Sir Walter Raleigh: Britain’s Greatest Adventurer
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Source/Further reading:
Biography, simple overview: www.biography.com/explorer/wa...
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, extremely detailed overview: doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23039
Britannica: www.britannica.com/biography/...
Guardian, Raleigh and Elizabeth: www.theguardian.com/books/201...
History Extra, Raleigh on Trial: www.historyextra.com/period/s...
Encyclopedia Virginia, Raleigh and Virginia: www.encyclopediavirginia.org/...
Roanoke Island and colony: www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...
France, Wars of Religion: www.britannica.com/event/Wars...
@Biographics 3 жыл бұрын
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@haha20121000 3 жыл бұрын
THOMAS SANKARA
@ryanschudel6753 3 жыл бұрын
Hey there I would really like to see a video on Joseph Smith. I think he would be great for Bio graphics and could be a very easy study. I love this guy's unbiased approach when talking about these characters
@pauricshanley6026 3 жыл бұрын
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@fullmetalalchemist9126 3 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on the Kremlin thank you
@ryanschudel6753 3 жыл бұрын
Before you make a video on the Kremlin please make a video on Joseph Smith
@tacitus6384 3 жыл бұрын
"To you, it's a potato. To me, it's a potato. But to Sir Walter bloody Raleigh, it's fine carriages, luxury estates and as many girls as his tongue can cope with!" - Black Adder.
@aaropajari7058 3 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it. Superb!!!
@kiramiller568 3 жыл бұрын
Love the Black Adder
@gerarduspoppel2831 3 жыл бұрын
I knew I knew it from somewhere !. thanks. and Rowan Atkinson rules!
@joshuaescopete 3 жыл бұрын
Sir Walter “I’ve Got a Big Ship” Raleigh.🙄
@melissamarsh2219 3 жыл бұрын
“Sir Walter-What a Wally-Raleigh!”
@cryptox826 3 жыл бұрын
As a North Carolinian, it’s honestly pretty cool that my capital is named after such a crazy and adventurous man
@vernonu1665 3 жыл бұрын
Living near Raleigh NC, this was an impressive video to learn the history of the city's namesake. Well Done Simon.
@ThomasJHorrego Жыл бұрын
me to. just moved here
@lucidhurricane Жыл бұрын
@@ThomasJHorrego I hope you didnt bring any democrat votes
@abrahamkline8812 3 жыл бұрын
"It was time for Walter Raleigh to get married" THE BEGINNING OF THE END 😂😂😂
@ericwright8592 3 жыл бұрын
Raleigh owned Durham house, eh? Well that makes the naming of the neighboring cities in North Carolina suddenly more interesting, historically.
@marinazagrai1623 3 жыл бұрын
Eric...my sister lives in that area too...most names in that part of the US (other parts too but hose mainly since that was the oiginal area for settlers). In Tx, many places have very German names since many settled here in the 19th century.
@CelestialWhim 3 жыл бұрын
Was reading about this guy just yesterday when I decided to learn about America before and after Columbus. Boy, was that a rabbit hole. Nice surprise that this video happened to come out today. Weird how stuff works out like that.
@murder13love 3 жыл бұрын
Columbus was a brutal character in himself.. recently read up on that monster!
@CelestialWhim 3 жыл бұрын
@@murder13love I haven’t read too much about him other than the bs they teach at schools. Now I’m super interested. That’s what I’ll learn today I suppose. Thanks!
@candiceyoung8244 3 жыл бұрын
Its definitely a rabbit hole for sure. Our country has a sad,and shocking history. Good luck with your studies
@murder13love 3 жыл бұрын
@@CelestialWhim my original reply was removed, maybe i cant post links but ill rewrite one documented fact that columbus oversaw the brutalising of native babies, for example having their heads smashed on rocks in front of their mothers... just a quick google search will throw up content of such nature.. he was a monster
@garretth8224 3 жыл бұрын
@@candiceyoung8244 Welcome to history. Every country has done something messed up.
@ethanramos4441 3 жыл бұрын
“History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath it nothing but eternity ” Sir Walter Raleigh
@hashtag415 3 жыл бұрын
" Oh Sir Walter, _Really_ " *Lord Melchet*
@threestepssideways1202 3 жыл бұрын
''A message from William the silent''... Quite the irony.
@t.c.thompson2359 3 жыл бұрын
But deadly
@user-hx5xq6tl9f 3 жыл бұрын
Quiet the irony... 🤪
@yookalaylee2289 3 жыл бұрын
*Sipping my coffee from Sir Walter Coffee in Raleigh, NC. "hmmmmmm interesting"
@armytortuga9122 3 жыл бұрын
Simon will never run out of great material.
@kiramiller568 3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see one on Sir Terry Pratchett
@SEAZNDragon 3 жыл бұрын
The benefits of history
@armytortuga9122 3 жыл бұрын
@@kiramiller568 I agree, honestly Simon has barely scratched the surface when it comes to interesting people.
@pathallahan3016 3 жыл бұрын
Not from lack of trying!
@kitdraken 3 жыл бұрын
Yes he will
@--enyo-- 3 жыл бұрын
For the next Tudor-era slot could you do Francis Walsingham, the Queen’s spymaster?
@BADBOYandR0B1NN 3 жыл бұрын
this guy needs a movie made about him
@scottychenoweth5281 2 жыл бұрын
You are a fantastic narrator you could totally take your talents to Documentaries… I enjoy your show immensely… thank you for all you do.. keep up the great work…
@geekbeer5846 3 жыл бұрын
Good morning Whistler & Co and all the wonderful fans! Can't wait to wake up, roll up, and relax with another great video!
@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын
1:30 - Chapter 1 - A taste of blood 5:30 - Chapter 2 - All the queen's men 8:30 - Mid roll ads 10:15 - Chapter 3 - Colonial adventures 13:35 - Chapter 4 - Beginning of the end 16:55 - Chapter 5 - The dead man 20:45 - Chapter 6 - The road to el dorado
@michealbohmer2871 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, mate!
@LikeTheBuffalo 3 жыл бұрын
"Good night, Walter, good work, most likely kill you in the morning." Fifteen _years_ this went on.
@bjarulez 3 жыл бұрын
I had a work colleague in 2017, he was 66 and every time he went for a cigarette he would say he is going for a Walter Raleigh. Every time without fail
@0311Mushroom 3 жыл бұрын
And thanks to him, we have a great Mel Brooks movie. His uncompleted History of the World (he only finished the first book) inspired Mel to follow and do the same thing. Adding at the end "Part 1", even though he never intended to make another one.
@JoshShultzandKids 3 жыл бұрын
😂🤣 Leather bondage gear. Ahhh good old grandma’s closet secrets
@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 3 жыл бұрын
Two of my favorite books refer to America as Raleigh’s Land.
@robertoleary5470 3 жыл бұрын
Which books?
@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 3 жыл бұрын
Sackett’s Land and To The Far Blue Mountains. Both are by Louis L’Amour. They follow a Fennman from Cambridgeshire through adventures keeping him one step ahead of the Queen’s men and other more personal nemeses until finally getting to the land of his dreams in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The first five in the series are excellent. After Ride The River the excitement wanes as they turn into regular horse poo and gunpowder westerns.
@robertoleary5470 3 жыл бұрын
@@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 sounds interesting.
@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 3 жыл бұрын
@@robertoleary5470 they’re go too audiobooks when I need a mental vacation
@chriscoleman929 3 жыл бұрын
My two favorite books don't mention him at all. Strange. Must mean something.
@davefillion3493 3 жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention he was also an arch nemesis of Edmund Blackadder!
@fleadoggreen9062 7 ай бұрын
Interesting
@spencer6081 2 жыл бұрын
Simon, thank you for this! I am actually a direct descendant of Sir Walter. Even have the last name. My dad has been doing genealogy for years to try and find out more about our ancestor, and you surpassed all of his work in a 20 minute video. Well done, and thank you again!
@speedisgay6573 2 жыл бұрын
Holy fr nice
@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 2 жыл бұрын
Cap
@speedisgay6573 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 lol I was being sarcastic
@jessicagunn3870 3 жыл бұрын
His home 'myrtelgrove' in youghal is next to the protestant Church and is still in use , youghal at the time was one of the largest ports in the country .
@fayadams3922 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for that. I am a descendant of his. I will visit there when I make it to the UK.
@benjamindover4337 3 жыл бұрын
"His ace in the hole was a dog eared joker" 😎
@kingkeurig8679 3 жыл бұрын
Once again, another great episode! Thank you Simon. Would you please do an episode on William the Silent? I'd love to learn more about him and the Dutch Revolt.
@tamsmith291 3 жыл бұрын
I looked through biographics for this one a while back. Chuffed it has now been covered. Awesome as always Simon.
@ChandlerTingle 3 жыл бұрын
As a North Carolinan, we’ve always said it Rawl-lee
@aaropajari7058 3 жыл бұрын
Divided by a common language arnt we.
@CelestialWhim 3 жыл бұрын
Never heard anybody say it that way and I’m from the area too. We always say “Rah-Lee”.
@ChandlerTingle 3 жыл бұрын
@@CelestialWhim That’s what I meant
@CelestialWhim 3 жыл бұрын
@@ChandlerTingle Oh! Well in that case, I agree now. Haha!
@sanderson9338 3 жыл бұрын
Well then your wrong it's ra lee
@michaelhowell2326 3 жыл бұрын
He's our boy in NC
@durvsh 3 жыл бұрын
I hope his days as first mate of Pirate King is covered in the video
@coinfrog2566 3 жыл бұрын
I was hoping I wasn't the only one 🤣
@theawesomeman9821 3 жыл бұрын
Sir Walter Raleigh is so cool, I'd watch a TV show about him.
@ahuddleston6512 3 жыл бұрын
Watch Blackadder...there's a few of the series with him.
@theawesomeman9821 3 жыл бұрын
@@ahuddleston6512 thanks
@Mrgunsngear 3 жыл бұрын
thanks
@KingofAwesomness14 3 жыл бұрын
dear god that judge at the end, "i shall show you history's first pro gamer move"
@aceundead4750 3 жыл бұрын
The last time i heard "spindoctor" the band The Spindoctors were experiencing a resurgence in popularity after they dropped off the Earth from their one-hit wonder song
@dazsmith3201 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! I requested this after the Francis Drake video, so I was VERY glad to see it come up!! Thanks very much, once again!!
@SLOPPEWALL 3 жыл бұрын
" A beloved Grandparent dress in leather bondage gear." Thanks, Simon, I really didn't need that visual put in my head.
@timetraveltvniles7650 3 жыл бұрын
Who here is watching this and can not stop thinking about Blackadder!
@ahuddleston6512 3 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna watch my BA collection after this...bring some popcorn and come on over.
@my_aiim_is_nasty 3 жыл бұрын
*hold back tears* thank you. Every time Simon posts a new video
@Smart-Sports 3 жыл бұрын
These videos are amazing
@jonmarc8078 3 жыл бұрын
You say Rally... I say RAH lee You say Streetcar I say Trolly, let’s call the whole thing off.
@blakefrancis6635 3 жыл бұрын
Do Padraig Pearce - Leader of the Easter Rising
@stephenwright8824 2 жыл бұрын
His eulogy for O'Donovan Rossa was a classic, though hardly the best thing he wrote. The Proclamation was written by committee (IRB) which is really a shame, but it is what it is.
@Mauler818 3 жыл бұрын
Loved the video. I’d be more interested in seeing a video about Sir Francis Walsingham if you can find the time.
@danthegamechanger3855 3 жыл бұрын
Great video 🔥👍 keep up the good work on your channel 👍🔥🔥
@MrMarkusmonkey 3 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful synopsis of Walters life Simon
@amandajones661 3 жыл бұрын
I was born on Virginia Dare 's birthday, so I did reports on The Lost Colony many times throughout the years. -- Ratification of the women's vote in the US was also approved on Virginia Dare's birthday, so that's cool too.
@finlaylavery8408 3 жыл бұрын
"Bloody explorers, ponce off to mumbo-jumbo-land, come home with a tropical disease, a suntan and a bag of brown lumpy things, and, Bob’s your uncle, everyone’s got a picture of them in the lavatory. " Lord Edmund Blackadder
@chuxmix65 3 жыл бұрын
Ell, oh ell.
@nicholasmazzei6126 3 жыл бұрын
I love how these are getting longer! 🥰🥰🥰
@athfcoz 3 жыл бұрын
The pipe tobacco named for him was my great grandfather's preferred smoke.
@fkirfirt9606 3 жыл бұрын
My Dad used to smoke this pipe tobacco in a corn cob pipe! My dad was born in 1936 when was your great grandad born?
@waynestarr6705 3 жыл бұрын
It also gave birth to one of the best prank calls ever, so you have sir Walter Raleigh in a can?😏📞
@georgeprchal3924 3 жыл бұрын
First one I smoked.
@philiproscoe2968 Жыл бұрын
you might like to know that Raleigh named "Virginian" tobacco in honour of Queen Elizabeth I, who was also known as the Virgin queen.
@DerptyDerptyDUM 3 жыл бұрын
I can only picture the Black Adder version, with Queen Elizabeth throwing rings at his head. 😂
@candiceyoung8244 3 жыл бұрын
Yes,I would like an episode on Gilbert. Thank you
@AstolfoFateApocrypha 3 жыл бұрын
My name is Raleigh too so I find this overall very interesting.
@TheEvilCommenter 3 жыл бұрын
Good video 👍
@timetraveltvniles7650 3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I think we need a video on Humphrey Gilbert!
@kibwanaking6801 3 жыл бұрын
Great job on expression
@EMN_the_orange Жыл бұрын
As somebody who has lived in Devon his entire life, I never knew that Sir Walter Raleigh was born in Devon.
@ashde-val1787 3 жыл бұрын
Hello Simon. Greatly enjoy your videos. I don’t know if you done one or not yet but would you do a video on Albert pierrepoint.
@thsxi 3 жыл бұрын
James Cook: Are you challenging me?
@samtepal3892 3 жыл бұрын
Simon of Biographics and Simon of business blaze are like two different people.
@Goats_ 3 жыл бұрын
Great video, as always. Can you do one on his half brother?
@SteveShisty 3 жыл бұрын
I thought it was a great video and you definitely should do a video on Sir Humphrey Gilbert and a Geographics video on Compton Castle that would be awesome
@joannietrotter2344 3 жыл бұрын
I live along the road from Compton Castle 😃
@mikebaum5301 3 жыл бұрын
‘Baldrick, to you it’s a potato, to me it’s a potato but to Sir Walter bloody Raleigh it’s country estates fine wine and as many girls as his tongue can handle’ E.Blackadder
@arcalion 3 жыл бұрын
all i cloud hear trough this video was Black Adder saying Sir Walter bloody Raleigh on loop
@chongmcafee3799 3 жыл бұрын
Please, please, please do a bio on Arthur C. Clarke! I’m a huge fan and admire him so much. What a visionary he was!
@pghewrexham2704 3 жыл бұрын
Nice new editing
@nolanbanner5458 3 жыл бұрын
The Whistling LEGEND. The Whistler could do a 4hour video on paint drying, I'd still watch
@alanhorowitz3796 3 жыл бұрын
There was actually once a brand of cigarette in America called "Raleigh."
@josephhaddakin7095 3 жыл бұрын
Let him out of the can. He can't breathe.
@jenniferjustice8895 3 жыл бұрын
He’s got his own city! It’s a nightmare to drive thru
@ahuddleston6512 3 жыл бұрын
@@jenniferjustice8895 and don't even mention trying to live there!
@jenniferjustice8895 3 жыл бұрын
@@ahuddleston6512 I couldn’t imagine lol! I’ll stay in the mountains
@alanhorowitz3796 3 жыл бұрын
@@jenniferjustice8895 I'd totally forgotten about that. Raleigh, NC.
@Jaydee-ug7zp 3 жыл бұрын
Can you do Clive of India?
@thorpeaaron1110 3 жыл бұрын
Can you do one on Captain John Smith: Soldier,Pirate, and Explorer
@MatthewTheWanderer 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, definitely do the Humphrey Gilbert video you mentioned!
@CT-brook-geology-gold-gems 19 күн бұрын
At 4:55 seconds into this presentation I decided I approve thus far of this version. No telling where it will vary from my understanding, but rest assured, I will time stamp every instance that is a variance with what I have found to be close to accurate.
@fxdify8254 3 жыл бұрын
simon mate im loving the videos, could you do a video on mick collins the irish rebel?
@stephenwright8824 2 жыл бұрын
I second that suggestion. Did you know the American astronaut of the same name may have been a distant cousin?
@fxdify8254 2 жыл бұрын
didn't know that, small world.
@hashpond420 3 жыл бұрын
I still wouldn't count El Dorado out yet. With the insane amount of ruins being found in the jungles of central and south America through LiDAR, you never know what we'll find.
@chefjrmz 3 жыл бұрын
I just took a Simon free week. I feel dumber and hollow. Glad to be back on the sauce.
@michaelhowell2326 3 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a Sir Gilbert video
@truebluemiata 3 жыл бұрын
Just finished up your coverage of Bram Stoker, enjoying it a lot. Brought Mary Shelley too mind. Please do an episode on her.
@kathgibbs2881 3 жыл бұрын
Video suggestions: Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator Henry VIII: The Tudor Tyrant Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
@timwaters6481 Жыл бұрын
Researching my Ancestor, Sir Julius Caesar, who had taken the minuets at Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. In a play written by George Sewell in 1719 called "Tragedy of Walter Raleigh" Sir Julius Caesar is included as one of Raleigh's friends. Have you any information on Sir Julius Caesar? Sir Julius's father Cesar Adelmare was physician to both Queen Mary and Elizabeth !
@QuietFury9 3 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah simon
@6aliph77 3 жыл бұрын
This needs a movie
@kingstarscream320 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, please make a Humphrey Gilbert episode. Love explorers.
@jeremybds1901 3 жыл бұрын
SIMON DO THE DEVONSHIRE ACCENT
@FGPR01BrunoCauz Жыл бұрын
"To you, it's a potato. To me, it's a potato. But to Sir Walter bloody Raleigh, it's fine carriages, luxury estates and as many girls as his tongue can cope with!"
@londonassassin9894 7 ай бұрын
Sir Walter Raleigh & Isaac Newton are amongst thee greatest Englishmen to ever live.
@SimonAshworthWood 2 жыл бұрын
Yes please do a video on Sir Humphrey Gilbert and every other famous explorer or pirate.
@julianalthabe5694 3 жыл бұрын
Would be nice to see a Video about Jose de San Martin. He liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru.
@jeremybds1901 3 жыл бұрын
Simon. I have a short story idea. First officer Simon Whister. On a Frigate. 1815. He checks his pocketwatch. Stares off into the distance as a breeze rolls over your bald head. Then in French you say 'The sea. Man will never control her' The watch falls to the wooden deck. Black.
@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын
I dare you to make a video on Italy greatest adventurer : Giacommo Casanova
@theawesomeman9821 3 жыл бұрын
Not Christopher Columbus?
@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын
@@theawesomeman9821 Fine :Italy most "Infamous " Adventurer...
@leestark9513 3 жыл бұрын
William the Silent, that sounds like a story! ALL THE BIOS!!!
@tian6790 6 ай бұрын
مشكور غالي
@CT-brook-geology-gold-gems 19 күн бұрын
At 7:36 what was not mentioned was the long precession of foriegn representatives offering lordships,land,and a ready population to govern over in 20 kingdoms!
@mibevan 3 жыл бұрын
Would you be able to a biographic video on Joseph Merrick
@CaptnBojanglez 3 жыл бұрын
I'm related to Sir Walter Raleigh. When a family tree was done on my mother's side, it turns out that he impregnated a young woman and couldn't take responsibility for the child so he had her married off to a noble with the last name "Norman" and thats where my maternal grandmother's maiden family name started.
@rorkstan9735 3 жыл бұрын
Shout out from Raleigh nc
@hugocampbell9209 3 жыл бұрын
Could you please do a video about sir David Attenborough?
@rickh3714 3 жыл бұрын
"Curse Sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid git" The Beatles.
@SerDunk 3 жыл бұрын
Oh no noo. Im sooo tired ;)
@blueberrypirate3601 3 жыл бұрын
I'm So Tired White Album 1968. Straight after Glass Onion.
@owenshebbeare2999 3 жыл бұрын
An early case of rock stars big-noting themselves by dumping on historical figures. They really needed to lay of the drugs.
@rickh3714 3 жыл бұрын
@@owenshebbeare2999 Actually more a sarcastic 'Lennonism' about the negative effects of smoking on Lennon's throat and general tiredness? Not that Lennon was always perfect himself. Far from it.
@ashcoates25 3 жыл бұрын
Sorry but it was a *'stupid get'
@madsapper21b 3 жыл бұрын
Simon should do a video on the trail of tears.
@joannietrotter2344 3 жыл бұрын
His house, Buckland Abbey, on the Plymouth edge of Dartmoor is beautiful. It’s a fascinating place to visit.
@aggie5490 2 жыл бұрын
Sir Francis Drake was the owner of Buckland Abbey. Previous to that it belonged to his rival Sir Richard Grenville....who was not at all happy when he learnt Drake was the buyer. He purchased the property in secret using an agent.
@loupiscanis9449 3 жыл бұрын
Gilbert , Yes , Thank you .
@wilfredduree4917 3 жыл бұрын
Could you do the mystical history of Rosicrucianism as its very interesting and had many historical figures
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