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The Celts - BBC Series Ep 6 - A Dead Song?
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In the sixth episode of the series, this program examines the emergence, history, meaning and threats to the Celtic identity. Today the struggle to define an identity continues. This final segment is a discussion on the degree to which modern people may view themselves as Celts, with examples of modern Celtic-inspired practices like military discipline and warfare, the Welsh Eisteddfod, modern Irish music and art, and the efforts of the Bretons and Cape Bretoners to preserve their native languages in the face of societal assimilation by their ruling nations.
Some of this episode was filmed in Portmeirion, Wales and makes references to the 1960's series The Prisoner.
The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. This program looks at who the Celts were, where they came from and what made their culture so distinctive.
Time Team S20 Special - 1066 The Lost Battlefield
Tony Robinson gives the history books one in the eye by discovering where the Battle of Hastings was really fought. The battle is the most famous in English history but not a single bit of archaeological evidence for it has ever been found. Have historians put the battlefield in the wrong place?
Time Team set themselves the task of uncovering the true location of England's most famous defeat.
For decades there has been dispute over the site, even though Battle Abbey is supposed to stand exactly where Harold fell. In 2012 a bestseller claimed that Caldbec Hill, a mile away, was the real site. But most historians still believe the main focus of the fighting was in the fields below the Abbey.
Time Team excavate both sites to seek evidence of either one being a battlefield.
Digging alone is inconclusive. But a cutting edge aerial technology called LIDAR to map the terrain proves that the traditional battlefield would have been too boggy for William's Norman cavalry.
So military analysts study the data to see where Harold, a skilled commander, would most likely have mounted his defence against William's invading army.
They identify the only ideal battlefield. It seems Harold's fearsome Saxon shield wall straddled a narrow strategic pass that is on today's A2100.
It leads to a surprising conclusion about where the heart of the battle was fought, and why William won and Harold lost.
Time Team S18-E05 The Furnace in the Forest
Dense and tranquil woodland in the County Durham countryside seems an unlikely venue for Time Team's investigation into the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. But 200 years ago Derwentcote was at the heart of an iron and steel-producing complex that fuelled the spread of empire.
Over three days the Team fight through the undergrowth to reveal the furnaces and forges that produced the raw materials of industry under appalling conditions.
As well as their chainsaws and mechanical diggers, the archaeologists draw on an unusual resource: the memoirs of an 18th-century industrial spy who visited the site. And with the help of old records they can even put names and trades to the people who occupied the workers' cottages that once stood alongside the works.
It's a story of how cottage industry gave way to the might of the industrial cities such as Sheffield, and the Team uncover the highs and lows of the working life of Derwentcote. On top of all that, Tony discovers how excited grown men can be when they get to analyse huge lumps of 200-year-old slag!
Time.Team.S16-E07 Toga Town: Caerwent, South Wales
Tony Robinson and the Team investigate Caerwent in South Wales, one of Britain's best kept secrets. Apparently just a small village well off any main road, it is in fact the country's best preserved Roman town. And amazingly many of its 2000-year-old secrets have yet to be discovered.
Time Team - Season 1, Episode 1 - The Guerrilla Base of the King (Athelney, Somerset)
In this first ever episode of Time Team, Tony and the team travel to Athelney in Somerset to investigate a series of hills (once islands in a bog) that became Alfred The Great last defensive positions after a series of losses to invading Viking forces. It is also the place Alfred began the great rally that saw him re-conquer most Wessex and laid the foundations of the nation that was to become England.
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Time Team - Season 19, Episode 9 - Rome's Wild West (Caerleon, Newport)
The Time Team visit a set of Roman ruins in Caerlon in South Wales. The area was always known for it's extensive construction work, but what the Time Team uncover that changes everything.
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25% of the UK Population Only Walk for 20 Minutes a Week, Don't Be One of Them
We all celebrate children learning to walk. It's the biggest event in a child's first year. Over the next 17 years children do tend to walk a lot. They are the biggest proportion of the population who do walk. Guess why? Because everyone aspires to driving a car. But when you do learn to drive a car what many people do is they never walk to any significant extent again. 25% of the UK population walk for less than 20 minutes a week, (according to research carried out in 2013 by the Rambler's Association) and most of that is from the front door to the car door. Not a good way to live.
So can I encourage you to get out walking 30 to 40 minutes 4 or 5 times a week for your physical health, a smaller backside and better shaped legs and most of all for your mental health. It'll do you the power of good to get the walking habit. Good luck. Message me if you want some advice on how to get started.
You feel fabulous when you walk, so I hope you'll do it.
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6th January 1066: Harold Godwinson crowned king of England
Harold II was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, but reigned for barely nine months before being killed at the Battle of Hastings on the 14th October by Norman invaders led by William of Normandy.
The day before Harold’s coronation, Edward the Confessor died. He had suffered a series of strokes in late 1065 and lay in a coma for much of the remainder of his life. He died without an heir, and this sparked a succession crisis that culminated in the Norman invasion of England later that year.
The Normans claimed that Edward had promised the throne of England to William. Reported by various Norman chroniclers, the Bayeux Tapestry shows that Harold even swore an oath on sacred relics to support William’s claim to the English throne after becoming shipwrecked in 1064. The reliability of this story is debated by historians, especially since it goes against the English tradition that the new king would be chosen by the Witenaġemot – the meeting of wise men.
Whatever the truth of Edward’s promise and Harold’s meeting with William, Edward apparently regained consciousness and entrusted his kingdom to Harold for “protection” shortly before he died. When the Witenaġemot met on the 6th January they elected Harold as king, and his coronation took place the same day. Historians generally believe that this took place in Westminster Abbey, which had been built by Edward and had been consecrated just a few days earlier on the 28th December 1065. Hearing of Harold’s accession to the English throne, William soon began preparing to invade.
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