I often listen to your postings late at night. The apartment is quiet. My partner asleep. It’s like a comforting and calming story time for me. It’s always interesting and your casual and well informed sharings are so enjoyable and appreciated. You’ve become a familiar member of my late night, late in life, daily experience. I wanted to thank you that. Harper
I used to be the classic white van man inside the M25 mostly and i was often in the centre of town. But what used to drive me nuts was seeing all these places but never having the time to stop! This is, at last, scratching that itch. Thanks Edward! Much appreciated ☮️
Well, there's 55 minutes of my life very well spent. An interesting and engaging video very well executed and should entertain the masses much as Tyburn did. Thanks.
The 18th century is my favorite period of British history. As you say, there was a wealth of eccentric and fascinating characters-Swift, Hogarth, Johnson, etc., and you beautifully brought this era to life! Congratulations on a job very well done!
Thanks - very interesting! I wonder if anyone here ever read Smith by Leon Garfield when they were a kid? It’s about a street urchin around this time who at one point is in Newgate prison. He attempts but fails to escape the first time by climbing up one of the chimneys , but eventually manages it by hiding under his sister’s enormous skirts! Amazing that someone in real life actually did manage to escape four times!
36:00 In Thomas Hardy's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" the main character sells his wife while drunk. He was facing financial difficulty though next morning sober he try to find her without success.
Edward - I googled your name because it came up on my family tree! I wonder if we are somehow related! :-) I’m following you now and I’m a history buff too! Can’t wait to see what more I can learn from you!
Another great education in one video..which…I watched all the way through. Truly marvelous! 😊 I predict you will very soon reach your thousand subs…more importantly in a year or two, you‘ll have more than ten thousand. Well done and keep it going 👍👍
I love the origins of sayings and often look them up - English is full of them. I had not come across "hangover" or "one for the road" before, so thank you - and for all the rest of it. I am very glad people are no longer hanged in London. I know that much else goes on - but still. that one at least, is laid to rest.
If, as you say, you love to look up sayings and expressions, you definitely should for the two you cite. In Mr. Calcutt's narration, the words "seems" and "potentially" are the only suggestions that his explanations, though quite entertaining, might not be accurate.
@@xqqqme that's very true David. Thanks for the reminder. Almost everything of this kind is the result of someone's individual opinion of their own research. One should do one's own and have one's own opinion thereby. David is a beautiful name btw (my opinion). I called my first born David (verifiable fact). It means Beloved (something I looked up in a Baby Names book, being pre-web....but the Internet confirms). And he is my beloved. (An unprovable fact to me). No doubt, you are too.
I love history but have always had a fascination with the 1700s, Jack Shepherd must have been quite a character, also James Figg, the 1st heavyweight champion, enjoyed the artwork of the time too…….
So well researched and presented. Many thanks. And, at last, someone whose narration truly complements the pictures; to form a whole. The ones where speakers just bullet point what they are saying, are irritating and pointless. And the tour de force here is completed by the brilliant readings.
Edward, according to the listing in Wikipedia, Albion Mills was a steam powered *_flour_* mill. So it spun neither cotton nor wool and, even if it had used those raw materials, it would've produced thread or woven that into whole cloth and not garments as you say at 32:34.
I believe the last illustration shown of Tyburn convent also shows, on the very extreme left of the photo, what i believe to be the smallest house in London. I'll stand corrected if i'm wrong.
Gosh, if only there was some way to look up this information...some single portal into most everything known. Wouldn't that be great? Seriously, even before planes there were hot air balloons that could be tethered to the ground to create a stable platform for observation. Much farther back in history than that, there was also one's imagination.
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere. Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
You’re living in your own myth that there was once less litter, less opium, less drunkenness in times of old. As for women urinating in the streets; you made that up: we queue calmly however interminably
No; I’ve tried both in the modern era. And it’s same as it ever was: London or close to, every time. There is nothing to do in the country that you can’t do in a couple of weekends in the summer
