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That's cause they're stolen and not made by them, this is a Channel 5 documentary

@@Jaqen-HGhar The whole empire was stolen. Colonialism rules!

@@Jaqen-HGhar Nothing quite as sinister as you are implying. Little Dot Studios (the media company that runs Absolute History) bought the rights from Channel 5 a few years back. In truth, this is a better format than television broadcast, since this is on demand.

Those ones with Peter and Ruth are more fun :)

And he has the most pheomenal Name

True genius always does

They were always puffing cancer sticks.

@@stanthology that is true

Unless you've been to every spot on the planet i imagine you're missing out on something.

@@Badger1776 You're missing out on the colonies Britain plundered.

Or living in one….

the country is beautiful shame the people ruin the country

You seem like a glass half full kinda guy

@@Badger1776 Haha..i c what u did there! :)

She never built or worked a day in her life...typical welfare queen like all royalty.

Im from the UK - I dont live there any longer, but I do miss the history. It is EVERYWHERE - we played in a ruined castle as kids, my sister's house was built in 1730, our local pub had Roman ruins in the basement, there are stately homes everywhere and they are all open to the public, thousands of museums, the entire place is just dripping wiht history on display and mostly for free... I swapped it for 300 days of sunshine a year - but I do miss it. You should go.

Host is Michael Buerk, retired, respected BBC news presenter.

@@joannevincent2035 lol I thought it was Gandalf. I see it now tho.

Same reasons as today. Wealth distribution/capitalism is a pyramid scam that just gets taller/narrower with time until it collapses due to running out of ways and resources to continue to grow.

@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 There were of course lazy layabouts who think the world owes them a favour, just like today in fact.

@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 I kind of have feeling you are saying communism is so good. Sorry from exsoviet country, it is not. The top is created by different people but pyramid is still there, but it is pretty much standing on the shaggy legs of people who dont want to be there and every second if can take some bricks with them until those who have been brainwashed and scared to believe its the best thing ever it will collapse. Why is china so succesful and nort korea is not? it discarded communism, kept only totalitirism.

@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 You need to learn about how many millions have been dragged out of poverty thanks to capitalism, and how we all have better lives overall thanks to capitalism. The easiest and shortest way for the lazy, uneducated, and incompetent to "happiness" is blaming capitalism for everything.

@@RU-vidCensorsYou That's just a temporary effect. The vast majority dragged out of it eventually fall back into it 10x worse than they were before when they come to rely on it, it's just a matter of when. It's a fucking long-game pyramid scam not much different than a scaled-up Ponzi version and only doesn't collapse leaving the bottom 99.9% holding the bag as long as it keeps growing. Nothing can grow forever with limited resources to grow with, it's just a matter of when. 1929 and 2008 were only small previews.

And that is why you are wayyy behind Britain in every sense if the way.

The good old british empire days

Well, they still had to tip their woke hat to slavery in the first few minutes.

@@edith8349 I mean, we have the stronger economy, no monarchy, we are not running out of food rn, there are no major movements of major provinces to break away, and we have relatively low pandemic- numbers. But yea, waaay behind.

rather have a monarchy then no im related to nazis

Love them both so much lol

I want to see their lovechild.

Still alive and kicking 😉

Wait what? Of course, if everyone were unbelievable underperforming you should praise those who are not. If you had anything smart to say you would say that eventhough in that time actually 23 yo would have worked quite a while and had lot more knowledge than 23 yo today (so the presenter understanding of 23 yo is off in the context of the time he is talking) they still had little experience compared to older colleagues so it is amazing they come up with that.

Every good construction needs to leak.

@@Bob.martensDoes this part of England eve have freezing temperatures? Cold and water don't mix when the resulting ice can pry bricks apart.

@@christianpatriot7439 These foundations probably never freeze. Like an old, big cathedral. In the summer it is pleasingly chilly inside and in winter it is colder than in summer but still significantly warmer inside than outside. Even if you try to heat such an cathedral during winter you won't make much difference. The sheer amount of stone is to big of an "heat/cold storage" to overcome with heating. Turn the heating off and after a few hours it will not be noticable that the heat was on; you only heated the air inside the cathedral. You have to imagine these foundations have the average temperature of the whole year all year round. The 30-90 days with freezing temperatures won't do much to the temperature inside the foundations.

Oh well, gonna die sooner or later anyway. Might as well make use of them before they expire.

@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 is that how your boss at the gas station feels about you?

@@vampcaff Dunno, never worked at a gas station. But pretty sure the factory where I did work they sure did.

well if everyone would be equal in mind or might we still would be living in the cave probably. Every great invention will come with cost of lives.

That's a good point, people shouldn't be referred to the same as cargo

Last! Because I don't give a shit.

@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 then why are you here? You don’t have to be so rude.

Learn to look history in the context of history. It was common in that time EVERYWHERE. It is actually common in the world in many parts still, that shows how sheltered you yourself are.

@@mrsmerily just because it was common never made it okay... Never was.

Watch Life of Brian to get some perspective on what Rome was able to provide the world.

@@Whatever-mx3bt I hate to break it to you. But today we in the Western world are the top 10% supressing the other 90% of the world population with power and, foremost, economic power. At least when you live in England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the US, Canada and many other countries with an similiar standard of living. We are the rich profiting from the poor. We are the people who build an very expensive bridge just so that we can stroll in the woods on the other side of the river instead of donating it to an good cause; for example trying to end starvation and malnutrition on this planet. We used the vaccines against COVID and only gave alms to other countries until we had to much of them. If we were honest we would have needed to wait and give the vaccines to people who will starve if they don't work, wo live in slums somewhere and can't keep distance. We just outsourced the supression and poverty to other countries. Nothing really has changed.

She wouldn't have known which end of a hammer too hold.