I've been reading "The hunchback of Notre Dame". I love a good protagonist with a twisted back story.
@doormatt43933 жыл бұрын
😂😂👏
@SezFrancis13 жыл бұрын
Me too; also the Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of my favourite stories despite being very dark
@Black-Sun_Kaiser3 жыл бұрын
Hey thats funny lol
@paoloviti61563 жыл бұрын
I liked very much both the book and old film of the dark and sad "The hunchback of Notre Dame"....
@SezFrancis13 жыл бұрын
@@paoloviti6156 which film version? I think there were plenty but I was wondering which one is your favourite? 🙂
@elizabethspedding19753 жыл бұрын
Another great lesson. Thanks.🦋
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words! :)
@kellyb14203 жыл бұрын
One day I hope to visit England. Just soooo much history. Every where you look. Your so lucky to live there.
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It's honestly such an amazing place to live, literally castles within a few miles or km of where I'm from. If you ever visit let me know and i'll recommend some cool sites to see!
@mikesaunders47753 жыл бұрын
A very well-presented documentary about a neglected period of coastal defence building, and a refreshing change from the usual narrative surrounding Henry VIII.
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words! Some of these structures are amazing to visit. One today, Hurst Castle is in the news for finally being breached! The wall fell into the sea.
@joshthemediocre78243 жыл бұрын
I know more about this dude than i do my own brother because of you Mr. Past.
@toeknee54643 жыл бұрын
you should do more stuff on castles they are super interesting
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
I agree! I still have some footage I filmed from other castles to look at and make a video on.
@simonwilson12373 жыл бұрын
@@TheUntoldPast I like castles too I hope you do another video on them
Definitely loved this look at the scope of defenses and their functions - I mean, I DO like hearing about the condemned having their insides pulled outside, who doesn't ? But this was very refreshing and detailed, many thanks for this 👍🍻
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words Adam! I like to mix it up a bit sometimes! Think it’s good to look at different parts of History. Thanks again!
@adamfrazer51503 жыл бұрын
@@TheUntoldPast You're most welcome man - it's the very least I can do, you put a lot of effort and research into your channel and I've spent plenty of time thoroughly distracted and engrossed in your productions - reminds me that of the many things I miss about England, its history is like none other ! 👍👍
@Anita-rq9ev3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your knowledge👍
@beccaboo30403 жыл бұрын
More castle's and fort's please very interesting thanks 😁👊
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words Simon! I've still got some footage from a few castles I haven't made a video on. Berwick, Bollingbroke, few others too!
@beccaboo30403 жыл бұрын
@@TheUntoldPast nice1 chap looking forward to that. 😀
@LRBerry3 жыл бұрын
I'd never heard of the Devices before this. Thanks for a really interesting video.
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment Lee!
@bluewinds103 жыл бұрын
I used to play in Sandsfoot castle as a kid - that was when there were iron railings preventing entry, - as kids you could squeeze through the gaps in the bars. - changed a bit now. If you look at 10.44 there is a faint image next to the second floor doorway. I always thought this was a picture of the devil as the figure seems to have horns and is holding a trident
@nightmaredoxies9993 жыл бұрын
The music you use in the background is exquisite. That with your voice is a symphony of amazing factual story-telling. Thank you for teaching me more than any classroom
@slick_slicers3 жыл бұрын
As a child, Deal Castle was my favourite place to visit, better than all the other Kent Castles, as it was relatively bare, so open to a small boy’s imagination.
@daneaxe64653 жыл бұрын
I knew Britain had a lot of forts & castles, but this blows me away! Good job!
@robinforrest76803 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I was familiar with St Mawes and Pendennis but had no idea they were part of a huge network of similar structures all along the coast of Southern England. You should do more documentaries like this.
@gracecooper98873 жыл бұрын
One of these castles is st Catherine’s castle in Fowey. It’s off the beach of Ready Money Cove. Love the channel.
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Yeah there’s a few out there. Cannot wait to go visiting some more!
@robrob92083 жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Rob! :)
@burtuppercut3 жыл бұрын
Who gives a thumbs down to these videos? Always excellent and interesting content.
@zenodotusofathens21223 жыл бұрын
The 17 thumbs down are people who came here searching for something sexual or base and we're disappointed to find something educational and cultured.
@djmpvae270919783 жыл бұрын
My home is my castle.
@beejay24983 жыл бұрын
I cannot believe that you made no mention whatsoever of Portsmouth and Gosport where very substantial fortifications still exists including the round forts in the Solent, where Henry lost his flagship the Mary Rose which having been raised from the Solent is now a popular attraction along with HMS Victory and The Warrior.
@sarah82ish3 жыл бұрын
Love your channel! Love your take on history. The brutality, the history of castles, Tudor history. I share them on Tudor Facebook pages
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words Sarah! :)
@alexdickson86353 жыл бұрын
Loving the channel
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Alex! :)
@gsx-srider79633 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video of basing house in Hampshire Basingstoke. Had a lot to do with Cromwell I believe and still has canon ball holes in it now. Be interesting to know what happned
@gracecooper98873 жыл бұрын
I know a little bit about Basing House as it was besieged during the English Civil War and fell to the Roundheads after several months of being held in the king’s army.
@stevefox86053 жыл бұрын
Excellent production, thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words Steve!
@waynegoddard40653 жыл бұрын
Southsea Castle was his personal favourite project.
@jared18703 жыл бұрын
I LOVE the castle videos.
@MrSimonw583 жыл бұрын
I worked for an OCD, workaholic Henry VIII look alike .... for 2 weeks
@goodvibrations27513 жыл бұрын
So interesting!
@bennyhill59383 жыл бұрын
wow amazing
@TheUntoldPast3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your kind words! Was nice to make this today using older footage I took of Portland and Sandsfoot which I visited last summer!
@bennyhill59383 жыл бұрын
@@TheUntoldPast i want to go now!
@celardore3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see more about the process of slighting, from parliamentary orders to the process of demolition. Information is quite scant on this though.
@beachboy05053 жыл бұрын
Henry, clever man.
@shaggyrumplenutz16103 жыл бұрын
If I was to make a castle I would put it on a slight incline. The entire incline would be polished stone and would be coated with grease.
@beccaboo30403 жыл бұрын
My castle would be high up above a valley with flat lands below with a 360° view, made out of granite or iron stone with watch towers on the for corners. She will be a impregnable fortress built to protect and defend.😁👊🏴🏰
@aubnwa013 жыл бұрын
I wonder how different English history would have been if Henry VIII's first wives had provided him with the male heirs he so desired? Certainly a lot less folks would've lost their heads.
@insertnamehere51463 жыл бұрын
I have no idea why Henry the 8th is so high profile on the UK school history curriculum. He was a total despotic tyrant who is undeserving of the adulation he receives.
@daneaxe64653 жыл бұрын
I don't know but he is more interesting than his father.
@prestons93053 жыл бұрын
Hes very high in american curriculum also. Maybe its to distract from other English monarchs? It is strange besides the protestant movement hes not that significant.
@aquilarossa51913 жыл бұрын
Devices? There must be a joke about enabling acts and Harold Bluetooth in there somewhere.
@waynegoddard40653 жыл бұрын
What about all of the fortifications around Portsmouth?
@VinylFrontier813 жыл бұрын
thats exactly what i said, southsea castle is possibly the most used device. also where henry had to watch the mary rose sink in the solent. strange how it was not even mentioned
@onbedoeldekut15153 жыл бұрын
Corfe was a Saxon castle, your image and subtitle made it out to be wholly Norman. The Normans only rebuilt it in stone.
@kierenboimufc59403 жыл бұрын
Gravesend in Kent had a blockhouse opposite tilbury
@andrewjohnston4073 жыл бұрын
I've often wondered if the invaders could just bypass some of these defences.
@alexdickson86353 жыл бұрын
Not really, it was important to establish bridgeheads with secure lines of supply
@alexdickson86353 жыл бұрын
@Murray David Hope you're not serious 🤣
@jefferyindorf6993 жыл бұрын
They were placed strategically on the best landing places. You could land in other places, but they would be less than ideal, and would be much more difficult landing with a slower landing pace. Think ANZAC at Gallipoli.
@prestons93053 жыл бұрын
They could. But the resulting raids on a enemies supply lines and reinforcements is a huge hindrance too leaving them behind.
@ketreenawilliams13203 жыл бұрын
Could you talk about Nonsuch palace? I've never heard of that story yet. Did it actually exist?
@henkstersmacro-world3 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍
@benson54682 жыл бұрын
Henry was not protecting England he as we know was self serving, he was protecting himself his life his existence his way of life that is it
@juanvelez85643 жыл бұрын
Like other bullies, he was a coward. At the height of his courtship of Anne Boleyn, he stayed far away from her when she contracted the sweating sickness. In fact, he high-tailed it to the country-side every time there was a sign of sickness around the court. He complained over and over that he was afraid that Catherine of Aragon, old and sick and isolated, would wage war against him. In fact, both Francis I of France and Charles V (and I) Habsburg were too weak to invade England. They were continually at war with each other, and Charles (who was never in control of the German principalities that made up his Holy Roman Empire --- especially not the "Protestant" ones) also faced the consequences of his invasion of Italy as well as a Turkish invasion through eastern Europe into his lands. Henry's castles were the equivalent of Tyrannosaurus-Rump's additional fence around the White House, to protect him from the "violent" BLM demonstrators (whom he tear-gassed and shot). Like T-Rump, Henry depended on a combination of brutality and criminal enablers.
@meetoo20823 жыл бұрын
Device equals Devise? Most notorious one are those that tried to change the inheritance of the Crown. Edward to Mary became Edward to Jane. Bloody executions all around to fix that one! Northumberland responsible.
@jgadvphotographyvideo7936 Жыл бұрын
Nice video but the conclusion is wrong, these forts would never see action in a modern war.
@VinylFrontier813 жыл бұрын
no mention of southsea castle? you know the one where henry watched his mary rose sink? thats very poor.
@tulsaguy99633 жыл бұрын
Cromwell also built a private fortune and the University Cambridge from the sale of Catholic lands!
@monumentstosuffering29953 жыл бұрын
Dismantle the Crown. Evil Leeches.
@byenye63863 жыл бұрын
2 one to post. But seriously Man this times were brutal over religion
@rioangel83973 жыл бұрын
You didnt tell Henry what to do.
@bwyyy73063 жыл бұрын
His shoulders were about 6 foot across, lol
@monumentstosuffering29953 жыл бұрын
Now that tourism is dead, what use are they. Rhetorical.
@aischacelik81613 жыл бұрын
Why they are "brutal"?
@susiefairfield72183 жыл бұрын
oh the irony!
@stevep54083 жыл бұрын
Why didn't Henry just have Catherine poisoned?
@jefferyindorf6993 жыл бұрын
That would have been murder. He was a Tudor, not a Borgia.
@billywhyte66933 жыл бұрын
Paintings of Henry look all like copies of one or two originals. Age added as fat or greying hair!
@bothewolf34663 жыл бұрын
How can the be "devices", where is the USB port? XD