Vicki Explores ... Battle
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4 жыл бұрынEvery year a reenactment of the Battle of Hastings takes place on the site of the original conflict at Battle Abbey, East Sussex. Join Vicki as she discovers what took place here in 1066.
With special guest star, Andrea Vail.
Find out more about the Battle of Hastings here: www.english-heritage.org.uk/l...
Music by Steven Francis: / steven-francis
Filmed and edited by Vicki Pipe
About Vicki Explores:
Twitter: / vickiexplores
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@MercenaryPen 4 жыл бұрын
Geoff looks different in this one ;)
@DavidShepheard 4 жыл бұрын
Genius!
@JackJackProductions 4 жыл бұрын
Vicki Explores should have its own channel
@fintytin5771 4 жыл бұрын
Absorbing stuff as always Vicki !! - keep up the great work.!!!
@ninjagoggles 4 жыл бұрын
Love it!!! Also love the Vicki Explores music!
@DavidDewis 4 жыл бұрын
Went to school in Battle and live in Hastings. Been waiting for you guys to do some videos down this way.
@hpot53 4 жыл бұрын
Always look forward to the next one!
@harleancarpenter8043 4 жыл бұрын
Loved the video, and Andrea made a great companion for this too
@djackmanson 4 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this! I thought the quick pose in front of the huge wings, and the flourishing of the flags to reveal both hosts, were great little touches.
@AverytheCubanAmerican 4 жыл бұрын
Always learn something new from your explorations
@grayman999 4 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed watching you Battle the weather ( Sorry) what an interesting place to visit thanks for sharing your trip 🙏
@bakedbeanzontoast9078 4 жыл бұрын
Love this channel, I can just nerd out on all the info in each episode, thanks for doing it, btw Vicki is a right card.👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
@firefly24601 4 жыл бұрын
Andrea is so fun and informative! More Andrea please!
@airfoxtrot2006 4 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@brucewilliams8714 4 жыл бұрын
I had a wonderful time walking around the battlefield with an audio guide. Hugely impressive information displays. It intrigued me that William trekked inland from Hastings (too much shingle) to look for Battle as a place to fight!
@HenrysAdventures 4 жыл бұрын
Great video! As well as All the Castles I'd love to see All the Abbeys!
@avfcfan2 4 жыл бұрын
The green shields with blue dragons on is my wife's reenactment group :-) at least 20 of them every year Hrafn Broethr in Birmingham
@flyingbananatree5661 4 жыл бұрын
love the out takes!
@albertbatfinder5240 4 жыл бұрын
So William of Normandy chose 25 December for his coronation because he knew the general populace would be watching the Queen’s Xmas Message.
@christopherspencer8110 4 жыл бұрын
Doctor Who, actually. Vuldretrada of Snittlegarth was the companion and the episode was filmed on tapestry.
@johnstilljohn3181 4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, as ever...
@nw24153ns 4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating presentation, great video to inspire us to find out more without droning on and on as some people tend to do in KZfaq videos . 🤔
@AndrewG1989 4 жыл бұрын
In deepest wettest East Sussex. Despite its quite chilly. But such wonderful stuff and amazing history.
@finnschenck4055 4 жыл бұрын
A fabulous video . Please, mam, I want some more.
@ninjagoggles 4 жыл бұрын
Argh! Just watched it again, but I can only like it once!! I want to challenge the knitter (pretty sure it's crochet) of the helmet, and would like to talk about nålebinding, which I have recently learned how to do, and was more likely for the Vikings (and "French" Norsemen) to have been wearing. Nålebinding is SO COOL, and somewhere between knitting and crochet. /Dork
@qwertyTRiG 4 жыл бұрын
I have friends in the SCA who do nålebinding.
@tededmunds8476 4 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise this was an annual thing. Great memories of going along as a child in the mid-90s. There was a cash incentive for spectators to pick up any wayward arrows once the 'battle' was over. Didn't find a single one...
@1973Washu 4 жыл бұрын
It is important to remember to bring a spare set of trousers if you are going into battle.
@batman51 4 жыл бұрын
Is Andrea a member of the Sealed Knit?
@thetransavenger 4 жыл бұрын
nice to see my local station getting a call out i the begining
@csatlantic2748 4 жыл бұрын
Vicki excels again.
@bethoconnell1241 4 жыл бұрын
Love this!! What a great co-host to go into Battle with :)
@rubyait 4 жыл бұрын
I love this video. Others can chip at the historical accuracy; I am enjoying one of my favorite parts of Britain with my favorite hostess.
@SamSitar 4 жыл бұрын
you're very informative.
@timdaugherty5921 4 жыл бұрын
Andrea is just precious!!!
@abencutler 4 жыл бұрын
Nice trip Vicki.
@skyblazeeterno 2 жыл бұрын
My local stop High Brooms got name checked on leaving Tonbridge - we are famous! I would say that as Tonbridge is in Kent and Battle is in Sussex the festival/day is far more important to people in that county and unlikely to have anyone on the train dressed up
@Karlinski73 4 жыл бұрын
When I first saw the announcement of "Vicki Explores Battle" I was expecting some sort of head-to-head with another explorer. :-)
@melissavredline1264 4 жыл бұрын
The battle was nicely captured and edited - I didn't know what was going on though...
@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835 4 жыл бұрын
Oh...a Canadian guest star...from Canadaland 👌
@Leonard_Smith 4 жыл бұрын
Where have you been hiding Andrea? Great pairing, and not a bad video!
@russellwarren9595 4 жыл бұрын
what would you do different if you ever find yourself in Battle again? and what advice would you give someone going into the heart of Battle for the first time?
@ChasMusic 4 жыл бұрын
Once again, Vicki's explorations make me want to get on an aeroplane and cross the pond. I wonder about the people fighting each other with matching weapons, for example, the two short sword fighters. In a real battle, I doubt people look around and say, do you have a short sword too? Okay, let's fight. No? (Gets shot through with an arrow.) But it is an impressive spectacle and I'm sure a lot of fun and that all involved work quite hard at it to be authentic (without the deaths and injuries of course).
@dalem1140 4 жыл бұрын
Just ordered a knitted knights helmet 👌
@thebongmaster 4 жыл бұрын
VikiSplores! \o/
@SouthernFanOfficial 4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, Tonbridge the station I see everyday 😂😂😛😛
@JohnTalbot-k6xi 4 жыл бұрын
Great Fun by Train (!!) More should go
@WhiteTiger333 4 жыл бұрын
Love your "Vicki Explores" animated graphic (at 00:39). Hmmmm...interesting choice of penance for King William. It isn't as if he had to personally build it. :D
@Northerner_Transport_Hub 4 жыл бұрын
Omg I went here
@Ice_Karma 4 жыл бұрын
7:48 OK, I'm amused it says "Alight here for ***1066 Battle of Hastings***". =D
@alexcropper7179 4 жыл бұрын
The battle was fought in Battle? How fortuitous was that!
@jacquelineharrod6386 4 жыл бұрын
@Amtsf 😊😊😊😄😄😄
@robertewalt7789 4 жыл бұрын
We have re-enactments in the US also. Civil War (1861-5), Revolutionary War (1775-83), maybe French & Indian War (? - 1763).
@britishreaction54 4 жыл бұрын
Do you ever re-enact the war of 1812?
@robertewalt7789 4 жыл бұрын
I think so. Maybe in New Orleans. Maybe in Canada, near Niagara Falls, where there were three battles. In NJ, where I live, it’s Revolutionary War, lots of battles to re-enact.
@dgattenb 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome battle of wits
@gobears6487 4 жыл бұрын
I’m amazed if no one gets hurt! 😳
@DavidShepheard 4 жыл бұрын
More people get injured doing Morris Dancing than reenactment.
@bbrauer5 4 жыл бұрын
BBC show Time Team came to the conclusion that the battle was not fought in the fields they said it did. Rather, the battle was fought in the village. No archaeology evidence has ever been found to support the theory that the battle was in the fields.
@gr328 4 жыл бұрын
@Sandcastle • Nevertheless, it's true...
@bbrauer5 4 жыл бұрын
@Sandcastle •Time Team S20 Special - 1066 The Lost Battlefield on KZfaq
@bbrauer5 4 жыл бұрын
@@gr328Time Team S20 Special - 1066 The Lost Battlefield on KZfaq
@gr328 4 жыл бұрын
@@bbrauer5 Yes mate I was agreeing with you. @Sandcastle meant the programme wasn't on the BBC but C4.
@SamAronow 4 жыл бұрын
“You’d have to hold this and an axe for nine hours!” Clearly you’ve never been an extra.
@SamSitar 4 жыл бұрын
both axe and shield look very heavy.
@blairoutproject 4 жыл бұрын
she can hold my chopper for as long as she likes.....
@DRS-ib7oo 4 жыл бұрын
Viki, there is a carriage on the WensleyDale Railway that is featured in the movies of Harry Potter and is carriage 99718
@w0033944 4 жыл бұрын
Doc Martens coming in handy there.
@LouisOnAir 4 жыл бұрын
William didn't see being King of England as his destiny, he just really wanted a better title than 'Bastard'
@DFandV 4 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine back in those days that you have a census. Where your title is "Bastard"
@francinevanzanten8368 4 жыл бұрын
The difference between Vicky and Geoff making a KZfaq video? Geoff starts talking within seconds, Vicky takes her time.
@rosiefay7283 4 жыл бұрын
4:02 "Harold got his army" Do you mean that the soldiers who fought at Battle had just fought at Stamford Bridge? I thought it was a different army... 6:40 So William chose Christmas Day as being a good day to bury bad news?
@VickiPipe 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Rosie, as I understand it Harold marched as much of his army down as he could, picking up other random men (farmers and anyone else he could muster) along the way.
@Ribeirasacra 4 жыл бұрын
I thought I was watching Mark Felton ⚔️
@SaturnCanuck 4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Also, Andrea is NOT from the UK, is she?
@SaturnCanuck 4 жыл бұрын
Canada rules. me too!
@unniFI 4 жыл бұрын
Battle
@telemachus53 4 жыл бұрын
Why does it say: "Change at Battle for the..." and not "Alight at Battle for the..."? ( 1:20 )?
@william-uk 4 жыл бұрын
On Southeastern, unless my memory is failing me, all the on train announcements use "Change at" for plaçes you may wish to change, and the on platform signs always say "Alight".
@telemachus53 4 жыл бұрын
@@william-uk But you can't change here - you can only alight - for Battle.
@twothreebravo 4 жыл бұрын
"So Who was going to take the throne" Me: Correct
@JennyQT 4 жыл бұрын
12th October yea this is not the wrong date
@euanfyfe3914 3 жыл бұрын
Ha! I left out the most important word "no" before "evidence".
@outminded6622 4 жыл бұрын
You guys haven't gone to all the stations in the UK. Romney, hyth and dymchurch railway.
@DavidShepheard 4 жыл бұрын
They didn't go to the Isle of Wight either. :-P
@outminded6622 4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidShepheard true
@eastpavilion-er6081 4 жыл бұрын
That battle scene is very interesting. However I saw another battle reenactment in China, showing a battle in Tang Dynasty (~700 CE) and the warriors looks more civilized than that.
@davejones3192 4 жыл бұрын
one idea: try a town which is packed full of history, just go to christchurch history society's website and visit it and make a video
@QALibrary 4 жыл бұрын
Question what was Battle called before there was a battle????????
@DerekHartley 4 жыл бұрын
It was mostly just a field.
@pras12100 4 жыл бұрын
Some people have said it was called Senlac Hill but this is probably apocryphal. There was no settlement there. See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senlac_Hill
@Ice_Karma 4 жыл бұрын
4:05 "[...] and marched straight back down [...]"-why can I not get kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9h_iLqo0M-ogH0.html out of my head?? XD
@andrineslife 4 жыл бұрын
Andrea is an absolute delight, what a lovely video!
@SquirtyBertie 4 жыл бұрын
3:05 to 4:15 You've just summed up a term's worth of GCSE History in 1 minute!
@Great_WesternTVFan 8 ай бұрын
That could be how the saxon counties got their Hundreds
@CJonestheSteam72 4 жыл бұрын
All the decisive foreign military invasions 🙂
@Lulu-jl5zd 4 жыл бұрын
More tea required... that would have seen you through...
@evancortez2 4 жыл бұрын
Is Andrea American?
@kirstenjw4304 4 жыл бұрын
The Bayeux Tapestry, shows that Harold was killed by an arrow in the eye. Very famous tapestry.
@pintpullinggeek 4 жыл бұрын
Or perhaps he was cut to pieces and then trampled under a horse. The tapestry doesn't make clear which of the deaths in that section may be Harold and there are other contemporary accounts that give a different version of his death.
@kirstenjw4304 4 жыл бұрын
@@pintpullinggeek He died a loooooong time ago. Who really knows how. The arrow in the eye is a popular version. Dead man which ever way you look at it.
@euanfyfe3914 3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately there is evidence whatsoever that any fight took place at Battle Abbey. A much more likely site for the Battle of Hastings is Crowhurst, about 2.5 miles to the South East. The monks were less than honest about past events.
@roberthorwood4276 4 жыл бұрын
why didn't the 1066 Battle of Hastings take place in Hastings? otherwise, why isn't it called the Battle of Battle or am I missing something? Ha ha.
@Rob-jf9jn 4 жыл бұрын
My T shirt is what they know if I can’t float my pizza looking at the outer planets. But a coffee mug is always on the donkeys back when the shop roof closes its biscuit. That was the intelligent words for the day 🤪👍😀
@britishreaction54 4 жыл бұрын
Much better without Geoff butting in every 30 seconds.
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