Enjoy history and have some fun with storyteller and presenter Kevin Hicks. Kevin has a great talent for inspiring people with his uncanny knack of making history fun, fascinating and relevant. His unique storytelling style makes history so much more interesting for audiences of all ages.
A decorated veteran soldier and policeman from England, Kevin now lives in Canada. Long since retired from uniform he’s been in the history business for over 28 years and now delivers history virtually with his RU-vid videos and LIVE webinars.
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Mary Clifford had a father He is the one who put her in the workhouse because his wife her mother had died and he was remarrying What a disgusting father he was
Eek, I'm new to this channel and when you start off by saying your taking advice from a chiropractor, I instantly doubt your info. Chiropractic is completely bogus
The horrible attitude toward orphans and "throw away children" is still alive and well today. As an adopted at birth, I can testify it is still real today!
A superb video , as a lad born in Barts and growing up in Clerkenwell I heard the story from my Grandad. Your efforts added real substance and I'd like to thank you for your research and hard work
You have a very compelling presentation style and I find myself incredibly invested to watch everything! Thank you for sharing this gem with us, LOVED the hidey holes! My favourite is the pie oven hide 😆
I'm related decently close to the Eleanor of aqutene And my family used to hold the lands as lords of Bedfordshire. Do we have any importance in the hundred years War!?
Not at all, the billman was a very skilled , close quarter combat soldier. The pikeman comes in more and more during the renaissance period against cavalry. 👍
Bubonic plague ran beyond 1348. And recurred sporadically for centuries. The WITCHCRAFT HYSTERIA began in rhe 14th century, running through the 17th century. Both occupied the imaginations and energies of the people. The lower class had few resources for political resistance. There was no printing, and very little literacy among the lower class. Aside from Market Days, the lowest class had next to no opportunities for mass meetings or movement from town to town. Pilgrimages, especially to Canterbury, were an exception.
Welcome to Canada. Saw you shoot at Warwick back in the day. Bit many ranges near me but we used to have a medieval club in Toronto, sadly pandemic killed it. 😂
The most effective enjoyable and beautiful and completely intelligible explanation and description of battle I have ever seen. Where did you get your wonderful figures?❤
Being english/maori my rellies are from Warwickshire/Staffordshire. They are the Insley family and fought for the Royals. I look like you kind sir.....amazing likeness.
@@thehistorysquad Thanks for your reply Kevin. I am the son of a woman who was the daughter of a man who was the son of Edward Insley. Edward Insley was a swordsman who achieved 5 perfections as a swordfighter. He was of English spanish origin due to the king of spain offering his father as well as the other royal artillery men a spanish wife in the late 1700's after sorting problems between the portugese and the spanish. Edward was born 1810. He was asked to document the irish potato famine and moved from Pit town where the R/A was set up into a home in county cork. When that ended circa 1843 the king requested that he use his chelsea pension to handle General Wynyard and his men in surveying the new nation state of nz circa 1853. He was referred to as the best friend of the king at the time. This is all I know of him. His son was 54 when he had my mother putting us on his lineage a few generations rearward. No one has documented his story thus far. He was a (Blazer) and had no war to attend but their work was in testing the new guns and cannons hence the name. My son....edwards great great grandson is a Dr who teaches Drs to be better. His great grandson haane manahi was posthumously offered the new sword of gallantry being the best soldier who represented England. Cheers Kevin. I am hoping someone will finally document his life. He died aged 59 in nz and is buried with the te arawa chiefs...a tribe friendly to the english. You would be perfect for this job kevin and finally my wee family may learn all about him and whether the story is true. It should be a good earner for the reference libraries and whomever takes up the task. Blessings kind sir.
Thank you for mentioning Margaret Clitherow. She was pregnant when she was martyred. It was against the law to "press" a pregnant woman. They killed her anyway.
Really enjoyed this, thank you. My friend's mother bought a house that had a priest hideout over the main fireplace. Tiny and cramped, so they wouldn't have wanted to stay long, but they were well concealed.
I want to crawl through the folds of time and protect these girls. I would have done anything to stop these innocent children from ever having had to endure such torture. Girls, I know you’ve long departed from this world, but wherever you are, please know you deserved love, you deserved to live surrounded by tenderness, and you deserved safety. I pray you rest in peace in Christ’s arms and that the hell from whence the Brownriggs came, envelopes them in agonizing fire.
Well I hate to say it, but I know a woman by that name (minus the rigg), who could be the reincarnation of her. Yup. If I believed in all that sincerely, it might keep me up nights. Weird.
