Dinas Powys and a dream of Rome: The Forgotten Origins Of Medieval Britain
Pete Kelly's film on post-Roman Wales, nearly a year old, is the History Time video drawing the most daily viewers while nothing new went up.
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The Forgotten Origins Of Medieval Britain - History Documentary
"The Forgotten Origins Of Medieval Britain" is a long documentary on History Time, Pete Kelly's channel, and it opens with a prologue called "In The Land Of Giants." From there it moves through chapters titled "A Dream of Rome" and "Succession," and its reading list says a lot about where it goes: excavations at Segontium, the Roman fort at Caernarfon, Leslie Alcock's digs at the hillfort of Dinas Powys, and the Welsh sources behind Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Kelly posted nothing new in the past seven days, and that film, now close to a year old and past 650,000 views, is the one people keep finding. Right behind it is a much older journey to Karahan Tepe, Göbekli Tepe's less famous neighbor, which has gathered more than three million views. Then comes a summer film on the real Trojan War, built from Hittite archives and an initial script by WanaxTV.
With no new upload to lean on, the channel still ran a little above its usual daily pace and added about 10,000 subscribers. Among the history and education channels around its size, Drew Durnil is the one having a big week, while Fall of Civilizations and Mr. Beat are running quieter than usual. History Time sits comfortably in the middle, its back catalog doing the walking from Neolithic Anatolia to post-Roman Wales.
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