I've been reading "The hunchback of Notre Dame". I love a good protagonist with a twisted back story.

Another great lesson. Thanks.🦋

One day I hope to visit England. Just soooo much history. Every where you look. Your so lucky to live there.

A very well-presented documentary about a neglected period of coastal defence building, and a refreshing change from the usual narrative surrounding Henry VIII.

I know more about this dude than i do my own brother because of you Mr. Past.

you should do more stuff on castles they are super interesting

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 👍🍻

Thank you for sharing your knowledge👍

More castle's and fort's please very interesting thanks 😁👊

I'd never heard of the Devices before this. Thanks for a really interesting video.

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

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

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.

I knew Britain had a lot of forts & castles, but this blows me away! Good job!

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.

One of these castles is st Catherine’s castle in Fowey. It’s off the beach of Ready Money Cove. Love the channel.

Outstanding

Who gives a thumbs down to these videos? Always excellent and interesting content.

My home is my castle.

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.

Love your channel! Love your take on history. The brutality, the history of castles, Tudor history. I share them on Tudor Facebook pages

Loving the channel

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

Excellent production, thank you 👍🏻👍🏻

Southsea Castle was his personal favourite project.

I LOVE the castle videos.

I worked for an OCD, workaholic Henry VIII look alike .... for 2 weeks

So interesting!

wow amazing

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.

Henry, clever man.

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.

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.

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.

Devices? There must be a joke about enabling acts and Harold Bluetooth in there somewhere.

What about all of the fortifications around Portsmouth?

Corfe was a Saxon castle, your image and subtitle made it out to be wholly Norman. The Normans only rebuilt it in stone.

Gravesend in Kent had a blockhouse opposite tilbury

I've often wondered if the invaders could just bypass some of these defences.

Could you talk about Nonsuch palace? I've never heard of that story yet. Did it actually exist?

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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

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.

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.

Nice video but the conclusion is wrong, these forts would never see action in a modern war.

no mention of southsea castle? you know the one where henry watched his mary rose sink? thats very poor.

Cromwell also built a private fortune and the University Cambridge from the sale of Catholic lands!

Dismantle the Crown. Evil Leeches.

2 one to post. But seriously Man this times were brutal over religion

You didnt tell Henry what to do.

His shoulders were about 6 foot across, lol

Now that tourism is dead, what use are they. Rhetorical.

Why they are "brutal"?

oh the irony!

Why didn't Henry just have Catherine poisoned?

Paintings of Henry look all like copies of one or two originals. Age added as fat or greying hair!

How can the be "devices", where is the USB port? XD