Cotswold Lions and British History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ย. 2023
- Lions have not been native to the British Isles since cave lions went extinct there some 12 - 14 thousand years ago. Yet there is one type of lion that, if not native, at least has been prospering on the British isles since prehistory, and one that is centrally important to English history and culture, even if it is not directly represented on the royal coat of arms.
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Fun fact: the children's poem "Baa Baa Black Sheep" is believed to be based on the wool tax imposed by the British Crown.
@@mydixiewrecked2could have been black plague 😂
I knit, spin, weave, and even process wool fleece. The Cotswold sheep produce a sturdy, strong, long staple yarn which is lovely and wonderful to work with and to wear. If worsted spun, it isn't scratchy at all! For more information about this lovely sheep breed, read the entry about it in Deborah Robson's Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook.
Someone should make a video of you! I would love to see it!
Everyday is a good day when it starts with THG
Cirencester! That’s where some of my earliest ancestors came from. Bu this ancestor was not a sheep man, he was a pewter craftsman and his mark was registered at the guild HQ in London. He ended up in Maryland in the 1650s and became a community leader. Cool bit of history of the role Cirencester and the Cotswold area played in history! Thank you History Guy!
So some lions do indeed get along with lambs.
My junior year my dad bought a small farm with a dozen sheep and a old steer. I had to carry 5 gallon buckets of water about 20 yards to the trough, 3 or 4 trips in the cold or heat twice a day.He told me I could make money! Now I know you can’t make money having pets. Good memories. Worth a fortune. I have 25 pet chickens now. I sell the eggs for 4 dollars. I’m consistent, at a loss, but what fun. Thanks.
Four dollars each or 4 dollars a dozen?
I actually kinda had the same idea. I got some chickens and calf with the plan that if something bad happened I'd have some food. But alas, I fell in love with them and they are as much of pets as my dogs. I'd have to be starving to kill and eat them.
I'm his wife and it's 4$ per dozen...
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Embarrassing! when an Englishman meets an American who knows more about the history of England than he does but thank you for another fascinating lesson.
Someone's walking around with a lion-wool sweater somewhere and I love it :)
It was the effect of the Spanish conquest of what is now Belgium, and the closure of Antwerp to English wool trade, that was a cause of the English war against Spain and the Spanish Armada.
If you are going to the Cotswolds, you may also venture to Stonehenge, which isn’t far. But it would truly be a shame to miss Avebury Henge, a much more ancient stone ring on a much grander scale. Plus, it is not roped off and forbidden to walk among and touch these ancient stones. Some are so large that they serve as foundational walls of some of the oldest huts and structures in the village that sprung up in the center of the ring!
Avebury, much more intresting, plus Silbury Hill, Merlin's Mount , the wedders in the fileds, and the Ridgeway. Martinsell, The East and West Kennets Barrows, then you have the Kennet and Avon canal. Crofton Pumping station.
That is true. You can easily get to Stonehenge as a motorway runs by it, but you cannot walk among or touch the stones. Avebury is a better recommendation. But all of the United Kingdom has so much history in an area smaller than the States. It would be a brilliant idea to interact with someone from Time Team. Just a thought. THG is fascinating.
Even today most culinary experts say Welsh hill farmed lamb is the best in the world
Here's a wild and wooly piece of history indeed! 👏 THG
If I may add an additional point that lead to the distribution of sheep in the ancient world was cheese making with ewe's milk. Something the Romans valued greatly. (I'm a shepherd cheese-maker myself).
Lance, as always, I watched and enjoyed your great history video today. Something I might add, you mentioned Southampton as a port for the export of the wool. Did you know that, even to this day, there is a building near the present day docks in Southampton known as the Wool House. It is a two story stone structure. It was built in 1338 by Cistercian monks from Beaulieu Abbey and was originally a place to store the wool until they could load it aboard ships for export. It has had many uses over the last seven hundred years (warehouse, a prison for French and Spanish sailors during the Napoleonic Wars, maritime museum, and most recently a pub/restaurant/microbrewery).
Just as a side note, the Wool House is located just a short walk from the spot where the Pilgrims left England for the New World in 1620. Because of a storm in the Channel they took shelter at Plymouth, so history records that they left from Plymouth when, in fact, they originally started from Southampton.
Fascinating.
Thx.
Wishing you and your travel-mates a wonderful and safe vacation.
As a resident of the 2nd largest Roman town after Londinium Thank you for the proper pronunciation of "CIRENCESTER"!
Thanks, I did my best!
And yet, Britain's best wool-producing colonies, Australia and New Zealand, (now Nations), are based on the bloodlines of the Spanish Merino. These merino breeds have been selected for fine thicknesses of their wool fibres. Merino wool is generally less than 24 micron (μm) in diameter. The diameter of the wool of the Cotswold Lion ranges from 33 to 42 microns, more suited for carpet making than an Armani suit. It is important, however that these ancient breeds be preserved, simply for the benefit of accessing another gene pool if needed in the future for breeding.
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England developed more breeds of unique sheep than anywhere, with breeds developing to be suited best for local conditions. The Merino comes originally from hot, arid Spain, so it’s not surprising Merinos and similar heat-adapted sheep would thrive in hot, dry Australia. They have been further developed to produce finer and finer wool, and an offshoot double purpose breed, the Meat Merino, has two good products for it shepherds.
The Cotswold region includes lowlands and highlands, and is pretty cold and wet and dreary in the wintertime. Yet I understand these sheep regularly lamb unassisted outdoors. Sad thing nowadays is that wool isn’t valued as much as it should be; a farmer plays more to shear his sheep than he makes from the British Wool Board price on the fleece.
You have a TARDIS ! How appropriate! Thank you for all the wonderful adventures in history, Doctor!
Choice bro! I have got some sheep we are cross breading Romney and Wiltshire. We are into the 4th generation. We have a very talented retired farmer that helps us look after them. There are so many techniques to master. Sheep farmers are craftsman in every sense of the word.
One of my first adventures in England in 2000 was a 2 night stay at the Lamb Inn in Burford from where I venture out to explore the country side. One of my many fond memories from my trips to the UK.
Thanks for another great episode,
Mark Sleppy.
I remember hearing that sheep farmers, at one point, were buried with a piece of wool in their hand - so God would know why they'd missed church so many times, while tending the lambs :)
A guided tour sounds very interesting but I have the good fortune to enjoy the history of the UK first hand because I live here.
It means you learn little unexpected things. A few years ago I found that the marriage register in my local church shows that the schoolteacher signed her name with an "X".
I suspect that she was actually literate but chose not to write her name because her husband could not write and she did not wish to humiliate him.
We also saw a copy of a very old (early Tudor) map of our village in a book and realised that the reason our garden is set out the way it is was due to including the route of a road running through it.
I wish I could afford one of your history guy tours. I will keep working hard and one day soon I hope to join you!
Enjoyed the video very informative. I used to be a sheep farmer. Did have the breed
It seems ironic with how valuable it used to be it now costs more to shear a sheep than you get for the fleece.
I have a record by the phenomenal British guitarist Martin Simpson which includes an instrumental version of an old traditional tune titled "The Shearing's Not For You".
@@goodun2974 that would be why we have people in A) I pull my back enough and get enough cramp hence the daily G&T without the G. B) They are about 4 to 5 times the speed I can making it easier on the sheep.
I was set for a mildly interesting at best episode But was pleasantly surprised. Very enlightening.
It was cotton that help bring down the wool trade. Cotton was easier to wash and keep clean in the days before automatic washers and dryers.
You're not wrong, but I would maybe say the invention of the cotton gin would be more accurate. Without it cotton would be way more expensive because it was so hard to harvest and process, nearly rivaling silk. The cotton gin had such an long-term effect on history.
@@michaelhowell2326, also, until the invention of the cotton gin, most cotton being grown was a coastal variety that was low in fiber yield but was easier to clean of seeds by hand. The cotton gin made it economical to clean the myriad seeds from high-yield inland cotton varieties.
Point taken........... Have a good day.@@michaelhowell2326
Great video. The medieval British were VERY lucky that no sheep-plague devastated their stocks as it would have ruined their whole economy for decades!
I'd also love to hear more forgotten history about medieval trademarks. Surely there were many counterfeiters of Cotswold wool; what was done to prevent that? A similar fascinating topic would be the forgotten American history of cattle branding and how those marks were created and tracked.
There was an outbreak of "woolsorters' disease" in Bradford England in 1837, though it wasn't until 1879 that science identified it as inhalation anthrax. An island off of Scotland was used as a testing ground for anthrax bioweaponization in 1942 and is now uninhabitable.
@@goodun2974The anthrax comment is horrifying. There are issues like this in the US as well. Humans do like to come up with nastier and nastier weapons.
@@sharonkaczorowski8690, yup, somebody sent weaponized anthrax through the mail here in the States a couple years after 9/11.
Imagine a heraldry with a "rampant lion" featuring a Cotswold Lion.
A scholarly article (for which I have lost the reference) by the Italian scholar Cipolla (really) shows how the influx of English wool in the Middle Ages swamped the wool market in Italy, and killed the local market (in Lucca, if I'm remembering, correctly).
Another fascinating episode.
Cotton helped build the USA in the 1800s while reducing wool markets in UK.
England sold a lot of finished cotton cloth and clothing in it's captive market, India, a tropical climate where wool probably wasn't all that popular......
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Thanks for another interesting episode. 👍
My Dad's family came from Buckinghamshire. Say hello to them if you get up that way.
Britian does have some interesting and fun facts. The locomotive have been invented there is why i have explored british history. Much to see and learn about that there.
We can always trust the History Guy to spina good yarn but never try to pull the wool over our eyes. :0)
That comment was shear genius! In fact, I would go so far as to say it was ovine!
Thank you for another interesting lesson. Could you report on the one Revelutionary War which occurred in the St. Louis area. I'm sure it made little difference to the war, buut I remember hearing it for its oddity. Thank you.
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Missing from this historical yarn is any mention of anthrax and the panic that outbreaks of it must have caused.
Often contracted from sorting wool and rags , was known as Rag Picker's Disease'. More immidiate risk if you are handaling sheep and raw wool Lanolin Poisoning.
Fascinating, as always. I thought enjoy your research and how well you arrange the presentation. Specially with the beautiful artwork. Thank you specially for that. Can you imagine history without artwork? !!
And here I was thinking the Cotswolds was popular because of Clarkson's farm.
Q: What is the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scotsman?
A: Jagger sings: "Hey, you get off of my cloud." While a Scotsman sings: "Hey MacLeod get off of my ewe!" 😜
I would enjoy going with you in June.
Just had surgery I can't count being ready to take such a trip.
Have fun,
I know you'll enjoy yourselves!
Ever hear of Thr Turkish prince who secrelety sent ships to Ireland during the famine? This would male a great episode Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, Sultan of an Ottoman Empire centuries past its own prime, was so moved by the Irish plight that he offered £10,000 (the equivalent today of around €1m) to help ease the suffering. He was opposed by the quen of England so had to do it covertly and against her will. It was incredibly brave. Look him up
A wonderful story or subtle history. Thank you, THG.
Have traveled in Cotswolds…..such fun
Love the fact that you’re citing sources within the script; less enamored by the fact that you’re citing, Country Life
At least it’s not The Daily Mail….
I always enjoy your videos
Magnificent essay. Thanks very much.
Fascinating facts which I’d not previously known, shared entertainingly. If I said otherwise, I’d be lion
Great episode!
Did the original Cave Lions "go extinct" or did the early human inhabitants "help" the lions along on the path to extinction?
amp.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/26/prehistoric-humans-may-have-hunted-cave-lions-to-extinction-fossils-indicate
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel, I did Google the subject separately and found out that the cave lions were significantly larger than modern African lions, so they must have been formidable indeed!. The lions favored large prey, but the mastodons and mammoths and other large prey were similarly dying off as the climate changed, and were headed for extinction, which must have played a part in the lions becoming extinct as well.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel if you haven't done one already may i suggest you do a few episodes on miscarriages of justice that deserved to be remember
Love wool stories as I am a modern spinner
Very good Doc
Thank you. 😊
A wonderful good night to you
Thank you for the lesson.
Look I won a prize.
Go away scammer.
thanks
I almost expected the Doctor Who "middle 8" to be playing in the outro!
A yarn about yarn Bravo
I had a little history booklet about sheep and wool production that came with a box of stuff I bought at a flea market. The title was, I kid ewe not, "The Romantic Story of Man and Sheep"! I assume it was written before the filming of Woody Allen's movie "everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask", where Gene Wilder has a wooly little "friend with benefits" named Daisy 🐑....anyway, New England having once been a major producer of cloth, thread and textile products, I donated the booklet to the local textile museum.
I don't wear a lot of wool. Cotton is king these days. I have some wool socks I wear in the winter and I recall my dress blue uniform in the Navy was made of wool and I generally remember it being fairly itchy.
I cannot tolerate wearing wool. My family thought I was merely fussy or being "sensitive", until I showed them an electron-microscope photograph of the scaly surface of a wool fiber. The scaly surface is why it naturally repels dirt as well as why it causes some people to itch.
Wool was “dirtier “ in the old days. As a knitter, I would find bits of grass in the yarn. Now it’s very clean. And super wash (aka machine washable wool) is very soft.
Cotton is king for me in the summer, but to stay warm in winter, wool is the best.
I'm allergic to it.
Can't wear wool at all! Sooo itchy!!😫but I did once find alpaca or vicuna wool which was so soft and silky I could easily wear it. Can those animals be raised in the UK?
@@roringusanda2837 , I don't see why not, as I live in Southern New England and there are people who raise alpacas and llamas not far from where I live.
Lance (THG) apparently has covered enough American history for a while and maybe is planning to literally explore his roots in June '24 in perhaps in particular the Cotswolds?
I would love to see you do a show about General Motors, specifically on William Crapo Durant its founder. He was a wild and crazy guy who thoroughly changed the auto industry.
There's a saying "Australia rides on the back of a sheep" we followed our big brother 😂
How about a history of...FIRE HYDRANTS?
Yes, they have a strange journey of development in the U.S.
You could incorporate fire helments, too.
My uncle, a former Chief had an amazing collection of them.
If he did such an episode, i have no doubt that helmets would be at least mentioned. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he has one.
Good video! The Cotswold likes tourism but not car traffic, Just ask Jermey Clarkson! Lol!
Also a fun fact - Costswold Lions display more intelligence than anyone in the UK who still thinks leaving the EU was a good idea 😂
..................or anyone who took the shot
@@stephenchappell7512 ...? Shot? Hope you don't mean the COVID-19 vaccine 🤔
Not ba-a-a-a-ad.
"How can we use more wool?" Ummm maybe just throw it away? Wait, no, require bodies be wrapped in it. Next best. (It composts completely within 2 years)😂
...because, after all, don't all good stories involve...pirates?
I was very surprised to her him mention pirates and then not say that.
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Thank THG🎀 for this History of the Sheep of the British🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 Empire 👍
Old Flying F-4 Phantom 2 Shoe🇺🇸
Not That Old Needle And Spoon Off Also..
Just Old Turpentine Wash , not Ether
Could the “cot” in Scotland relate to these sheep?
No.
It's not Cotland. Scot land comes from Scot, Scotia, Scota.
Hey Playboy 👋 you look like a young GQ model of Uncle Sam in your garb !
At 10.15, why is there a picture of a coin that says Alexander Rex Scotorum when you talk about King Richard Lionheart? Have I missed something?
Oh, how far we've fallen! 😢
Is odd to me that one of the Greatest modern empires was built because of clothes. The human is a strange creature.
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I would really welcome an honest episode on 9/11😄
TH-cam doesn’t allow creators to
Monetize videos about 9/11.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel This is strange. Or maybe not so strange, depending on which conspiracy theory one happens to espouse. Soft censorship, that's what it is.
Wool Like Soap..
Hopefully You Noticed , My Late Father's Right Hand Index Finger Was A Car Door Accident as A Teenager
Not A Desert Eagle Try Out At Practice Range..
That's Cold Hars Currency Exchange For Some Time i noticed,
With Business Like Businessmen In The Region..
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There are no Lions in English Heraldry. They are Leopards. Two from Normandy , and one from Aquitaine. so they don't even speack English. Oh while your in the area vist 'The slaughter's, The Bow wow, and don't miss Upper Up. Big Ben? That's the bell, you will be lucky to get on that tour. What you see is St Steven's Tower.
It is a fair point that when passant the cat is usually referred to as a leopard. But they are today officially heraldically described as “lions” rather than leopards.
Yes, Big Ben is the largest bell. But the tower is the Elizabeth tower, named in 2012 for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
But it was never officially St Stephen’s tower. While the name was colloquially used, prior to 2012 the tower had no official name. St Stephen’s tower is actually the smaller tower over the main public entrance into St Stephen’s hall.
The arms of three lions can only be said to date for certain from the time of Richard l. Some earlier monarchs may have used badges but there is no certain evidence of systematic use. It is conjectured that a lion was the badge of Henry l and Henry ll may have borne two lions as arms. At a later date lions became the arms of the Duchy of Normandy and these have been assigned as ares to William l, ll, Henry l & ll. Stephen appears to have used a centaur as a badge.
I can’t watch your channel anymore because there are 45 minute long ads in it. I can’t stop every 90 seconds to skip an ad I’m doing other things while I listen.
You won't be missed, and unlike your comment that's not a gross exaggeration.
@@mydixiewrecked2that's what I do. As soon as the video starts, I slide that thing to end. There's usually no ads on your "second viewing" 😉
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Sheep=good. Got it.
How about new Zealand 3 million people 60 million sheep
That was the 1970s
I just found this channel and subbed. The only thing that I can really say that I found wrong about this channel is that the videos aren't long enough. This is good stuff. 😊
I was banned from Facebook for my opinion of wolves, good tohear a tale involving them with a hapy ending.
no, i won't return to england until they've regained their senses and have rejoined the eu. mind you, i'll go to scotland when they gain their independence 😉
Good. You won't be missed.🖕
At least Scotland's 🏴 got Home Rule which is more than could be said for England 🏴