The production value of these videos is amazing. This is the kind of television I miss from growing up, the history channels best years produced nothing like this.
Yes you are 100% right there. Very often in primary school we would watch programmes very similar in content to what Paul produces. It is very refreshing to see Paul's content. Not much of it on RU-vid.
Extraordinary. Full, very well written, almost poetic, moving, inspiring, educational, timeless. We should all have such great monuments, but for good reasons. Lol Actually, t’s too good for him, but it’s really for us I guess.
Today, with the cost of living in the UK absolutely dire, and with automation and AI threatening jobs at a time when people can least afford the uncertainty of their continued income, this story has great relevance. A fantastic choice of topic, Paul!
Now we have media to discipline working class people so they would politely accept everything that rich people and the government are throwing at them. I feel sorry for John Carter and his family. He just wanted a better life
Exactly and nothing has changed. The ultra wealthy still persecuting the poor and downtrodden. Then use God to justify their wicked actions. It’s unbelievable
Yet, the wealthy capitalist have never been richer than anytime in recorded history! These people are addicted like an alcoholic. They don’t care if the world is falling apart around them as long as they get their fix. Yet good men stand by and do nothing.
@OpinionatedChicken59 Beats using smoke signals to communicate. See what I did there? Of course you do. I'm adopted so I have no idea who my ancestors were.
Why didn’t the 7 farmer unit, pool their money and purchase 1 Threshing Machine. Once harvest comes all the farmers can use the 1 threshing machine as a group on each other’s farm.
Hello Paul, I’m seeing a frightening similarity between John Carter’s time and our current situation with the potential for loss of jobs and poverty due to the advent of AI technology. Already, I am hearing AI narration on RU-vid channels and it’s easy to tell it isn’t a real person. The cadence, lack of tone, mispronounced words and more, are dead giveaways. I have unsubscribed from many of my favorite channels because they switched to AI. I enjoy your videos so much that I hope you are self-narrating for many years. I can click on your video and know that I will share you interesting content as I relax at home. I remain a very dedicated fan and look forward to seeing you again soon! Best wishes, Brenda P ❤
The best way to use AI is as an aid, not rely on it to produce the whole product. I have used chatgpt for little things here and there at work, but it won’t replace my job entirely.
This things happen all the time and with reason. Its not a coincident. Of course farmers want something making their job easier etc. Many inventions also give way for new kinds of jobs. What about the jobs that are so important but no one wants to do. Like certain types of craftsmen or caregivers. But yeah i understand your concerns.
I think there will always be a place for AI to fill those gaps. Of course, we want to make our world better and more efficient. Practical applications of AI in machines can remove people from dangerous jobs in a lot of cases. My concern with AI is that it is creeping into our technology, replacing human voices with vastly imperfect renditions that in a few years, people will become used to it. I’m concerned that the technology industry will become more specialized and harder for people to find jobs that don’t require higher skilled workers. So many people can’t afford to attend college and don’t have the resources to fill those positions. The emphasis on what I call upper level technology will eventually create a wider wage gap and that could be detrimental to society. We already have a society of have and have nots. I don’t want the middle class forced into a box where they can’t improve their circumstances. 🌹❤️
A story told simply and well,without ever getting emotional. He should have been transported; after all,he was desperate- and no deaths occurred.And imagine the dire straits his widow and children must have endured.😒
@@kellydalstok8900 Yes, but while I probably know more about English history than the average American (low bar, I know), there are still plenty of things that go over my head.
Damn, that judge was such a hard-ass. It sounded as if he had some discretion as to the penalty imposed, and he chose death over transportation. What a bastard.
Dear Mr. Brodie, I had the supreme pleasure in finding a RU-vid mix and was able to spend two hours listening to you tell tales. I have a very painful sprained shoulder from lifting a load much too heavy for a lady to be lifting but listening to you speak and with my love of history I hardly notice the pain coursing through my arm and shoulder. Your wonderful Scot's accent and proper use of the King's English is a calming pleasure. Well I never enjoyed such a great evening as spending it with YOU! Thank you!🤗
Paul, you should have your own show on tv. You are the only one that can enthrall our attention, take us back in time, and tell the historical stories like no other. I do not possess the ability to visualize what the people looked and dressed like, how they carried themselves on a day to day basis, how the weather was like, the smells of the particular era, and what the city, town or village looked like; however, with the way you describe the people, the city, town or village, the weather and the circumstances, I can visualize what you’re saying. I truly miss the production quality of how The History Channel used to be, but I can come here, and relive that production quality. I don’t know what you had done, prior to becoming a phenomenal narrator on RU-vid, but I’m absolutely elated that you’re on RU-vid, and uploading one superb video after superb video after superb video. I want to wish you, Paul, and the rest of the “Well…I never” team continued success with every single endeavor that you all wish to accomplish.
This channel is one of the reasons why RU-vid is better than broadcast tv. We the viewers can decide what deserves to be made, seen and rewarded, not some TV exec commissioning tv shows.
Yeah, interesting. One of my ancestors, Charles Burge of Chichester in West Sussex, got mixed up with the Swing Riots. He was transported for 14 years in 1831 for smashing up two threshing machines, and ended up in Tasmania. The original Bad Boy!
Mr Brodie.......these last two episodes....... you're positively turbo charged ! This was the era of the Corn Laws in England and the Great Famine in Ireland, so not only were english farm labourers being replaced by farmers newly acquired agricultural machinery and Irish smallholders being evicted from their land by absentee landowners, they were starving as well. But the gentlemen farmers and the gentry were making good profits. ' God bless the squire and his relations / And keep us in our proper stations' No wonder Carter and so many of the British working classes wanted to escape to the New World.
My ancestors were impoverished, starving argricultural labourers and perhaps even active when the riots kicked off in the Elham valley, Kent- the initial spark of the riots was here. Love hearing about the swing riots.
Having grown up on a farm, I can understand being angry about low wages and bad crops.I can not understand being mad at a threshing machine or attempting to burn a town down. If anything, it makes more sense to burn the crop fields . While threshing by hand is hard, back breaking work, that machine is going to need multiple people to feed/run it. Any one not working it could be used elsewhere on the farm. There is ALWAYS work to do on a farm.
Hi Paul - It was so good to meet with you and Kevin when you were filming in Lambourn - It was both very interesting and especially fascinating to hear your stories and this being one very close on my doorstep - quite literally! I will be looking out for more stories. Best Wishes - Sandra
Hello Sandra! So glad to see your comment. Thank you for taking the time to chat to us and fill us in on other stories about the area. I'm sure we'll return! I hope your friend's husband approves of the episode 😊🙏
I’m so happy to have found this channel. Every video is a gem. Paul, I live in a historic area of Hollywood California, and although it’s already well known I’d love to hear your telling of the Black Dahlia.
Such a classy man and top notch entertainment as well. For all who come here and enjoy the channel you have been elevated in your historical edification. One man's humble opinion.
Mr brodie you amaze me how could I watch and be so interested in this program without your wonderful narrative and your insight you are truly appreciated for your informative videos
Well I never.. subscribed to a channel that was quite like this one and I think it's fantastic. So very glad I was fortunate enough to find it. Excellent content and masterfully presented by the host and narrator. Thank you
After discovering this fine channel very recently & binge watching a number of videos, I just wanted to thank you Paul & all of the unseen crew because in the topic of historic crime you people are killing it!! Thanks, please continue with your high standards but I've got to go because I've videos to watch. N. Wales.
Another compelling tale of the dark underworld, which always seems to attract our curiosity, could it be that this macabre fascination draws us into the darkness of our own souls. Paul, thank you for your hard work, another wonderful piece of history, and top-class production
What an interesting story! Thanks for sharing! Blessings always. I love hearing your voice and it was nice to see you out & about! Blessings always my friend! ❤️😊✝️
I dig the style of the program, and the English outfit of the presenter, and the choice of historic photos and the scenery in the countryside, churches….etc
So very sad. Every time that technology takes a giant step into the future, so many feel the terror of feeling obsolete. I wish more care was taken to retrain people displaced by these inventions to ease the pain of transition. I see AI as a different creature entirely. It is on the brink of literally transforming our perspective of reality itself. The "proof" formerly provided by photos and video in court may be rendered obsolete as well. The next step? I honestly do not know.
Technology enriches the ruling class at the expense of the rest of society. Human beings have never developed a military technology that hasn't been used and AI has the potential to eliminate all life on planet earth.
I really love this channel. I love listening to your stories. Your voice soothes me, when I can't sleep and when I'm anxious. Thank you alot for your hard work and stay great.
My favorite are the stories from teachers and professors who ran a paper through an analytical program that detected it as AI, evidently entirely unaware of the irony.
Lookout and take care of yourself as well, my good sir. Been hearing a lot on what’s going on in your home country the past few days and hope that you stay safe as well.
@@nicolad8822 well, aside that it's happening in other European countries, the hostility of the people supporting Palestine and the migrants from Africa.
Another awesome video Paul. Thank you so much to you and your team!! You guys truly go above and beyond with your production and presentation. Your stories are always so interesting. You are very articulate Paul and its truly refreshing. Do you happen to narrate any audio books or documentaries?? Your voice is as relaxing and soothing as "Moonlight Sonata"... I could listen to you speak for days!!
This reminds me of the luddites who hated new weaving technology. I can’t remember the context, it was considered the first programmable machine because it used punch cards.
Could be 😅 Although the loom haters were like the fellas in the video, they actively destroyed the machinery from what I recall. They were Jacquard looms!
The broad popular resistance to the Industrial Revolution is an often-neglected part of history. The word “sabotage” is derived from “sabot,” the French term for a wooden shoe. Displaced workers used to break machinery (automatic looms, for example) by throwing their “sabots” into the moving parts.
My family lived for generations in just 3 villages in Hertfordshire they were all farmers until some time around 1820 when technology took their jobs 3 brothers walked from Hitchin to Royston in Yorkshire to get jobs as miners which went well as we all know.
And I thought I hate change. No, I do, I hate it. It’s interesting that he was kind of open about his plan. I wonder how many people either brushed it off or maybe tried to talk him out of it. They must have felt devastated after the fact. You guys come up with great stuff! Man, oh, man, I love this channel!
It seems to me that every new technology that comes around the quality of work goes down with it. People are wise of it for a while then it just becomes the norm of poor quality workmanship. Not every time but a lot of the times.
Fascinating! I can only imagine how bad it was when there weren't as many jobs and technology was taking away some of them. Even in this day and age it's still an issue.
Great Tombstone, poor old John Carter hoping for a new life in sunny Australia but got the Rope instead, i wonder how he would have felt about modern Mobile Phones and getting hassled by his wife in the Pub that his dinner was going in the Dog if he didn't get home.
Just a note to display my own ignorance, really, but I'm not aware that births (especially of daughters) were ever seen as a joyous occasion, more like a burden. Also, since something like one third of births were to children that lived 2 years or less, so they didn't start caring about their kids until they made it to 3 years old....I'm led to believe that many refused to name their children until there was a reasonable chance that they'd survive...Thanks for the upload!
Well, room and board, and the practice of literally having a rich man enter a teenaged girls bedroom and choose the 12-14 year old daughter to take away that night and marry...Life was not valued as it (weirdly, in my opinion) is today...Look up "embarrassment rooms" to illustrate my point... Thank you for your reply!
The child mortality rate in the United States, for children under the age of five, was 462.9 deaths per thousand births in 1800. This means that for every thousand babies born in 1800, over 46 percent did not make it to their fifth birthday.
The *Captain Swing* riots can be interpreted as desperation by working men unable to feed their families because of food price inflation and reduced work owing to mechanisation of farms. This started the mass movement of people from rural to urban environments and provided the manpower to work the Industrial Revolution. England, in 1851, was the first country in the world to have more people living in towns than the countryside - my own family were part of that migration.
Halfway through the video and yet to see why the rioters rioted. I also am a descendant of a rioter. James lush death sentence commuted rioted at Salisbury. The back story is before the threshers the farm workers were given a house and ate at the big house. Their family also worked at the big house anc were fed there. Wages very low but with the house came a small plot of land to grow food, the landowners evicted most of the labourers and they were homeless subsisting on a bowl of gruel a day. See a book by jill chambers who did a PhD on the subject. My own ancestor was defended by lord Melbourne who intervened for many because they were denied due process. 2000 arrested in one weekend but they believe there was at least 8000 participated
His poor wife her life must have been even more dia after the fire with 3 small children to raise I wonder if John thought of them when he set the fire if his plan didn't work
My ancestor was forty with six kids when he was transported. He never remarried so our Aussie line comes from illegitimacy. He was sent for the term of his natural life and we know his only son came to Australia travelling solo at the age of sixteen to find his dad and we know that he and his new siblings formed a bond. Horrible hard life. Whipped beaten Put in chain gangs and solitary confinement in a hole in the ground for months at a time.
It sucks to fear your job may be obsolete soon, but the automation of the past has always brought positive change. Threshing machines allowed more time for the would-be farmhands to go to school. Electricity saved families entire wages each year in gas and coal. Factories gave thousands of new jobs and funded higher education. All together, they allowed for the 5 day work week, instead of the previous 7 day work week, and even bank holidays and such. And later down the line, lead to even the poor families affording property. The end of automation, somewhere around the 1970s, lead to the exact opposite. Once the voices against automation won, we saw fewer societal positives. Education levels have been on decline ever since. A majority of the people can no longer afford property. Several wages each year goes to keep the home bright and warm, and to cook the food. And once again, we hear voices cry out for the end of automation, for the fear of lost jobs...
