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you get a lot wrong and you miss a lot (which is fair enough, especially as you are a yank) but stating "London was a hub of the slave trade" is a false and slanderous lie, propogated by Americans who wish to push the blame of slavery onto the British. (who stopped slavery) London was a Hub of world trade. what ever any of that trade was, it was trading in stocks and shares... THERE WAS NO SLAVERY IN BRITAIN ! saying "London was a hub of slavery" is like saying "Wall Street is a hub of sneaker manufacturing" no.. you can trade in shares in Nike and Addidas on wall street, but they dont make sports shoes there.
Great idea but a lot wrong. Including that the Monarch can’t enter the City of London without permission . J Draperr does great videos about London from their tour guide knowledge. Unlike you she does deep research on facts so she isn’t just promoting 100 year old myths that arose from the ceremony of the Pearl Sword which actually acknowledges the monarch’s sovereignty over the City. The City does have unusual levels of self governance but that doesn’t make it independent of the British Monarchy. There’s enough fake news on the internet without you promoting more. But your response to someone who pointed out you didn’t even pronounce Thames correctly (that being typical of you!) makes me think you have no interest in really getting things right. Just in getting more content out there. Shame. You have great ideas but it means I won’t be back. This myth arose
Thank you for creating such fascinating map content! I've always been captivated by cartography, and your work perfectly satisfies my craving for historical maps, city maps, and the History of historic locations. Keep up the great work my friend!
Instead of building the Monument 202 ft high and 202 ft from the origin of the fire, why not build it 0 ft high and on the spot itself? I've always wondered this.
Having lived in Clerkenwell near St John’s Gate & working on Fleet St for 10 years - my BEST ADVICE to NEW AND EXPERIENCED visitors to London - is to explore on foot, avoid main roads and get lost in the many narrow alley ways around London Wall, Temple, Blackfriars, Guildhall and Leadenhall in particular. It’s in these alleys you will discover some of the oldest & unique & near forgotten remnants of the city, which most tourists and residents miss. Enjoy!
I'm a 70yr old born a man of Kent, moved up to London SE, became a Kentish man, from 6yrs old till, I moved, "upt noorf" @ 21yrs old, I had family all over London, the Platts, and Brownings, and of course the "Smifffs" Great City to grow up in, But yer can stuff it, when yah got kids to care for,
If we didn’t have the second amendment, the King of England could come barging into your house right now and start pushing you around. Do you want that? Huh? Do you want someone pushing you around?
23:15 It's London Overground, a National Rail service (with TfL branding) that runs through it, not the tube. I'm lucky enough to drive the trains through them every day. I still marvel at it every time I go through.
yeah, that was a small goof, given that it used to be part of the Underground. But! What sort of hurt my ears was the way he pronounced "Thames" when saying Thames Tunnel, He did it twice! But at least he was consistent. And I'm an American, so otherwise I sound like him.
@@sambell309 I love Medieval architecture but i must say Paris is better now since Haufmann's work on the city. Street are wider and cleaner. Paris remains one of the most beautiful city in the world (well it was before the 2000's at least). But i think London is one of the most beautiful city too.
/ðeːmz/ or "thaymz. would have been how the Thames was pronounced in Shakespearean times. That is preserved in Rhode Island, for example, where there is a street Thames that is pronounced as /ðeːmz/ or "thaymz." The pronunciation in Britain changed to "temz" (/tɛmz/) over the years but the memo never reached the US. As with so many pronunciation and spelling differences between US and UK English, the US versions are usually the more conservative (ie older) versions. (p.s. I'm a Londoner).
Brilliantly done. For your own sanity though, I would recommend adding the words "Thames" "Tames" and "Tems" to your blocked words list in your comment settings. 😂
It's always interesting to hear how visitors to the city pronounce Thames. It feels like such a simple word to me purely down to familiarity but the sheer breadth of different pronunciations I've heard over the years is kind of incredible. I didn't know there were so many ways to pronounce such a short word.
@@ArtemisScribe I think it comes down to it being not very intuitive. Starts with a "th" that doesn't get pronounced like one, which is quite uncommon I think. I'm sure there are other examples, but I can't think of any right now :D It then goes on with "ames" which looks like the very common words "names" and "games" and "same", all of which are pronounced differently to how Thames is pronounced. I never really had an issue with the pronunciation being from Germany, because we call that river the "Themse" (pronounced like in English but with an added E at the end), and TH often is pronounced T in German, so the correct pronunciation feels right to me. But I can see how a lot of people can get very confused by it because it doesn't follow the most obvious pronunciation rules.
@@maikhildebrandt9921 yeah it's kind of cool to figure out that actually the way we say it is a hangover of the more Germanic roots of the language rather than anything to do with how we pronounce things now
@@maikhildebrandt9921"Thyme" comes to mind as another example. Most Americans know the proper pronunciation of the Thames River in my experience. I remember learning it in my youth. I do try to be charitable when I hear mispronunciations of various words, but I must admit hearing that one mispronounced is very cringe-inducing! 😓
Though I was born in London, lived there for four years and ain't lived there for 20, it always fills me with a sense of pride seeing my city rise up out the horizon any trip down there. It will always have a place in my heart, with it's lumps and bumps and ugly bits, but also it's beauty, impeccable character and incomparable vibe that will stay with me where'er I go. You may take the boy out of London, but you can't take the London out the boy. Bless you namesake, proper and well researched piece, more power to ya!
Thanks for an outstanding collaboration. You two complement each other so well. When I inherited my mother’s diaries, I discovered I had survived the 1940 blitz (barely born!). We lived under ‘bomber alley’ so were lucky to pull through.
Dan, I'm from Brazil and from a very young age I was interested in the urban side of places, I have a collection of maps of the places I've visited and I've always loved the historical context involved and man... your channel is a gift, I believe for everyone who loves this subject Thank you very much! Hugs from Brazil❤️🇧🇷
Forgive me for sounding a little up myself but as an Englishman, I should like to congratulate you and thank you for this production. It is quite simply by far the very best view by any american of the "ol' country" that I've had the pleasure to come across since first I dipped into the land of You Tube in the first place. Bravo!
The foundations (part of) of the Roman amphitheatre are on display in the bottom level of the Guildhall art gallery. Dates back to AD70. Simply amazing to see.
One of my favourite things to point out is the name of the church St Martin-in-the-Fields which is today at one corner of the very busy Trafalgar Square. When it was founded it really was "in the fields" between the City and Westminster
This is some of the most interesting, well put, well worder, introspective, well filmed piece of content that exists. Crazy good. Thank you so much for such quality!
What an incredible video! Thank you so much for sharing it. I'm heading to London this fall, and this will be a tremendous help. I truly hope you receive the recognition you deserve! ♥
As a londener myself who left back in 2001, and then lived in Rome where I worked for 6 years as a tour guide, I totally loved this! I'm reading a book set in 16th century london at the moment, and I realised that my mental map of where places like Blackfriars and Cripplegate were was totally gone. Thanks, and I will look up Jack when I next go back.
10:49 Fascinating video! From a hydrological pov, a “bar” is an accumulation of sediment on the outside of a sharp bend in a river. Looking at the flow of the Thames from left to right, Temple Bar is right where I would expect a bar to accumulate flood stage sediment.
That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s not called bar from the word barbican, meaning entrance to a fortified city/castle etc? All the gates in the city of York are called bars… Micklegate Bar, Bootham Bar, Walmgate Bar etc and they aren’t located next to the riverbank.
Daniel, stunning documentary. This is the kind of content that the History Channel or Discovery use to produce. And the cable networks wonder why no one is watching. 🙄 Thanks You❣️🙏🏼
A fascinating if slightly disjointed survey of the metropolis's core - the significance of the two hills in particular hadn't really occurred to me - but I'd have liked to see more about the expansion of the outer zone into formerly rural Middlesex & Surrey (and later Kent and Essex) from 1500 onward: maybe a later upload? But it's good to see a proper history of a place and its physical markers.
The Fleet river actually still exists, it originally ran as a stream, then as population grew it slowly turned into an open sewer, was formalised into a drain and eventually covered in. The drain still flows under Farringdon Street.
This was such a treat - I've never wanted to visit London before this! So many cool things I wanna see for myself. Such a treat to be taken on a virtual tour with Jack. I'm also amazed at how you actually covered the city from start to today - you could make a whole video on just one of the ages! The story, the maps, the cinematography...chefs kiss. Love you dude!
Jack's great - been on all his tours, and love both the detail he goes into plus his delivery. It's clearly stayed in my head too, as when some friends came down to London recently, I was spewing out facts that I'd learned from the tours!
I moved to London as an 11 year old boy and there is so much history here. I've sometimes just taken a Sunday out to walk around the old streets and churches of the City of London and marvel at the age of some of them. What a great city!
From watching your excellent video here, I've just bought Jack Chesher's book. I'm lucky to be able to cycle through London regularly and extensively, and love to see remnants of cool history.
I'm an English history geek, so this is catnip to me. LOVE THIS! London is absolutely AMAZING! Would it be possible for you to list and/or link all the diagrams and maps you feature in the video?
It's been over 10 years since I lived in London and discovered many of these things for myself. Thank you for an enjoyable stroll down memory lane (with a great deal of new information).
Great video, I loved it! I'm very proud to be a Londoner, and hearing stories from its history being told through a foreign viewpoint always brings a smile. You've got a sub! Yay!
Also in Dutch and German, "strand" is an old Germanic word which stuck around. Since the Angles came from Northern Germany they took that word with them when migrating to the Isles.
If all the comments are doing is criticising the pronunciation of a word I think you've done well on the content. And Jack is a real fountain of knowledge.
Love your city map videos and I like what you said about standing at a street corner and imagining what it looked like centuries before, im the same way. I live in Charleston SC and ive always been fascinated by the history and old maps/pictures. You should absolutely do a video on Charleston
I love the history of Londinium and the medieval City. Lombard street is named after the Italian merchants and bankers who came to trade and introduced banking. Florentine bankers were lending money to the English kings, sometimes going bankrupt because the king couldn’t repay them. European merchants’ guilds (Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Germans) were leading trade there in the Middle Ages. When things were not going well, they faced expulsions and attacks (locals started blaming the immigrants, as usual).
love these kind of videos really fascinating learning the about the streets, architecture and history while also showcasing remnants of the past that still exist. be great if you could do something like this for Sydney, Australia.
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for as we plan our trip to London in January. My son is a 20th century American historian, but we also love to learn about the origin of places. So this will be great fun
I lived in the UK (Cambridge specifically) for 5 years before moving here in the United States, watching your video made me miss Great Britain, I did not realize that there is a "secret London". Thank you for making this video! This is truly special!
Wonderfully done - narration, editing, guest contributors, editing, sound, research - the whole works! So impressive from a production perspective, but informative and entertaining as well. Well done sir!
Hi! I'm from India. In this video you mentioned about the book LONDON A Guide for Curious Wanderers. I wish to tell that I have a copy, I have not yet finished reading it. It is a wonderful book and the illustrations are really very good. When I visited London in 2024, my friend who lives in London, gifted it to me; I am so glad he did 😊.
WOW! I'm awed by the historical depth and interest value of this video. You make London come alive by giving it such a detailed heritage. But the downside to this video is that it would affect detrimentally some tourists' enjoyment of a mere two week visit. What I mean to say is that I personally would feel unsatisfied after such a short visit, knowing that with so much to see in London I could only hope to scratch the surface and that I was leaving so much behind unseen and unexplored.
Thoroughly enjoyable. I was not born in London - or even in the UK - but I have lived here for 30 years and I will be buried here. Your video showed me aspects of the place I feel is my home that I never knew. Thank you for this!
i love your work! i hope someday you explain san francisco's map. a lot is said about the city, but i will never stop loving it! such a unique place with amazing topography and i think you can do it justice
Hi Daniel, I really like your videos but wanted to point out that the portion around the Tudor period is a little misleading. The end of the Tudor period was in 1603 - British Empire was not really a thing by that point, and neither was the transatlantic slave trade. This followed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and so did the addition of the ports circled on the map. Indeed, all the port facilities east of the City were built after 1800, and reflected the real growth in East India trade that happened in the late 18th century. One interesting point is that the prior development of shipping between 1600 and 1800 happened in the City itself, or the Pool of London - this is where e.g. Customs House is, and the many wharves and shipping facilities were. The overcrowdedness and lack of capacity here is what provoked the move out eastwards. Perhaps a small edit to make clear that the Tudor period was not the period in which the Empire, slave trade, or major port developments took place would be helpful!
@@Pope_Rural_I5184 it is hard to say that the Tudors or anything much prior to 1666 and the Great Fire falls under the development of the Industrial Revolution, the Docklands, or the Empire. Maybe Empire a little bit but the overall section there is pretty anachronistic.
As an Anglo London Born Global cultured Progressive outlooking to modern architecture and design .... i humble thank everyone of my ancestors & their friends who lived and said this 20:00 to all the new progressive ideas after the 1666 and onwards .... thank you guys for keeping the old small narrow Streets & roads in the City Of London ...
Your video's just keep getting better and better! This was a great 30min dip into the history of the City of London. I am looking forward to your next one!
Good video. Having had a lifelong fascination with my home city, I was aware of much of this already, but nicely put together. London is layers and layers of stories over the top of each other. Where institutions are in the city tells another layer of history too. One way of characterising London’s history is in terms of imagining it as the perpetual struggle between political or royal power and the desire to get on with making money without that pesky political interference. The Money set up in the City and the politics out west, outside the walls. Naturally, to adjudicate on any arguments, the lawyers and the courts set up midway between the two on the Strand. In order to report on the latest spat, the journalists set up next door to them in Fleet Street. The nicer areas to live historically are to the west because the prevailing winds carried the smoke of the city over the east. And so on… There’s a whole layer of social uses over the top of the physical fabric that all tells the story of the city.
I follow Jack on social media, so that's how I've come to your channel. I can't wait to go back and watch your other videos (and future ones!). As an avid London and history lover, this was right up my alley, but the way you explained it and with the diagrams and drawings was brilliant! Well done, can't wait to see what cities you do next (come to Sydney!!! :D)
Most sincerly, I thank you for this amazing, wonderful video. So well edited, written, presented, constructed. Thank you, thank you. All best wishes for whatever you do in the future. Again, thank you.
What's nice about somebody who is not from the area doing such a history is that they are struck by all sorts of things that natives take for granted but which are pretty cool. I enjoyed "his surname wasn't 'The Eighth' but 'Tudor'" (or words to that effect), though kings (and others such as prince and princesses of the UK) don't actually have surnames at all. Princes William and Harry used 'Wales' when at school because their father was Prince of Wales at the time, though they are part of the House of Windsor and descendents of male lines of the late Queen that need a surname use 'Mountbatten-Windsor', e.g. Lady Louise M-W.
29:10 Jack Chesher summed up my thoughts on London. I lived and worked in the East End of London for 23 years. It was a time of hard work, love, leisure and sadness. The sentiments expressed by Jack, clearly echo my love for this grimey, flawed, but for me, enchanting place. Most people express the polar opposite, but perhaps they haven't discovered the gold nuggets you can find whilst exploring this truly great city; a city built by countless influxes of invaders, settlers and peaceful migrants. For me personally, a good walk on foot is the best way to go on your own treasure hunt. Thanks and best wishes. Ad altiora!
My wife and I visited London a few years ago. We got to the Tower of London really early and saw a church near by. We walked over and they invited us inside and told us we could look around and it was free. No one else there that morning except one guy who was there praying. very cool old church that I would recommend stopping in
Love the style here, just discovered your channel and watched through all the map explained videos. So many fun details, can't wait for more, though I can see there's a huge amount of work involved in each.
Congratulations on this excellent piece of work, fascinating , well presented and entertaining. Stuff I really didn’t know about and I live 50 miles up the road in Colchester.
This video was damn amazing. I plan to go to London next year and this is becoming such a creature case to find clues of olden times. So much history & stories that line the streets itself is beyond comprehension. Cant wait!
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you get a lot wrong and you miss a lot (which is fair enough, especially as you are a yank) but stating "London was a hub of the slave trade" is a false and slanderous lie, propogated by Americans who wish to push the blame of slavery onto the British. (who stopped slavery)
London was a Hub of world trade. what ever any of that trade was, it was trading in stocks and shares... THERE WAS NO SLAVERY IN BRITAIN ! saying "London was a hub of slavery" is like saying "Wall Street is a hub of sneaker manufacturing" no.. you can trade in shares in Nike and Addidas on wall street, but they dont make sports shoes there.
@@matham625 It's the "tames" vs. "tems" that upset me :D
Great idea but a lot wrong. Including that the Monarch can’t enter the City of London without permission . J Draperr does great videos about London from their tour guide knowledge. Unlike you she does deep research on facts so she isn’t just promoting 100 year old myths that arose from the ceremony of the Pearl Sword which actually acknowledges the monarch’s sovereignty over the City. The City does have unusual levels of self governance but that doesn’t make it independent of the British Monarchy. There’s enough fake news on the internet without you promoting more. But your response to someone who pointed out you didn’t even pronounce Thames correctly (that being typical of you!) makes me think you have no interest in really getting things right. Just in getting more content out there. Shame. You have great ideas but it means I won’t be back.
This myth arose
Could you do the map of fort Worth Texas please 🙏🏿 it's a lot of history there n I would love to see that
Thank you for creating such fascinating map content! I've always been captivated by cartography, and your work perfectly satisfies my craving for historical maps, city maps, and the History of historic locations. Keep up the great work my friend!
This is amazing- it was a pleasure working with you on this Dan and showing you around London! Hope everyone enjoys the video 🙌
This video wouldn’t exist without you. Thank you!!
I just ordered your book so it will remind me when I come to the UK next, to book a tour!
How do you think London will change once Islam has claimed the city?
You are a good guide. Shame Dan's pronunciation of the river Thames is so bad.
Instead of building the Monument 202 ft high and 202 ft from the origin of the fire, why not build it 0 ft high and on the spot itself?
I've always wondered this.
Map Men are under attack
Ahaha I could never
@@DanielsimsSteiner Yeah Jay's way too serious compared to this satirical nonsense (Please do a collab next time you're in the UK)
I could binge on both all day long.
I’ll mark the settlement on your map
Emengency
When the RUclips algorithm gets it right, you get to watch something special like this.
Having lived in Clerkenwell near St John’s Gate & working on Fleet St for 10 years - my BEST ADVICE to NEW AND EXPERIENCED visitors to London - is to explore on foot, avoid main roads and get lost in the many narrow alley ways around London Wall, Temple, Blackfriars, Guildhall and Leadenhall in particular.
It’s in these alleys you will discover some of the oldest & unique & near forgotten remnants of the city, which most tourists and residents miss.
Enjoy!
I'm a 70yr old born a man of Kent, moved up to London SE, became a Kentish man, from 6yrs old till, I moved, "upt noorf" @ 21yrs old, I had family all over London, the Platts, and Brownings, and of course the "Smifffs" Great City to grow up in, But yer can stuff it, when yah got kids to care for,
😂😂 I live in Spitalfields at the age of 9 I got lost in the Barbican and the police were called..
nice try Jack you're not gonna lure me into any alleys
@ Dammit. Worth a try!
“When the Industrial Revolution was picking up steam” was such a clever pun
The king isn’t allowed in my basement studio apartment either
Tell him
If we didn’t have the second amendment, the King of England could come barging into your house right now and start pushing you around. Do you want that? Huh? Do you want someone pushing you around?
😂
It's treason then!
But can the king have the hidden gold from the Japanese empire
23:15 It's London Overground, a National Rail service (with TfL branding) that runs through it, not the tube. I'm lucky enough to drive the trains through them every day. I still marvel at it every time I go through.
Prior to London Overground, it was the East London Line , which was a tube line.
yeah, that was a small goof, given that it used to be part of the Underground. But! What sort of hurt my ears was the way he pronounced "Thames" when saying Thames Tunnel, He did it twice! But at least he was consistent. And I'm an American, so otherwise I sound like him.
It was the East London underground line which was later incorporated into what is now the Windrush Line.
I’ve worked in London for 30 years; as a history grad you coexist and witness 2000 years of history every day as this video well illustrates
Favorite line from the video: "Paris is quite nice, only because the French didn't ruin it."😂 I love a witty Brit.😆
An older, much snarkier, equally funny Jay Foreman
It's also funny because the French did destroy the medieval layout of Paris to replace it with wide straight streets and a radial grid
He's not lying though 😀
@@sambell309 I love Medieval architecture but i must say Paris is better now since Haufmann's work on the city. Street are wider and cleaner. Paris remains one of the most beautiful city in the world (well it was before the 2000's at least). But i think London is one of the most beautiful city too.
@@rexfrancorum but not one of the safest (both paris and london)
River Tayms? Ouch. River Tems!
I'm from the states and kinda taken aback at how much it even grates me, he just keeps saying it!!!
Yeah I was a bit shocked to keep hearing that!
/ðeːmz/ or "thaymz. would have been how the Thames was pronounced in Shakespearean times. That is preserved in Rhode Island, for example, where there is a street Thames that is pronounced as /ðeːmz/ or "thaymz." The pronunciation in Britain changed to "temz" (/tɛmz/) over the years but the memo never reached the US. As with so many pronunciation and spelling differences between US and UK English, the US versions are usually the more conservative (ie older) versions. (p.s. I'm a Londoner).
I reckon it's a manipulative troll to get people to comment
It's all arbitrary.
Brilliantly done. For your own sanity though, I would recommend adding the words "Thames" "Tames" and "Tems" to your blocked words list in your comment settings. 😂
are you having “coronated” flashbacks? 😉
It's always interesting to hear how visitors to the city pronounce Thames. It feels like such a simple word to me purely down to familiarity but the sheer breadth of different pronunciations I've heard over the years is kind of incredible. I didn't know there were so many ways to pronounce such a short word.
@@ArtemisScribe I think it comes down to it being not very intuitive. Starts with a "th" that doesn't get pronounced like one, which is quite uncommon I think. I'm sure there are other examples, but I can't think of any right now :D It then goes on with "ames" which looks like the very common words "names" and "games" and "same", all of which are pronounced differently to how Thames is pronounced. I never really had an issue with the pronunciation being from Germany, because we call that river the "Themse" (pronounced like in English but with an added E at the end), and TH often is pronounced T in German, so the correct pronunciation feels right to me. But I can see how a lot of people can get very confused by it because it doesn't follow the most obvious pronunciation rules.
@@maikhildebrandt9921 yeah it's kind of cool to figure out that actually the way we say it is a hangover of the more Germanic roots of the language rather than anything to do with how we pronounce things now
@@maikhildebrandt9921"Thyme" comes to mind as another example.
Most Americans know the proper pronunciation of the Thames River in my experience. I remember learning it in my youth. I do try to be charitable when I hear mispronunciations of various words, but I must admit hearing that one mispronounced is very cringe-inducing! 😓
Though I was born in London, lived there for four years and ain't lived there for 20, it always fills me with a sense of pride seeing my city rise up out the horizon any trip down there. It will always have a place in my heart, with it's lumps and bumps and ugly bits, but also it's beauty, impeccable character and incomparable vibe that will stay with me where'er I go. You may take the boy out of London, but you can't take the London out the boy. Bless you namesake, proper and well researched piece, more power to ya!
Thanks for an outstanding collaboration. You two complement each other so well. When I inherited my mother’s diaries, I discovered I had survived the 1940 blitz (barely born!). We lived under ‘bomber alley’ so were lucky to pull through.
Dan, I'm from Brazil and from a very young age I was interested in the urban side of places, I have a collection of maps of the places I've visited and I've always loved the historical context involved
and man... your channel is a gift, I believe for everyone who loves this subject
Thank you very much!
Hugs from Brazil❤️🇧🇷
Wow I’m so glad!! Thank you!
Forgive me for sounding a little up myself but as an Englishman, I should like to congratulate you and thank you for this production.
It is quite simply by far the very best view by any american of the
"ol' country"
that I've had the pleasure to come across since first I dipped into the land of You Tube in the first place.
Bravo!
Pretty sure he committed treason back in the United states with this one haha
I worked in central London for 30 years, and live nearby, so it's interesting to hear an outsider's view of the place. A very enjoyable video.
The foundations (part of) of the Roman amphitheatre are on display in the bottom level of the Guildhall art gallery. Dates back to AD70. Simply amazing to see.
One of my favourite things to point out is the name of the church St Martin-in-the-Fields which is today at one corner of the very busy Trafalgar Square. When it was founded it really was "in the fields" between the City and Westminster
I’ve studied, lived and worked in London over the last 25 years and there was an awful lot I didn’t know! Great video.
This is some of the most interesting, well put, well worder, introspective, well filmed piece of content that exists. Crazy good.
Thank you so much for such quality!
What an incredible video! Thank you so much for sharing it. I'm heading to London this fall, and this will be a tremendous help. I truly hope you receive the recognition you deserve! ♥
As a loyal follower of you, enthusiastic geography geek and primarily, Londoner, this is what I wanted to see! Awesome content as always, Dan 🙌🔥
This means the world!! I’m so glad 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you so much
Thanks, Team Daniel! This video will definitely be a time-saver and memory-maker for my upcoming trip. Bought Jack's book, too.
As a londener myself who left back in 2001, and then lived in Rome where I worked for 6 years as a tour guide, I totally loved this! I'm reading a book set in 16th century london at the moment, and I realised that my mental map of where places like Blackfriars and Cripplegate were was totally gone. Thanks, and I will look up Jack when I next go back.
If you're a "londener" you'd better give back your "Londoner" membership card.
As a native Englishman, this video was extremely fulfilling for me. Thanks for your hard work mate.
As an ancient history nerd, I knew all about Londinum. I just love the way you explain it, and all your videos are always super enjoyable. Thank you!
10:49 Fascinating video! From a hydrological pov, a “bar” is an accumulation of sediment on the outside of a sharp bend in a river. Looking at the flow of the Thames from left to right, Temple Bar is right where I would expect a bar to accumulate flood stage sediment.
That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s not called bar from the word barbican, meaning entrance to a fortified city/castle etc? All the gates in the city of York are called bars… Micklegate Bar, Bootham Bar, Walmgate Bar etc and they aren’t located next to the riverbank.
York/Jorvik under Danish control. The Gate was the way and the Bar was the entrance@@freppers2666
Daniel, stunning documentary. This is the kind of content that the History Channel or Discovery use to produce. And the cable networks wonder why no one is watching. 🙄
Thanks You❣️🙏🏼
Your videos are dope, great job!
Wow thank you so much!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thanks for watching!
A fascinating if slightly disjointed survey of the metropolis's core - the significance of the two hills in particular hadn't really occurred to me - but I'd have liked to see more about the expansion of the outer zone into formerly rural Middlesex & Surrey (and later Kent and Essex) from 1500 onward: maybe a later upload? But it's good to see a proper history of a place and its physical markers.
I’m visiting London in about a month and after watching every video on your channel, I was really hoping this video would be posted. Thanks Daniel!
The Fleet river actually still exists, it originally ran as a stream, then as population grew it slowly turned into an open sewer, was formalised into a drain and eventually covered in. The drain still flows under Farringdon Street.
This was such a treat - I've never wanted to visit London before this! So many cool things I wanna see for myself. Such a treat to be taken on a virtual tour with Jack. I'm also amazed at how you actually covered the city from start to today - you could make a whole video on just one of the ages! The story, the maps, the cinematography...chefs kiss. Love you dude!
Jack's great - been on all his tours, and love both the detail he goes into plus his delivery. It's clearly stayed in my head too, as when some friends came down to London recently, I was spewing out facts that I'd learned from the tours!
I moved to London as an 11 year old boy and there is so much history here. I've sometimes just taken a Sunday out to walk around the old streets and churches of the City of London and marvel at the age of some of them.
What a great city!
Babe, wake up. Another Daniel Steiner video just dropped.
I’ve lived here my entire life and it’s great to see it with fresh eyes … Thanks!
From watching your excellent video here, I've just bought Jack Chesher's book. I'm lucky to be able to cycle through London regularly and extensively, and love to see remnants of cool history.
Jack’s videos are fascinating! Excellent resource, along with Reg, of course!
I'm an English history geek, so this is catnip to me. LOVE THIS! London is absolutely AMAZING! Would it be possible for you to list and/or link all the diagrams and maps you feature in the video?
It's been over 10 years since I lived in London and discovered many of these things for myself. Thank you for an enjoyable stroll down memory lane (with a great deal of new information).
Very interesting and great video. Born and bred Londoner and still always finding out new things about London.
Love these videos man! Keep up the great work!
found your page on TT on my FYP, came here to finish it and did not disappoint. scratches that itch very nicely. 5/5
"When the industrial revolution was just picking up steam." I see what you did there, beautiful word play!
Great video, I loved it! I'm very proud to be a Londoner, and hearing stories from its history being told through a foreign viewpoint always brings a smile.
You've got a sub! Yay!
10:22 fun fact, in current Danish and norwegian "strand" still literally means beach. Probably comes from there
Also in Dutch and German, "strand" is an old Germanic word which stuck around. Since the Angles came from Northern Germany they took that word with them when migrating to the Isles.
If all the comments are doing is criticising the pronunciation of a word I think you've done well on the content. And Jack is a real fountain of knowledge.
_fontaine*_
It was the horrible background music that stood out. But very interesting otherwise.
Fantastic episode. Time to visit London again 🙂
This series is absolutely brilliant, Daniel. You will never run out of interesting historic cities to investigate!
Love your city map videos and I like what you said about standing at a street corner and imagining what it looked like centuries before, im the same way. I live in Charleston SC and ive always been fascinated by the history and old maps/pictures. You should absolutely do a video on Charleston
Great video. Fascinating pronunciation. Tudor, Thames and Tube are my favourites.
This was fascinating stuff! London's history is amazing indeed.
What a wonderful video. Thank you so much. 🙏
I love the history of Londinium and the medieval City. Lombard street is named after the Italian merchants and bankers who came to trade and introduced banking. Florentine bankers were lending money to the English kings, sometimes going bankrupt because the king couldn’t repay them. European merchants’ guilds (Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Germans) were leading trade there in the Middle Ages. When things were not going well, they faced expulsions and attacks (locals started blaming the immigrants, as usual).
I can't tell you how much I look forward to these!
Please come to Philadelphia to do one sometime.
Yes! love this city
love these kind of videos really fascinating learning the about the streets, architecture and history while also showcasing remnants of the past that still exist. be great if you could do something like this for Sydney, Australia.
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for as we plan our trip to London in January. My son is a 20th century American historian, but we also love to learn about the origin of places. So this will be great fun
I lived in the UK (Cambridge specifically) for 5 years before moving here in the United States, watching your video made me miss Great Britain, I did not realize that there is a "secret London". Thank you for making this video! This is truly special!
Wonderfully done - narration, editing, guest contributors, editing, sound, research - the whole works!
So impressive from a production perspective, but informative and entertaining as well.
Well done sir!
…. uh, er, and the editing is good too.
Ahh thank you so much!!
Hi! I'm from India. In this video you mentioned about the book LONDON A Guide for Curious Wanderers. I wish to tell that I have a copy, I have not yet finished reading it. It is a wonderful book and the illustrations are really very good. When I visited London in 2024, my friend who lives in London, gifted it to me; I am so glad he did 😊.
This is the best history documentary I've seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍❤️
This Londoner really enjoyed your video and learned a thing or two. 😊
WOW! I'm awed by the historical depth and interest value of this video. You make London come alive by giving it such a detailed heritage. But the downside to this video is that it would affect detrimentally some tourists' enjoyment of a mere two week visit. What I mean to say is that I personally would feel unsatisfied after such a short visit, knowing that with so much to see in London I could only hope to scratch the surface and that I was leaving so much behind unseen and unexplored.
Thoroughly enjoyable. I was not born in London - or even in the UK - but I have lived here for 30 years and I will be buried here. Your video showed me aspects of the place I feel is my home that I never knew. Thank you for this!
i love your work! i hope someday you explain san francisco's map. a lot is said about the city, but i will never stop loving it! such a unique place with amazing topography and i think you can do it justice
Hi Daniel, I really like your videos but wanted to point out that the portion around the Tudor period is a little misleading. The end of the Tudor period was in 1603 - British Empire was not really a thing by that point, and neither was the transatlantic slave trade. This followed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and so did the addition of the ports circled on the map. Indeed, all the port facilities east of the City were built after 1800, and reflected the real growth in East India trade that happened in the late 18th century. One interesting point is that the prior development of shipping between 1600 and 1800 happened in the City itself, or the Pool of London - this is where e.g. Customs House is, and the many wharves and shipping facilities were. The overcrowdedness and lack of capacity here is what provoked the move out eastwards.
Perhaps a small edit to make clear that the Tudor period was not the period in which the Empire, slave trade, or major port developments took place would be helpful!
I think they meant that the Tudors where the start of it,
@@Pope_Rural_I5184 it is hard to say that the Tudors or anything much prior to 1666 and the Great Fire falls under the development of the Industrial Revolution, the Docklands, or the Empire. Maybe Empire a little bit but the overall section there is pretty anachronistic.
As an Anglo London Born Global cultured Progressive outlooking to modern architecture and design .... i humble thank everyone of my ancestors & their friends who lived and said this 20:00 to all the new progressive ideas after the 1666 and onwards .... thank you guys for keeping the old small narrow Streets & roads in the City Of London ...
Your video's just keep getting better and better! This was a great 30min dip into the history of the City of London. I am looking forward to your next one!
"Wake up babe, Young Peter Sarsgaard has a new map video."
"Wake up babe, this joke is officially completely played out."
More like a young Stewart Hicks
these videos are so good, i'm obsessed
Cracking video, really enjoyed it. Speaking as a Brit who likes to visit London and find this hidden corners and hot foot back to Kings Cross.
these are legitimately my favorite videos on the internet. I hope this channel blows up and we get every city on the map!
I love the quality and length of these videos. Few youtubers are doing it this well.
Good video. Having had a lifelong fascination with my home city, I was aware of much of this already, but nicely put together. London is layers and layers of stories over the top of each other.
Where institutions are in the city tells another layer of history too. One way of characterising London’s history is in terms of imagining it as the perpetual struggle between political or royal power and the desire to get on with making money without that pesky political interference. The Money set up in the City and the politics out west, outside the walls. Naturally, to adjudicate on any arguments, the lawyers and the courts set up midway between the two on the Strand. In order to report on the latest spat, the journalists set up next door to them in Fleet Street. The nicer areas to live historically are to the west because the prevailing winds carried the smoke of the city over the east. And so on… There’s a whole layer of social uses over the top of the physical fabric that all tells the story of the city.
Visiting London for the first time this week! Im from LA, too excited
Hope u didn’t get your phone stolen lol
@ luckily I didnt! Was super cautious the whole time tho
Did you enjoy your visit?
Thank you Daniel. Again, a highly interesting video. Nice shots, perfect editing!
These are some of my favorite videos on RUclips! Beautifully edited with great execution of graphics! Keep up the great work Daniel!!
I follow Jack on social media, so that's how I've come to your channel. I can't wait to go back and watch your other videos (and future ones!). As an avid London and history lover, this was right up my alley, but the way you explained it and with the diagrams and drawings was brilliant! Well done, can't wait to see what cities you do next (come to Sydney!!! :D)
This was an absolute pleasure to watch from start to finish. Amazing insightful content. Thank you
Most sincerly, I thank you for this amazing, wonderful video. So well edited, written, presented, constructed. Thank you, thank you. All best wishes for whatever you do in the future. Again, thank you.
Excellent content! Jack and Reg are very valuable resources.
Awesome vid bud!
The production on this video is insane, super impressive
Just found your channel, took way too long. Love the content so far. Thank you for making my day better
What's nice about somebody who is not from the area doing such a history is that they are struck by all sorts of things that natives take for granted but which are pretty cool.
I enjoyed "his surname wasn't 'The Eighth' but 'Tudor'" (or words to that effect), though kings (and others such as prince and princesses of the UK) don't actually have surnames at all. Princes William and Harry used 'Wales' when at school because their father was Prince of Wales at the time, though they are part of the House of Windsor and descendents of male lines of the late Queen that need a surname use 'Mountbatten-Windsor', e.g. Lady Louise M-W.
Brilliant! I really enjoyed this, way to go Jack.
29:10 Jack Chesher summed up my thoughts on London. I lived and worked in the East End of London for 23 years. It was a time of hard work, love, leisure and sadness. The sentiments expressed by Jack, clearly echo my love for this grimey, flawed, but for me, enchanting place. Most people express the polar opposite, but perhaps they haven't discovered the gold nuggets you can find whilst exploring this truly great city; a city built by countless influxes of invaders, settlers and peaceful migrants. For me personally, a good walk on foot is the best way to go on your own treasure hunt. Thanks and best wishes. Ad altiora!
My wife and I visited London a few years ago. We got to the Tower of London really early and saw a church near by. We walked over and they invited us inside and told us we could look around and it was free. No one else there that morning except one guy who was there praying. very cool old church that I would recommend stopping in
Brilliant channel! Thanks for the hard work that we all can enjoy!
2:18 no, the French simply knew how to use it properly.
great video! Just picked up Jack's book and going to enjoy walking around the City even more now
Lived here all my life and only knew bits and pieces of this from school. Really cool to see the chronological history laid out so clearly
This popped up in my recommended. May the algorithm keep blessing you!
These videos are so good! I’d love to see one on DC. That city has always intrigued me so much.
Love the style here, just discovered your channel and watched through all the map explained videos. So many fun details, can't wait for more, though I can see there's a huge amount of work involved in each.
Please do any Indian cities like Mumbai or Delhi in this format! This was so fun to watch.
Congratulations on this excellent piece of work, fascinating , well presented and entertaining. Stuff I really didn’t know about and I live 50 miles up the road in Colchester.
This video was damn amazing. I plan to go to London next year and this is becoming such a creature case to find clues of olden times.
So much history & stories that line the streets itself is beyond comprehension. Cant wait!
I went last year, and I might need to go back! The tour I was on didn't point out any old bits of wall.
@@EmpressLizard81What tour did you go on?