Neil Oliver - ‘…a violent & savage break-up’ - Podcast episode 31
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Episode 31: In this episode we’re on the trail of a savage, violent and mysterious battle that changed the British Isles forever.
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We hapless citizens of the UK have suffered enough over the past 3 years in consequence of abysmal government decision making,surely we can endure a little longer and demand the absolute dissolution and rebuilding of all publicly funded institutions who's incompetant decision making is bringing our Country to the brink of total destruction
Psychopaths love you to think they are stupid.
Yes, none of this mess is a result of poor performance. Every last detail has been orchestrated
Do you genuinely believe that the idiots upon who'm we have so ludicrously bestowed such wreckless authority were ever capable of producing a "PLAN" ? No, every decision taken is cynical opportunism@@billmarsh1971
@@iandixon2278 I agree they’re idiots, our National politicians.
However it’s not their plan, but that of extraordinarily evil, clever, careful, self appointed “elite” class.
dixon so all the governments of the western world, all in lockstep by pure coincidence, all "Build Back Better " all leaders coming into power via The World Economic Forum young leaders programme, all implementing the United Nations agenda 20/30 . This is just incompetence?
When Mr Oliver speaks, I can't help but listen! A wise and great human being!
I want his voice for my nav system
@@nancybaumgartner6774 brilliant idea Nancy! 👍
@SL I just like having a voice . It would be good for a nav system . I do not know what kind of human being he is .
He can read and quote stuff but in No way is he intelligent.
I am from the Netherlands, but feel really connected to the British islands. Love the history, and you speaking about it Neil🥳
You are a part of the story. The Anglos Saxons came from what is now Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands or Holland as we know it. My father a Scot, my mother English and my DNA mostly Norse. We are a nation of mongrels and all of it European and the vast majority of that Celtic.
@@aib0160 Ohh tanks, nice o here that. My great grandfather, mother’s site, was English was married to a Chinese woman, my great grandmother, so there was a little connection. I didn’t think that go so far🙂. We and I’d up in the Netherlands.
@@elisabethdeling5195 We will share DNA I'm sure.
@Michael Doolan We are European but a mix from pretty mush every corner of Europe. We are not the indigenous Britons that were here when the Romans arrived, but their DNA is still present. Those Iron Age Britons were also mixed with the Beaker People who came from modern day Portugal. If you are interested in this stuff I strongly suggest you get a DNA test as it'll take you right back to somewhere in Africa, where it all started and all points between.
@@aib0160 😀
Never heard of this epic event up until now. Thank you Niel and also your fellow producers .
NEIL: Your comparison with the First World War is very apt: but - notice - there is one CLASS of people around today who still don't care about the gore THEY CREATE in the lives of other people. We, the serfs, have still not learned our lesson. After the Second World War we tried to eject that CLASS; and our parents established institutions to prevent that CLASS from ever ruling again. But that CLASS has dismantled the Grammar Schools and Scotland's finest Academies; and returned things to THEIR 'normal'; with 'aristocracy/wealth/technocracy' ruling, and 'meritocracy' once more relegated to the side-lines.
Spot on...
Amazing comment accurate af.
Well as day follows night we know what wiĺ inevitably happens, but so do they. Mmm wonder what their end game is likely to be.
Yes, good summary. Unfortunately, this generation of oligarchs have recruited to their cause the product of enormous global capital, including especially high speed, high geographic precision mobile telephony / data plus hegemonic occupation of “the top layer of the internet”, such as Google, RUclips, Facebook, Twitter.
This has created unprecedented capabilities which reach into citizens every waking moment, and controls most of what they see & hear.
That power to propagandise, on the one hand, with a kind of uniformity that previous tyrants couldn’t imagine, also permits tuned (personal) propaganda. Almost certainly all automated, with humans merely steering the odd specific & tweaking algorithms, the spook-intensity of many decades of data collection & learning of the power of this new dimension of mobile + data + near-monopoly access to our eyes & brain has been utterly critical to the deception.
@@GT380man It is odd how history keep throwing up Caesars, Borgias, Louis XVIs, Napoleons, Hitlers, Stalins, Maos, Pol Pots, Xi-Zinpings, Kim Jong Ungs, Schwabs, and Saudi princelings; but these excessively psychopathic and sociopathic creatures never seem to learn the lessons of their own history. As you point out, though, today they have the media 'tech' advantage: so who knows what lies in wait for us - and them - this time around! If only they would leave us to our own devices, instead of trying to CONTROL everything, they might do better.
Putting up a sign in my store to promote all of Neil's podcasts.
I agree Neil with increasing anxiety and fear of what’s happening in our world! Yes, delving into History is exciting and comforting to me,also! We can continue to learn from our history and our ancestors! History never dies! 👍👍👏👋😊
Well spoke !!
History is Stranger than Fiction !!!
Are you aware the Queen of England does not Own the Crown , she rents it from the Pope
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Fascinating history - brilliant Neil.
These are worrying times Neil. People think life has gone back to normal so all’s good. It’s a false sense of security for sure in Australia. Thank you for your clips they are really well put together and balanced, without BS. Blessings to you and your family 🌸🌺
🇨🇦patron, sipping my morning coffee, I shivered and literally got carried away to another time and place. The beautiful accompanying landscape video and music, made it even easier to be mesmerized. Thank you, ❤️🙏. Wonderful presentation.
I'm 58, and never even heard about (as far as I can recall) this most important of battles of my land - staggered! Absolutely fascinating stuff!!!
Great to be among friends & fans of Love Letter :)
Very well presented and narrated. You brought this story alive for me, an old lady with Scottish mother and English father. Thank you 🙏🕊
My mother-in-law also has an English father and a Scottish mother. I got to know my wife's grandmother before she passed. She was from Glasgow, had a great sense of humor, and we got on great together.- even though my heritage is "Hun". It's a good thing too. She never forgot or forgave an injury to any member of her family. Her bad side was a most unpleasant place to be and, thank God, I never went there.
@@peterplotts1238 You just explained my Scottish mother to a T. She was brought up hard but always food on table, grandpa, grew most of their fruit & veg, kept chickens, he foraged & hunted. My Granny's stews & jams tasted wonderful. Not so much her herbal remedies lol.
My English father was much loved, granny would joke 'Look, we welcome an English Catholic soldier into our Scottish protestant family 😁'
@@janettepettinger8439 Yes, their lives were in no way luxurious. They came to America during the war after surviving the aerial assault of my misguided cousins known as the blitz. My mother-in-law was 12 or 13. Her dad stayed behind to work in a Spitfire factory and came after the war. Scotland is an amazing country.
@@peterplotts1238What a lovely story and yes Scotland is beautiful, harsh, but also strong and wild. I love it. M&D, for holidays, used to tour the Scottish Highlands & coastline. Mum could never get enough of her homeland.
You're BRITISH then.
We live in Australia but to a big number of us you talk of OUR history. Thank You.
Same here in Canada! Ancestors from Cornwall
I've lived here in Australia for 10 years, this podcast helps me connect back to home and history. I love it.
Yes, I agreed Neil! History & archeology uplifts and informs me too; plus serious daily meditations to keep me in Present Time/Moment while looking up at the skies to Watch, Wait & Wonder. Amazing how the mind opens allowing Essence to rise & spread as Awe rises; and our planet is such a treasure of beauty, wonder & unlimited loving humans standing and walking with you Neil.💌💌
That’s a great way of looking at life … I totally agree with you 😎
My Hellenic leftover self appreciates this montage. It's within these tales that answers for challengers we face today can be found. Overcome we can the disruptions of these days . United we stand, divided all fall . Protect your heritage against corporations that are more powerfull than nation states. Anyhow lead a good life and most importantly stay free.
Bravo, well said! 👏👏👏
Loved your history documentaries over the years and I'm loving your channel too mate. Nice work.
Love this Series: you are bringing History to life, while educating me on so much.
I love these podcasts! They always leave me with questions which I then go searching for answers. Thanks Neil! 👑⚔️🛡
We welsh still call Scotland - yr alban but Strathclyde and Cumbria will always be the old north or- yr hen ogledd because they were cymru like us
Yet another beautifully narrated and informative episode. Loving these podcasts for me personally they’re a refreshing yet sobering distraction from the absolute insanity of these current times.
I bloody love history especially by you.
You are a good man. Period. Keep it up! More needed! 😁. Here from CANADA. HOME OF THE OPPRESSED!
You folks need to do something abut that on polling day. He can't get away with what he did to those truckers.
@@BigMrFirebird The problem is we don't "elect" our leaders any more, we are finding out now they are "SELECTED" by hidden hands. The good news is, now that we know, that's going to change... BIGLY!
@@Liz-ek3hc I truly hope so.
i wont be working to own nothing, so......
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Eff the wef.
And I’ll not eat crickets. I’d find it easier to eat Klaus Schwab if that was the only alternative.
Had an argument with my mate about this. He said “folk have too much stuff anyway”! Whit?!?!? Explained you won’t even own clothes but naw! I said it is people prerogative to have as much, or as little as they CHOOSE. lol. What has this world become?! Everyone living in their child part of their brain. 👶 🍼.
@@GT380man Carcinogenic cricket flour is already being used in biscuits cakes etc. Check food labels.
Brilliant!
Thank you Mr Oliver. 🙏
I've wanted to know more about this battle for ages. Thank you so much for making this vid and explaining.
Hi Neil and Paul. I loved this. Brilliant, yet harrowing. It's being undiscoverable where it happened, allows the imagination to wander. Which is something I don't often do anymore. Thank you 😘
Hi what a pretty picture you've on your profile! Just decided to stop by and say Hi!! I hope my compliment is appreciated 😊
Funny this should pop up as just today I have begun translating The Battle of Brunnanburgh from the Olde English last night.
Better add another n to that title, then, as the original sources spell it Brunnanburgh, "The Fort by the Spring".
@@BigMrFirebird Ta, my mistake. Edited. Although in my defense my version of the poem The Battle of Brunanburgh (edied by N Kershaw in 1922 uses only the two N's,
A piece of history I was not aware of thanks Niel .Can someone explain to me why we open our beloved Islands to people who have scant regard for it ?
Because it's always been the case from the start?
We don't because we aren't in charge.
"My default setting is worry." - Me too!!
Grievous as the casualties were, an invasion of English territory by an alliance of Scots, Irish Vikings and Strathclyde Welsh, was defeated by the levies of Wessex and Mercia.
Driving invading armies out of your territory, with great slaughter, is a victory, however costly.
The intention of the invaders was to drive the "Saxon" back into the sea...they failed.
The intention of the English army was to stop the enemy, and drive them out....they succeeded.
Did the pre-Scots continue to pay any taxes/tribute to the burgeoning, richer, southerners during the pre-1066 period ? If not, then maybe it was more of a defacto draw, with the Scots, Welsh, Norse-Irish Alliance having, by an admittedly messy pre-emptive strike, staved-off a precocious Anglo-Saxon dominion over the whole 'Long-Island' (as Neil likes to call it). I don't know, but just wondered as a fair-minded (I hope) Englishman.
The island called Britain has unique geography,relatively warm because of the Atlantic warm winds,it is very unique....too bad it has been ravaged for so long.I coudnt believe my ears that all the forests we see today on the isles are planted,no old growth anywhere and all the majestic megafauna and native species, hunted to extinction.
Like Gandhi said,you can tell a lot about a group of people in the way they treat their animals.British colonists and Indian Kings hunted animals in India while common people worshipped them as deities...and we wonder why "elites" are destroying the world.
"Elites" is what they call themselves. Let's call them by somehing more properly descriptive like "the horrifically rich" or the "pathologically rich."
And yes their greed knows no bounds.
How people can call a patchwork of herbicide ridden large lawns, ie....most of what's left of the British countryside, beautiful is beyond me. That type of farmlandl is so sterile it's incapable of supporting a Grasshopper. The so called National Parks are overgrazed by sheep for the most part and wetlands of note are long gone with just some small remnants remaining maiinly in nature reserves. Peat bogs along with being drained for agricultaral use, are destroyed so people can be supplied with Peat for their gardens. Thankfully that is legally coming to an end in a couple of years time but should have ceased many years ago. And this country has the gall to preach to others about destroying rain forests etc!....yeah right!
A profound statement on the formation of the British Isles, and fabulously, as well as sensitively told by Neil Oliver.......thankyou Neil......explains a lot to me!
Glad to learn of this battle. Thank you.
As a boy in the early 60s we used to stage pitched battles.
We fought with sticks. There was a lot of shouting & running about. No one got seriously injured. A couple of cry babies ran home to their mammies.
I often wonder in an earlier time would many of us simply have gone in to our chief’s standing army to fight & die gloriously on some forgotten field.
i rember those days in glasgow,we used to decorate our swords with nails like the patterns on old targes like they used in jacobite uprisings and make axes using flattened cans attatched to sticks
There's no glory. Just awful gore and terrible aching loss.
@@sandfly60 They only discover this when all too late.
the past is the future
I love history, very interesting thank you. I always wondered why England and Scotland remained separated.
Yayy we all love you Neil! Keep speaking out brother 🙏💓
Thank you so much for telling us so well what is known about the great battle of Brunanburh and how it affected the course of history of Britain. I was looking forward to it. 😊
Fascinating Neil. Thank you very much for this.
And the third most important battle ever fought on British soil is the Battle of Lewes (1264) and hardly anybody has heard of it.
Neil, PLEASE make a video about that Battle of Lewes 1264.
Such great quality! Consoling and informative presentation.
I suppose the Battle of Britain was fought OVER British soil!
Coming from Stoke Golding though, I’d put my mark on the Battle of Bosworth (1485)
I'm from near the Wirral(Liverpool) and drive through Lewes 5 times a week. Every day I give thanks for that battle and laugh that Thomas Paine lived there before he wrote "The Rights of Man"
I may be just one but I remember.
Bless you fellow Englishman x
I have, because they reenacted it here last month along with the 1265 Battle of Evesham. Both important 👍
Would love to hear about this. The only Lewes I know is at the mouth of the Delaware River and settled by Swedes! I studied this area while I was in college. We slept in the light house barracks and went out on a research ship in the Delaware estuary every day.
Daughter in law with a masters from Uni of London.....I had a course in British schooling during WW2 from there. Her grandfather was a Scot! My father's family as well. At 76 my dream and hers is to return to Scotland.
Stay awesome Neil ...bless you mate from QLD Australia...
Thank you for that history lesson. Inlightening
The past isn't dead as long as we remember and are strong enough to enlighten others
Now we, the descendants of the forces of Constantine and Athelstan, need to come together to face down once and for all the evils that threaten us in our own island homes.
When the call comes, I, for one, will be ready to March...
I love your take on history and your love for British history. I come from a mixed British and Polish/Ukrainian background, so history for me is alive and happening right now.
Can’t believe the coincidence! Today we visited Beverley Minster where we learned of Athelstan visiting the remains of St John of Beverley, renowned for his healing power, on the way to fight at Brununburgh! And then we watched episode 31 tonight! Absolutely brilliant!
That this is free is amazing. Thank you
Had to revisit this episode after just watching the new movie- The last kingdom seven Kings must die.
Just brilliant. Thankyou 🙏 👏
how do you know that the past isn't full of popular lies and illusions of the day ? I feel like nothing is for certain except uncertainty
Amazing history and storytelling! Thank you so much!
Neil,thank you for this story of our history> I am American, English ancestry, so it is my beloved history as well. May we find the strength of our ancestors to get through this horrible time. God bless, Celeste
Very very interesting if I had you as a teacher when I was a small lad I wouldn't need anyone else
The Wirral seems the likely area to me as the most logical whenever I have heard this battle discussed. To me though this was a victory for Athelstan who drove out these invading armies out of England and if he had lived longer may have United Britain for good. What followed though was a succession of weak kings who did not follow up his advantage gained. History may have been so different, where is our Athelstan now when he is needed more than ever.
I'm worried too, Neil
Top man and well worth listening to your opinions 👍
This is breathtaking and devastating. Pray for peace. Pray for peace.
Brilliant Neil..thank you.
Awesome Neil, need wisdom to combat fear and yes, the past holds so many lessons.
Hello Neil ..My ancestors were the servants of St Columba . And I can just lie in the garden all day looking at birds flying above me on the blue .
So passionate!! I honestly went into settings because i thought it was on x2 speed ;)
Ahhh....But it was WAY more easier back in old times. I'm happy to go out and fight for my country with a blunt iron sword and a leather clad shield... with a brother wielding a Bow and Arrow.
We can't use those instruments these days.
This war, the one Millions of people across the Globe are facing right now... is not about what 'Weapons you can hold in your hands'.
It's about the silent weapons. The weapons used that no one in particular can be held account for.
There are so many to blame, you can't pin it down to just one ONE person.
In the not too distant future.... WATER will be Valuized and rationed in the western worlds.
Great stuff Neil. With you all the way. Stay safe.
Neil, we are the same. My default is worry. Lived my life as though I were in Vietnam. I am always looking for Charlie ..Has served me well as I remain Human
Excellent reporting and information this is why I like history there is so much of it at 62 I'm never going to hear or read all of it from Both sides. Thank you
I always wondered how the "news" did spread in those days
and how reliable it was.
One of my most favorite podcasts
Thank You all your Videos are wonderful. Your a wonderful professor.
The greatest stories ever told...😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Brilliant, thank you. Really enjoying this series!
Keep On Keeping On
While it's nice to be patriotic to ie; England/Scotland/Wales. As an Englishman i also feel very British! Theres something good about having that connection between us, I hope that never changes and my family both sides hail from Ireland but i am British!! Love these Podcasts interesting and makes you think about deeper things too.
What is Rishi? Neither English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish.
The Brits were here before any of the other terms applied.
@@BigMrFirebird yes true. I heard the only true brits left are the Welsh as that’s where they went due to other incoming people. The Picts disappeared and the rest of Britain 🇬🇧 made up of ancient refugees 🤷🏻♂️
@@Reearl The Cornish and Irish were original Britons, too, since it was the Romans who named the whole group of Islands Britannia.
Fascinating. I grew up in Axminster where there’s a Brunemburg Way. Never knew the potential significance. Thank you!
Brilliant fascinating intriguing
Leaving me wanting more
For the passion and desire of the lineage that brings us to where we are today
Thank you dear sir
wow!.. thank you Neil, I have learnt something today, I found that very interesting, and I never knew.
out of great suffering there is great change. I believe I am from Danish ancestry, first of Ireland and at some point moved to Scotland, but now here we live in England. 😊
"Nothing in this world is new ."
All we can do when the anxiety becomes too much, is to distract ourselves in whatever way we can.
And, what, in your opinion, is the best way to 'distract ourselves'?
@@mikeoglen6848 When I can do nothing but think and worry about what's going on in the world, I distract myself by:
Taking time out from the internet
Watching uplifting movies Reading
Exercising, and
Meditating
It is woven into lives like mine.........people who have drifted from the homeland. You make me think of my Grandfather WWI , husband 21 years my senior fought in Europe WW2.Our son , daughter, daughter in law Jamaican, and my magical grand daughter. My ...mixed race and all sporting British Isles in our blood.
Niel.back in the mid 70s I went on a school trip to Wembley stadium to see the schoolboys International. My uncle was telling me that when the Wembley stadium was in the early planning and location. One of the proposed locations was on the Wirral. This location was finally dismissed, because the site location was a ancient battle ground.
I never asked what battle, but wish I had.. Only years on do I realise that I hadn't heard of any battle ground in wirral history, until I heard of Brunenburgh..
So my thinking is that possibly the is a clue within the first stages of planning the site for the Wembley stadium.. If such plans still exist
Really interesting. Wouldn’t that be something, if cultured men with a sense of history and of nation, did consider that location?
Other battlefields have been encroached upon for development, so I doubt this principle holds true.
@@GT380man I doubt it. Money talks.
A lovely video as ever. I was struck how denuded of trees some huge areas still are! Such a pity.
What an horrendous battle. Poor souls.
Unfortunately like many that opposed the vaccine you, like me, are a highly intelligent sensitive soul...I'm finding it really hard right now2forgive cafes and restaurants for locking me out during our v pass times here all last year in Ireland...I'm suffering now from a delayed sort of PTSD....
I totally get you, I don't go to the nazi cafes anymore
I am working in full gear as punishment for not being one of them. Psychological discrimination
@@thewildwoodlandgarden.420 it could be that people had a myriad of smaller traumas which the bigger one brought out
Your reading from the Anglo-Saxon chronicle about Athelstan's victory over the Norse invaders made me sit up. I've always thought the reference to "Dings Mere" in the poem referred to either the Dee or Mersey.
Thought it was "Dingas Mere"? and your theory is as good as any other. However, it was taken from a poem and it may be just that, a poem.
wonderful as always. best cash spent this year for this patreon channel
Thank you.
thank you sir .
Neil, it is difficult for those who are suppressed by a small maniacal bunch of dock bullies and suffer a present fear, even if it is NOT all a lie, to look back and try to discover what was. The present moment is "entertained" with a such and so many fear tactics through much evil propaganda. You should be a peace, my friend. You know!
I look forward to these so much
Hi what a pretty picture you've on your profile! Just decided to stop by and say Hi!! I hope my compliment is appreciated 😊
@@eshagberiemperor not really, you sound like a creep
Thank you
Brilliant
Will come back to finish off listening to this interesting story, later Neil..its time to sleep..
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Really digging these pod cast Neil ❤🇨🇦
Wish he had more likeminded People like yourself a breath of fresh air and common sense
So I would love someone to fact check or give me their opinion on something I read in a biography of Athelstan. Prior to and during this battle wolves, bears and various birds hung around knowing there would be an easy meal. This was frightening to the Southern army as they are all tangible symbols of Odin's power. And they were relying on prayers to an invisible god. Therefore when Athelstan claimed victory he was claiming a Christian victory and that was of real importance at the time. No idea if that's true.
Not heard of this before. The reference to the animals was from the poem, and thus may have no basis in actual fact. that said, the animals mentioned were all native back then.
I "CHOOSE" ... "not" to WORRY all the time but worry always sneaks back until I remind myself - that's NO WAY TO LIVE! The Power of NOW is a CHOICE .. in how to react to any given moment. Sometimes easier said than done - it's true.
Fascinating! 🙏
I imagine soldiers from every part of the north and south where involved in the battle.
Don't forget the West African platoon from south Londinium.They stopped killing themselves for the common cause!!
It's unlikely to be Devon, if Athelstan marched North and Constantine marched South....It sounds like it should be in the North of England, somewhere. Probably is near Liverpool or similar. It would be fab to find something to confirm it, wouldn't it?
That would take grave pits at the least. But I'd wager serious money that it's nowhere near where you say.
Love this
Interesting. I would put the battle where the hatred of North and south still runs deep, like Carlise