A History of Celtic Britain tonight


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He really gets on my wick and last weeks programme was particularly annoying because of the reasons you say. It's great seeing the artefacts and remains of homes and stuff, which is the reason I watch it; but I hate it when he starts making stuff up about why people did things, when the truth is we haven't got a clue how they lived or what they believed.

Spinal Tap were well ahead of him here: "Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing".

strange claim that mate when there is plenty of written evidence from the accounts of the romans
 
strange claim that mate when there is plenty of written evidence from the accounts of the romans

Nowt strange at all mate. The rather sketchy accounts we have from the Romans date from a few decades BC, and Oliver's series started in the Bronze age, around 2000 years before that.
 
I missed it ! A massive storm passed over just at the time it was on and reception went off. Does anyone know if it is repeated ? If so when ?

There's some of it still on iPlayer.

It's worth watching, as was A History of Ancient Britain, which seems to have been made at the same time by him and was broadcast a few weeks ago.
 
Nowt strange at all mate. The rather sketchy accounts we have from the Romans date from a few decades BC, and Oliver's series started in the Bronze age, around 2000 years before that.

there's a millenia's worth of roman accounts on the celts. it's strange then that the programme is called celtic britain given academics agree the celtic culture only dates back to 800 BC.
 
His 'Face of Britain' series was quite good, I especially enjoyed the part where he dna tested the Jawdies and concluded that

"The Geordies are not the race apart that they think themselves to be"

:lol:
 
there's a millenia's worth of roman accounts on the celts. it's strange then that the programme is called celtic britain given academics agree the celtic culture only dates back to 800 BC.

There can't possibly be a millennia's worth of Roman accounts of celts, because Rome wasn't founded until 750BC. The earliest reliable first-hand accounts of Celtic Britain are provided by Julius Ceasar during his military expeditions (55-54 BC), although there are a handful of mentions before that.
 
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