The English Village That Went Into Quarantine During The Plague | Ancient Tracks | Absolute History 

What I've always liked and appreciated about Tony is how he makes you feel like he's talking TO you, like he's discussing something with a friend. He makes you feel like you're with him, that he's sharing his thoughts and observations with you directly. "I don't know about you, but I think..." "I think that's wonderful, don't you?" He makes you feel like a part of it, instead of just a viewer.

Tony's definitely my favorite narrator, you just can't help but smile with him when he's enthusiastically explaining some little carving or huge castle or whatever

It’s insane that this channel is free content honestly.

The village of Eaym, has another distinction, although there were many deaths from the plague, there were also survivors. The descendants have been Genetically tested, and a mutation has been found that allowed their ancestors to survive the Plague and the same mutation give them immunity from HIV.

My uncle was a ranger in the Peak Distrinct, I actually visited the village some years ago, there's an eerie feeling, even when it's busting with life and tourists. Very interesting and I recommend it to everyone who is interested in history, or even hiking, it's so beautiful!

If you are looking for the village wiped out by the plague, it’s at 34:00. It’s just 3 minutes of this entire video. This is mis-titled.

You have a gift of making a documentary full with details and without people falling asleep. I can watch it at 2am and still be completely up. Good job ! Keep up the good work

This channel never ceases to put out amazing, engaging full length episodes worth of medieval documentaries. How the hell do you all keep up the pace? Thank you so much for keeping the series going.

I only wish the audio volume level throughout this video was more consistent because I have to constantly keep adjusting the sound up and down.

Although poop isn't my first choice as the topic of a joke, it's definitely a solid number two.

I utterly love this series. Indulge me when I say that my late mother would have loved it even more. She would probably have worked herself into your good graces so she could have done research on these places, She would probably have ended up editing or finding settings or something. Dear Mom. The intrepid Anglophile, a Brit born in a Yankee body.

I LOVE when Tony narrates documentaries! He brings so much energy and keeps you engaged with the topic.

Loved the history in this. Beautiful program.

Rescuing the birds was adorable.

Interesting in just understanding my own ancestors of (royal shire) HERTS, that 40+ villages became extinct during the Black Death in 3 years (1348-1350). Same for many of the other shires, and especially the bigger towns and populations getting ripped and wiped down to bare essentials. It became obvious, doing genealogical research, that after the Black Death, those 3 years ... up to 200 years later, the countryside was left back to nature, and only piece by piece burned back the forests in the fall time to the edges of the forests, and eventually burn the riparian wetlands. Re-expansion back of the population back into the countryside had to be farmed after the land was burned (sterilized, killing off any bugs and baccterials and virus of the Black Plague) and then allowed farming. It took 200 years to eventually in the 1550s to get back all the 1300s lands, and then the population had greater farming, food, and health security, with a population boom thereafter.

Excellent presentation! Thanks very much for posting and be safe 🙏

Omg the host makes the topic so fun to learn. I love his enthusiasm.

I love the similarities in ancient people. You show a person bells, and their emotional response is "I'm gonna strap those to my legs and DANCE."

Thank you Sir Tony for another excellent adventure.

Omg i died at 5:28 when he got stuck and said "This gap was made by someone slightly slimmer than me"😂😂😂😂

Thank you Sir Tony for yet another informative and intriguing adventure.

Wonderful job Tony. Love the photography woven with culture. Splendid.

Aint it funny that acient people even knew to QUARANTINE!

3:36 ROCK AND STONE

Exam was not wiped out. Many people did die, but some survived. They had the courage to self isolate to keep others safe. The lord of area sent them supplies to make sure they did stay there. It would be good if people in the UK were willing to think more of others during our current “plague”.

Never before have I heard Morris-Dancing described as magnificent.

Tony is simply the best

Love Tony's adventures! Beautiful place!!!

Tony is such an adorably endearing historian. He makes it so much more fun than it already is 😁

This was the greatest historical documentary that I’ve seen in years, and documentaries are all I watch.

Tony is a treasure!

This village practiced social distancing despite the plague spread. Why can't we all follow the same example?

Interesting and informative. Loved it

this video is more interesting and informative compared to the last video released absolute history pls do make many videos like this

This video made me want to hike around this area, and I can not think of a better compliment.

Fun fact. If you have ancestors who survived the plague, (not every person who caught it died) (or didn’t catch it at all) you have an excellent chance of being resistant to AIDS, and plagues related to them. Finding out if you have one, is a whole different animal however.

Tony Robinson is the face of British history. Mullet and all.

'Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso'

Omg it must have been so scary to live in that time with those diseases

I am loving your videos, sooo addictive - Is excited American

Love Absolute History. Tony and that girl historian (forget her name) and the series. Can’t go wrong

I so very much enjoyed this presentation! Please keep these stories coming ! Fascinating!

It kills my ears when the background sound is way louder than the narration! I can’t even use the subtitles, as the music is so loud. None the less, I love all the content on this channel!

This host really made this exciting to watch. What enthusiasm.👌

I wish Tony could have been my history teacher.

Fantastic. I just love all your history shows.

I am utterly fascinated by the history of Britain. I live inland in Texas (North Texas) but we have found shell fossils in our yard and our soil is very sandy. Our history is similar to Derbyshire in that we are now inland but back in the age of the dinosaurs, we had a shallow sea at our doorstep.

Portway. They would transport (port) the lead from Derbyshire to Yorkshire on the backs of Dale's and fell ponies. Hence portway.

If anyone wants to know more about this town, watch “The Mystery of the Black Death “ episode of “Secrets if the Dead” series.

I really enjoy the programing on this channel but the music is consistently too loud. What's the reason for this?

The volume is loud then soft constantly changing, other than changing the volume all the time I enjoyed this masterpiece.

I feel that it might have been called "portway" because it was such a large trade route and the ports were the towns and cities.

I love to watch European & Asian history docs. Being from America, but with European parents, there's just only so far back we can go with history here. Sadly for me, imo the older the better, but good for me, at least I'm in New England!!

Ohhh... Baldrick!

Thus spake Zarathustra! ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS !:-)💜

Portway? Maybe it has something to do with trans-port? Or possibly Port aka beer?

Absolute Hysteria

Oooooh a new one!!!!!

could be amazing a video about the Rough Wooing and the castles of Bonkyll, Billie and Blanerne Like in the Berwickshire rhyme: Bunkle, Billie and Blanerne Three castles strong as airn Built when Davie was a bairn They'll all gang doon, Wi' Scotland's Croon And ilka ane shall be a cairn

He is an incarnation of Bilbo Baggins

Lol on Dafoe's comment on poor people living in a cave wanting for nothing. Rich people keep romanticizing how poor people wouldn't prefer a nice comfy home with sanitation and warm beds, no matter the year...

Yeah right ....

Is that Baldrick from Black Adder?

I don't think "ye" as in "ye hermit" is read like that. The "y" is not a "y", according to my teachers; it's a "th" sound. So it's just "the hermit".

MY GRANDPARENTS THOMAS GREAVES AND SUSAN JUDKINS IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES FROM LEEDS ENGLAND IN THE 1860'S, THEREFORE IT'S TRUE THAT SOME OF MY ANCESTORS ALSO WALKED THE LANDS OF ANCIENT ENGLAND.

DeFoe took his idea for Robinson Caruso from a true story.

Isn't it more likely that they rode horses and mules and maybe even used traps and carts, rather than walking all the way?

Why is it blocked in UK?

Port Way Is a Doorway

21:16 she can sing but she is not playing the correctly like her hand is bent, the bow is in the wrong place 😂

So kibbles and bits?

memory stone

Bad sound 👎

The title is misleading.

I can't really take anyone seriously who cavalierly writes off DH Lawrence with a wave of his hand.

whatever happened to volume leveling? This is miserable

The human remains...were they ever dated?

Great video, but a bit, 'clickbaitish ' as I was drawn by the plague village.

Would love to have an episode on the slave trade in Britain. If they have the guts to do it.

Imagine a job where you earn 5pence on a good day, and the work wont maybe kill you, but certainly will. That's really depressing and yet DH Laurence condescendingly says they wanted for nothing even though the family lived in a fucking cave. Easy for him to say

Bad title : / just a bit of a story

"The quarry filled with fossilized sea creatures" actually turns out to be a cultural documentary about British history and folklore. Unbelievably misleading.

halfway through th video, and still nothing about the plague --the title is a LIE!

00:00-2:18 Background music is in A minor 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Phil's cute

Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man. Forty effeminate blacksmiths waving bits of cloth they've just wiped their noses on. How it's still going on in this day and age I'll never know. ;)

I have a cunning plaaaaan

Where men were men, women were women!

Totally waste of time, and bad sound.

So obviously if 75% dies LOCKING THEMSELVES AWAY DIDN'T WORK!!!!

That man is a horrible presenter.

Tony, you’re the best!