Surviving England’s Dark Ages. Could you do It?

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @Quarantina237
    @Quarantina237 15 дней назад +513

    Medieval times - physical exhaustion. Modern times - mental exhaustion

    • @jrmckim
      @jrmckim 12 дней назад +11

      Both

    • @eleanorcolt4361
      @eleanorcolt4361 12 дней назад +26

      No... I think the mental stress in medieval times was as extreme as modern days

    • @notbobrosss3670
      @notbobrosss3670 12 дней назад +1

      ​@@eleanorcolt4361 I'd say even more extreme. But yes, life was generally far harsher.

    • @rncine
      @rncine 11 дней назад +3

      That’s for sure 👍

    • @runningfromabear8354
      @runningfromabear8354 11 дней назад +12

      Physical exhaustion causes mental exhaustion.

  • @AkPixie
    @AkPixie 13 дней назад +214

    I can’t even survive Mondays. Our ancestors deserve a lot of respect and gratitude ❤

    • @staceyrosado6402
      @staceyrosado6402 7 дней назад +3

      100% you took the words right out my mouth lol

  • @rebeccagordon960
    @rebeccagordon960 15 дней назад +665

    Every one of us watching this video is descended from someone in Medieval Times who survived at minimum long enough to have children!

    • @Glesga_lassie
      @Glesga_lassie 14 дней назад +51

      I can trace my paternal ancestry back to the year 950 (I'm a descendant of a well known Scottish clan) and have ancestors who were quite famous in medieval times so I'm very lucky to know what some of my ancestors got up to during that period. One of my great uncles was a tutor of King James VI. Id love to be able to travel back in time to see exactly how things were in both scotland and England in the medieval period.

    • @leighmichelle9585
      @leighmichelle9585 14 дней назад +14

      ​@@Glesga_lassie My Mother is a Munro, & the other side of the family was Campbells!

    • @joannemadden7449
      @joannemadden7449 14 дней назад

      Irish Catholic O'Madden, going back hundreds of years. The O was dropped during The Potato Famine, too poor to take a "Coffin Ship to emigrate to America, we we're forced to move to England. Look up NINA.

    • @loveisaverb9361
      @loveisaverb9361 14 дней назад +9

      @@Glesga_lassieamazing to have traced your ancestors back that far 🎉

    • @Glesga_lassie
      @Glesga_lassie 13 дней назад +11

      @loveisaverb9361 I'm very lucky because my family/clan are well known so their history was recorded all through the past thousand years. On my mums side my ancestors were (probably quite poor) fisher people from the very north tip of scotland and I can trace them back to the 1700s. The contrast is crazy to me, on one side I come from nobility, but the other very poor people. You should have a try on the ancestry website if you're interested in your own family tree, you never know what you might find! My great, great grandmother (can't recall how many times, maybe 18?) was the great granddaughter of Robert the Bruce (Isabella Bruce). Definetly try it yourself, I'd love to know if you discover anything cool 😀

  • @annadrew4
    @annadrew4 9 дней назад +37

    To think that I needed an emergency C-section for my baby and me to survive is incredible. Without modern medicine, neither of us would have made it. My paternal grandmother also needed an emergency C-section when she gave birth to my father. Without these advancements, I wouldn’t even exist. I am so deeply thankful for modern medicine and for the doctors who saved both my life and my baby's. I also endured complications during the operation, which makes me even more grateful. If I had lived in the Middle Ages, childbirth would likely have been fatal for me, as it was for so many women.

    • @disneyprincessintraining2725
      @disneyprincessintraining2725 2 дня назад +1

      An emergency c-section saved me and my son as well! I remember my father cried and he said it was sobering because in any other time he would have been told he lost his daughter and grandson instead of the news of the section and mom and baby doing well.

  • @cornishmaid9138
    @cornishmaid9138 12 дней назад +97

    I love watching history programs about the U.K. and I’m in awe that, in order for me to be alive today, my ancestors survived every single war, invasion, colonisation, royal infighting, religious persecution, famine, disease, and plague. Kudos to every one of them. ❤

    • @ShazIam23
      @ShazIam23 11 дней назад +2

      So crazy to think about isn't it! We're the result of thousands of years of genetic engineering 🤯
      Altho TBF, that thought makes me weep sometimes, especially in certain comment sections! 😂
      Eyup from Yorkshire, BTW 👋

  • @quantumtronics
    @quantumtronics 14 дней назад +197

    I'm a homesteader attempting to live life off grid in cold windy winter yet I still only survive with Propane, electricity two trucks and gasoline so I can drive 1hr to Walmart. I barely can make it on my own. My respect to my ancestors who could do it

    • @loveisaverb9361
      @loveisaverb9361 14 дней назад +18

      They had such a wealth of knowledge and skills that we’ve largely lost today which is a shame, though some still practice and use them. I have so much respect for our ancestors.

    • @hbombstatic
      @hbombstatic 13 дней назад +11

      I hate to break it to you but nothing an hour away from Walmart is "off the grid."

    • @nannyssillysoapco
      @nannyssillysoapco 13 дней назад +8

      I would guess that the key to success for most who succeeded is, that they weren't on their own.

    • @LeahDyson-kq4bd
      @LeahDyson-kq4bd 13 дней назад +14

      You're on RUclips while off the grid lol

    • @missannie8012
      @missannie8012 13 дней назад +13

      ​@@hbombstatic I thought off the grid just meant no electric lines or gas lines. As in not plugged into the grid.

  • @scousemouse9715
    @scousemouse9715 15 дней назад +117

    Isn't a miracle that any of us survived at all. An easy breakdown of daily struggles. God bless you.

    • @spunkysparks1779
      @spunkysparks1779 14 дней назад +2

      We almost didn't. Plague took out a good portion of us!

  • @chikaka2012
    @chikaka2012 13 дней назад +99

    Most of us wouldn’t have even survived the Victorian or Edwardian eras. My grandmother, born in 1895, was the last of 12 children born to a mother who died at age 36 when grandma was 2. Only 5 of those 12 children made it to adulthood. On my granddad ( her husband’s) side his siblings didn’t fare much better. I visited about 5 graves of my great aunts & uncles on his side in Bardstown, KY. All died before age 20. Things really didn’t turn around until the 1920s and got significantly better with the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s.

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  13 дней назад +9

      That’s an excellent point, it’s easy to think that the current world we live in has been there for a lot longer than it actually has, if you think about it it is not that long (in England) since women were given the vote. Thanks for your comment 😉🙏👍

    • @steph.v.o.7078
      @steph.v.o.7078 11 дней назад +15

      Not only the antibiotic, but also the doctor who put a stop to other doctors that went from autopsy straight to a birth or operation. They found out the fluids, bacteria from a corps were harmfull for the living, and that washing hands was a very healthy thing to prevent a lot of things.
      (English is not my first language, so excuse me for any spelling mistakes or lack of explaining)

    • @ShazIam23
      @ShazIam23 10 дней назад +4

      ​@@historyslifestories373not even 100 years yet.
      I wonder what the population of the world would be if contraception for women had been invented earlier than it was? 🤔 Add that to the rise of atheism (and proper sanitation!) the 2 child family in Victorian and/or Edwardian times, as opposed to families in double digits, would have seen a lot of us simply not exist now.

    • @PaulScowen
      @PaulScowen 10 дней назад

      @@historyslifestories373 women getting the vote is often trotted out but men only got the vote 10 years previously in the UK and that was because of their sacrifice during WW1.
      1918 - Representation of the People Act extends vote to all men over 21 and most women over 30
      1928 - Representation of the People Act extends vote to all women over 21

    • @greenbrain8725
      @greenbrain8725 9 дней назад +1

      Fascinating. The world is so different now.
      I am child #11 from a father who was child # 11. Grandparents born in the 1850s.
      He was “Hendrikus” number 4. The other ones before him died in childhood but the name was important.
      We no longer resemble anything close to a natural being, in terms of living and surviving in nature.

  • @clothcapkev2088
    @clothcapkev2088 17 дней назад +122

    Well someone in my family did it, otherwise i would not be here.

    • @NeedMorePlebs
      @NeedMorePlebs 13 дней назад +1

      Lucky you.

    • @JoshuaTraffanstedt
      @JoshuaTraffanstedt 11 дней назад +2

      Many of them did. Go far enough back and you have the same 30 time great grandfather over and over. we're the descendants of the most bad ass conquerors, kings, queens, etc. The losers bloodlines got wiped out.

    • @sshelget
      @sshelget 11 дней назад +2

      GREAT point!!!

  • @KwertyKeys
    @KwertyKeys 13 дней назад +151

    I would have been the old hag in the woods with a cat, and probably be accused of witchcraft.

    • @katehenry2718
      @katehenry2718 12 дней назад +9

      24 cats would have clinched that for sure.

    • @Golden_Girl7123
      @Golden_Girl7123 11 дней назад +5

      Same here

    • @paulbenedict1289
      @paulbenedict1289 11 дней назад

      No you wouldn't. Belief in witchcraft was considered a heresy in Middle Ages. Official dogma of Catholic church was that only God can do miracles, not Satan. If anyone insisted otherwise, by for example, accusing somebody of witchcraft - would land himself in deep trouble.
      Witch hunts didn't start until XVI century - well into Renaissance.

    • @BubblegumFunk
      @BubblegumFunk 11 дней назад +2

      Me too

    • @ShazIam23
      @ShazIam23 10 дней назад +4

      Do you weigh the same as a duck? 🧐

  • @anndriggers6660
    @anndriggers6660 13 дней назад +80

    Most people alive today would not have survived. But let's not forget that we all come from the most hardy stock on the planet, because our ancestors did survive against all odds.

  • @susanroutt6690
    @susanroutt6690 17 дней назад +169

    Absolutely sure I would not have survived.

    • @veraaddoyobo8482
      @veraaddoyobo8482 16 дней назад +12

      You wouldn't know any difference, so you would find a way to survive

    • @kathrynkildow3743
      @kathrynkildow3743 16 дней назад +10

      @@veraaddoyobo8482 That's true, to a point, but if you're afflicted by one of those horrible diseases, you're toast.

    • @sheilamarkham1937
      @sheilamarkham1937 15 дней назад

      At least our ancestors were able to survive long enough to reproduce, or we wouldn't be here now!

    • @Andrea-pm3dy
      @Andrea-pm3dy 15 дней назад +3

      I would make it either😅

    • @hughmanatee7433
      @hughmanatee7433 15 дней назад +1

      Lots of people did!

  • @tiffanystarbeck2279
    @tiffanystarbeck2279 13 дней назад +32

    Ive decided today, January 10 th, 2025, you absolutely be grateful for my life, for everything that I have, my healthy 3 children and a beautiful family , a 3 bedroom home, ( the only pig in my home every morning is my husband) anyhow, the fact we can eat and scrape money to buy gas money every day or every few days, makes me cry.. I just couldn’t imagine this..
    your question would I survive? probably not even a day.. Sadly, I have epilepsy , I would either have died from illness or be meant to suffer some horrible death.. so tragic.
    It’s amazing how far we’ve come and then what we will be in the next 20 years !

  • @cassiemeyer1164
    @cassiemeyer1164 16 дней назад +67

    I’ve been searching for a video like this for YEARS!!!!!

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  16 дней назад +10

      Excellent, if you can think of any other subjects you’d like me to cover please let me know 😉🙏👍

    • @tajakjejtam
      @tajakjejtam 11 дней назад +1

      Chanel Absolute History has a lot of similar videos like this one, I think you will like it. Also BCC had few series where they gathered modern people and let them indeed live the timeline for example on Edwardian Farm. I enjoyed it a lot. Or some other chanel, similar idea, their videos are called "living like..." For example: living like victorian era worker for 24 hours.

    • @meghanfredericks588
      @meghanfredericks588 9 дней назад +1

      Doesn’t your school teach you? Shameful.

  • @lesliedefilippis2150
    @lesliedefilippis2150 10 дней назад +12

    Thank you for giving us this video. It was so interesting. I thank you for putting so much effort into people learning this.

  • @phoenixkali
    @phoenixkali 14 дней назад +52

    I live with my chickens in my cabin while the pine martens are out on the prowl. I survived on stale bread left out for the birds when all my wages were going to my lawyer. And my ordeal is an enforcement notice from the council for living with no planning permission. And my crops failed this year due to crap weather. I’m still in the Middle Ages!

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 10 дней назад +3

      You should write a country and western album 😅

    • @phoenixkali
      @phoenixkali 10 дней назад +2

      @ how did you know I’m a songwriter? But o can’t stand c+w I kinda have an urban vibe.

    • @kathryncarter6143
      @kathryncarter6143 10 дней назад +2

      :( there are now more resources available. Your lawyer should be aware of them; but you'll probably have to tell him what you need & ask for help.

    • @Remguy2468
      @Remguy2468 10 дней назад

      @@phoenixkali so did Beyonce buy she still made one 🙂

    • @phoenixkali
      @phoenixkali 9 дней назад +1

      @ yeah but she’s Beyoncé she’s not me. And someone else did the heavy lifting so she wouldn’t chip her nail polish.

  • @loveisaverb9361
    @loveisaverb9361 14 дней назад +18

    While I definitely appreciate living in the modern age, generally speaking our food today is highly processed and synthetic (unless you can afford organic or grow your own) and ironically many lack some essential nutrients. Don’t get me wrong, our medieval ancestors had it so much more harder and I really feel for them. I just think it’s an interesting observation that with all our modern advancements we are susceptible to potentially poor nutrition and health issues and then have to rely on medications. I guess every era has its own challenges and producing lower quality food to feed the masses is just one of them.
    Brilliant video by the way…just discovered your channel and will be subscribing 😊

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  13 дней назад

      Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it 😉🙏👍

    • @renemarie5936
      @renemarie5936 13 дней назад

      I believe the US is the only country who feeds it's citizens this way. I mean heck Europe won't even buy our chickens or bread. I have 3 autoimmune diseases which is a modern condition. Same with the prevalence of cancer.

    • @lesliedefilippis2150
      @lesliedefilippis2150 10 дней назад

      Bet processed food would be better than starving to death!

    • @loveisaverb9361
      @loveisaverb9361 10 дней назад

      @ absolutely would!

  • @THH-yx8ge
    @THH-yx8ge 6 дней назад +4

    Makes me appreciate living in our times

  • @danielsmommy2008
    @danielsmommy2008 15 дней назад +11

    I wouldn’t have survived child birth. I had to have a classical c-section. Automatic death sentence back then.

  • @andratoma9834
    @andratoma9834 16 дней назад +58

    We all are descendants of these Dark Age ( very strong ) people.
    Survival of the fittest.

    • @TheBayzent
      @TheBayzent 15 дней назад +7

      Not the peasants though. Most European citizens alive nowadays come from the nobility since those were more likely to have surviving descendants.

    • @renemarie5936
      @renemarie5936 13 дней назад +2

      @@TheBayzent Yes. Most of us do not descend from serfs.

    • @tanikokishimoto1604
      @tanikokishimoto1604 13 дней назад +2

      Many also descend from other parts of the world.

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 13 дней назад

      Darwinian evolution then and now.

    • @tinadowns6930
      @tinadowns6930 12 дней назад

      Not me… none of my ancestors are from there. Lol!

  • @baa-v3v
    @baa-v3v 12 дней назад +7

    We could imagine it, but that was life, they knew no different, in 200 years from now guess what the same conversation, and clearly my lot made it. I remember asking my mum how they coped during the war, and she said fine, we got what we were given, and you dont miss what you never had, and thinking about it, what has genuinely changed, the landscape yes, but nothing else

  • @rosemarypalmer3603
    @rosemarypalmer3603 16 дней назад +54

    They had skills lost to us, nowadays.

    • @Itried20takennames
      @Itried20takennames 15 дней назад +6

      Yeah and no. There are groups that still try to replicate medieval weaving, soapmaking, castle building, yarn making, candle making, etc. today, and you can see them on YT.
      They were tougher, but that was just because life was tougher.

    • @emmaonthefarm1085
      @emmaonthefarm1085 15 дней назад

      @Itried20takennamesI don’t think op meant hobbies 🤣

    • @reecemesser
      @reecemesser 14 дней назад

      Today's world is vastly superior to what it used to be but the charm of medieval times is down to it's simplicity

    • @Sabbathissaturday
      @Sabbathissaturday 12 дней назад

      @@emmaonthefarm1085 I don’t have a RUclips channel, but I make medicine from herbs, distilled vodka, honey, etc. grow and preserve my food. It’s a way of life. No cable tv, no ac/ heat in my home. Better toughen up! The elites of today (same families as before) want their serfs back!

    • @katehenry2718
      @katehenry2718 12 дней назад +1

      @Itried20takennames Yes some of us do those things and teach them to whoever will sit still long enough. Rust and corrosion gets us all despite our efforts.

  • @Jocelynxoxo169
    @Jocelynxoxo169 11 дней назад +6

    Crazy that we went from the Roman Empire, with its sewage systems, fresh water and plumming in only a few generations is insane. Of course the Roman Empire was far from perfect, but it seems their living conditions were vastly better than the dark ages

  • @carlalindsey9371
    @carlalindsey9371 16 дней назад +43

    This is the first time I've gotten a severe backache from just watching youtube.

  • @aprilturner2550
    @aprilturner2550 16 дней назад +39

    It would be 50/50 chance for me. I can hunt, I've been homless and lived in woods before. I have scavaged and built things to live. The difference for me, is i am an accident prone, being alive in todays time being accident prone is not so bad. Back then though, not sure lol

    • @Itried20takennames
      @Itried20takennames 15 дней назад

      But back then infectious diseases were rampant, as they were in most every time period until widespread vaccine use. The toll on kids was about 30% lost to infectious illnesses, and it was fairly common to have half your kids die of some communicable.
      You had to be around people some times, and every visit to town or a crowded hut was a good chance to catch tuberculosis, whooping cough, diphtheria, whatever flu was going around that Winter, etc. in a way we never experience today.

    • @misty3195
      @misty3195 12 дней назад +1

      The problem is, your thinking you could do any of those things. As the video stated, hunting or fishing was forbidden to the serfs. And anything tied to the land, such as wild fruits or vegetables were not for you either. You would have to ask for permission to be able to pick them from your lord. Even building something on the land, such as a house, you would have to ask to be able to do that. You can have your own small garden, but the majority of your time would be working in the fields for the local lords. And you would be forbidden from leaving the land you were born on, so living out in the woods was a no go.

    • @ScotchIrishHoundsman
      @ScotchIrishHoundsman 12 дней назад

      I’m not sure you’d be so accident prone had you been born back then. Maybe, but it’s also possible that subconsciously, you’re less careful because you know a simple cut or even a broken arm or leg in all likelihood won’t kill you.
      But growing up seeing family members die of broken limbs or infected cuts and scrapes would have likely made one think twice before doing many things we take for granted today.

  • @amandapittar9398
    @amandapittar9398 9 дней назад +5

    I found this a little extreme in the negative aspects of mediaeval life. One of the main killers of young women - discounting childbirth - was drowning. Folk did not know how to swim. Women did all the washing and water gathering. From rivers. Their clothes were heavy wool & linen. Fall in and it was easy to be pulled under and swept away. I’m sure that women in most families in agricultural communities were valued by their partners for their contributions and skills. Complimentary to their husbands in running a farm or homestead. It’s so hard to understand mediaeval life if we don’t understand mediaeval thinking, we don’t have a base value system centred on the earlier Catholic Church. God was at the centre of everything. Religion was at the core of life, and for peasant women still bound up with superstition and pre Christian beliefs. This especially applied around childbearing. The most dangerous journey of every mediaeval woman’s life. For all of us, we should spare a thought for those hardy folk.

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  8 дней назад +1

      Many thanks for a very interesting comment Amanda. I believe fishing is one of the most dangerous pastimes today due to drowning.

  • @chikaka2012
    @chikaka2012 13 дней назад +8

    Ironically, having fewer children sometimes conferred a survival advantage. A long line of O- women in my family could have only 1-2 children but all these children survived & became highly successful because the family invested heavily in their care & education. The other side of the family had a lot of kids but most died & none were very successful.

  • @garyturner5739
    @garyturner5739 13 дней назад +9

    The Viking and Saxon periods weren't technically the Medieval period. Medieval stared after the 1066 Norman Conquest and that's also when feudalism started in Britain.

    • @jimpickens4067
      @jimpickens4067 8 дней назад +1

      Since dropping the term 'Darkages' when referring to Migration Period, at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, through to the Battle of Hastings in academia, that era is now known as early Medieval

  • @cjsa7174
    @cjsa7174 13 дней назад +9

    The amount of lice, fleas, and intestinal parasites is difficult for modern people to understand.

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb 17 дней назад +42

    I barely made through the 1990’s and early 2000’s lol I’d have been toast in the Middle Ages. Really though, I got sick a lot as a baby so I literally probably wouldn’t have survived to adulthood.

    • @awaywiththetheories1833
      @awaywiththetheories1833 17 дней назад +3

      I was a pretty strong child that never really got sick, so on that front I’d have probably been fine, but I had a brain haemorrhage at 3 days old. So I wouldn’t have even lived long enough to find out 😅

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 16 дней назад +5

      @ Haha yeah we’d have been fertilizer real fast! I got a lot of ear infections and strep throat, both of which could easily have been fatal back then. I also had/have a penchant for injuring myself to the point of needing modern medicine 😂

    • @kathrynkildow3743
      @kathrynkildow3743 16 дней назад +4

      @@awaywiththetheories1833 You would be exposed to a lot more illnesses in the Middle Ages, for which there would be no prevention or cure. Glad you survived the brain hemorrhage, undoubtedly with skilled medical attention!

    • @myrandapistokache6653
      @myrandapistokache6653 15 дней назад +2

      I definitely wouldn’t have made it to adulthood either! Way too sickly as a kid to survive back then 😅

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 15 дней назад +2

      @@myrandapistokache6653 Thank goodness for modern science and medicine lol

  • @michelelyons9410
    @michelelyons9410 11 дней назад +4

    Could I survive it? no. and I am amazed that anyone else did either. It is astonishing when you think that so many people alive today descend from people who lived then.

  • @Jay-Leigh
    @Jay-Leigh 16 дней назад +5

    New subscriber ✋🏻 just found you and thoroughly enjoyed this video. Looking forward to catching up with others you've put out and new ones to come.
    Thank you.

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  16 дней назад

      Many thanks Jay, glad to have you with us, looking forward to hearing from you again 😉🙏👍

  • @paulrudd3996
    @paulrudd3996 17 дней назад +14

    Another great video Mark!
    Definitely my favourite RUclips channel.
    Happy new year to you too.

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  17 дней назад +2

      Hi Paul, and happy New Year to you too, glad you enjoyed the video 😉🙏👍

  • @gazza2933
    @gazza2933 16 дней назад +35

    I really like your use of A I. to educate and not just to entertain.
    Subscribed. 👍

    • @mayceehash8434
      @mayceehash8434 15 дней назад +1

      is that where all the super relevant footage came from?

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  15 дней назад +2

      Thanks and welcome😉🙏👍

    • @GetToTheFarm
      @GetToTheFarm 13 дней назад +3

      @@mayceehash8434 yes look around at 00:59 you will see the legs appear.... fade and vanish The guy'e eys around 1:40 and the poor poor horse on the left of the screen around 1:43 are all a sure sign of AI. But used well it's not a terrible thing. Many subjects don't have much stock footage available for them so....

  • @emmaonthefarm1085
    @emmaonthefarm1085 15 дней назад +7

    This is exactly the type of content i enjoy watching ❤

  • @frekitheravenous516
    @frekitheravenous516 17 дней назад +24

    I find a sense of pride in knowing I come from people who lived thru and survived England's Dark Ages.

  • @paulverlaine.007
    @paulverlaine.007 12 дней назад +6

    Well those times draw near again.We shall see.

  • @garytaylor5273
    @garytaylor5273 17 дней назад +62

    We are living in dark ages now!!

    • @kathrynkildow3743
      @kathrynkildow3743 16 дней назад +15

      That's true in a way. Certainly there are vast improvements in health care, among many other things. However, the Have Nots are still supporting the Haves. The richest people don't seem to have to pay taxes.

    • @HowardArnold-be9ly
      @HowardArnold-be9ly 15 дней назад +7

      They pay taxes unless the name is Pelosi, or Biden, etc.

    • @scousemouse9715
      @scousemouse9715 15 дней назад

      We're paddling backwards like our lives depended on it. Islam will be the full stop.

    • @jasonreimer4742
      @jasonreimer4742 15 дней назад +1

      Awwwww your so soft it's cute

    • @alexg5513
      @alexg5513 15 дней назад

      @@jasonreimer4742 😅😅 👍👍

  • @julianakleijn9254
    @julianakleijn9254 16 дней назад +15

    I’d have been stoned for being a witch in like a half a second

    • @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227
      @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227 16 дней назад

      You either have tattoos/percings, are a ginger or both.

    • @lendusaquid
      @lendusaquid 16 дней назад +1

      But witches burn well so you would keep everyone else nice and toasty warm ;)

  • @josephbarker91
    @josephbarker91 10 дней назад +3

    I can confidently say that if I existed during the dark ages, I would not be alive today.

  • @francisebbecke2727
    @francisebbecke2727 16 дней назад +37

    People living in the Middle Ages did not know they were living in the Middle Ages. To them it was the world as the world is. It would change when Christ returns.

    • @emmaonthefarm1085
      @emmaonthefarm1085 15 дней назад +7

      Absolutely this .. Afterall every single generation feels (and are) living at the pinnacle of their times..

    • @annaclarke7643
      @annaclarke7643 15 дней назад +3

      When do you think Christianity arrived in England?

    • @phoenixkali
      @phoenixkali 14 дней назад +3

      They arrived in the dark ages preceding it.

    • @paulthrutner9114
      @paulthrutner9114 12 дней назад

      What a load of crap…keep your god shit to yourself

  • @cyndiknapp4904
    @cyndiknapp4904 8 дней назад

    Absolutely fascinating and very well done video. Keep them coming! Love them.

  • @perhapsmiracles5432
    @perhapsmiracles5432 12 дней назад +5

    You have omitted to mention that so many of the punishments in those times were absolutely sickeningly HORRIFIC by modern standards - and many of these for what we would now consider quite trivial offences: -
    Blinding and gelding (for example for poaching), or being FLAYED ALIVE - which means what it says; thrashed and flogged until the skin ripped off your body and you would die in AGONY … removal of fingers or hands, of feet, or even of an arm or part of a leg (below the knee): these were very common punishments meted out, say by your Lord of the Manor or even by the King or his agents - if you had in any way incurred their displeasure. These brutal punishments continued in Norman times and well beyond - even up until as recently as the start of the eighteenth century.

    • @ey67
      @ey67 10 дней назад

      I think the 4 Yorkshire in Monty Python fashion would agree with you

  • @AdamBeard-d8q
    @AdamBeard-d8q 16 дней назад +5

    Great video again! Looking forward to the next one already!

  • @cct7558
    @cct7558 15 дней назад +16

    Oppressing women? Certain cultures and religions do that.

    • @gingerlee726
      @gingerlee726 14 дней назад +4

      Which ones don't opress women?

    • @SMidberg
      @SMidberg 14 дней назад

      ​@@gingerlee726Strange , most of people in power are now women . In goverment , ministry , public service , journalists .At least in western contries.
      Most of hard work they are not in majority though.

    • @SuperMagnum83
      @SuperMagnum83 13 дней назад

      @@gingerlee726 The entire western world doesn't, women are preferentially treated in these countries. They contribute the least and receive the most benefits. Instead the western world exploits men. There was a recent study and out of 144 countries in 91 of them women faired better than men when it came to societal treatment and government policies.

    • @lorrainestewart4835
      @lorrainestewart4835 13 дней назад +1

      Yip some dont want to come out the darks ages !!! But we must never speak ill of them,but what i will say is they still really do love there cousins 😂

    • @AngelaH2222
      @AngelaH2222 13 дней назад +1

      Yep, just ask any pregnant women in America's conservative states...

  • @2charliep
    @2charliep 14 дней назад +5

    At a time when a broken leg or cut finger could kill you and child birth often did? When financial/food security was precarious at best? I look back the WW1 trench conditions and think it unlikely that many of us now would survive that, which was only temporary. Most people these days, (including me), wouldn’t last past the first winter.

  • @redhen2123
    @redhen2123 13 дней назад +6

    This is why so many people flocked to monasteries and convents. That's what I would do too.

    • @Behind_the_Wall_of_Sleep
      @Behind_the_Wall_of_Sleep 4 дня назад +1

      My ancestors did. At least two born in the late 1880s became nuns as first generation colonisers in NZ. One survived until the late 1960s and outlived all her siblings.

    • @redhen2123
      @redhen2123 4 дня назад

      @Behind_the_Wall_of_Sleep hell, with all that's going on in the world these days, I'm tempted to do the same.

  • @nancybradford8514
    @nancybradford8514 17 дней назад +8

    Loved this a lot, thank you 😊

  • @BeverlyLedbetter-cb1971
    @BeverlyLedbetter-cb1971 15 дней назад +3

    That's one of the reasons why I'm so fascinated by this era...to see how these poor people survived!😧

  • @ddouglas3687
    @ddouglas3687 17 дней назад +20

    Throughout the entirety of human evolution, disease, famine and catastrophy, we are the survivors.
    Yep.

  • @tortimeese
    @tortimeese 12 дней назад +3

    I am and the people that I know would never think of the dark and middle ages as the good old days.

  • @international360
    @international360 5 дней назад +2

    this was an excellent and well made vidieo, i would of also enjoyed more information on there water supply and how often beer was the safest thing to drink...thank you again.

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  5 дней назад

      Many thanks for your insightful comment, you are quite right, unless you were lucky with location, fresh (and drinkable) water would be difficult to find. Beer - or ale, would have been far safer and easier to come by. 👍

  • @andratoma9834
    @andratoma9834 16 дней назад +13

    Working from Dawn to dusk means only from 7:30 am till about 4:30 pm in winter time

    • @Itried20takennames
      @Itried20takennames 15 дней назад +3

      Well that would be about the only “good” thing about Winters then. Otherwise, it was cold, cramped, the food supplies were lower and mostly preserved foods, the water was often frozen when you went to fetch some, etc.

    • @phoenixkali
      @phoenixkali 13 дней назад

      @@andratoma9834 where I live dawn starts at 9 and ends at 3.30 in winter.

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 13 дней назад +1

      Then staying in pitch dark in a hoval all night.

    • @ey67
      @ey67 10 дней назад

      Lazy serfs. Living was too good for em. But then they died. So all was well.

  • @PaulH-hl5hw
    @PaulH-hl5hw 9 дней назад +2

    "freezing one room" not far from what I suffered until April.. but I had rain pouring in by my bed.

  • @Wade-h5m
    @Wade-h5m 12 дней назад +3

    Those times were terrible. Joining a genealogy site has given me insight and connected me to many ancestors that came across the Big Pond. I have ancestors that fought the English. English ancestors that fought my Celtic ancestors. Several women accused of witchcraft. Peasants and aristocrats and a line connected to the royal family. But I figure not an person in England that is not someway connected to the royal family. It was a harsh existence. And then my native family had to fight the colonist

  • @annaclarke7643
    @annaclarke7643 15 дней назад +3

    Being a young child you had two roads to travel down. 1. The road to early death due to disease, poor diet and hard work. 2. The other road to a longer hard painful existence where loss of your children and family members must have been excruciating. My preference #1.

  • @aracelimalone1167
    @aracelimalone1167 10 дней назад +4

    I really enjoyed this video that popped up in my feed! Going to binge watch the others that u created, love ur story telling abilities

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  10 дней назад

      Many thanks for your very kind words, I hope you enjoy them 😉🙏👍

  • @samanthawoodward7551
    @samanthawoodward7551 13 дней назад +4

    An amazing depiction of life in the UK 2030 onwards.

  • @larissabewick6310
    @larissabewick6310 12 дней назад +3

    No away could I live like this EVER!

  • @johnepperson8867
    @johnepperson8867 13 дней назад +1

    What an awesome documentary, THANK YOU!!!

  • @deborahmorgan6848
    @deborahmorgan6848 16 дней назад +8

    Excellent, really interesting.

  • @vipulchaturvedi996
    @vipulchaturvedi996 14 дней назад +3

    Very well researched and stated.
    What a trauma to live that life, which I am sure most of us must have lived in one or the other incarnations.
    What a waste such incarnation would be, with consciousness only geared to survival and evading pitfalls.
    I send my sympathies to all the countless victims of these circumstances.

  • @DeadBlonde_80
    @DeadBlonde_80 17 дней назад +10

    How about just getting clean water. That in itself was a huge problem.

    • @HowardArnold-be9ly
      @HowardArnold-be9ly 15 дней назад +1

      Most likely not, otherwise why beer , etc was so prevalent.

  • @Golden_Girl7123
    @Golden_Girl7123 11 дней назад +6

    We are the legacy of a great and noble people. The testament to their indomitable will and sheer determination to live.. I am so grateful to be here and honored to carry their light forward.. HAAZAAAH!!!

  • @DapperPaperBag
    @DapperPaperBag 13 дней назад +5

    Giving Grattitude to my ancestors who survived these tasks in the harsh Scottish weather.
    Also, I would have died at birth, because my mother and I were saved by modern medicine.

  • @SmokeyTreats
    @SmokeyTreats 16 дней назад +8

    Enjoyable watch, thanks. Can't decide if I would've survived so...probably not... LoL

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  16 дней назад +2

      Ah, you may well be doing yourself a great disservice, it’s something thankfully we will never experience, however, we can’t discount the human will to survive, which inmo is no different today than it was back then 😉🙏👍

    • @BeverlyLedbetter-cb1971
      @BeverlyLedbetter-cb1971 14 дней назад +1

      I've lived through some pretty dire situations, but I don't think I'd survive this!🙄

  • @philgreen815
    @philgreen815 16 дней назад +13

    A fascinating look at history, but the mere fact I am here to comment means that my ancestors did survive. As to disease and health, even today we are discovering hidden ill effects of food and modern food production. As to living in that period ? People would have thought life was normal, and even now when people look back at our lifestyle six
    hundred years hence ? They will be shocked by our diet and living conditions.

  • @heathert5455
    @heathert5455 16 дней назад +12

    If I couldn't have my coffee...I would die!

  • @emilyb4658
    @emilyb4658 16 дней назад +5

    Well, my ancestors did. My grandparents came from Yorkshire, Guiseborough, I think? 1900 yr.

  • @Louise_0
    @Louise_0 3 дня назад +2

    I reckon it’s harder now. They wouldn’t know any different and therefore would enjoy even the most stalest of bread.

  • @shawnkeith1164
    @shawnkeith1164 17 дней назад +5

    Ergot poisoning may have played a role in the rise of a dance called the Tarantella.

  • @swatson1190
    @swatson1190 12 дней назад +5

    Appears that my ancestors did it. 😊

  • @AragonaAlessandro
    @AragonaAlessandro 13 дней назад +5

    I can barely survive now

  • @cmo5173
    @cmo5173 9 дней назад +1

    My son developped a urosepsis when he was 8 weeks old. It is frightening to think about that not only in the middle ages, but even like 70 years ago, he would have died because there was no antibiotics available

  • @lyonfrnd
    @lyonfrnd 16 дней назад +8

    Teen to 20s me would have survived. Me in my 50s wouldn't.

  • @HyperAI-x
    @HyperAI-x 12 дней назад +1

    This was excellent and I'm left feeling very fortunate!

  • @williamegler8771
    @williamegler8771 17 дней назад +32

    Nobody made it out alive.

    • @Wolfietherrat
      @Wolfietherrat 17 дней назад +6

      Oh, they must have otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.❤

    • @Leo_ofRedKeep
      @Leo_ofRedKeep 17 дней назад +1

      This is fact.

    • @williamegler8771
      @williamegler8771 17 дней назад +3

      ​@Wolfietherrat Nobody from early medieval England or any other period lived longer than their lifespan.

    • @Itried20takennames
      @Itried20takennames 15 дней назад +1

      Well, they often made it long enough to have kids, and because it was pre-birth control and fairly boring….often quite a few kids. Which was good as it was not unusual for half of your kids to die of infectious illnesses during childhood, But if you had 7 kids and 4 survived, that was enough to keep things going.

    • @LeahDyson-kq4bd
      @LeahDyson-kq4bd 13 дней назад

      True lol

  • @clare2401
    @clare2401 10 дней назад +2

    I know people that couldn't even survive going back 3 generations.
    Take away electric appliances like washing machines and fridge freezers, or instant hot water for baths and showers, and people would absolutely collapse

  • @annawarner7516
    @annawarner7516 16 дней назад +19

    Had my DNA analysis done and i am celt/viking/English/Jewish/Spanish/Italian. So a true Brit then! 😂

    • @Inceldetector6144
      @Inceldetector6144 11 дней назад

      I'm from Asia and I also study history but I'm asking who are the real English people, have their DNA been mixed?

  • @tooyoungtobeold8756
    @tooyoungtobeold8756 17 дней назад +9

    Stone chimneys in peasant houses? Cobbled street in small village? I don't think so.

    • @dflatt1783
      @dflatt1783 16 дней назад +2

      Yes, they made the peasants use wood chimneys from what I recall.

    • @AnnetteMurphyger
      @AnnetteMurphyger 16 дней назад

      ??

    • @padraigwalsh4607
      @padraigwalsh4607 13 дней назад

      @@dflatt1783peasants didn’t have chimneys in the dark ages. Open fire with a hole in the roof if you were lucky!

    • @jondarbyshire-s7k
      @jondarbyshire-s7k 12 дней назад +1

      Some urban areas in England had dirt roads even to the 1940's

    • @KateNord
      @KateNord 12 дней назад

      The images are made with AI

  • @alisonhawke1813
    @alisonhawke1813 16 дней назад +11

    I’ve had seizures so probably would have been either killed, put through trial by ordeal, or something of the like. Honestly don’t wanna think about it 😣

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 16 дней назад +5

    It would have been an incredibly difficult way of life. Not sure I'd survive.

  • @belladrome
    @belladrome 10 дней назад +4

    These videos are fabulous, the closest we can get to time travel. Thank you so much! ❤

  • @jonathanthomas4182
    @jonathanthomas4182 16 дней назад +9

    I was talking with my mom about what North America would have been like during Middle age Europe and we both agreed that if we were alive during that time or time traveled we’d would both much rather be in North America before it became America.

    • @spunkysparks1779
      @spunkysparks1779 14 дней назад +2

      Indigenous ppl knew best!

    • @gingerlee726
      @gingerlee726 14 дней назад

      Lol indigenous American natives were extremely violent and oppressive towards women. The term 'rape and pillage' comes from them. They also were the last Americans to own slaves and refused to set them free decades after the Civil War. Why do you think it would have been better?

    • @gingerlee726
      @gingerlee726 14 дней назад

      ​@spunkysparks1779 Didn't we just find 70k bodies of children who had been sacrificed by ripping their hearts out while still alive? But OK they knew best 😂

  • @Sabbathissaturday
    @Sabbathissaturday 12 дней назад +1

    Sounds like what we’re moving back to. History repeats.

  • @helencheung2537
    @helencheung2537 12 дней назад +4

    Why are they made to act like robots. They were much more lively and loquacious. They lived, loved, fought, worked and experienced joys and sorrows, much like we do today. .

    • @historyslifestories373
      @historyslifestories373  11 дней назад +1

      You are quite right, I did mention all this right at the end 😉🙏👍

  • @Angelalivingaquietlife
    @Angelalivingaquietlife 12 дней назад +2

    Really enlightening! How did they wake up early in winter, before the sun rose?

  • @pennybunny
    @pennybunny 11 дней назад +3

    Thank You youtube for recommending this channel.. the use of A.i along with very good narration bringing factual information is fantastic.
    Subbed 😊

  • @skyashamen
    @skyashamen 14 дней назад +1

    Well…. I have to say as always… I’m so grateful to be in the here and now

  • @missmia7869
    @missmia7869 13 дней назад +3

    You talked about ergotism/St. Anthony's Fire. There is a theory that this is the actual cause of the fits that the accusing girls experienced in Salem Witch Trials. Definitely an interesting thought.

    • @ey67
      @ey67 10 дней назад

      I think Monty Python covered that witch stuff very well.

  • @a.j.lilianmenashe5581
    @a.j.lilianmenashe5581 День назад +1

    Looking forward to more episodes!

  • @queenbeekeeper
    @queenbeekeeper 13 дней назад +4

    No antibiotics, no vaccines, no glass windows to let the light in and cold wind out - but worst of all - no cups of Yorkshire tea!

    • @OdeInWessex
      @OdeInWessex 11 дней назад

      There would have been wooden shutters on windows, they didn't leave them open and would have had far fewer window apertures than we have now.

    • @discordantfungi2741
      @discordantfungi2741 10 дней назад

      Yes I think if I lived back then I would have experienced a deep, unrelenting yearning for some unfathomable thing..
      Little would I have known that I was yearning simply for a nice cup of tea.

  • @joshuafess4295
    @joshuafess4295 12 дней назад +1

    Can you imagine how much better life would’ve been for these people if they had some of the basics that was present in the Aztec Empire? They took baths regularly, had separate systems for sewage versus clean water and had fresh water supplies.

  • @peopleofonefire9643
    @peopleofonefire9643 16 дней назад +5

    Medieval peasants might have eaten peas, but they didn't eat beans. The bean family, including green beans, is from the Americas.

    • @davideddy2672
      @davideddy2672 15 дней назад +1

      Horse Beans …

    • @peopleofonefire9643
      @peopleofonefire9643 15 дней назад +1

      @@davideddy2672 You are correct! Not being of Mediterranean origin, I had never heard of the Fava Bean. According to Wikipedia, is s more connected to the European pea and does not have the heart shaped leaves of the bean family, but nevertheless, is indeed called a bean.

    • @peopleofonefire9643
      @peopleofonefire9643 15 дней назад +1

      @@davideddy2672 I just remembered that we have a wild plant here in the Southeast that looks just like the Fava Bean - both plants are more closely related to the Locust tree species, which is also in the bean and pea family. My Creek ancestors domesticated this New World Fava Bean, but nowadays, the cultivar has gone feral and often pops up on abandoned fields.

    • @aelbereth6690
      @aelbereth6690 14 дней назад +1

      You're wrong. They ate broad beans and field beans/ haricots. The Romans too were great eaters of beans.

  • @kapioleilanionalanielua
    @kapioleilanionalanielua 12 дней назад +2

    In my twenties I think I would have survived, but now in my fifties, no way, I’d be dead in two weeks.

  • @Baloski46
    @Baloski46 16 дней назад +8

    That was great. Glad I found you! Thank you.

  • @MHeadroom
    @MHeadroom 9 дней назад +1

    Fascinating. Tough times. Makes one appreciate existing in the year 2025 in a modern first world.

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 16 дней назад +14

    Amazingly, lots of people survived or we’d not be here.

    • @kellytrimble7019
      @kellytrimble7019 16 дней назад +1

      For how long? To have 4 kids before you were 20? As slaves of the Lords?

    • @renemarie5936
      @renemarie5936 13 дней назад

      Do your family tree. We mainly descend from royalty/nobility because of the higher mortality rates.

  • @cathydoyle8804
    @cathydoyle8804 9 дней назад +1

    I h🎉Thank you for your well presented educational information history video!
    Really enjoyed it!
    Makes you appreciate what we have un this modern free Society
    Have subscribed to your Channel ❤

  • @o-anonium8653
    @o-anonium8653 16 дней назад +19

    Medieval peasants got more time off than people now.

    • @DC-gy1zw
      @DC-gy1zw 16 дней назад

      No your wrong.

    • @Jay-Leigh
      @Jay-Leigh 16 дней назад +2

      How did you come to that conclusion? Plus they worked on empty stomachs in all weather 🙄

    • @rosemarypalmer3603
      @rosemarypalmer3603 16 дней назад +1

      Where on earth did you get that idea from? Or are you just joking?

    • @Magdalenasfears
      @Magdalenasfears 16 дней назад +6

      They actually got more time off than most Americans, IDK about Europeans. Every church holiday or feast day is off. You can only work while the sun is up. The winters are off except tending livestock (which often lived in the same house as the surfs). Even during the warm months, planting and harvesting are really the big work times.
      The rest of the time is dedicated to things like home improvement, basic chores, and food prep, which isn't much different from now.
      They had a physically harder life than most of us, but total hours worked were generally much less.

    • @andratoma9834
      @andratoma9834 16 дней назад +4

      @@Magdalenasfearsthis is exactly how I feel - I wake up BEFORE sunrise, go to work AND WIRK not until sunset ( ha, ha, that would be 4:30 pm in winter) but far longer AFTER sunset