History Summarized: England

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English History has a reputation for being nigh incomprehensible - what with all the kings, civil wars, succession crises, and slapfights with France. But with the right perspective (and a little royal-restraint), England can become quite a straightforward story. So let's take a look at this slice of Britain, and see how it grew into the master of the Isles.
SOURCES & Further Reading: “History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts”, lecture series for The Great Courses by Robert Bucholz, a great look at Renaissance and Early Imperial England.
“Ten Minute History of England and Britain” Parts 1-18, by History Matters, a lengthy chronicle of English history from the Roman conquest through the Union of the Crowns. Good watch if you have the time.
“Foundation” by Peter Ackroyd, the first book in a mammoth 6-volume History of England, which covers everything up to the death of Henry 7. If you really want to dig into English History, this is the book for you.
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@glasslaughter824 4 года назад

Blue: AHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Early Modern History: Why are you running?! WHY ARE YOU RUNNING!?!

@TheShaneyman 4 года назад

Such a shame. It's my favorite historic period

@archdux 4 года назад

"Age of Vanity"

@andrewmartin9379 4 года назад

I have to agree with Blue, the Roman days are the major source of all coolness in European History and the coolness radiates forward through time, dissipating as it goes from there. Someone change my mind.

@thespectralking2364 4 года назад

Because Blue is a coward

@glasslaughter824 4 года назад

@@andrewmartin9379 The Roman Era was the true Chad Era

@katem2143 4 года назад

“More monarchs than anyone should be forced to remember” Me thinking about learning all the names from the Kings and Queens song from Horrible Histories

@theghostofchristmaspast293 4 года назад

William,William,Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, Jhon Oy!

@asdrubalvect6328 4 года назад

@@theghostofchristmaspast293 Henry, Ed, Ed, Ed, Rich 2 then three more Henry's join our song!

@ethanporter8233 4 года назад

Asdrubal Vect Henry, Henry, Richard third, Henry, Henry, Ed again

@theghostofchristmaspast293 4 года назад

@@ethanporter8233 Mary I, good queen Beth, Jimmy, Charles and Charles again.

@rowan2961 4 года назад

@@ethanporter8233 Mary 1, good Queen Bess, Jimmy, Charles then Charles again!

@malady2464 4 года назад

"The polite term is disorganised and the accurate term for this is gross." My lifestyle in a sentence.

@naturalist10000 4 года назад

Or Royal Family Trees in a Nutshell

@Newbmann 4 года назад

the accurate term is chaotic just like the chat Im going to cause down here.

@cmonkaratechamp533 4 года назад

flashbacks to the ptolemies podcast

@legoworksstudios1 4 года назад

@@naturalist10000 Especially when discussing the Habsburgs and the ancient Egyptian dynasties.

@nickdelsobral9198 4 года назад

I think the most accurate word would be clusterf*uck

@odinseinherji9719 4 года назад

“Has more kings than anyone should be forced to remember” Me: WILLIAM, WILLIAM, HENRY, STEPHEN, HENRY, RICHARD, JOHN. OI!! HENRY, ED, ED, ED, RICH TWO, THEN THREE MORE HENRYS JOIN OUR SONG, EDWARD, EDWARD, RICH THE THIRD, HENRY, HENRY, ED AGAIN, MARY ONE, GOOD QUEEN BES, JIMMY, CHARLES AND CHARLES AND THEN: JIM, WILL, MARY, ANNA GLORIA, GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE, WILL, VICTORIA, EDWARD, GEORGE, EDWARD, GEORGE SIX, AND QUEEN LIZ TWO COMPLETES THE MIX!!! THAT’S ALL THE ENGLISH KINGS AND QUEENS SINCE WILLIAM FIRST THAT’S EVER BEEN!!

@NashvilleMaggie 4 года назад

Odin's Einherji go off King! (No, seriously, that’s impressive)

@a.h.s.3006 4 года назад

But what about those before William???

@amethystjade9331 4 года назад

Jesus Christ

@samuelpeare2747 4 года назад

@@a.h.s.3006 it gets to complicated. Was Aethelstan the first, or should we count Edward, or Alfred? Also Aethelred Unred is embarrassing and I don't want to think about him.

@ethanahsooleen6361 4 года назад

A.H.S. Harold godwinson if you count him , then Edward the confessor before him

@m.fernando5749 4 года назад

"the surprise guest appearance of plague" I can relate

@richmcgee434 4 года назад

As can we all.

@PlanetZoidstar 4 года назад

That's rough buddy.

@Lionstar16 4 года назад

This line hits too much to home :(

@pedroivantaveraferreira3037 4 года назад

Hey! Think on the bright side, the last four generations (us included) had to go through history classes not understanding the depth of a plague, kids now will ask how long the soldiers stayed in quarantgine and what games the played inside their tents!

@duckwhistle 4 года назад

We can all relate these days!

@toocoldforyouhere8353 4 года назад

When you see a king that has face vs just a letter, you know who won.

@twoscarabsintheswarm9055 3 года назад

King with face, *exists* King with letter _"why do I hear boss music?"_

@adame4955 3 года назад

Miniforce x

@ludicrus32 4 года назад

I'm actually a little disappointed that Alfred the Great didn't get a name drop, just "the King of Wessex." While I know it's a summary, not even mentioning Alfred in a history of England is like leaving Julius Caesar out of a discussion about the Roman Empire. Sure, he was never technically King of England, but he laid the groundwork and set a gold standard for every single English King that came after him.

@NashvilleMaggie 4 года назад

Vosian beautifully said.

@TheTrolloman 4 года назад

Very true. But we come here for the pretty pictures, high production value and funny goofs. He quite literally covers centuries of history in 10 minutes, its hard to expect much in the way of complexity and completeness. We'll leave detail and rigor to the Historia Civilis, Kings & Generals, and Dan Carlin types.

@freakymoejoe2 3 года назад

I wonder how that's gonna play out in the next assasin's creed, where Alfred is like the main antagonist.

@larrygrimaldi1400 3 года назад

Doesn't Julius get his own vidio from Blue? or is that in the future?

@matthewraynor7573 3 года назад

to be fair in our history classes we never talked about alfred the great at all, and I even took GCSE history

@zzzzzzzzzzy Год назад

As an English person, I'm amazed you didn't mention Alfred the Great as he made England what it is today. I learnt about him in A Level History and he did so much for "England". He unified the kingdoms and brought hope to people's hearts against the senseless and brutal invasions of the Vikings. He was called Alfred the Great for many reasons that are worth mentioning.

@Natibe_ 4 года назад

“I don’t want to bother with these monarchs!” in my head: WILLIAM WILLIAM HENRY STEPHEN HENRY RICHARD JOHN, OI!

@Midgedoesgaming 4 года назад

Aye horrible histories. A great show

@asdrubalvect6328 4 года назад

HENRY, ED, ED, ED, RICH 2 THEN THREE MORE HENRY'S JOIN OUR SONG!

@GrahamMilkdrop 4 года назад

GEORGE GEORGE GEORGE GEORGE WILL QUEEN VICTORIA!

@blessedcocoa5729 4 года назад

@@asdrubalvect6328 Edward, Edward, Rich the third, Henry, Henry, Ed again, Mary 1, Good Queen Bess, James then Charles, and Charles again James, William, (???) Anna Gloria, George, George, George, Will, Victoria

@asdrubalvect6328 4 года назад

@@blessedcocoa5729 Edward, George, Edward, George 6th and Queen Liz 2 completes our LIIISSSTTT!

@sydneyvu1722 4 года назад

The aggressive “NAY!” every time they tried to get Scotland sent me😂😂

@tomlynmathewsjr7514 4 года назад

Coupled with the bagpipes. Perfection.

@Kei-Sarah 4 года назад

I’m actually surprised it wasn’t NAW! Or is that just my City’s response? Ah well

@Ghostrebel017 4 года назад

SCO'LAND THE BREVE!!

@robertgibson9619 3 года назад

@@Kei-Sarah he's American got' t' gi'e him a pass.

@calhof991 4 года назад

Blue: *mentions Canute* Vinland Saga fans: “You had my curiosity but now you have my attention.”

@QuinntheDruid 4 года назад

Cal Hof when he said Canute I thought of Vinland Sanga!

@ahmedamine24 4 года назад

I want a History Summarized for Scandinavia, and, *gulp* Gernany

@CollinMcLean 4 года назад

@@ahmedamine24 Including before the migration period or specifically after the Germanic migration into Scandinavia?

@mariaford5161 2 года назад

Maria ford

@devanshuk206 2 года назад

Thorfin and King Sweyn to are irl people from the history iirc. Askeladd comes from a norse myth

@aemilius5707 4 года назад

Blue: More monarchs than anyone should have to remember - Every British child, ever: *you fool*

@Sam-eq9bu 3 года назад

*English

@nathaliaelefsdrop7982 3 года назад

william william henry stephen henry richard john - oi! …..

@T0T4LG4MER5 2 года назад

@@Sam-eq9bu nah, everyone in the British Isles has heard the masterpiece that is Horrible Histories Kings and Queens song

@twahaalim5712 2 года назад

@@nathaliaelefsdrop7982 Henry Ed Ed Ed Rich two then three more Henrys joined our song!

@gem205 2 года назад

@@twahaalim5712 Edward, Edward, Rich III, Henry, Henry, Ed again

@guitarfrog3674 4 года назад

‘With more monarchs than anybody should be forced to remember.’ Me, breaking out the horrible histories kings and queens song: you fools, I spent my entire childhood preparing for this

@JoshuaHillmanatorHillman 4 года назад

William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John, OI!

@jmurray1110 4 года назад

as yes half the comment 1 guy even recited the entire song not just the chorus but each verse it is incredibly easy its been around 6 years and can still recite it perfectly

@pinkroseperson256 4 года назад

Joshua Hillmanator Hillman Henry, Ed, Ed, Ed, Rich 2, then three more Henrys join our song!

@LegendStormcrow 4 года назад

Seems many of you learned it.

@michaelabonsu1086 4 года назад

Joshua hillmanator hillman. Edward Edward Richard third Henry Henry Ed again

@Lablass- 4 года назад

Godwinson: I'm the true king of England. William: I'm going to ends this man's whole career.

@carlosroo5460 4 года назад

Fist of the North Star style.

@tobyknight7397 4 года назад

"I'm William the Conqueror, my enemies stood no chance"

@z2yn 4 года назад

they called me the first English king, although I come from France... The irony when you remember the 100 years war between France and England

@Max-sc4yn 4 года назад

Black Xerxes it goes even deeper, because Normandy was a province conquered by SCANDINAVIAN VIKINGS.

@arthurpendragonsyt 4 года назад

@@Max-sc4yn So can we blame the Vikings for the Hundred Years War then? xD

@Anglomachian 4 года назад

“I don’t care about kings. Royal gymnastics is boring”. I’m glad we disagree on something.

@nikhiliyengar1510 4 года назад

I'm honestly surprised that a medieval history enthusiast can be uninterested in conflicts between kings and civil wars, because that's basically the grill in the burger for me. To each his own, I guess.

@MasteringJohn 4 года назад

I also disagree with the notion that these conflicts were unimportant, or can be safely ignored when attempting to truly understand the development of Britain/England as a state. Summaries are useful heuristics when introducing a topic for a ten minute video, but not for expounding on that topic in detail.

@LegendStormcrow 4 года назад

@@nikhiliyengar1510 Some of us don't care about genealogies. I'm more into individual battles and the cultures behind it. I care not a whiff about most of the "major players" instead caring about the plays. They still matter when you go into detail about the chain of events, but I'm a micro guy. Always been more impressed by stutter steps than massing units.

@clockworkkirlia7475 3 года назад

@@nikhiliyengar1510 To be fair, he's usually all about Medieval Italy, where it's more Princes & Politics than Kings & Castles. That and the Classical era of course.

@phastinemoon 3 года назад

And I have never been so proud to agree with Blue. Seriously, my experience with any story that focuses on the “royal lineage” of a person, place, or thing almost always seems to regard the people involved as points to score in a game, not real people. Which is why Blue’s video on Cleopatra (and the Ptolomies) is so amazingly interesting.

@ghostly_fan9829 4 года назад

Blue:explains the Norman conquest in 30 seconds Me after having had a 2 hour long test where we had to write 5 pages on the Norman conquest: *years of academy training, wasted*

@dreamer2260 3 года назад

It’s the most consequential part of our whole history and deserves more detail. If only it had failed.

@DDlambchop43 Год назад

oversimplified took 12 min. Blue is the king of speed learning.

@Enforcer6k 4 года назад

"Names are Hard" 0 seconds in and I feel called out.

@JumaquiMamani 4 года назад

Hey hello yes mmhhmm yes I do exist yup thank you very much oh okay then bye.

@celston51 4 года назад

Æthelberht feels called out and would like to know your location.

@ms_scribbles 4 года назад

You know, when he first said that, I thought he was referring to the really brain-melting way the Saxons named places.

@emmareiman64 4 года назад

"pick one, names or years" me, doing a panakin anakin over choices, forgets both "shoot" No names, no numbers But I sure can remember every Pokémon! My head has poor priorities

@gabbinvisible 4 года назад

Blue : "Take that Frenchies !" Me : *hurt Frenchy noises*

@psychogoreman198 4 года назад

Its fine. Our mothers are hamsters and our fathers smell of elderberries 🤣🤣

@grahamkristensen9301 4 года назад

Haha, longbow go FWIP.

@siren3789 4 года назад

Why can't we be friends~? 🎶 Pourquoi ne pas être amis~? 🎶

@Memphismastermind 4 года назад

You're not...Parisian, are you?

@gabbinvisible 4 года назад

@@Memphismastermind Noooooo

@nicholaswalsh4462 4 года назад

Spain: NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! England: Says the idiots who didn't expect the English Channel.

@rodrigogascagomez5190 4 года назад

More like, ridiculous fucking storms, which is even funnier. Though everyone seems to forget the Drake-led counter-Armada that also ended in abject disaster, so a better picture is two boxers failing miserably at slapping each other.

@greysquirrel404 3 года назад

@@rodrigogascagomez5190 It wasn't the English channel where they had problems with storms. After the battle they had to return to Spain the long way round through the North Sea and then the North Atlantic. It was in the North Atlantic where storms became a big problem for them and wrecked a large number of ships off the west coasts of Scotland and Ireland.

@jacob2808 Год назад

@@rodrigogascagomez5190 We dont talk about that one

@dean42bean 4 года назад

Stopping with the Union of the Crowns was a really bad idea. You completely left out the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, the two defining moments of early modern English history.

@dreamer2260 3 года назад

I agree. The Civil War period is actually pretty fascinating, and incredibly dramatic. Especially Charles II’s desperate, epic escape from England after the final Royalist defeat and his father’s execution. Loyal friends and allies, many of whom were later executed for helping him, sneak him out of the country under Parliamentarian pursuit, hiding from patrols in oak trees and friendly houses, and Charles at one point disguising himself as a kitchen worker. And then the ultimate turnaround years later with the Restoration. I’m not a Royalist today but it’s an irresistible story to me; I can’t help rooting for him.

@johng810 3 года назад

He still kinda referenced it with the dynasty x

@johng810 3 года назад

obv us brits get the context but yeah he still said about york etc which is where it happened. then he said about the union when scotland and england both were in civil war

@kirawestenra5077 4 года назад

I have lived in England since birth and am a huge history addict, and yet I still managed to learn from this. Am I embarrassed for myself or impressed by Blue?

@stepheneveris5920 4 года назад

You can be both.

@kirawestenra5077 4 года назад

Stephen Everis TRUE. And also, English tax collecting was cool. Who new?

@nix_ 4 года назад

In all fairness, _Horrible Histories_ taught us more than school did

@PIMKAMINA2 4 года назад

Be dissappointed in your education system

@kortmann9 4 года назад

@@nix_ That's so true, it's scary.

@Blazorbust 4 года назад

5:20 that translates to "France has entered the cat" :p "Tchat" is French for chat, and "chat" is French for cat.

@tommyscott8511 4 года назад

*Shane Dawson wants to know your location*

@denolaj 4 года назад

C’est vrai. Only took me a second though, to realize what was going on. :P

@flacon365 4 года назад

Yeah, that was some...... unfortunate wording haha

@darryljones3009 4 года назад

Yes, that's true, I ate all of France.

@unicornsprinkles3277 4 года назад

Furries are quaking

@thekrakenexperiment280 4 года назад

I honestly really like learning about the royal gymnastics of the English monarchy. Yeah it's complicated, but it has so many backstabs and plot twists. There's a reason why Game of Thrones was inspired by the War of the Roses.

@hansolo4017 4 года назад

Could we get History Summarized: Wales please?

@craighooper4599 4 года назад

Dwi'n cytuno!

@franzr.yablon2839 3 года назад

Yes, I want blue getting his tongue a crash course in gymnastics because of the pronunciation HAHAHAHA

@michcalder88 3 года назад

I want this as well.

@matthewraynor7573 3 года назад

yes you can!

@qwadratix 3 года назад

Baaaah!

@EntityEntity 4 года назад

A perk of staying home is catching your uploads right as they come out

@AbdulGoodLooks 4 года назад

Yes

@cmonkaratechamp533 4 года назад

idk it’s just kinda weird bc there’s no comment section

@AbdulGoodLooks 4 года назад

@@cmonkaratechamp533 Yeah the downsides of being early.

@stepheneveris5920 4 года назад

Or rewatching them.

@shingshongshamalama 4 года назад

Never apologize, Blue. Historical economics is not only fascinating but incredibly useful for understanding how and why societies changed over time.

@guntahnotarealname8817 4 года назад

"Sadistically meticulous and blindingly self-obsessed" I mean, are you really complaining that they kept detailed records? Also, I think Alfred was probably worth a mention.

@theonly6453 2 года назад

Whereas if it had been the Irish or Scots he would be fulsome in his praise at how organised they were.

@mcarr3492 4 года назад

There’s a cool semi-historical show called “The Last Kingdom” about wessex in the viking century. It’s getting a fourth season soon (26April) and it’s amazing. Really recommend if you like that era.

@eldorados_lost_searcher 4 года назад

I've been wondering when it's being released! Thank you!

@RoyalFusilier 4 года назад

"Bernard Cornwell, OBE is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written the Saxon / Last Kingdom stories about King Alfred and the making of England." Absolutely love this guy's work.

@mcarr3492 4 года назад

Isa Oh didn’t know about that, thanks

@Telsion 4 года назад

April 26th? Oh damn that is amazing, didn't know it was going to release this soon!

@csec95 4 года назад

I am sorry but the rectangular shields get me to much.

@ThomasstevenSlater 4 года назад

Now that you've done England Scotland and Ireland you have to do wales to be fair

@matthewmac5787 4 года назад

I'm just wondering if he will talk about the fact england built around 600 castles just to keep the population under their control

@epicwalrus7183 4 года назад

We all saw what happened to Red after just one myth, I'm not sure if Blue could handle all our place names XD (but yes we need Wales)

@jmurray1110 4 года назад

and maybe the lesser known places like the isle of man, isle of man. the Shetland islands or gibraltar

@emjenkins464 4 года назад

Yep. And he needs to start with Wenta Silurum (The first city in Wales, and potentially created as a result of a peace treaty between the Silures and Rome). The Silures held a Guerrilla war against the Armies of Rome for over 2 decades shortly before the revolt of Jerusalem (So Vespasian was General of Caerleon).

@frostfire4636 4 года назад

Looking forward to a Welsh history video, have my fingers crossed

@TeganThrussell 4 года назад

Hey, hey Blue. You know there's a song for that, right? The Kings and Queens? It was made by Horrible Histories, and it goes all the way from William and Conqueror to today. Very handy, and I can now rattle all the kings and queens off the top of my head, in order. With a little context about each one.

@CazTails 4 года назад

"More monarchs than anyone should be forced to remember"? Blue, allow me to introduce you to WILLIAM WILLIAM HENRY STEPHEN HENRY RICHARD JOHN (HOY!)

@fuckedupfuckedup1191 4 года назад

Last time I was this early the fire Nation hadn't attacked

@NoobFish23 4 года назад

*hadn't

@Valencetheshireman927 4 года назад

Long live the fire nation !

@fuckedupfuckedup1191 4 года назад

@@NoobFish23 thank you

@psychgeekgirl3037 4 года назад

So I’m summary: England wants Scotland, Scotland says NAY! Then Scotland says: fine, but only if we’re in charge. Sounds bout right

@MysticCouchPotato 4 года назад

Then England ignored that and pretended that they conquered Scotland the same way they conquered Ireland

@naheleshiriki5496 4 года назад

NAY!

@dunndudebemelol 4 года назад

The auld alliance with France kept England in a two front war and well the union was not exactly popular at the time, and it was even less popular earlier on when the crowns merged.

@dolphindiverbct8297 4 года назад

Then England took charge because 55 million people is a lot more than 5 million people

@RoamingAdhocrat 4 года назад

lol at the idea that Scotland's in charge. the outcome of the 2016 referendum, and, well, every recent general election but especially 2019, says hello

@wesleyjones6499 4 года назад

yo i really love this channel so much that when i think about how much i love it i start crying, i love history so much like I'm honestly thinking of being a history teacher and this channel does so well at representing history the way it was and i love you two so much for that

@fruitcakemtdew 4 года назад

8:59 Me, almost reluctantly: Tall, large, Henry VIII, supreme head of the Church of England

@chanhailey7848 4 года назад

I was looking for this ! Yay six!

@LadyMythos315 3 года назад

Divorced Beheaded Died Divorced Beheaded Survived And tonight we are LIVE!

@bluequartzdragon 4 года назад

"Heck." - Definitely Caesar.

@Riastrad-hq6ds 4 года назад

I need to share this with my AP Psychology teacher. She is also one of the history teachers at my high school and actually majored in English history and I’d love to see her reaction to it.

@NoobFish23 4 года назад

Sounds like Godly

@sodapop3575 4 года назад

I loved the battle of Hastings and learning about it in school. The way blue summed up what was a whole term of learning for me and my class, in a few seconds, was spot on🤣😂

@Ninxz21 4 года назад

Yes Blue! I've been waiting for this one for a while! You guys are amazing, keep up the good work!

@Big_E_Soul_Fragment 4 года назад

Last time I was this early, Romans were still trying to invade the island.

@GrahamMilkdrop 4 года назад

I like your name.

@eldorados_lost_searcher 4 года назад

Which time? You've got Julius Caesar's first and second attempts, Caligula's expedition that turned into a war against Poseidon ("Think you're bigger than me!?"), or that time they actually succeeded?

@jmurray1110 4 года назад

@@eldorados_lost_searcher yeah jeremy was more of a lover than a fighter

@clayxros576 4 года назад

That profile picture, I know it. Hello warship waterbender

@pokezette7785 4 года назад

Unimpressed knight does not care for your empire.

@daredgobbo4535 4 года назад

Unimpressed longbowman puts up his archery fingers

@superspicy8740 4 года назад

Da Red Gobbo ☝️☝️

@OValger 4 года назад

I started saving up your videos for a quiet evening with a coffee when I can enjoy them twice. As a non-native speaker I can say that what you do is not only educational and humorous, but also the best listening compherension exercise of my life!)

@TalkieWalkie1 3 года назад

From a lad who lives only a few towns down the coast from Lindisfarne in Northumberland, thanks for giving us a Golden Age!

@alexemy2463 4 года назад

2:40 “Northumbria can have a little Golden Age. As a treat.” *offscreen whirring as Thatcher spins in her grave*

@franciscomartins8920 4 года назад

Last time I was this early for a vid, the Byzantine Empire hadn't gone through a crisis yet

@teigenb829 3 года назад

I really wish you were my history instructor! I remember memorizing a bunch of king's names and what they did. It was SO confusing! I honestly barely remember any of it now. This really cleared some stuff up

@cfosburg 3 года назад

I really like your art pics for England and France. I’ve studied this history many times and could never understand why England was so obsessed with parts of France - got it now! 👍

@fonk7661 4 года назад

8:59 Henry 8: 1590 - 1547. He went back in time?

@Lionstar16 4 года назад

No, Blue just got the date wrong - Henry VIII's date of birth is 1491

@binifarmer4045 4 года назад

Technically it doesn’t stop with James I, as Great Britain didn’t come into being until the Act of Union in 1707, a good *century* after you stopped. So you’ve gone and skipped over the Stuart dynasty and all of the juicy bits like the colonization of the Americas and the English Civil War.

@galutproctar11145w 3 года назад

While that is the case I think that the establishment of a personal union between Scotland and England / Ireland is a good ending point.

@intergalactic92 3 года назад

Glad it wasn’t just me.

@jasoncampbell8469 4 года назад

On my second semester of British history and sad won’t be able to finish in class absolutely love it

@goldilocksguy5170 4 года назад

Blue's headcanon that the English weather is a nightmare always gets a chuckle out of me, it's really not that bad.

@leefletcher7580 4 года назад

"Wealth means rich people & rich people mean armed robbery" HAH

@euansmith3699 4 года назад

Yep, how else do we think those people got rich? :)

@MrCliffybiro 4 года назад

I really love this approach of not bothering with the royal dynasties. In our history lessons we're literally taught everything solely in terms of which House was on the throne at the time, literally 'Tudor times, Stuart times, Georgian times' etc so this really helps to declutter all that memorisation shit and see the through lines.

@fifirodriguez52 4 года назад

It took me way longer than it should have to get the “France has entered the chat” joke bc I was wondering why someone would be entering the cat (le chat).

@RoamingAdhocrat 4 года назад

redlettermedia collab when

@ferntheplant5204 4 года назад

Blue really do be helping us with our history lessons, this is much more fascinating than any history teachers class. Thanks red and blue!

@Big_E_Soul_Fragment 4 года назад

Ah yes, The War of the Roses AKA IRL Game of Thrones

@psychogoreman198 4 года назад

Actually.....pretty much yeah 🤣🤣

@explosiongames11 4 года назад

@@psychogoreman198 not pretty much yeah, its is the irl game of thrones, george said he based the war of the 5 kings on the war of the roses and Lancaster and Lanister are too similar for it to be coincidence.

@ashleyhansen4479 4 года назад

Except it had a better ending than Game of Thrones. We all know that.

@LiveErrors 4 года назад

Laughs in medival Danmark

@gemodorgon 4 года назад

If the show went like how things did in WotR then I imagine it would have resulted in some sort of marriage between two of the feuding houses. Possibly Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister because the show was unfair and did not care about people's shipping.

@ashleyhansen4479 4 года назад

King William: “omae wa mo shinderu” Godwinson: “nani?!?!” William: **laser eyes** Blue: “And that’s the Norman conquest in a nutshell”

@carlosroo5460 4 года назад

Or as I like to call it, the Fist of the North Star narrative style, England Ver. 01

@z2yn 4 года назад

it's more *oversimplified*

@requiembeeblebroxx 4 года назад

Thank you for helping my sorry ass google this meme

@HVLLOWS1999 4 года назад

It's not inaccurate.

@professorsogol5824 3 года назад

William Osama was taking lessons from Fujiwara no Yorimichi?

@MyPieIsSpiffy 4 года назад

As someone studying a Masters of Divinity who had to write a painstakingly long and complex essay on Henry VIII's religious reforms..."diet-protestant" is an absolutely fantastic description! Great job on that whole section, wish I could have snuck a citation of this video into that essay :D Love your work

@sagacious03 4 года назад

These are one of your kinds of videos I most look forward to, alongside Miscellaneous Myths! Thanks for uploading!

@Aedanthefirst 4 года назад

5:24 I don't think you intended to say "France entered the cat"

@kevinarteaga3824 4 года назад

Wondered if anyone else noticed that, lol

@TheDrumstickEmpire 3 года назад

Blue is Shane Dawson confirmed?

@TheAnon03 4 года назад

"our earliest documentation for England comes with Ceasar in 54BC" Pytheas of Massalia: "BS!" Phoenician Traders: "noobz"

@Inucroft 4 года назад

I mean, where else did blue think the Bronze Age Civilisations of the Med get their Tin besides Cyprus & Anitolia?

@KingOfSciliy 4 года назад

I don't know, my dealer won't tell me where he gets it.

@Inucroft 4 года назад

@@KingOfSciliy ayyeee

@biliminsrlar5752 4 года назад

@@KingOfSciliy because the Sun is a deadly laser.

@larrygrimaldi1400 3 года назад

@@Inucroft Afghanistan

@martinprados8932 4 года назад

As a person who's living in england and was born here I'm ashamed you're teaching me more in one video than all of highschool

@jmurray1110 4 года назад

try horribe histories if you are inclined to learn more its how i got high grades in years 8 to 10

@mal8359 2 года назад

Alfred the Great: *exists* Blue: Y'all hear somethin?

@geo7725 4 года назад

coming soon: History Summarized: England 2 - Colonial Boogaloo

@galutproctar11145w 3 года назад

@BLABLABLA He didn't really though. He covered a period from about 50 BCE to 1603 CE. That's pretty much the entirity of English history (discounting the last century) and three quarters of combined British and English history as a whole.

@mylesjude233 4 года назад

Cool video, was wondering in the future if you'll cover the country of Georgia: primarily for its mythical reputation as Colchis ( home of the golden fleece, Promethesus imprisoned there, etc./ during the rule of King Tamar- famed ruler who brought about Georgian golden age).

@vasoandguladze3239 4 года назад

are you from Georgia?

@mylesjude233 4 года назад

@@vasoandguladze3239 no, just been reading the country and thinking has an interesting history.

@vasoandguladze3239 4 года назад

@@mylesjude233 well thanks for appreciating our history :)) doesn't happen frequently

@mylesjude233 4 года назад

@@vasoandguladze3239 Your welcome, I've been reading about the Golden Age of Georgia and King Tamar, and I gotta say is really fascinating, ( as well as its past as being depicted by Greece as a prosperous and magical place, as well as being one of the key countries prized by the likes of the Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Etc.)

@vasoandguladze3239 4 года назад

@@mylesjude233the Greek part was what surprised me. Not even a lot of Georgians are aware of that.

@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Год назад

Amazing video, the quality of the animation only gets better everytime! 💗🤞✨

@jon-paulfilkins7820 4 года назад

Of the various English Civil wars, The Anarchy of Stephen vs Matilda ought to be worth a look at. Certainly it gets overlooked vs the 2 big ones.

@eid8fkebe7f27ejdjdjduyhsvqhwu2 4 года назад

3:20 That's false. Danelaw comes from the old English term "Dene lagu" and is contemporary, not a later invention by historians.

@BirdEgg123 4 года назад

Contemporary means modern

@kyphe. 4 года назад

@@BirdEgg123 Contemporary means living or occurring at the same time. So for us, contemporary music is that which is modern, of our time as opposed to classical for example, which is from the past. Dewy says that Danelaw is a contemporary term that existed in the time we ascribe it too and therefor not modern.

@NashvilleMaggie 4 года назад

Dewey Dezimal I came here to say this. Thank you!

@jo_ovin1482 4 года назад

How much does Blue like using Bill Wurtz references? Oh wait, bad question

@grahamkristensen9301 4 года назад

That video is God's gift to History RU-vidrs. It'd be a disgrace to NOT use it.

@tariannaruiz4582 3 года назад

thanks Blue this actually help more than I thought it would

@ashleyburns6752 3 года назад

All nations/civilisations conquer other nations at some point (some get really successful like England and conquer many nations, and all tend to get conquered/colonised at some point. England hasnt been conquered or invaded in nearly a thousand years - unless you count 1688 - which is an incredible achievement when you look at most countries on Earth.

@Dushmann_ 8 месяцев назад

We're being invaded now lmao 20% of the population of England has been replaced in less than 30 years. English people are only 70% of the population now, according to the 2021 census... We're going to become a minority in our own country in 1 or 2 decades.

@anonymousmind8402 4 года назад

PSA: In case anyone has too much difficulty remembering the names of all the English monarchs from William I onwards (in order no less), there is a catchy little song made by the Horrible Histories TV show which neatly condenses them down. Or just watch CGP Grey's video on them for the more gritty details. Both works.

@keelanmorningstar7800 4 года назад

I’m fascinated by language, I’d love for someone to be a video like this but also inserting when the language changed from old English, to Middle English to late Middle to modern

@csec95 4 года назад

language change is gradual so no dates are concrete, old English was spoken from the time of the saxon migrations in the 5th to 6th centuries to about the 12th century, then middle English was spoken in the time frame of 13th to the late 15th century. After that you will start to be able to kind of read the language as early modern English.

@csec95 4 года назад

Mind this is all approximate and even old English changed in its time, though not because it got any celtic or latin in it, English wouldn't really start taking in a lot of loan words and such until the Viking age. There are actually more old Norse and Norman French words in modern English than old English ones, which is why the change to middle English starts after the Norman invasion. It is the language changing to reflect its changed structure and vocabulary from the proceeding 200 years of interaction with the Danes and Norwegians and also the recent arrival of the French ruling class.

@csec95 4 года назад

There is actually a new, but not widely excepted, theory out there that middle English is not actually derived from old English, but old Norse. I don't personally support that theory though, but the fact it exists says a lot about how much English as a language has changed from the one the Angles and Saxons spoke.

@keolas6916 11 месяцев назад

There is a lecture from Modern Scholar called The History of the English Language by Michael Drout where he does this. He is a great lecturer and covers your question. I found it at my local county library.

@Draiocht012 4 года назад

Thank you for answering a question i never would have thought i needed answering.

@azachapman6797 4 года назад

This video is my treat after finishing a big assignment

@nicktheloser2974 4 года назад

5:59 nice reference to "History of The Entire World I Guess"

@KarolOfGutovo 4 года назад

Current mood: Scotland playing obnoxious handpipes whenever poked..

@kaysonoleen5261 4 года назад

if i remember correctly, the War of the Roses was actually fought using a children’s card game. And Henry Tudor had a REALLY crazy hairstyle. And the house of York was really nuts about white dragons with blue eyes.

@gruauchaudassse3337 4 года назад

wow man your videos are so good! you two of you are awesome

@joedredd1168 4 года назад

Normans were Vikings who setteled in France and spoke French.

@marcustulliuscicero5443 4 года назад

Also settled in southern Italy

@tatiana_adelaide_crimson3825 4 года назад

"Julius Cheekbones Ceasar" Me: PFFFT- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@PatTriesAgain 4 года назад

I love all of your videos !!! You guys make culture even more fun then it already is

@kmillion9586 4 года назад

I gotta say, I love the War of The Roses and England's bloodlines are so complicated and interbred I find it hilarious. But to each their own. Thank you for the very informative video though! I love this channel!

@carpathianwolf3523 4 года назад

Nobody: Not a single soul: Scotland: *NAY!*

@LiveErrors 4 года назад

That meme was originally about things nobody wanted, like JK Rowlings revisionist HP lore this does not apply to Scotland refusing to be conquered

@pinecone9619 4 года назад

@nyxshadowhawk 4 года назад

*Scotland the Brave intensifies*

@unicornsprinkles3277 4 года назад

Actually more like England: Please England:Now Scotland: Nay

@duyguecemertan8521 4 года назад

You: Henry the VII Me: *Six the musical flashbacks*

@LeilaSomaa 4 года назад

Duygu Ecem Ertan *Henry VIII

@duyguecemertan8521 4 года назад

@@LeilaSomaa *facepalm* I can't type

@jmurray1110 4 года назад

me: horrible histories divorce beheaded and died, divorce beheaded survive

@chanhailey7848 4 года назад

@@jmurray1110 and just for you tonight we are divorced behead LIIIIIIIIVE!

@LadyMythos315 3 года назад

@@chanhailey7848 listen up let me tell you a story!

@TheMusicUser 4 года назад

Wow. I JUST got through researching the history of England during the past two weeks for a work paper that I submitted TODAY. And then I log into RU-vid and THIS VIDEO is staring me in the face!

@TheMusicUser 4 года назад

4:31 LMFAO! I was researching the history to gain context on William the Conqueror specifically, and this is ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE! XD

@TheMusicUser 4 года назад

10:24 I agree with everything about this vent 100%. I had a nightmare of a headache trying to get a rough idea of the "Big Picture" of England's history because I had to summarize it in about 10 sentences. I did it...by skipping all the mess about the bajillions of kings (who, most probably don't know, reigned on average for only 20 years---which is why there are so freaking many!!!). I summarized it like this: there are three major time periods in England: (1) Roman occupation, (2) Anglo-Saxon migration and settlement, and (3) Norman England (1066) to modern times. That's all you need to get a good idea of England's relation to world history. The rest is...bogging yourself down with internal conflicts between kings. I found the Anglo-Saxon period to be the most interesting because it was characterized by newfound self-governance and many Viking raids from Scandinavia and their footholds in Scotland.

@TheOneGuy1111 4 года назад

I've always wondered what it was like for the average English person during times when power was constantly changing hands, often by force.

@rodrikforrester6989 4 года назад

Last time I was so early, the celts still ruled the british isles.

@lime__time 4 года назад

"has more kings than anybody should be forced to remember" you can tell that to GCSE history 😒

@shingshongshamalama 4 года назад

Nothing more infuriating than british schools teaching us all the names of Henry's wives but never once mentioning y'know the guy who created the NHS.

@Epicrandomness1111 4 года назад

@@shingshongshamalama the guy? Attlee or Beveridge? And if you did the recent history gcse for 'medicine throughout the ages', you'd know we literally were told about this lol.

@cmbeadle2228 4 года назад

@@Epicrandomness1111 neither of those people created the NHS: Beveridge just released a vague report and Attlee was always a hands off PM who trusted his ministers to shepherd their own projects into existence. It's Bevan that brought it into existence imo.

@shingshongshamalama 4 года назад

@@mypenisisunbelievablysmall5258 So they've actually improved since I was a child way back in dinosaur times? Thank fuck.

@jmurray1110 4 года назад

and yet a good number of people can recite all but the Saxon kings of all England (but only as a song)