I've always felt profoundly sorry for Lady Jane Grey. Through no fault of her own she got caught up in political machinations over which she had no influence and paid for it with her life.
A really fascinating documentary on the history of our ancestors going back centuries. We must keep preserving this history. Thanks for uploading this.
I run a modern burial ground and it often intrigues me at what gets deposited in graves even in modern times. So when various grave goods are turned up and the archaeologists go into all sorts of flights of fancy about 'high status' or 'wealthy communities' I always consider my own experience. I've seen very poor people throwing ornate gold and silver jewellery into graves, I've seen household objects thrown in, I've even seen an iPod placed on the coffin lid. I've frequently had coffins with pets in them, I've had an elderly gent buried with a set of compasses and professional drawing pens and a lady buried in a proper glittery ball gown. All this in a burial ground about hundred metres square and 120 years old. Imagine what silliness future archaeologists might make of that lot :-) . The truth is we can never know what was going through the minds of the bereaved at the graveside and whether grave goods mean what we 'think' they mean.
You are spot on. In college I did a survey of a cemetery in Pickens County, AL, USA. Some of my own ancestors are buried there as is my late husband and some of his family. I absolutely love the history there for the taking just reading the stones; not just the words themselves, but the designs, size, locations within family areas, the "directions" of placement, etc. Sadly our histories here in the US are nowhere near as long or well recorded as those in the UK. There are so many cemeteries that are no longer known today. Think that may be one of the reasons I so enjoy these programs from the UK. Thank you, all of you who provide such gifts to your loyal fans and supporters.
Good point but remember they didn't have multiple mass produced goods. So every bowl and cup was important. And if plac3d in a grave lost to the living and dedicated to the lost. That puts it way out of a modern 'perspective' of how goods were valued. So every object was hard won. Not exactly the same as an ipad you can get at any store. I think we need to appreciate the archaeologists that have very extensive experience in these digs. Plus remember many of these goods were traded hard and won hard. Valued beyond today's understanding. Some of these digs are pre- christ or only 300 t0 400 years post Christ,
People have been depositing objects with the bodys for thousands of years. Even though we understand they can not take the things with them we still do it .
Even though it seems like silliness, people are buried with pets, in ball gowns, with ipods, or expensive pens because it meant something to them. The things people are buried with have profound meaning beyond whether or not they were wealthy or had high status.
My grandmother ruled my parents house from her bedroom by using a handbell. When she passed away, I know a member of my family slipped the bell in her casket😅
I really like this program. But today I'm irritable, anxious and inattentive. So I'll just close my eyes and travel into Alice Roberts' melodious voice. There is no better remedy for stress. This teacher's voice is more therapeutic than 10,000 psychoanalysis sessions.
Having walked around Bradgate park a thousand times and living in Anstey for some years i always thought Bradgate ruins was her home. Totally amazed at what can be found out via an excavation. Loved this episode as i felt it has put some of the stories regarding Lady Janes home into perspective. Cool.
Another superb episode in this outstanding and well presented series, anchored by the quixotic and mesmeric Prof. Alice Roberts.By Introducing digs across extended time frames, this makes for fascinating and satisfying viewing, to emphasis the passage of so many peoples, and in doing to complements our current understanding, whilst adding additional previously unknown information of our earlier ancestors. A quite marvelous series, both in concept and delivery :)
Wonderful programme. I would suggest that your description of the Irish "famine" be referred to as the genocide that it was. There was no shortage of food in Ireland at the time though the native Irish depend on the potato. London chose the blight as a good opportunity to rid the island of the troublesome Catholics once and for all. History is History. Don't sugar coat it.
And during the time of the so-called "potato famine", food was being exported from Ireland to England to feed the English people, mostly the wealthy who could afford it. Also, during this time, the Sultan of Turkey offered food shipments and aid to Ireland which was turned away and refused by the English government.
9 days Queen cuz her hubby was a 9xs lunatic. And the family that married her off to him knew that. Also, food was still being grown in Ireland during the PF. But the rich Brits & rich Irish were shipping it off to Britian, filing their pockets while watching the people around them starve to death.
While the potato famine did effect the diet and restrict PART of the food staple of the Irish people....that wasn't ALL the Irish people ate. They had a wide variety of foods. Meat, vegetables, grains, etc. What DID happen...that the British professor Dr. Alice Robert's purposely left out was that the Britsh military took advantage of this blight and of the Irish people they had just recently put even further under their thumb. The potato blight ALSO affected the British people as well, however, they came to Ireland and went town to town, stealing the food stores of any stored/preserved vegetables and/or meats and grains. Now, the Irish people were left with nothing, starving to death. THAT is why many died, or, forced to flee to America. Don't let those poor, subjugated starved Irish people..some who paid with their lives...be forgotten and written out of history, by morons that choose to leave their story out of a documentary like this, and just gloss over what the BRITISH did to them. Shame on you History Hit!
You do realize this is a documentary that History Hit is just sharing and hasn't created. It just posts documentaries from other sources. This is from the BBC.
To be able to live in England or my birth place Germany and dig to find artifacts of the past even before the Roman’s is my wish before I pass away and become history. Now adays people are being cremated. By watching these kinds of shows makes me want to be buried so future generations can find my bones and whatever I’m buried with.
I'm an American and lived in Baden Württemberg for a time and I was really shocked by modern German burial practices. Is it possible to have an eternal burial plot in modern Germany? Where I was living, I was told the family of the deceased pays an annual fee to the cemetery for the plot and once there is no one left to pay the annual fee, the plot is "prepared' for another occupant. I understood this was a polite way of saying that the previous occupant was removed and this was in practice because of the limited amount of land available for use as cemeteries. I still find it hard to believe, so any insight you have would be interesting.
Remember to pick some incongruous objects for example: a stone tablet, mortar and pestle, a sword, a metal bodied camera, and a metal 🔦. Really mess with those future archaeologists.
i think that the scots and german, celts maybe even picts wer shagin each other for yrs before the romans ,,,,,,,we weren't as backward as the romans made out
@@AmyEugene I run a burial ground in the UK and our grave plots are 'sold' for a hundred years. Technically they can be re-used but ours aren't. Personally I see no issue with re-using graves especially as England is a tiny place and land scarce and expensive. Fewer people are being buried in coffins now so we offer cremated remains plots and people can scatter ashes. There have been bodies buried for thousands of years in the UK and chances are pretty much every back garden has some human remains in them. It's only the religious/spiritual aspect that bothers people and hardly any younger people are interested in that side of things.
Such poverty conditions and "workhouses" persisted right up to the onset of the Irish Revolution in 1916, even as many Irish soldiers, driven by poverty, were fighting for England in places like Iraq and India.
The narrative about the Irish potato famine is that it was uniquely Irish and that many escaped it by emigrating to North America. The reality is the potato blight affected most of Europe and many many Irish emigrated to mainland UK.
Queen Mary Tudor of England was not Jane Grey's aunt; Mary, like her brother Edward VI, was Jane's first cousin once removed. In fact, Mary Tudor had justification for taking the throne; her father, Henry VIII left the succession to her following Edward in his Will. It wasn't entirely clear that Edward's succession plan was valid. Lady Jane was already in the Tower as it was a royal residence, and her eventual execution was as much due to her father's terrible judgment in joining a subsequent uprising in her name.
@@curiousuranus810 I didn't say she didn't, only that Mary had not wanted to execute her cousin, but Jane's father's rebellion forced her into it--at least as things were looked at in that period.
The period of early medieval history that occurred after the Romans left Britain is generally considered to have ended somewhere in the 10th century, meaning at the latest in 1066, when William the Conquerer became king, although there is really no definitive cutting off point. However, that period still ended approximately 400 years or more before Lady Jane Grey was executed.
I think that it is really sad and should never be allowed for a cemetery to be moved. In my opinion, the school should have had to find a new location NOT the cemetery.
What your archaeological teams give the exciting vibes. 2:40 From Traveling into history @exploringisraelshistory😮❤ Plus i have the only tip is that Jaljuliya will be doing through excavation on the other side of this Arab settlement. 7:13
All the footage of Urquhart castle on Loch Ness and the Grant Tower. As a part of the Grant Clan diaspora I wait eagerly awaiting something about it. But it didn’t come. Crushed.
When my kids were little we allowed them to say Oh Coprolite when they were really frustrated lol it was funny and got some really surprised looks when people asked us what it means hahahaha
Just before the American revolution, Benjamin Franklin, who had been an anglophile, made an ambassadorial visit to Ireland and England, came away with a different perspective and frequently used the word "slavery" in referring to relations with England.
@@aarons6935 No, the English had white slaves in Ireland and Scotland and didn't need black slaves anymore. Black slaves were first transported to America by the English and some of the "stately homes" of England were built on the slave trade, but the first slaves in the Americas were white slaves. The English later extended this to Australia by transporting poor people to Australia for minor crimes. Later they harvested drug crops from India and established the "drug fleet" and the drug trade to China where they set up "opium dens" to addict the Chinese, making tremendous profits. If you don't know that, you don't know the true history of England.
Get right on in there anything for history and I am glad you are doing it and I get to see all you have found without even washing my hands.Did they enjoy corn.
The argument that Lady Jane Grey was not called a queen because she did not have a coronation does not make sense. Edward V (one of the princes in the Tower) did not have a coronation either, but he is referred to as a king. It would be likely that Mary I would not refer to her as a queen, but why was this never revised later?
But Jane wasn’t a Queen by rights, she was merely a pawn in the Protestant game and they were caught out by the support for the Catholic Mary even amongst those who were Protestant
So Armstrong contaminated the site with artifacts from his own time…amazing. Sadly there are still people who believe in witches…and I don’t refer to Wiccan’s but the far religious right in the USA. The Anglo Saxon finds were jaw dropping. That Roman bowl, the boar’s head, the bead, and the bracelet, oh my..such gifted artisans! Anything related to Vikings always gets my attention, as well as anything related to spindles and weaving. Great video…an absolute treat!
The only people in America who believed in witches came from Europe, mostly England and they lived in New England, and now adays are almost all democrats so.....
"the far religious right in the USA" may still believe in witches, but the far left in the USA believe a man in a dress is a woman. I think the witches theory is much more believable .
Around 29:00 burials are mentioned where males are laid in a straight pose with their weapons in front of them while females are deeper and laid on their sides. if you were to flip the position of the burrials from vertical to horizontal it looks like warriors standing in front of the women to pretect them... That might be me ascribing meaning to the unknown but it seems like a logical idea that in death the warriors would continue to protect the weaker of the community.
Most of those "people who fled Ireland" were in fact forcibly transported by England for non-payment of taxes by the Irish who were starving and suffering illnesses.
Many were, certainly, but I doubt it was most. The more fortunate ones were able to get themselves to America or, failing that, at least to Scotland or England, where conditions for the poor were (marginally) better.
I am 94% British/Irish. As I watch this, and I hear how so many Irish immigrated to the United States, I can’t help but wonder if someone there was my ancestor who came to America because of the potato famine. I do know that my great great grandparents came from the eastern United States. I wish I could trace back to find “my people”.
you can, ancestry and 23 and Me do that for you. I was told I was Jewish and my family was from Ukrainian. Turns out to be lies. I'm 98.% Northern European and 2% African.......
My old secondary school was just big estate the original mansion house is used for head,aster and other teachers but the original owners were Lord and Lady Gray here in northern Ireland I wonder were they relatives
I love your show, but have to differ on the dates: Lady Jane Gray lived for a short time in the middle of the 16th century, and died around 1553 so her shit would be about 475 years old, not 600.
I once read a theory that Jane Grey and Edward VI were actually switched at birth and that that was why Edward passed over his sisters, they were both born at roughly the same time, and if Frances Grey had a son and Henry needed a son, I could see them holding off on announcing Frances' child's sex until they knew whether Henry had hit the son jackpot yet. They don't give an actual date for Jane's birth, just the month, so its hard to tell if she was born before or after Edward. The Nobles had the habit of keeping the new mother isolated both before and after the birth, so the actual birth of Frances' child could have been kept quiet until Jane had hers. If you were that high in the aristocracy you pretty much had a life and death power over your attendants.
While Queen Victoria dinned on her favorite vegetable… the potato … Ireland starved. She didn’t do a damn thing about it except continue to gore herself while people starved and died. And yes …. She was aware.
There’s a few mistakes here. Lady Jane Grey’s mother, Francis, was Edward VI first cousin. Therefore they were second cousins, and Queen Mary I was Lady Jane’s second cousin too, not her aunt.
I mean....witches do exist and always have. I am one. But we certainly arent what people seem to believe. I personally just create tinctures and other things to help people
Maybe Alice, as a right-on anti-royalist Leftie, could go round to some of the basement flats of Notting Hill and view some of the modern day latrines improvised by the carnival goers.
It's important that history like this isn't wiped away.
Oh, that is sooo bad!😂
@@virginiajayhudgins8277 I did what I did, and I'd do it again!
Oh my god the snicker that left my mouth 😂
Yes, it's really horrible the way people poo-poo history these days.
I tell people I my toilet is 600 years old , BUT it only just looks that way.
Great episode! I felt flushed with excitement
I was so excited, I couldn't hold it in.
I've always felt profoundly sorry for Lady Jane Grey. Through no fault of her own she got caught up in political machinations over which she had no influence and paid for it with her life.
We don't call her Queen Jane because she never had a coronation? Neither did King Edward VIII.
BECAUSE of fkn religion
The movie “Lady Jane” is such a good historical movie.
@@michaeltelson9798 It’s historically flawed….google it.
She was named Queen. She should at least get a name in the royal books etc. she’s always left out. Disgusting😮
A really fascinating documentary on the history of our ancestors going back centuries. We must keep preserving this history. Thanks for uploading this.
I run a modern burial ground and it often intrigues me at what gets deposited in graves even in modern times. So when various grave goods are turned up and the archaeologists go into all sorts of flights of fancy about 'high status' or 'wealthy communities' I always consider my own experience. I've seen very poor people throwing ornate gold and silver jewellery into graves, I've seen household objects thrown in, I've even seen an iPod placed on the coffin lid. I've frequently had coffins with pets in them, I've had an elderly gent buried with a set of compasses and professional drawing pens and a lady buried in a proper glittery ball gown. All this in a burial ground about hundred metres square and 120 years old. Imagine what silliness future archaeologists might make of that lot :-) . The truth is we can never know what was going through the minds of the bereaved at the graveside and whether grave goods mean what we 'think' they mean.
You are spot on. In college I did a survey of a cemetery in Pickens County, AL, USA. Some of my own ancestors are buried there as is my late husband and some of his family. I absolutely love the history there for the taking just reading the stones; not just the words themselves, but the designs, size, locations within family areas, the "directions" of placement, etc.
Sadly our histories here in the US are nowhere near as long or well recorded as those in the UK. There are so many cemeteries that are no longer known today.
Think that may be one of the reasons I so enjoy these programs from the UK.
Thank you, all of you who provide such gifts to your loyal fans and supporters.
Good point but remember they didn't have multiple mass produced goods. So every bowl and cup was important. And if plac3d in a grave lost to the living and dedicated to the lost. That puts it way out of a modern 'perspective' of how goods were valued. So every object was hard won. Not exactly the same as an ipad you can get at any store. I think we need to appreciate the archaeologists that have very extensive experience in these digs. Plus remember many of these goods were traded hard and won hard. Valued beyond today's understanding. Some of these digs are pre- christ or only 300 t0 400 years post Christ,
People have been depositing objects with the bodys for thousands of years. Even though we understand they can not take the things with them we still do it .
Even though it seems like silliness, people are buried with pets, in ball gowns, with ipods, or expensive pens because it meant something to them. The things people are buried with have profound meaning beyond whether or not they were wealthy or had high status.
My grandmother ruled my parents house from her bedroom by using a handbell. When she passed away, I know a member of my family slipped the bell in her casket😅
I really like this program. But today I'm irritable, anxious and inattentive. So I'll just close my eyes and travel into Alice Roberts' melodious voice. There is no better remedy for stress. This teacher's voice is more therapeutic than 10,000 psychoanalysis sessions.
@@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 FAB..chill..go relax...take some time for yourself. But, its a smart man who knows when he needs a time out. Blessings
Came here after today’s escapades, the clam and clarity we need in this world!
Ok, maybe mention that to your therapist next time.
Agreed!
And she's so pretty, too!
Having walked around Bradgate park a thousand times and living in Anstey for some years i always thought Bradgate ruins was her home. Totally amazed at what can be found out via an excavation. Loved this episode as i felt it has put some of the stories regarding Lady Janes home into perspective. Cool.
Another superb episode in this outstanding and well presented series, anchored by the quixotic and mesmeric Prof. Alice Roberts.By Introducing digs across extended time frames, this makes for fascinating and satisfying viewing, to emphasis the passage of so many peoples, and in doing to complements our current understanding, whilst adding additional previously unknown information of our earlier ancestors. A quite marvelous series, both in concept and delivery :)
Very interesting as always. Love these videos.
another fantastic voyage into history, thank you very much
Thank you so much for this amazing episode. Alice Roberts is magnificent.
Wonderful programme. I would suggest that your description of the Irish "famine" be referred to as the genocide that it was. There was no shortage of food in Ireland at the time though the native Irish depend on the potato. London chose the blight as a good opportunity to rid the island of the troublesome Catholics once and for all. History is History. Don't sugar coat it.
Thanks Alice enjoyed it
Fabulous episode
And during the time of the so-called "potato famine", food was being exported from Ireland to England to feed the English people, mostly the wealthy who could afford it. Also, during this time, the Sultan of Turkey offered food shipments and aid to Ireland which was turned away and refused by the English government.
Yh , was a good use of food to be fair. Mainland is more important
No wonder the Irish despise the English Crown
@@gissyb1 I’m Welsh we don’t like the English either
I also can see why the Irish don't like the English.
@@bengreatrex1364I’m half Scottish half Irish and half English and I am vary conflicted at times. I can’t blame my mum for the sins of the royals.
Beautiful woman. Love archaeologist. As long as professor Alice is in it will watch them all
9 days Queen cuz her hubby was a 9xs lunatic. And the family that married her off to him knew that.
Also, food was still being grown in Ireland during the PF. But the rich Brits & rich Irish were shipping it off to Britian, filing their pockets while watching the people around them starve to death.
😊
Great program I enjoyed it immensely
Edward VIII never had a coronation, why don't we just call him Dave?
I'm starting a campaign to call her Queen Jane!
It’s a legitimate point. He was rightfully a king though, whereas Jane is seen as a usurper. I think it’s more complex then their explanation.
While the potato famine did effect the diet and restrict PART of the food staple of the Irish people....that wasn't ALL the Irish people ate. They had a wide variety of foods. Meat, vegetables, grains, etc. What DID happen...that the British professor Dr. Alice Robert's purposely left out was that the Britsh military took advantage of this blight and of the Irish people they had just recently put even further under their thumb. The potato blight ALSO affected the British people as well, however, they came to Ireland and went town to town, stealing the food stores of any stored/preserved vegetables and/or meats and grains. Now, the Irish people were left with nothing, starving to death. THAT is why many died, or, forced to flee to America.
Don't let those poor, subjugated starved Irish people..some who paid with their lives...be forgotten and written out of history, by morons that choose to leave their story out of a documentary like this, and just gloss over what the BRITISH did to them.
Shame on you History Hit!
You do realize this is a documentary that History Hit is just sharing and hasn't created. It just posts documentaries from other sources. This is from the BBC.
I want a "coprolite happens" t-shirt.
To be able to live in England or my birth place Germany and dig to find artifacts of the past even before the Roman’s is my wish before I pass away and become history. Now adays people are being cremated. By watching these kinds of shows makes me want to be buried so future generations can find my bones and whatever I’m buried with.
I'm an American and lived in Baden Württemberg for a time and I was really shocked by modern German burial practices. Is it possible to have an eternal burial plot in modern Germany? Where I was living, I was told the family of the deceased pays an annual fee to the cemetery for the plot and once there is no one left to pay the annual fee, the plot is "prepared' for another occupant. I understood this was a polite way of saying that the previous occupant was removed and this was in practice because of the limited amount of land available for use as cemeteries. I still find it hard to believe, so any insight you have would be interesting.
Remember to pick some incongruous objects for example: a stone tablet, mortar and pestle, a sword, a metal bodied camera, and a metal 🔦. Really mess with those future archaeologists.
i think that the scots and german, celts maybe even picts wer shagin each other for yrs before the romans ,,,,,,,we weren't as backward as the romans made out
i think your roots will be more scots celtic than englis,,,,the land of the scot is better anyway
@@AmyEugene I run a burial ground in the UK and our grave plots are 'sold' for a hundred years. Technically they can be re-used but ours aren't. Personally I see no issue with re-using graves especially as England is a tiny place and land scarce and expensive. Fewer people are being buried in coffins now so we offer cremated remains plots and people can scatter ashes. There have been bodies buried for thousands of years in the UK and chances are pretty much every back garden has some human remains in them. It's only the religious/spiritual aspect that bothers people and hardly any younger people are interested in that side of things.
Such poverty conditions and "workhouses" persisted right up to the onset of the Irish Revolution in 1916, even as many Irish soldiers, driven by poverty, were fighting for England in places like Iraq and India.
The narrative about the Irish potato famine is that it was uniquely Irish and that many escaped it by emigrating to North America. The reality is the potato blight affected most of Europe and many many Irish emigrated to mainland UK.
@@aib0160 what year was the famine, i cant remember
@@GailBrenner-vt9ou1845
Queen Mary Tudor of England was not Jane Grey's aunt; Mary, like her brother Edward VI, was Jane's first cousin once removed. In fact, Mary Tudor had justification for taking the throne; her father, Henry VIII left the succession to her following Edward in his Will. It wasn't entirely clear that Edward's succession plan was valid. Lady Jane was already in the Tower as it was a royal residence, and her eventual execution was as much due to her father's terrible judgment in joining a subsequent uprising in her name.
Bloody Mary killed her.
religion,,, got a lot 2 answer for,,,,,,cathlic & prodys now hordes of muslims have taken over without firing a shot
@@curiousuranus810 I didn't say she didn't, only that Mary had not wanted to execute her cousin, but Jane's father's rebellion forced her into it--at least as things were looked at in that period.
You are a descendant of Guilford Dudley? y@janscorza7549
You’d think they could manage to fact check such basic historical information.
Another great episode , the dark ages are my favorite piriod in English history , but the program as a whole is excellent .🙂👍
@maracarlisle well that 's a new one on me , Did not know that , it's what we called it when I was at school .
The period of early medieval history that occurred after the Romans left Britain is generally considered to have ended somewhere in the 10th century, meaning at the latest in 1066, when William the Conquerer became king, although there is really no definitive cutting off point. However, that period still ended approximately 400 years or more before Lady Jane Grey was executed.
@@fleetskipper1810 I was on about the earlier part of the show , not the latter .
just like to say if lady jane grey was born 1537 and now is 2024 so if the sh#t is 600 years old it is not hers
Bad math but sound logic
Exactly what I was thinking
I'm too trusting, I didnt even check the maths😂.
I think that it is really sad and should never be allowed for a cemetery to be moved. In my opinion, the school should have had to find a new location NOT the cemetery.
🤷🏻♀️ it’s been happening for millennia. Sometimes the dead need to make more room for the living.
Thank goodness the Skibidi brigade has not yet overwhelmed this corner of sanity
What does this mean 😅
The fact that's your first thought means it's already taken over your mind, my friend
At the time of the workhouse the Irish landowners were actually exporting food to England.
What your archaeological teams give the exciting vibes.
2:40
From Traveling into history @exploringisraelshistory😮❤
Plus i have the only tip is that Jaljuliya will be doing through excavation on the other side of this Arab settlement. 7:13
All the footage of Urquhart castle on Loch Ness and the Grant Tower. As a part of the Grant Clan diaspora I wait eagerly awaiting something about it. But it didn’t come. Crushed.
Why can't all people be like Alice Roberts ❤
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
When my kids were little we allowed them to say Oh Coprolite when they were really frustrated lol it was funny and got some really surprised looks when people asked us what it means hahahaha
Alice Roberts has the best narration voice on TV, It's like wading through velvet honey.
It's a archaeological Extravaganza out there
Just before the American revolution, Benjamin Franklin, who had been an anglophile, made an ambassadorial visit to Ireland and England, came away with a different perspective and frequently used the word "slavery" in referring to relations with England.
The English abolished the slave trade just fyi
@@aarons6935 No, the English had white slaves in Ireland and Scotland and didn't need black slaves anymore. Black slaves were first transported to America by the English and some of the "stately homes" of England were built on the slave trade, but the first slaves in the Americas were white slaves. The English later extended this to Australia by transporting poor people to Australia for minor crimes. Later they harvested drug crops from India and established the "drug fleet" and the drug trade to China where they set up "opium dens" to addict the Chinese, making tremendous profits. If you don't know that, you don't know the true history of England.
@@josephmcghee8887 Not quite accurate
@@aarons6935 More accurate than your false image of "jolly old England" with Mary Poppins.
@@josephmcghee8887 That was never what i said at all. Every culture on Earth has done horrific things.
Get right on in there anything for history and I am glad you are doing it and I get to see all you have found without even washing my hands.Did they enjoy corn.
Looks forward to a case in the British museum with a brass plaque bearing the caption;
"Lady Jane Grey''s Dookies".
Poor lady Jane pawn and scapegoat who lost her life so young
Are there any follow up videos detailing what the team experts found and concluded after studying all the artifacts?
I will tell my children that Alice Roberts was the Queen of england.
Yes she is 💜
This video really impacted me.
The argument that Lady Jane Grey was not called a queen because she did not have a coronation does not make sense. Edward V (one of the princes in the Tower) did not have a coronation either, but he is referred to as a king. It would be likely that Mary I would not refer to her as a queen, but why was this never revised later?
Also Edward VIII who abdicated before being crowned.
@@anthonystreeter7808 Is he referred to as ,"King"?
@normanpearson8753 nope! 😂
But Jane wasn’t a Queen by rights, she was merely a pawn in the Protestant game and they were caught out by the support for the Catholic Mary even amongst those who were Protestant
My septic tank needs to be pumped out, PLEASE come and study this one!!!
Amazing how previous generations had to survive & live
Well, that passed pretty quickly.
🥰 I really like watching this show😁
Whoever gave permission to put a pathway through a graveyard should be sacked.
Your talking about the very country that ran out of trees to build with because they harvested them too rapidly
So Armstrong contaminated the site with artifacts from his own time…amazing. Sadly there are still people who believe in witches…and I don’t refer to Wiccan’s but the far religious right in the USA. The Anglo Saxon finds were jaw dropping. That Roman bowl, the boar’s head, the bead, and the bracelet, oh my..such gifted artisans! Anything related to Vikings always gets my attention, as well as anything related to spindles and weaving. Great video…an absolute treat!
The only people in America who believed in witches came from Europe, mostly England and they lived in New England, and now adays are almost all democrats so.....
"the far religious right in the USA" may still believe in witches, but the far left in the USA believe a man in a dress is a woman. I think the witches theory is much more believable .
Around 29:00 burials are mentioned where males are laid in a straight pose with their weapons in front of them while females are deeper and laid on their sides. if you were to flip the position of the burrials from vertical to horizontal it looks like warriors standing in front of the women to pretect them...
That might be me ascribing meaning to the unknown but it seems like a logical idea that in death the warriors would continue to protect the weaker of the community.
"Shitter's full!"
Merry Christmas 😂
Most of those "people who fled Ireland" were in fact forcibly transported by England for non-payment of taxes by the Irish who were starving and suffering illnesses.
Many were, certainly, but I doubt it was most. The more fortunate ones were able to get themselves to America or, failing that, at least to Scotland or England, where conditions for the poor were (marginally) better.
23:35 Wasnt King James also openly gay? Could that be why he was so against witches because he despised women?
I love how she says known nooooowwnn
The worst job in the world, was called the 'GROOM OF THE ROYAL STOOL, BEST NOT TO IMAGINE IT, IT WAS A REALLY CRAPPY JOB.
Ha ha ha is so funny hilarious ha ha yuuk
I am 94% British/Irish. As I watch this, and I hear how so many Irish immigrated to the United States, I can’t help but wonder if someone there was my ancestor who came to America because of the potato famine. I do know that my great great grandparents came from the eastern United States. I wish I could trace back to find “my people”.
Does that make you 6% American?
you can, ancestry and 23 and Me do that for you. I was told I was Jewish and my family was from Ukrainian. Turns out to be lies. I'm 98.% Northern European and 2% African.......
Battle of Culloden was fought on 16th April 1746, not 1745.
That left a lasting impression.
That picture of Mary Tudor at 4:23 reminds me of the actor Dennis Waterman
I feel I might regret watching this while eating dinner. 🤷♀
Amazing to me they are digging up WW2 and Korean war areas. That wasn't that long ago that we forget?
My old secondary school was just big estate the original mansion house is used for head,aster and other teachers but the original owners were Lord and Lady Gray here in northern Ireland I wonder were they relatives
They must be related to lady Jane Grey family Lord Grey i mean
Lady Jane Grey wasn't first cousin of King Edward VI. Her mother was.
why is the HH insert so much louder than the rest? its shocking for those whose use decent size speakers.....
Or headphones, ouch!
13:29 why move the remains? Isn't the original place of burial a place of historical significance too?
@610... If you know anything about Digging for antiques, in privys, this guy is really a miss without any gloves!!!
If only I had your hair. Brilliant video.
I love your show, but have to differ on the dates: Lady Jane Gray lived for a short time in the middle of the 16th century, and died around 1553 so her shit would be about 475 years old, not 600.
How vulgar and unnecessary. I'm sure you could have found a more accurate, polite and appropriate description to lead with.
Life as a human is very sick.
Came for the history, stayed for the redhead professor 😍
I once read a theory that Jane Grey and Edward VI were actually switched at birth and that that was why Edward passed over his sisters, they were both born at roughly the same time, and if Frances Grey had a son and Henry needed a son, I could see them holding off on announcing Frances' child's sex until they knew whether Henry had hit the son jackpot yet. They don't give an actual date for Jane's birth, just the month, so its hard to tell if she was born before or after Edward. The Nobles had the habit of keeping the new mother isolated both before and after the birth, so the actual birth of Frances' child could have been kept quiet until Jane had hers. If you were that high in the aristocracy you pretty much had a life and death power over your attendants.
Time to stop reading historical fiction.
While Queen Victoria dinned on her favorite vegetable… the potato … Ireland starved. She didn’t do a damn thing about it except continue to gore herself while people starved and died. And yes …. She was aware.
Don't believe all you are told.
Queen Victoria was gored?
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Does anyone know where all the past, more than 10, SEASONS of Digging for Britain can be found?
This page loaded for me with a thumbnail and link, upper right, for the 2010 season free on Acorn TV.
@@wmanad8479 Too bad Acorn isn’t free in USA.
Whys it keep skipping like a disc
It's so beautiful looking
wonder way the English took away all the other food besides the potato during the blight
@@Littleowl85352 At least the Native Americans did send cornmeal during the potato famine . It is a relationship that survives till this day.
There’s a few mistakes here. Lady Jane Grey’s mother, Francis, was Edward VI first cousin. Therefore they were second cousins, and Queen Mary I was Lady Jane’s second cousin too, not her aunt.
That’s not the kitchen, it’s the toilet!
Awe bless, thee wee one keeps landing and getting pushed off. At one poi t it looks as if it fell off. 😢
Is there anything Louis Theroux cannot do?
Mary I was not Lady Jane's aunt, they were distant cousins.
1st cousins once removed
It's a shame they could not have geophys'ed the Orkney Viking hall to get an a curate size x
Time Team dug this some years ago and found a toilet
I mean....witches do exist and always have. I am one. But we certainly arent what people seem to believe. I personally just create tinctures and other things to help people
Maybe Alice, as a right-on anti-royalist Leftie, could go round to some of the basement flats of Notting Hill and view some of the modern day latrines improvised by the carnival goers.
So, just to recrap, they dug up Lady Jane’ poo 💩 and they found a penny! Awesome!
WAR IS EVIL
And gay.
Digging for Britain? How long will it take for you to find it?
So, they found where Lady Jane sat on the "throne". 🙂
16 yr old child 😢
Jane was legally and legitimately Queen. Queen Jane Grey.
Lady Jane poop 💩 and then they had a break through!
This episode has been somewhat like the excavation of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Ireland.
Ole Braggie Park eh...Great when it snowed...
Does it still smell?
Yeah she had no idea she’d become queen and then would be decapitated
Mary Tudor wasn't Jane Grey's aunt.