A clever history of the Royal Family

[editor]

Bloody hell, it's a complicated story but this video does a good job of explaining the history:



(*yes Royals, scroungers, parasites etc)

 

[DotCommunist]

starting with the Norman line? What about Alfred the Great!? Or his son Edward the Elder who clawed much of this region out of the clutches of the danes and freed us from the danelaw? what about the heptarchy ffs! What about aethelred the Unready

 

[editor]

starting with the Norman line? What about Alfred the Great!? Or his son Edward the Elder who clawed much of this region out of the clutches of the danes and freed us from the danelaw? what about the heptarchy ffs! What about aethelred the Unready

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[Diamond]

Aethlred the Unready gets a bad rap in my opinion.

Although I am a big fan of Cnut.

(Can't see the vid at work owing to IT policy so not sure how many mentions of him are in it btw...)

 

[bi0boy]

Ah this is the same guy that did the City of London one: The City of London - fun educational video

 

[Argonia]

Queen Anne was pregnant seventeen times! I never knew that!

 

[Argonia]

The video on why the Uk election results were the worst in history is also worth a watch.

 

[Fez909]

I knew this was going to be CPGrey before I opened the thread!

Loads of his/their videos are worth a watch. I liked the bizarre borders ones.

 

[Argonia]

Why was Ethelred unready?

 

[DotCommunist]

Why was Ethelred unready?

he was not. He was without rede or council, advice. So its just the same as saying he didn't have no older bredrins to help him out. unready simply means without council in this context

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

most of this guys videos are ace. one of them even has my old school in it.

 

[JimW]

starting with the Norman line? What about Alfred the Great!? Or his son Edward the Elder who clawed much of this region out of the clutches of the danes and freed us from the danelaw? what about the heptarchy ffs! What about aethelred the Unready

Aren't the links back that far pretty tenuous and only ret-conned in at a later date?

 

[DotCommunist]

Aren't the links back that far pretty tenuous and only ret-conned in at a later date?

all true. Especially the burned cakes.

 

[DotCommunist]

venerable bede said so

 

[JimW]

venerable bede said so

He also said the life of man was like the swift flight of a sparrow across a hall, which was alluded to in the book I'm reading.

 

[DotCommunist]

He also said the life of man was like the swift flight of a sparrow across a hall, which was alluded to in the book I'm reading.

still being quoted after what? 8?9? hundred odd years must win some points for him

 

[JimW]

still being quoted after what? 8?9? hundred odd years must win some points for him

I did try and read his History of the English Church and People once that I found in a second hand shop but must admit gave up. Being one of the few writers of your time probably helps your relevance but suppose there's a few even more lost in the mists of time, even Gildas probably not as well known.

 

[DotCommunist]

Being one of the few writers of your time

it doesn't stop egregious bullshitting. Take Pliny the Elder who talked absolute bollocks all his life and yet is still remembered. He was of a fairly literate society

 

[JimW]

it doesn't stop egregious bullshitting. Take Pliny the Elder who talked absolute bollocks all his life and yet is still remembered. He was of a fairly literate society

It took me a while as a young 'un to realise that just because someone was a genuine classic it didn't stop them being wrong, a twat etc, and you had to read them a bit more critically.

 

[DotCommunist]

I like to think Pliny was the Icke of his day and everyone lolled at him.