Wiccanwolf08
      @Wiccanwolf08 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      VixVixious An argument in semantics really, as Great Britain is BOTH a geographical and political term. "Great Britain" refers to the island and it also refers to the kingdom. It should be known that "Great Britain" is also the name of the island, but considering that we are dealing with the relationships of countries and kingdoms here (and since most people associate the term with a kingdom *anyway*), it isn't really necessary.

    • @Pilgrim1st
      @Pilgrim1st 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No, Great Britain James the 1st of England/6th of Scotland came up with the term.

  • @lackingcool127
    @lackingcool127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Everyone else while watching the video: actually using their brains. Me: hah blunt because sword lol.

  • @kingbadmovie
    @kingbadmovie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Is this kinda what's going on with gamestop right now?

  • @matthews5540
    @matthews5540 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    You guys at Extra history are the best!!!

  • @tomax9003
    @tomax9003 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I truly believe the History Channel should fund this fantastic team. The amount of cash thrown onto the current shows on HC is a crime against humanity.

  • @beccadendy1436
    @beccadendy1436 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m watching this so i can understand the wALpOle joke 🤷🏻‍♀️😂