50 Things You Need to Know About British History
Thursday August 14, 2008
The History Channel has just created a five-part mini-series called, 50 Things You Need to Know About British History, which will air in the United Kingdom in September 2008. The goal of the show was to choose 50 events in British history that would define what it means to be British. Would you be surprised to learn that they have excluded Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria from the list? What events do you think should definitely be included in the top 50?
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Seeing that the programme is about events and not personalities then it is plainly obvious that Victoria and Churchill would not be in. No personalities are acknowledged whatsoever they are mentioned in relation to the events they were involved in so I’m sure hurchill will get a mention when its the turn of WWII.
This is NOT 50 Greatest Britons you silly woman.
yes i have watch that an its quite good and what i really would like to know its on
The Sea serie is there is some kind of music playing when the ships are battered by the sea does anyone know what it is called i’ve heard it on adverts too when it rolls the credits it say the music part Joe Henson And Audio Network well i’m going to have a look but please can i have some help maybe the name of the track or composer
It’s mistitled – “It’s all you need to know about English History” there is almost no mention of Wales, Ireland or Scotland and the presenters and script continually conflate England with Britain.
It’s one of the most inaccurate history programmes I’ve ever had the misfortune to watch.
I would have to agree with albanaich about this programme. There were also some historical inaccuracies. The programme seemed to give the impression that the Longbow was invented at the tail end of the 13th Century. This ignores the archaeological evidence that basically shows that the Longbow has excisted since the Prehistoric Period. This evdence has been found all over Europe, from Nydam and Vimose in Denmark to the Ballinderry Crannog, Ireland.