Hello and welcome to The History Student. A channel dedicated to all things historic.
As a student studying for a BA (Hons) Degree in this fascinating subject, I hope to share my passion for history on this channel through a series of videos touching on a variety of different topics, as well as visiting some of England’s most impressive historical sites, delving deeper into their history and finding out more about the people who once lived there.
We can learn a lot from history, so take a look around this channel and hopefully you’ll find a subject matter that interests you or find inspiration for your next historical day out.
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Very informative. Thank you. It seems a bit like modern day aromatherapy and essential oils. I use lavender oil in foot baths. Your voice is very pleasant to listen to and you are well spoken.
I was taking some gradual level courses in medieval English history in the early 80s while I worked on my thesis in geochemistry. I was always interested in the history of disease during this period. Of course, the Black Plague was a major pandemic that led to massive changes in European society due to the tremendous loss of population. But the other disease that is stuck in my memory is the Sweating Sickness, which frequently reappeared and resulted in large population loss. I seem to remember that the disease apparently "disappeared" by about the 17th century (or mutated into a different form that didn't resemble the original disease). With the advances in genetics and some well preserved remains of victims of the sweating sickness, there might be a chance is determining what the disease was.
It would be fascinating to know what this infamous disease was and who knows, maybe one day we will 🤔 Though the sweat was terrible, the Plague was truly horrific…
A great many illnesses would take lives in those days without anyone having a clue what they were! Black Death was the most famous but it wasn’t the only one, these ‘sweating sickness’ or sleeping sickness’ could wipe out entire households in days nobody would have a clue what just hit them. Human folk had always kept themselves to themselves but by that point trade and contact gave viruses and bacteria great opportunities to jump around. And they jumped around. Some of those contemporary diseases had their moment because they were ahead of the current science. But look at Covid, still ahead of the current science!
Today, I was feeling a bit off, sweating profusely, and wondered if I had sweating sickness. Then I realized it’s 98 degrees F and 73% humidity. I had the disease called “August in Texas.”
We don’t know what sweating sickness was, but many people died from it, and the symptoms didn’t exactly match any malady we know now, though it seems a bit like malaria. But malaria was known in England at the time, and people then saw the sweating sickness as something different. It could be that whatever caused it simply died out. Pathogens can become extinct, just as higher organisms can.
I went to a festival last weekend and got up to things I did in my late teens and early 20's. I went to bed 1am Sunday. I woke at 6am sweating, shivering and a stinking headache. I felt like I had the flu but exaggerated in different ways. I was poisoned and my bodies response to the poisoning was to sweet it out. I'm convinced that this is what happens when people get colds or flu or other similar things. It's the body flushing out the poison. Makes more sense in this heavily piloted world of processed food, alcohol etc. I'd say all illnesses are a product of your environment.
What we suffered with covid was a political act of aggression that cannot compare with natural pathogens wreaking havoc on societies without medical sophistication
Our global pandemic had more to do with gain of function and evil political actions. The sweating sickness had no political aim. It truly was a mysterious and deadly disease. Great video.
@@marietteestabrook4098 I was talking about the global warming and climate change experienced in medieval times. Possibly a slightly different form of faster acting malaria?
@@andrewallen9993 England has always been too cold and wet. You don’t see weather in England like you see in India or Central Africa or South East Asia even when you have unusually warm temperatures. Please clarify what is a fast acting malaria? All epidemiologists and microbiologists would like to know about this unusual plasmodium.
I’m quite surprised at why this disease remains a mystery, when it would be very possible to study the remains of suspected victims such as Prince Arthur.
Good point. I'm no expert in the field of DNA analysis etc, but I've heard those that are comment that the likelihood of this kind of genetic material surviving is so low it wouldn't be worthy of disturbing graves. It would be fascinating to know exactly what this Tudor killer was, one of life's great mysteries I suppose!
Superb video. The pacing is perfect for a house tour like this, lingering on the visuals just long enough to let the detail sink in. Love the small doses of cheeky British humour as well.
The atmosphere of this video is really neat. Your delivery, pacing, music and visuals do come together very pleasantly, artistically even. Ultimately, though, I think I'd personally prefer a more rapid delivery. I clicked out of curiosity, and getting that curiosity satisfied is more what I'm interested in than an artistic experience. I could just look it up on wikipedia, and read the summary paragraphs in about a minute or so. Another thing too, a lot of the better regarded history channels do put citations on screen, sometimes reading excerpts directly from various sources. At least jot a couple down in the description or something though. Good scholarship practices, you know how it goes. Good luck with the channel. Always nice to hear a new voice in the youtube history niche.
Yes to a VERY slight increase of speed, but otherwise a completely delightful and thought-provoking presentation. (Whoops: "understated" instead of "overstated"- everyone does that now.) Ironically, I do a lot of Tudor history and had never paused to wonder what they were talking about when they used one of these phrases; I just assumed it was their term for something familiar and common over the centuries. Thanks for slowing me down and lifting this up.
What a beautiful Cathederal and surrounding area! I love Cathedral’s but have never visited this one…. Have now put it on my list of places to go. Thank you 😊
