@@thehistorysquad Good sir. I was caught in a dilemma between the curious plot twist and the sudden BANG! attack. You're spot on with this story sir. Spot on!
I imagine the narrator has been telling this story for centuries, all the way back to the day when he was there, cleaning a mug and telling the story to guests in his tavern. Brilliant Storyteller
I've only just discovered your channel today, & I find your knowledge of history amazing & the way you describe & story tell fantastic. Thank you so much. Richard.
I don't know anything about stolen axes or blocks and I have no executioners story to tell but I have to say that's the coolest sconce I have ever seen, great idea!
OK not gonna lie. You almost gave me a heart attack. I also dropped my phone on my nose too haha. But great video. And I love what you have done with the helmet on the wall. Badass lamp
Well, that 'BANG!' certainly brought history to life. My poor heart! Loved it. And the video, as always. Reminded every day how pleased I am I stumbled across you, Mr. Hicks A pleasure to enjoy history through such a natural and captivating storyteller.
Fascinating Kev, I wonder. Please keep these stories coming. Prince Rupert of the Rhine was a bit of a lad around the same period, he survived, even thrived although commanding the King's armies. I discovered him as he ran my home town for part of the civil war, Bristol, being a glass blower I heard of him through tales passed down through the glass houses.
I now live in Stroud, where an enterprising local clothier, Samuel Webb got both Prince Rupert, & Prince Maurice, to sign letters safeguarding his property, his cloth etc, from theft by the soldiers of the King- Stroud, of course, produced a lot of the cloth which was used for the military, etc, and later, the famous red cloth.
Prince Rupert also came to my home town aswell to fight in the battle of Ledbury. "The date is 22nd April, 1645. The Parliamentary commander Sir Edward Massey, had not been in Ledbury even 24 hours with his combined force of 1500 infantry and cavalry, before battle was joined. The royalists under the command of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, had turned on the march to confront the enemy after receiving news that Parliamentary forces had occupied Ledbury intent on fortifying the quaint village, and using it a base for sorties deeper into Herefordshire. After a viscous skirmish throughout the village, the scars of which can still be seen, the Parliamentarians minus the dead and 200 prisoners fled back to the safety of Gloucester. "
Brilliant story, thanks for sharing 🙂 I totally jumped when you said King Charles eyes blinked & BANG!!! - Would love to watch any historical videos you might have done/will do on Bolton, York, Chester or Edinburgh. Thanks a lot 🙂
I love your commentaries on history. Years ago, I lived in Cirencester, working in Bristol. I spent as much time as I could exploring your wonderful country. From Plymouth to York, from Warwick to Stratford on Avon....the history of your country has intrigued and informed. Your podcasts and the way you present are second to none....thanks so much!
TH-cam item about Royal Exhumation says that one of the people in Charles I tomb was the Prince Regent. The account in that said that the future George IV took a couple of souvenirs which Queen Victoria had returned to the tomb. I think Charles' dignity on the scaffold was truly courageous and admirable.
Not so much dignity as a reflection of his arrogance, divine right of kings, superior to people of lower estate, lesser breeding, and a level of indifference. He was a total traitor to the Magna Carta and Reformation model of king as under law of land and God. He had gone over Parliament to raise taxes to pay for his war. Utterly convinced of his rightness under God. Unable to listen to anyone
Thank you Mr. HICKS you make history so interesting and exciting. My High school history classes were so boring I could hardly keep my eyes open during class.
@tacfoley Looks like a palatial mansion! Guess I would have supported Charles as the "lesser of two weevils"(Master and Commander). Curious here in the US that a family like the Washington's ( formerly Wessingtons) and other tidewater aristocrats whose ancestors fought for Charles, allied themselves with descendants of Cromwellian Congregationalists from New England in the US Revolution. I love history but here in the US it only goes back a few hundred years. You are fortunate as yours goes back to Stonehenge and beyond.
@@thomaszaccone3960 ...didn't know that Americans are still so euro-centristic...! ☹ ...there are A LOT OF Pre-Columbian culture sites in the U.S...!!! 🤠 ...might be, because most people are corrupted by Hollywood...! 🙄 ...fun-fact: Hollywood tells stories - NOT HISTORY...!!! 😜 ...even here in Germany, when i was at a lecture from our local historical society about medival castles and knights in the region, the lector started: "...as you all know, knights lived in..." ...the audiance: "...in castles...!" ...the lector: "...NOT in castles...! ...I see, you're all corrupted by Hollywood...! 🤓 ...in German he said: "...wie ich sehe, sind Sie alle Hollywood-Geschädigt...!" 🥴
Your historytelling skills are marvelous, sir. If I follow, you were once an historical site docent? I always enjoyed that kind of work, bringing history to life in the minds of our guests. Keep on keeping on!
I said on another video another channel brought me here and I have to say I am completely addicted to this channel. Your absolutely amazing Kevin so interesting
@@thehistorysquad I want to nip round uncle Kevs house and play dressing up! Seriously mate you have put in some serious hard work into this channel. What a legend! Thank you for your service and hard word mucker! My grandkids are few miles away these days but when I see them Iam gonna put them onto the history squad! Young lad is army mad! Army or prison his big sister says 😂
I love history. They say you are never too old to learn. I am learning more of our past that I never knew about thanks to your slick presentations. Shame our current generation learn very little about our past histories, they are missing out. Love the wall lamp by the way.
Your videos are so interesting, I’ve been binging on them and watching all day! Thank you so much for making these videos so in depth and especially all the funny twists you have. Oh your wall sconces look incredible, also! I have a similar helmet myself that I was going to turn into a lampshade, I think the wife may tolerate that!! Do you have a story about King Richard III? I saw the doco where he was exhumed and buried in a new tomb, but looking at his skeleton his quality of life must have been terrible. Do you have any accounts of things he couldn’t do due to pain, or extended lengths of being bedridden? It’s amazing to me as I have a severe back injury and even today with modern medicine and after 7 surgeries I’m still in immense pain and rely on strong pain killers, I don’t know how he would have coped.
Yes, Richard III is interesting and I will be covering him at some point in the future. I can sympathize with you over your injury, having had a back injury and surgery myself (just the once though, I refused to have more). Sometimes those painkillers just don't cut it do they.
@@thehistorysquad Oh awesome, I’ll look for that one! Unfortunately my issue was the workers comp, playing doctor like they always do. My mate is a cop and he told me if I stayed in my van, said my back hurt I would have gone by helicopter to the big hospital a few hours off and into surgery the next day. Unfortunately I had the accident in Feb and the first, mostly diagnostic surgery wasn’t until September, and then the second big one, which should have been the first one, a few days after, was done in October the following year. Unfortunately by then all the nerves had suffered long term damage and were compromised and nothing ever solved the problem. It’s rough mate, that’s for sure, and people with no back pain don’t understand for a second when you might be having a bad day and you literally cannot get out of bed, or off the lounge without a great deal of effort. Back pain is bloody awful. Hopefully there is a break thru treatment in the next few years hey, lol. Good luck with your injury mate.
@@thehistorysquad when I was a kid, there was a TV show called "The Time Tunnel", it wasn't that good of a show, but it was the 60's lol. Anyway, the heroes were caught in a time tunnel and every episode ended up at a different time in history, always made us kids interested in that event so after the show , to the encyclopedia's we went.
Love your series! I am learning so much from you, I wish you were my History teacher! You're so easy to listen to. Thank you so much for your idea to make us Americans know of British beginnings.
Some years ago I went on an audio guided tour of the Banqueting Hall. It walked us around the streets of the area giving us audio of cock fighting and people talking as if you were eavesdropping on a secret conversation. In what was the ballroom we heard music, conversations and laughter so that if you closed your eyes you could imagine you were at a party. Finally it led us along the route Charles I walked to his execution. The audio was his heartbeat which grew faster and louder as we approached the final destination. I could feel his fear and my heartbeat also grew faster and my breathing became shallow. Then the audio explained the execution procedure and the heartbeat stopped... he was dead. It was very moving and something I will never forget.
Comwell wasn't executed, he died of gall bladder disease, but there was a mock execution of his dead body afterwards......the subject of another video 😉
Love your stories. The story of King Charles I. I always believed it was a lower block to force him to lie down to humiliate him before his execution. Yours is better
Great story sir. You're well practised at it and must've heard a few. You got me, I jumped! It's not even dark yet. Poor Charles, just playing a role, bravely, but caught up in another chapter of an ancient struggle - and that time the Republic won. The God King had to lie prostrate. Surely the soldiers saw, and the populace were screened from seeing and hearing any last offence. 7 years of civil war to prove that God works in the hearts of all the faithful among mankind, not only one. A personal blood price for peace, paid by the King. 7 years of civil war, and it need never have been, if only he had been less keen to emulate a Roman Emperor in an England deeply steeped in Republican sentiment, armed with the Magna Carta. To say nothing of the Catholic-Protestant divide, but, well, do Catholics tend toward absolutism and Protestants toward democracy? Just musing. No simple answers, there never is. An era! A struggle of it's time. An old story that returns again and again. Napoleon. Hitler. Where and who next? European history! Never a dull moment. Once safely sealed away, curiosity rose, and just to make sure --- Perhaps the salt shaker made up for the desecration of Cromwell's bones. All's fair in love in and war and all that.
"And now I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible crown. Where no disturbance can be. No disturbance in the world. You are exchanged from a temporal to an eternal crown. A good exchange."
Kevin, I’ve seen other illustrations of beheadings around the time of Charles’ execution, and the victims were shown as lying on the floor of the scaffold - l don’t know how much you can rely on such illustrations because I’ve also seen where taller blocks were used.
You know exactly how to tell stories to those into military history. The gear heads, equipment nerds etc., but then you also know how to convey the feeling and human element of it. In short, what was there, how it was used, and the feelings and ideas it resulted in. I could listen to these stories all day.
My ancestors on one side of my family immigrated to America in 1650. I have a theory that they were loyal to Charles I and came here to avoid repercussions. By the way, you gave me a start when you said, "Bang!".
Interesting 👍🏻. The Civil War was still raging in England at the time, and it is possible that your ancestors might have been on the other side, following the puritans. There was a lot of religious persecution at the time and many of those emigrating were puritans wanting to escape the war and persecution.
@@thehistorysquad Thanks. Good information. Unfortunately, we don't have information as to their reason for coming to America. They immigrated to Virginia so maybe it was just the attraction of a new world. My understanding is that religious pilgrims settled in the Massachusetts area. (I'm a Mayflower descendant too, on the other side of my family)
I love the wall lamps. I don’t think I would be allowed to have that . I like the Rowan Atkinson / Stephan Fry version Blackadder ‘ This is the head of a traitor’ Crowd ‘ No it’s not it’s a pumpkin with a mustache drawn on it ! ‘ Bang Crowd cheers
@@thehistorysquad cool 🤓 I asked a re-enactor why they didn't use bows more because the rare of fire was rapid compared to guns of that time, he said because there weren't enough trained in the use of a longbow and the gun was easier to use
That 'BANG!' scared the heck out of me! Great video!
Hahaha - nice one 👍🏻
A great way to teach history........by scaring students, they'll never forget😃
It's overly dramatic crap...."Yeah!"
LOL! YEAH I jusmped as well!
@@thehistorysquad Good sir. I was caught in a dilemma between the curious plot twist and the sudden BANG! attack. You're spot on with this story sir. Spot on!
Love your wall lamp!!
Excellent content and presentation as always.This channel deserves to be far bigger!
Many thanks as always for posting.
Once again, thank you. 👍🏻
I to jumped
twice I've heard you tell that story and twice I've jumped out of my skin :-) Good job as always.
Hahaha, made me laugh - thanks!
Same. Had my sleeping baby on my lap and jumped. Thankfully he didn't even wake.
@@TheMaritimeHorror Ooops, sorry, though I'm glad the baby wasn't disturbed 😉
i also just shit myself XD haha
I imagine the narrator has been telling this story for centuries, all the way back to the day when he was there, cleaning a mug and telling the story to guests in his tavern.
Brilliant Storyteller
Cheers 👍🏻
New subscriber from the USA. Don't ever stop sharing your stories or your knowledge. You're an incredible asset to TH-cam and the world. Thank you.
Oh my goodness, that's so kind, thank you.......I still have lots to share 👍🏻
TH-cam for some reason recommended me your videos....and I'm glad it did! You're a great storyteller!
Thanks to you too for watching 👍🏻
Excellent raconteur
Hey Kevin, I love your stories & your delivery of them. Keep them coming.
Thank you, I will
Alec Guinness’s portrayal of Charles 1st in Cromwell is absolutely incredible.
That wall lamp behind you is super cool :)
Ah, you mean my knight lights 😉
I’m so glad I found your channel, I’ve been showing your videos to my friends and family.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing them. 👍🏻
it was nic cage, the bone is sitting next to the declaration of independence
i too, jumped at the 'BANG'
Haha - love it! Thanks for watching. 👍🏻
I felt like a kid again hearing the story! I was definitely spooked!
Wherever you live these days, Kevin, you are a national treasure.
I'm actually in Canada now, supposed to be retired but that hasn't happened, but enjoying life regardless 👍🏻
I've only just discovered your channel today, & I find your knowledge of history amazing & the way you describe & story tell fantastic. Thank you so much. Richard.
You're welcome, glad you found us 👍🏻
Fantastic as always Kevin !
Thanks again!
I don't know anything about stolen axes or blocks and I have no executioners story to tell but I have to say that's the coolest sconce I have ever seen, great idea!
I love hearing your stories.
OK not gonna lie. You almost gave me a heart attack. I also dropped my phone on my nose too haha. But great video. And I love what you have done with the helmet on the wall. Badass lamp
Hahaha, cheers Ryan, that gave me a laugh 👍🏻.
Glad you like my lamp, it's a knight light 😜
@@thehistorysquad a Knight light 😅 that's awesome.
@@thehistorysquad see what you did there!!! 🤣
Lol! I've done that too! Dropped me ol cell phone (note 20 5 g ultra) bloody heavy thing right on me nose too!
Haha! Same here. I did not expect that! Haha!
Loved this one, great channel and awesome host
Nice one Kevin!
Love your content! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
I'm in full research of this at the moment!! love your channel!!!!
Excellent! Thank you!
Well, that 'BANG!' certainly brought history to life. My poor heart!
Loved it. And the video, as always. Reminded every day how pleased I am I stumbled across you, Mr. Hicks
A pleasure to enjoy history through such a natural and captivating storyteller.
Haha, you've got to have fun. Thanks Joyo for your kind words. 👍🏻
TH-cam: "Beheaded For Treason?"
Me: "ok..."
Kevin: "Hi!! 😁"
your films and presentation are just amazing!!
Thanks a ton!
You sir made me jump.
Great story.
Fantastic channel......I did jump !!
😜
Really great storytelling Sir!! 😮
Another entertaining story Kevin. I love the helmet light! Thanks for sharing.
YOU SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME!!!
Hahaha, sorry!!
"Short by a head." Holy Moses that was the definition of cheek. I love this channel forever.
LOL
Gello, Mr, Hicks. I love your wall light, very cool indeed. Another great video.
Thank you kindly
New subscriber from California here. I’m glad I found this channel. Thank you for the stories, well told.
Welcome, and thanks for subbing! 👍🏻
Fascinating Kev, I wonder. Please keep these stories coming. Prince Rupert of the Rhine was a bit of a lad around the same period, he survived, even thrived although commanding the King's armies. I discovered him as he ran my home town for part of the civil war, Bristol, being a glass blower I heard of him through tales passed down through the glass houses.
I know it's a bit place but do you know Nigel Siddal? Lovely chap.
@@thehistorysquad I know of him, we do not turn within the same circles lol. Btw I am an archer too but short bows.
I now live in Stroud, where an enterprising local clothier, Samuel Webb got both Prince Rupert, & Prince Maurice, to sign letters safeguarding his property, his cloth etc, from theft by the soldiers of the King- Stroud, of course, produced a lot of the cloth which was used for the military, etc, and later, the famous red cloth.
Prince Rupert also came to my home town aswell to fight in the battle of Ledbury.
"The date is 22nd April, 1645. The Parliamentary commander Sir Edward Massey, had not been in Ledbury even 24 hours with his combined force of 1500 infantry and cavalry, before battle was joined. The royalists under the command of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, had turned on the march to confront the enemy after receiving news that Parliamentary forces had occupied Ledbury intent on fortifying the quaint village, and using it a base for sorties deeper into Herefordshire.
After a viscous skirmish throughout the village, the scars of which can still be seen, the Parliamentarians minus the dead and 200 prisoners fled back to the safety of Gloucester. "
@@richardmacpherson7647 One of my ancestors was the Lord Mayor of Ledbury 👍🏻
Where is the vertebrae today? Great story as usual Ser Kevin.
You know how to tell a tale! Fascinating !
Brilliant story, thanks for sharing 🙂 I totally jumped when you said King Charles eyes blinked & BANG!!! - Would love to watch any historical videos you might have done/will do on Bolton, York, Chester or Edinburgh. Thanks a lot 🙂
Awesome video sir
Thanks 👍🏻
I love your commentaries on history. Years ago, I lived in Cirencester, working in Bristol. I spent as much time as I could exploring your wonderful country. From Plymouth to York, from Warwick to Stratford on Avon....the history of your country has intrigued and informed. Your podcasts and the way you present are second to none....thanks so much!
Wow, thank you too, for your kind words and for watching 👍🏻
I'm so glad i found that channel.
Me too, welcome aboard 👍🏻
That *BANG* damn near gave me a heart attack. Subscribed.
😜 cheers & thanks for the sub
😂😂😂 you really know how to get a head- of things Mr. Hicks. 💀 British humor really gets me everytime.
😂
Love the content sir✌️
Cheers Stephen, appreciated.
that bang scared the crap out of me! paired with starring his eyes because i got glued of the story adds to the scar factor
😜 glad you enjoyed it
@@thehistorysquad heheheh! with a shock factor it is!
TH-cam item about Royal Exhumation says that one of the people in Charles I tomb was the Prince Regent. The account in that said that the future
George IV took a couple of souvenirs which Queen Victoria had returned to the tomb.
I think Charles' dignity on the scaffold was truly courageous and admirable.
I'd heard that too, and yes his dignity was admirable 👍🏻
Not so much dignity as a reflection of his arrogance, divine right of kings, superior to people of lower estate, lesser breeding, and a level of indifference. He was a total traitor to the Magna Carta and Reformation model of king as under law of land and God. He had gone over Parliament to raise taxes to pay for his war. Utterly convinced of his rightness under God. Unable to listen to anyone
That bang part got me too 😅
Thank you good sir for sharing that wonderful story with us
Jesus, don't do that it's 3AM in the morning here, you really woke me up 😂 😅
Haha, gotcha 😉
Thank you Mr. HICKS you make history so interesting and exciting. My High school history classes were so boring I could hardly keep my eyes open during class.
😜 you and me both!!
Like others have commented “BANG!” made me jump. Your students were well served by you, sir. Thank you.
Haha, yep, I get them every time 😜
ANOTHER WONDERFUL STORY !
I LOVE your wall lights!
😜 my knight lights
But Cromwell turned out a worse tyrant than Charles ever was.
@tacfoley Defintely not nice. But the average Brit was probably freer under Charles than under Cromwell and his roundheads.
@tacfoley Looks like a palatial mansion!
Guess I would have supported Charles as the "lesser of two weevils"(Master and Commander).
Curious here in the US that a family like the Washington's ( formerly Wessingtons) and other tidewater aristocrats whose ancestors fought for Charles, allied themselves with descendants of Cromwellian Congregationalists from New England in the US Revolution.
I love history but here in the US it only goes back a few hundred years. You are fortunate as yours goes back to Stonehenge and beyond.
@tacfoley Or the Irish.
...wasn't Cromwell in fact s.k.o. a 'Protestant Taliban'...? 🤔
@@thomaszaccone3960 ...didn't know that Americans are still so euro-centristic...! ☹
...there are A LOT OF Pre-Columbian culture sites in the U.S...!!! 🤠
...might be, because most people are corrupted by Hollywood...! 🙄
...fun-fact: Hollywood tells stories - NOT HISTORY...!!! 😜
...even here in Germany, when i was at a lecture from our local historical society about medival castles and knights in the region, the lector started:
"...as you all know, knights lived in..."
...the audiance: "...in castles...!"
...the lector: "...NOT in castles...! ...I see, you're all corrupted by Hollywood...! 🤓
...in German he said: "...wie ich sehe, sind Sie alle Hollywood-Geschädigt...!" 🥴
Lol Love the lamp shade.
My knight light 😉
Your historytelling skills are marvelous, sir. If I follow, you were once an historical site docent? I always enjoyed that kind of work, bringing history to life in the minds of our guests. Keep on keeping on!
Thanks John, will do 👍🏻
I said on another video another channel brought me here and I have to say I am completely addicted to this channel. Your absolutely amazing Kevin so interesting
Wow, thanks Lee, I'm glad you've found me here 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad I want to nip round uncle Kevs house and play dressing up! Seriously mate you have put in some serious hard work into this channel. What a legend! Thank you for your service and hard word mucker! My grandkids are few miles away these days but when I see them Iam gonna put them onto the history squad! Young lad is army mad! Army or prison his big sister says 😂
@@leekidman6128 👍🏻Cheers Lee
Thanks For This Brilliant Video From Blue
You are welcome! Cheers Blue 👍🏻
I love history. They say you are never too old to learn. I am learning more of our past that I never knew about thanks to your slick presentations. Shame our current generation learn very little about our past histories, they are missing out. Love the wall lamp by the way.
You are so welcome. My knight lights are pretty unique, I have 6 on the walls :-)
They are actually sconces.
Your videos are so interesting, I’ve been binging on them and watching all day! Thank you so much for making these videos so in depth and especially all the funny twists you have. Oh your wall sconces look incredible, also! I have a similar helmet myself that I was going to turn into a lampshade, I think the wife may tolerate that!!
Do you have a story about King Richard III? I saw the doco where he was exhumed and buried in a new tomb, but looking at his skeleton his quality of life must have been terrible. Do you have any accounts of things he couldn’t do due to pain, or extended lengths of being bedridden? It’s amazing to me as I have a severe back injury and even today with modern medicine and after 7 surgeries I’m still in immense pain and rely on strong pain killers, I don’t know how he would have coped.
Yes, Richard III is interesting and I will be covering him at some point in the future. I can sympathize with you over your injury, having had a back injury and surgery myself (just the once though, I refused to have more). Sometimes those painkillers just don't cut it do they.
@@thehistorysquad Oh awesome, I’ll look for that one!
Unfortunately my issue was the workers comp, playing doctor like they always do. My mate is a cop and he told me if I stayed in my van, said my back hurt I would have gone by helicopter to the big hospital a few hours off and into surgery the next day. Unfortunately I had the accident in Feb and the first, mostly diagnostic surgery wasn’t until September, and then the second big one, which should have been the first one, a few days after, was done in October the following year. Unfortunately by then all the nerves had suffered long term damage and were compromised and nothing ever solved the problem. It’s rough mate, that’s for sure, and people with no back pain don’t understand for a second when you might be having a bad day and you literally cannot get out of bed, or off the lounge without a great deal of effort. Back pain is bloody awful. Hopefully there is a break thru treatment in the next few years hey, lol. Good luck with your injury mate.
Very interesting. I like these little short 5 minute stories, enough to peak your curiosity into looking up the rest of the story.
That's exactly my aim, I'm glad you like them! Thanks.
@@thehistorysquad when I was a kid, there was a TV show called "The Time Tunnel", it wasn't that good of a show, but it was the 60's lol. Anyway, the heroes were caught in a time tunnel and every episode ended up at a different time in history, always made us kids interested in that event so after the show , to the encyclopedia's we went.
@@geebrewer8186 How lovely, and you still enjoy history now. Time Tunnel must have done it's job 👍🏻
the Bang! got me, I was listening to the story and I wasn't expecting that
😜 thanks for watching
Very fun story telling, reminds me of listening to Sir John Hurt telling old folk tales and stories.
Love your series! I am learning so much from you, I wish you were my History teacher! You're so easy to listen to. Thank you so much for your idea to make us Americans know of British beginnings.
You are so welcome!
Few tell a story and hold an audience like you do!
Gosh, thanks Kelly 👍🏻
I totally adore this channel and this fine gentleman. That "bang!" though made me spill my coffee all over me. Legit.
😳 sorry!!
Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks, will do!
Good vid.❤
I fall for those jumpscares every time. Thanks for the tale.
😜
Some years ago I went on an audio guided tour of the Banqueting Hall. It walked us around the streets of the area giving us audio of cock fighting and people talking as if you were eavesdropping on a secret conversation. In what was the ballroom we heard music, conversations and laughter so that if you closed your eyes you could imagine you were at a party. Finally it led us along the route Charles I walked to his execution. The audio was his heartbeat which grew faster and louder as we approached the final destination. I could feel his fear and my heartbeat also grew faster and my breathing became shallow. Then the audio explained the execution procedure and the heartbeat stopped... he was dead. It was very moving and something I will never forget.
You'd be good on a ghost tour cuz you sure scared the sheit outta me. 😁🤣
what happened with the execution of cromwell
Comwell wasn't executed, he died of gall bladder disease, but there was a mock execution of his dead body afterwards......the subject of another video 😉
@@thehistorysquad it a shame that Cromwell wasn't a live when they sliced and diced him, but at least Charles got most of the other Regicides.
Love your stories. The story of King Charles I. I always believed it was a lower block to force him to lie down to humiliate him before his execution. Yours is better
Enjoyed the story, loved the wall lamp. Is the bonsai tree real?
Thanks David & I wish. The last time I tried to grow bonsai all the leaves fell off 😜
It said, "Leaf me alone!"
Another great story - thanks !
Thanks for listening
Excellent story!!
Excellent storytelling! 😄
Thank you! 😃
Salt in a vertebrae? That's some real Ed Gein stuff there!!!
I bet there's thousands of stories like this out there and every one of them has a ring of truth to it.
Good god man you scared me! I'm still new around here and was not expecting that! Made me laugh as well. 😆
Hahah - Glad you enjoyed it! Sometimes I get the devil in me 😉
You as a presenteur, perfect!
Cheers Jerry 👍🏻
The "BANG" got me! goodness! haha, but thank you for this story!
😜
Kevin, you made my jump nearly through my ceiling lol
😜 Sorry!!
Great story sir. You're well practised at it and must've heard a few. You got me, I jumped! It's not even dark yet.
Poor Charles, just playing a role, bravely, but caught up in another chapter of an ancient struggle - and that time the Republic won. The God King had to lie prostrate. Surely the soldiers saw, and the populace were screened from seeing and hearing any last offence.
7 years of civil war to prove that God works in the hearts of all the faithful among mankind, not only one. A personal blood price for peace, paid by the King.
7 years of civil war, and it need never have been, if only he had been less keen to emulate a Roman Emperor in an England deeply steeped in Republican sentiment, armed with the Magna Carta. To say nothing of the Catholic-Protestant divide, but, well, do Catholics tend toward absolutism and Protestants toward democracy? Just musing. No simple answers, there never is.
An era! A struggle of it's time. An old story that returns again and again. Napoleon. Hitler. Where and who next? European history! Never a dull moment.
Once safely sealed away, curiosity rose, and just to make sure --- Perhaps the salt shaker made up for the desecration of Cromwell's bones. All's fair in love in and war and all that.
Thank you, I love your comments & sentiment. Appreciated. 👍🏻
yeah....tho from a certain angle Charles looks rather devious- & many ppl died because of the power struggles- plus ca change...
Worlds best story teller!
Wow, thanks 👍🏻
I'm very serious listening to you since I love history....... When yoh suddenly loud your voice i almost jump....😂😂😂😂😂😂
😜 gotcha 👍🏻
Brill. What's the red screen with squiggle for?
Some weird anomaly YT added after we uploaded it, it's not on the original film footage.
"And now I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible crown. Where no disturbance can be. No disturbance in the world. You are exchanged from a temporal to an eternal crown. A good exchange."
Kevin, I’ve seen other illustrations of beheadings around the time of Charles’ execution, and the victims were shown as lying on the floor of the scaffold - l don’t know how much you can rely on such illustrations because I’ve also seen where taller blocks were used.
The block that's in the Tower of London now is 2' high, so yes they did indeed vary in height, as did the axes vary 👍🏻
am i correct in saying that Nelson is buried in henry the V111s tomb now ???
Almost, I believe they used some of the sarcophagus of Henry VIII to as the base of Nelson's tomb 👍🏻
The most original lightshade yet. Cool!
haha, my knight light 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad oh durrrrr didn't even think hahahaha! 200IQ Good Knight
@@ltipst2962 😂
HA HA HA I jumped lol brilliant stuff.
That was a good scare, you made me jump off my chair. Hahahah
😜
You know exactly how to tell stories to those into military history. The gear heads, equipment nerds etc., but then you also know how to convey the feeling and human element of it. In short, what was there, how it was used, and the feelings and ideas it resulted in. I could listen to these stories all day.
Cheers Nate 👍🏻
Nice lamp shade. Great merch for your channel I say.
Nice idea 👍
Kev...they were next to the River Thames..wouldn`t they have nipped down the docks for some lumber.. or chop a bench up?
I guess they just used what was to hand 😉
@@thehistorysquad just drape yourself over this footstool, sire.....
My ancestors on one side of my family immigrated to America in 1650. I have a theory that they were loyal to Charles I and came here to avoid repercussions. By the way, you gave me a start when you said, "Bang!".
Interesting 👍🏻. The Civil War was still raging in England at the time, and it is possible that your ancestors might have been on the other side, following the puritans. There was a lot of religious persecution at the time and many of those emigrating were puritans wanting to escape the war and persecution.
@@thehistorysquad Thanks. Good information. Unfortunately, we don't have information as to their reason for coming to America. They immigrated to Virginia so maybe it was just the attraction of a new world. My understanding is that religious pilgrims settled in the Massachusetts area. (I'm a Mayflower descendant too, on the other side of my family)
Don't do the bang thing again Kev! 😆 Awesome as per.
😜 Gotcha!!
@@thehistorysquad Yep, I jumped. 😅
I love the wall lamps. I don’t think I would be allowed to have that .
I like the Rowan Atkinson / Stephan Fry version
Blackadder ‘ This is the head of a traitor’
Crowd ‘ No it’s not it’s a pumpkin with a mustache drawn on it ! ‘
Bang
Crowd cheers
Please don't jump scare me like that again, good sir 😭
LOL, I can't promise 😜
I heard Charles 1 had a company of longbowmen? Is this correct?
Would love to hear about them :)
Yes he did, I believe they were part of the Westminster Trained Arms and they also carried a pike, they were known as double-armed.
@@thehistorysquad cool 🤓 I asked a re-enactor why they didn't use bows more because the rare of fire was rapid compared to guns of that time, he said because there weren't enough trained in the use of a longbow and the gun was easier to use
Love that lamp shade
Aah, you mean my knight light 😉
@@thehistorysquad Hahahahahaha