Julian Cope on Celts: Art and Identity at the British Museum

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8 жыл бұрын

Musician and antiquarian Julian Cope gives us a tour of the exhibition, Celts: Art and Identity at the British Museum in London.
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He show us his favourite prehistoric artefact of all time, the Gundestrup cauldron, which shows a casting of a huge figure dipping a man upside down into a cauldron
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@frannsh5100 4 жыл бұрын

His mum was my primary teacher, she was extremely inspiring and an amazing teacher. Seems Julian has inherited her gifts..

@privysorrow5120 4 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool. Does Julian favor his mother in looks as well?

@brettcampbell778 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@hazelwray4184 2 жыл бұрын

@sophie W He spent his childhood in Tamworth, Staffordshire. North-east of Birmingham.

@keith-leecastle6700 5 жыл бұрын

BBC please give Julian Cope his own program....Never gonna happen I know.

@hyena131 5 жыл бұрын

keith-lee castle Of course Cope won't get his own program - he babbles nonsensical acid based gibberish with little to no historical knowledge. And - this is a big one - he's bereft of wit or tongue in cheek humour. The less said about his sartorial style and general appearance the better. That said, he's a very decent chap.

@tonymack66 4 жыл бұрын

@@hyena131 That's how he wants you to perceive him. You don't get Cope.

@markofsaltburn 2 жыл бұрын

Give him his own channel.

@athenassigil5820 8 жыл бұрын

The most erudite and yet eccentric Julian Cope, love him! I also bought his book The Modern Antiquarian, brilliant stuff! Gundestrup is also my favorite artifact from history...

@cwmbran-city 4 жыл бұрын

Julian Cope was my gateway drug into archaeology. 20years later, countless digs, finds, locations, cultural horizons, inter-disciplinary collaborations & (i gotta say this) ruined knees later, life is so much sweeter for it. Diolch yn fawr iawn, Arch-Drude.

@greentorm5467 Жыл бұрын

Julian's lovely, would like to hear him give a talk in Liverpool

@madmesh978 Жыл бұрын

I love this side of julian cope

@leopard36cat 9 ай бұрын

Extremely knowledgeable wise man. The Modern Antiquarian.

@baco82 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know Julian Cope. I heard about him on an italian radio show last week. This man must be on my same frequency. I like everything he does. He even wrote a book about Krautrock (you can see a Neu! t-shirt under his jacket).

@adrianions2805 Жыл бұрын

Hope your well mann!copey! seen you live a few times you are brilliant! Love your workx

@notnavonnam 8 жыл бұрын

so short. any more of this?

@Rameman33 6 жыл бұрын

Got to love a bit of Copey.

@sparx550 8 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant, cope has always been out there, maybe it's time to bring him in and make a proper historical account of the celts. Julian, brilliant stuff mate.

@jerryblackwell3245 8 жыл бұрын

+65sparx - If you have not please checked out "The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain" - I highly recommend it. Julian did a nice job in documenting interesting aspects about the culture.

@tobysmith8032 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Julian, for this Elegant Chaos.... xx

@Lyndanet 2 ай бұрын

beautiful

@pengefikseret 2 жыл бұрын

I love the Neu! t-shirt!

@baldieman64 3 жыл бұрын

Mad as a box of frogs but brilliant and unique.

@Pianoscript 6 жыл бұрын

Please visit ergoth.com I have important information about the Gundestrup Cauldron: hint: those are not 4 horses but 2 horses and 2 unicorns. Lucas Cranach the Elder says hi. clang clang.

@doctorfrankeinsound4284 8 жыл бұрын

Neu visions the best ;)

@danhunt7287 Жыл бұрын

The background music is from runescape 😁

@danieledamico9729 3 жыл бұрын

Could you tranlate in Latin?

@mtbmac2692 6 жыл бұрын

He knows his onions, does our Julian....

@impalaman9707 Жыл бұрын

So I suppose razors were only available in the Mediterranean world? No one in northern Europe had ever thought of a way to get rid of their whiskers?

@dclark6995 5 жыл бұрын

The Gundestrup Cauldron depicts the antediluvian survivors of the worldwide flood. It has 4 men and 4 women which is Noah, his 3 sons and their wives.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 7 ай бұрын

Personal interpretation.... others are also available.

@Original_Dalvik 4 жыл бұрын

0:59 Julian gets it wrong, yes the Scots lived in Northern Ireland at the time but Scotland itself was ruled by the Picts, the Scots that came over from Ireland were interbreed with the dominant Picts, who then took the name Scots and called the country Scotland.

@cwmbran-city 4 жыл бұрын

But who were the Picts? Cultural, genetic, regional? Chronologies - Romano-British, Iron-Age, Bronze-Age or even older? Not judging, as an archaeologist their traditional territories could be interpreted within the broader "Celtic" world. Imho, it's a linguistic hiccup tag, just as much as "Celtic" is.

@LeeGee 6 ай бұрын

Iberian, related to the Basque, apparently (ScotlandsDNA

@budte 11 ай бұрын

We have been an evolving, but single culture. The multiculutursim that has been enforced against those who can call themselves native, is the end of us. Literally.

@rexfreeman4981 Жыл бұрын

Oh dear. Suits the guardian though.

@tednruth453 9 ай бұрын

Mik Mak Mok mok mok blllwlelala zing zang

@rumplestiltskin3653 4 жыл бұрын

Cauldrons not prehistoric

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 7 ай бұрын

Who made the cauldron? Where was it made? What purpose did it serve? Why did it end up carefully disassembled and stacked in pieces in a Danish peatbog? None of these things are known because none of its historical context was recorded by its culture... because the recording of history was not a facet of the culture that created it... it was from a place where recorded history was not yet being generated.... it was PREHISTORIC.