That's awesome, glad it helped 😃 If you want a bit more background and context this video th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html Takes you from the formation of England to the harrying, I took my video camera to a lot of the locations in the story too
I've often compared William the Conqueror in England to Genghis Khan in China in that both nations suffered grievously under both men, yet it's hard to imagine what England and China would be like without them.
Maybe we should be thankful William didn't quite have the range Genghis had 😂 I think similar to you I believe, I liken him (and the Normans) to snakes, their capacity at being deadly and evil buggers is alarming but I can't help but be impressed at how good they are at doing the thing they do.
@@stepthroughhistory Normans were formidable. Essentially Nordic vikings that adapted to the warfare of continental cultures and were so good at it that they could go up against Arab and Byzantine armies. You can admire their skills and talents while also being disturbed by the extent of their brutality.
Let's also remember that William the Bastard's victory at Hastings was purely dumb luck. Had Harold not had to fight at Stamford Bridge less than three weeks earlier and had William not fallen from his horse and wrongly thought to have been killed, he would have lost for certain. How odten has an army won a battle fighting uphill?
That's fantastic, glad you enjoyed it and really glad it helped. If you haven't seen it already I did a bigger video with a lot more build up and context th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html I even take my camera to some of the sites mentioned too 😃
Cheers 😁 I originally wrote just one story, the athelstan video is the start, and the William video is the end, I decided to cut them up for now but will soon creat a video of the whole story including the bits in-between, it will essentially look at how the north was integrated in to 'England' and questions whether the kingdom of England was always such an obvious conclusion. ....if that makes sense.
Glad it helped 😃 if you want a bigger overview of this event and a bit more context this video gives you the whole build up from Athelstan, and I have filmed it from the locations too. th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html
Cheers moo 😁 I promise I am working in the next one....I've been indecisive with it but I've had a little word with myself and I'll just darned well get on with it now 😂
thank you, really glad you enjoyed. I have the pre cursor to this about to upload,, I have done it all the wrong way round. Later I will do a bigger video covering the years in between too
not a problem, I have been quiet for the last few months so sorry for late reply, I hope you enjoyed it, I am just about to upload the video that should have been released before this one, it is about Athelstan's Gift. How is your Harrying video coming along?
I came here looking for a good start to learning about the Harrying of the North, thank you! What was the end goals result, in your opionin, of King William's reign?
Fantastic glad it helped 😃 Good question .....in brief, 1) who doesn't want to be king...esp if it's promised. 2) his rule was not as concrete as we think, could have all been over as soon as it started, so a heavy handed crushing/suppression of your enemy will stop future rebellions (he later lamented this on his death bed I believe) 3) Anglo Saxon England had an incredibly efficient, well organised controlled and profitable system of governance and tax, harder to replicate much easier to just subsume.
th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html This is the bigger story. This might help. The ending is the same but the video is much better and the while thing might help you with your question. What gets repeated here is legitimacy to rule, in a sense a sort of legal presidence ...'if that king did it and I did it ten that makes me king too'
@@stepthroughhistory I wish more people would learn from these arches in history. I guess man is consistently doomed to repeat them. It is very hard to be an optimistic historian! Please continue teaching the unworthy masses that we are!👍
It's my pleasure sir 😃 the only unworthy ones are the idiots who keep repeating the same nonsense 😂 You are spot on, and speaking of the never ending cycle of doom I have released a couple of podcasts recently. The Anglo Saxon conversion one might just be exactly what you are talking about, it's easy to find (same name as YT) on most podcast apps. Boethius.....that's all I'll say 😃 Cheers
How much do we really know about post Hastings England or Western Europe in general? I feel like we have relatively reliable information about 1090s and later but I'm a bit hesitant about earlier period. I got Really disappointed while I studied 1030s and 1040s (felt like mostly speculation) so need to know more about sources for late 1060s,70s before diving deeper.
Great question. One I fear could be discussed forever without a firm answer at the end 😂 It can be difficult pre Hastings. My recent video on Aldfrith of Northumbria was difficult to write as there is little information on him and a lot of that was conflicting. Try to get as many sources as possible, consider who write it, when it was written, why it was written/who it was written for. I also find comparing written sources with modern archeological work. Ultimately we can only go on the information we have at the time, and must be prepared to be wrong or change our minds. I'm not sure if that answers your question but I have give it a go. Let me know if I can be of more help.
@@stepthroughhistory I know exactly when the historical period I like ends. But I do not know when it starts! And this is a 1st world hobby problem. 1030s and 1040s are fascinating, but this is a mess. I kind of regret going in to deep into a period where 80% is based on speculations by modern historians. Whole books written while as for primary soucres there are 5 sentences in one chronicle. What if a chronicler made this up? I feel like we have relatively credible information about 1090s onward (pretty good sources start in early XIIth). So 1040s are Not for me - do not want to deepen my knowledge about it, but there are 4 decades 50s,60s,70s,80s that I'm hesitant about. So my question would be about which decade would you say we start to have a good enough understanding of how it really was back then?
This was the most brutal of acts. William deliberately slaughtered a different group of people to his own, one that was once independent, his aim was to make sure the land could no longer sustain life, rise up against him or maintain their independence. That fits the description of genocide
cheers :) really glad you enjoyed it, I am currently uploading the video about Athelstan's Gift, which definitely should have come before this one, then I will do a video about the in between years. In the words of Eric Morecambe "I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order".
That's fine for the incredibly small number of people who choose to revolt. Waltheof did in this period and lost his head in the end. The vast majority don't have any choice or power in this but suffer the most appalling consequences anyway.
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ive been asked to watch this for history class in school, its been really helpful thank you
That's awesome, glad it helped 😃
If you want a bit more background and context this video th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html
Takes you from the formation of England to the harrying, I took my video camera to a lot of the locations in the story too
Great video Graham. Thanks for sharing it and look forward to hearing more about Beverley and it’s surrounding areas. 👍🏼
Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it. I have something up sleeve to do with athelstan...watch this space
A very interesting & informative perspective re William the Conqueror, am all for miracles too! Good stuff Graham 👍🏻
thank you, the Athelstan's Gift video should be released later today, it should have come first but oh well :)
I've often compared William the Conqueror in England to Genghis Khan in China in that both nations suffered grievously under both men, yet it's hard to imagine what England and China would be like without them.
Maybe we should be thankful William didn't quite have the range Genghis had 😂
I think similar to you I believe, I liken him (and the Normans) to snakes, their capacity at being deadly and evil buggers is alarming but I can't help but be impressed at how good they are at doing the thing they do.
@@stepthroughhistory Normans were formidable. Essentially Nordic vikings that adapted to the warfare of continental cultures and were so good at it that they could go up against Arab and Byzantine armies. You can admire their skills and talents while also being disturbed by the extent of their brutality.
We'd have no class system, no North/South divide and no fucking Tories, so we'd be infinitely better off.
Let's also remember that William the Bastard's victory at Hastings was purely dumb luck. Had Harold not had to fight at Stamford Bridge less than three weeks earlier and had William not fallen from his horse and wrongly thought to have been killed, he would have lost for certain. How odten has an army won a battle fighting uphill?
Great video, really enjoyed it.
Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
fabulous video i'm studying this subject for school and this shows a lot of information!
That's fantastic, glad you enjoyed it and really glad it helped. If you haven't seen it already I did a bigger video with a lot more build up and context
th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html
I even take my camera to some of the sites mentioned too 😃
Interesting story. Miracles can sometimes be very practical.
Thank you very much. Miracles can be practical.....and wonderful propaganda 😁
Another great example of research, well done...E
Cheers 😁 I originally wrote just one story, the athelstan video is the start, and the William video is the end, I decided to cut them up for now but will soon creat a video of the whole story including the bits in-between, it will essentially look at how the north was integrated in to 'England' and questions whether the kingdom of England was always such an obvious conclusion. ....if that makes sense.
This really helped me because i was stuck on my history homework thank you 🙏🏼
Glad it helped 😃 if you want a bigger overview of this event and a bit more context this video gives you the whole build up from Athelstan, and I have filmed it from the locations too. th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html
this really helped me with my homework thanks!
Glad it helped 😁
Great content as always xx keep up the fantastic work 👍👏😊
Cheers moo 😁 I promise I am working in the next one....I've been indecisive with it but I've had a little word with myself and I'll just darned well get on with it now 😂
This was great! Very educational with a fresh perspective.
thank you, really glad you enjoyed. I have the pre cursor to this about to upload,, I have done it all the wrong way round. Later I will do a bigger video covering the years in between too
Sorry for being late lol, had no idea you uploaded
not a problem, I have been quiet for the last few months so sorry for late reply, I hope you enjoyed it, I am just about to upload the video that should have been released before this one, it is about Athelstan's Gift. How is your Harrying video coming along?
I came here looking for a good start to learning about the Harrying of the North, thank you! What was the end goals result, in your opionin, of King William's reign?
Fantastic glad it helped 😃
Good question .....in brief, 1) who doesn't want to be king...esp if it's promised. 2) his rule was not as concrete as we think, could have all been over as soon as it started, so a heavy handed crushing/suppression of your enemy will stop future rebellions (he later lamented this on his death bed I believe) 3) Anglo Saxon England had an incredibly efficient, well organised controlled and profitable system of governance and tax, harder to replicate much easier to just subsume.
th-cam.com/video/2hU1qaurZyM/w-d-xo.html
This is the bigger story. This might help. The ending is the same but the video is much better and the while thing might help you with your question. What gets repeated here is legitimacy to rule, in a sense a sort of legal presidence ...'if that king did it and I did it ten that makes me king too'
@@stepthroughhistory I wish more people would learn from these arches in history. I guess man is consistently doomed to repeat them. It is very hard to be an optimistic historian! Please continue teaching the unworthy masses that we are!👍
It's my pleasure sir 😃 the only unworthy ones are the idiots who keep repeating the same nonsense 😂
You are spot on, and speaking of the never ending cycle of doom I have released a couple of podcasts recently. The Anglo Saxon conversion one might just be exactly what you are talking about, it's easy to find (same name as YT) on most podcast apps. Boethius.....that's all I'll say 😃
Cheers
Good vid, cheers
Thanks very much sir ☺️
How much do we really know about post Hastings England or Western Europe in general? I feel like we have relatively reliable information about 1090s and later but I'm a bit hesitant about earlier period. I got Really disappointed while I studied 1030s and 1040s (felt like mostly speculation) so need to know more about sources for late 1060s,70s before diving deeper.
Great question. One I fear could be discussed forever without a firm answer at the end 😂
It can be difficult pre Hastings. My recent video on Aldfrith of Northumbria was difficult to write as there is little information on him and a lot of that was conflicting.
Try to get as many sources as possible, consider who write it, when it was written, why it was written/who it was written for. I also find comparing written sources with modern archeological work. Ultimately we can only go on the information we have at the time, and must be prepared to be wrong or change our minds.
I'm not sure if that answers your question but I have give it a go. Let me know if I can be of more help.
@@stepthroughhistory I know exactly when the historical period I like ends. But I do not know when it starts! And this is a 1st world hobby problem. 1030s and 1040s are fascinating, but this is a mess. I kind of regret going in to deep into a period where 80% is based on speculations by modern historians. Whole books written while as for primary soucres there are 5 sentences in one chronicle. What if a chronicler made this up? I feel like we have relatively credible information about 1090s onward (pretty good sources start in early XIIth). So 1040s are Not for me - do not want to deepen my knowledge about it, but there are 4 decades 50s,60s,70s,80s that I'm hesitant about. So my question would be about which decade would you say we start to have a good enough understanding of how it really was back then?
Modern terminology could this slaughering call a genocide.
This was the most brutal of acts. William deliberately slaughtered a different group of people to his own, one that was once independent, his aim was to make sure the land could no longer sustain life, rise up against him or maintain their independence. That fits the description of genocide
Nice video! Insta sub.
cheers :) really glad you enjoyed it, I am currently uploading the video about Athelstan's Gift, which definitely should have come before this one, then I will do a video about the in between years. In the words of Eric Morecambe "I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order".
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Cheers, hope you enjoy my more recent content too
No wonder the history in school ends at Hastings
Haha that's brilliant! 😂
When you revolt against the king, be a man: accept the consequences of your actions. Stop whining!
That's fine for the incredibly small number of people who choose to revolt. Waltheof did in this period and lost his head in the end. The vast majority don't have any choice or power in this but suffer the most appalling consequences anyway.