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Welcome to the British Empire. This video takes an epic tour through centuries of change, resistance and violence, meeting key figures who played important roles in this turbulent era.
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0:08 – Introduction
0:39 – Queen Elizabeth I & Francis Drake
1:17 – Atlantic slave trade
1:56 – Pocahontas
2:36 – Nanny of the Maroons
3:15 – Cornwallis vs. Washington (American Revolutionary War)
4:02 – Cornwallis vs. Tipu Sultan (Mysore, India)
4:22 – Cornwallis vs. Wolfe Tone (Ireland)
4:56 – Olaudah Equiano
5:32 – Woollarawarre Bennelong
6:12 – Queen Victoria
6:32 – Cecil Rhodes
6:46 – Gandhi in South Africa
7:24 – World War One
8:14 – Gandhi monologue
Thank you for watching ‘History of the British Empire (in One Take)’ by History Bombs.
CAST
Presenters: Chris Hobbs & Nelufar Hedayat
British Soldier/George Washington: Barnaby Jago
Captain/Earl Cornwallis: Guy Kelly
Queen Elizabeth I: Katy Schutte
Francis Drake: Tom Tokley
Pocahontas: Charlie Esquér
Nanny of the Maroons: Nataylia Roni
Tipu Sultan/WW1 Soldier: Sam Sharma
Wolfe Tonne: Louis Ellis
Olaudah Equiano/WW1 Soldier/Windrush arrival: Jacob Bukasa
Woollarawarre Bennelong: Tarik Frimpong
Queen Victoria: Amy Cooke-Hodgson
Cecil Rhodes: Tom Crowley
MK Gandhi: Ram Gupta
CREW
Script: Dylan Townley & Chris Hobbs
Historical Consultant: Shalina Patel
Director: Ellie Rogers
Assistant Director: Dylan Townley
Colour Grade: Jack Kibbey Newman
Steadicam Operator: Yiannis Manolopoulos
Focus Puller: Matt Farrant
Production & Casting: Chris Hobbs
Dresser: Eliandro Monteiro
Hair & Makeup: Seunghee Yoo
Unit Stills: Matthew Towers
BTS Video: Tristan James
Costumes: History in the Making & Angels
Location: Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London
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You guys should do a one take about the Cuban revolution or the Spanish-American war
I would argue that Wales and it's areas were technically the first to be Colonized, depends on what you define colonialism
Too much misinformation for a video that’s supposed to be educational. I didn’t study the British Empire for over 10 years to be lectured by these idiots who get basic facts wrong.
How woke do you want this?
History Bomb=
Nice to see another one
Nice video
Pls do more of these history of empires
I apreciate u for making history videos
The British empire was the first empire in history to abolish slavery and we refused to surrender to the Nazis and even though there was plenty of brutality in the colonies. The colonies especially India got huge leaps forward in infrastructure but let's not mention that just BrItIsH eMpIrE bAd
Incredibly inaccurate video 😂 not to mention partition was voted for by Indian governors
Good to see someone highlighting real stories of how British brutally ravaged the culture and traditions along with economy of its colonies. Keep going guys you're doing great job.
This is essentially a compilation of defeated losers (Tipu Sultan, Wolfe Tones, Bennelong) complaining about losing. lmao
"It's 8 Minutes"
Me Seeing It's 9 Minutes: bruh
Yes finally i missed these music videos
It feels like old times tbh because of all the rhymes and beats
The empire i broke HAHAHA
SUCK IT BRITS
This is not a good video on how the british empire was like I feel that pepole outweigh the positives in life I'm from New zealand and the british empire was the best thing to happen to new zealand we now rule our own country but keeping the proud history between Britian and new zealand
Completely ignores the English civil war, glorious revolution, 7-years war, napoleonic wars, like basically everything that turned into an empire. What the hell?
Abysmal video. One day you will be ashamed posting this.
Bruv, this isn't fun to watch (unless your an indian nationalist). Like the previous 1 take videos were fun and shit, that's why people liked them. Here its just "England bad lol" I ain't denying we did fucked up shit, but at the same time we did other stuff. Just make it like a good mix of both, plus the rapping and shit sucked.
Rule Britannia! 🏴🇬🇧
Ths video should be really named, Only the bad History of British Empire, screw talking about the normal or positive stuff (in One Take)
I'm sorry for being white guys. Thank you History Bombs.
Well happy you’re back
Millennials be like: “yeah I enjoy history, I’d call myself a amateur historian”
Noticed several inaccuracies in this one, I'm not an expert so I may be wrong but:
1) In 1581 England and Portugal weren't rivals but actually their oldest allies.
2) There's very little evidence of raids carried out by the British into Africa to capture slaves like suggested in the song. In fact the majority of the slaves transported across the Atlantic were purchased from pre-existing African kingdoms
3) Nanny the Maroon most likely didn't exist and was a folk tale
4) The Kingdom of Mysore is described as a 'strong and diverse society' which is ironic because by the time of British invasion it was experiencing waves of civil strife and was in fact ruled by a Muslim elite class over a large Hindu population.
5) Ireland wasn't the first place the English colonised, it was Wales
6) The industrial revolution was attributed to wealth coming into Britain through the Atlantic slave trade which is inaccurate as industrialisation was mostly caused by population growth and urbanisation. And only began to 'revolutionise' society after the slave trade was abolished in 1829
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So in other words the british empire was based beyond a reasonable doubt
You really should have split this into smaller parts. The production is top notch but many things were left off and focusing on the atrocities wasn't what I believe I was the best choice.
L+ bozo+ your rap sucks+ forgot about france lol+ Britain and Portugal were buddys+ everyone else did the same stuff at the time sometimes much worse (cough cough belgium)+ whole part on the American revolution was dumb
kinda cringe
Overall, I think this was pretty good. It's very clearly about the British Empire rather than the British Empire. And I don't think that's a particularly bad thing – it leaves room to eventually do a one take focusing more on the country itself rather than its colonies and imperial expansion.
This video is 75% Slavery and 25% Everything else
This is not a history of the British Empire. This is just referring to the negative stuff. You'd never know it from this video that there were positive aspects of the BE. Stop over compensating to keep the woke brigade happy. 🙄🙄🥱🥱
you forgot New Zealand
“Let’s make a video on the British Empire”
Only focuses on those who fought, or were conquered by said British Empire and only focus on the “evil-bad imperialism” because its politically convenient for more woke virtue signaling