Insights into London's History through Lovely Paintings

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You are welcome to join me for another fascinating online tour, this time exploring various aspects of London's history through some lovely artworks painted over the last 400 years.
The different views of London, held in various galleries and museums in the city, give interesting insights into what it used to look like, the myriad cultures and happenings of the times, and how the city has developed.
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7 апр 2021

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@osirusgtr Год назад

Amazing! The History of London never fails to Astonish me.

@heatherstephens9295 2 года назад

Absolutely fascinating - thank you so much for all your efforts putting this together for us 👍👍👍

@Tob2n Год назад

What an incredible video about the history of London through well known paintings! Really well produced. Well done. Thank you.

@dorinmotz6673 2 года назад

Wow, Edward Calcutt, you've presented a history of London, far better than any I've read about! Congratulation!

@suewaller5039 9 месяцев назад

What a delight spot on again

@cijmo 27 дней назад

Thank you for this! I love London and am always learning about it. The 1960s picture of the ship...my dad worked on the Thames for awhile in the Merchant Navy. I'm sure he'd have you all believe that he was the very last sailor to have worked the Thames in 1960 (legend in his own mind) but by 1960 he was working Pacific Northwest where he met my mother. So the 1960s picture is basically what he would have seen the last time in the late 50s.

@EYDIMUSIC 2 года назад

This is priceless, thank you.

@CamCatC 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for all the work you put in! This was incredibly informative and entertaining at the same time. Love the backstories.

@cozyraindeer 8 месяцев назад

I wanted to learn a little more about london history and thought Id take a quick look at this. To my own surprise I ended up watching and actually enjoying the whole thing! It was so interesting! wish Id had a history teacher like you in school

@NickPenlee 2 года назад

What a lovely and very informative video of London as depicted in art over the years; congratulations.

@davidking663 2 года назад

This was sheer delight. Many thanks.

@carenkurdjinian5413 Год назад

It’s really beautiful where the hospital is looking at …..🌞

@chosenone599 Год назад

I loved this! Many thanks for such a great presentation. It’s taught me so much interesting history on London

@arriesone1 Год назад

How horrendous is the difference between Belsize Park then and now. I had a shock when you put up the ‘today’ photo. So many wonderful green spaces in those days…all destroyed, not to mention all the wonderful old buildings that must have existed and now demolished in the name of progress.

@amanitamuscaria7500 2 года назад

wonderful. Thank you. It is fascinating to me to see the way things have changed in London. I knew about the frost fairs, but not why the thames froze in those days.

@Atharie_Kuwait 2 года назад

Magnificent video .. 💞👍

@anneg6635 Год назад

Thank you so much for your very interesting video and the beautiful paintings illustrating your very detailed descriptions! I love Art, I love History, so this is a favourite for me. Watching this from Brittany, in France.

@jeffreymorris1752 Год назад

Once again, very good work here. I'm only now catching up with these projects of yours so I'll offer a late thank you.

@ponyrang 2 года назад

Wow, that's a great video. I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.

@mabdub 6 месяцев назад

Bravo! This is the kind of presentation I yearned for but never found on British PBS TV shown in North America. It's what I expected from Lucy Worsley but never got. Your presentation makes the journey so damn interesting, riveting actually. It's weird but it seems that all the things you find interesting are exactly the same things which I find interesting. I've become addicted to your presentations, I now crave them. Help! Make more s'il vous plaît.

@simpleravenraven6358 2 года назад

From where I am, in the rocky mountains of Canada, I get a wonderful view of old England thanks to you. When I was a child in Israel, Britain was still known as great. You bring back that feeling. Thanks.

@edwardcalcutt3417 2 года назад

You're welcome :) Nice comment.

@j0nnyism 2 года назад

When I visited Israel in the 90s there was considerable antipathy felt towards British people. That always confused me

@felixdunkel2091 2 года назад

@@j0nnyism I did not experience that at all.

@lisavincent4092 Год назад

Thanks for sharing!

@andreaandrea6716 Год назад

This was wonderful. Seeing all the paintings was sheer delight and your in depth knowledge is just amazing. I am very grateful for these videos you make. Thank you so much! Please don't stop.

@annemurray3913 2 года назад

great show, thankyou

@vicnurse5 2 года назад

I found your channel completely by accident, however thank you so much. It is wonderful. I live in Australia, been to London in 2008, but need to come back, both maternal and paternal original g g g grandfathers came from Kent, and mum's side from East End London (Jews). I adore English history and seeing places they lived and learning more is fantastic. I am quite excited with this video as the first thing my English friends did was take me to Greenwich, however I didn't get to go to the naval building, so many things to see. Love your channel.

@edwardcalcutt3417 2 года назад

Thank you for those interesting comments, and the nice feedback. I'm really glad you're enjoying the videos and history of London! Hoping you get a chance to come back.

@sarahlouise7163 2 года назад

fabulous! thank you! i’m sure you could cover more areas of london in the same way. it’s a brilliant idea! using art to tell history. bravo! more! 😆

@philgray7320 2 года назад

Love watching these historical pieces, I have always been fascinated by London and its history. I was born in Hackney in 1960 and always assumed therefore that I was born in London, but only recently realized that Hackney was not part of "London" officially until 1965...... Although I love everything about the city - I now live as far away from London as you could imagine in NSW, Australia.

@penelopebellis2926 Год назад

Loved this!

@forestntt72 2 года назад

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you. I go for a few drinks around London from time to time and am always fascinated by the juxtaposition of new and old and the great place names harking back to centuries ago.

@penelopebellis2926 2 года назад

Brilliant

@TheSpikehere 2 года назад

A very well put together video. @38:00 Before the building of Westminster Bridge the main crossing point would have just upstream where the horse ferry operated. Pretty much where Lambeth Bridge is now.

@PoshLifeforME 2 года назад

Great stuff, worked by Monument in the 80s and 90s so enjoyed looking back, through the lens of deeper history.

@wcronin7307 2 года назад

Very interesting! Art and history combined. Was in London a few years ago and even ten days was not enough to explore and visit the many attractions.

@muskerp 2 года назад

i like your vids - as i think someone else mentioned, while there was only one bridge for a long time, there would have been lots of ferry crossings up and down the river

@KaiusKing 2 года назад

Good presentation! learned a lot

@janebaker966 2 года назад

Thank you,that was really good,really enjoyable. I've seen a whole lot of Canalettos pictures of London. I went to an exhibition of them at the Holburne Museum in Bath. Another reason why Sir Christopher Wrens Paris style boulevard plan wasn't put into practice in London was that all the property owners INSISTED on getting their plot of land returned to them even if it was only a few square feet. It wasn't good for rational town planning but I'm glad they got their way as you can still walk around the City of London and just outside and follow the old lanes like Mincing Lane,Shoe Lane and many others and even when you are walking in a canyon of steel and glass to can still get a "feel" of old London particularly if you are attuned to psychogeography.

@j0nnyism 2 года назад

The Eliot quote is actually taken from the divine comedy by Dante