any caitlyn doughty fans? i saw the thumbnail and my brain instantly sang “bentham’s head!” ah yes i’d know that severed head anywhere

@chrisball3778

Ай бұрын

Yeah, exactly the same- I saw the thumbnail and immediately heard her singing it. Everyone's favourite disembodied noggin.

@richardray9658

Ай бұрын

Lol, honestly my mind went "the middle ages were magic" in her voice

@vickiewallace415

Ай бұрын

Of course there are some “death enthusiasts” here for macabre stuff!!!

@jenniferryersejones9876

Ай бұрын

Yes, lol! The second I saw Bentham in the thumbnail I heard it!

@jacquelinecherry9914

Ай бұрын

Caitlyn doughty is awesome 😎

Bentham's head!🎶

@Oakleaf700

Ай бұрын

Bentham's Headdddddd 😂🎵🎶

@Figgatella

Күн бұрын

Bentham’s Head!

It constantly boggles my mind that you can turn just about any corner in London and find something interesting, how historically and nationally important monuments are just sitting, waiting to be noticed. A whole day could be spent learning about the previous occupants of a random street, or the amazing events that happened in a building on the corner.

Interesting how Mr Lawrence's voice is still so much clearer and attention-grabbing than the new version. I wish they'd spread him back across the network.

@toomanyopinions8353

Ай бұрын

This. I hope someone points this out to them.

@jomitchell6711

Ай бұрын

His voice is more commanding, for lack of a better term. Like a teacher from yesteryear. As in, you hear it and it makes you pay attention. It's safer. The other digitised version is too placid. As in, it's asking you if you want to but you don't have to.

@kokunaijin

10 күн бұрын

I moved abroad in 2007 and this is my Mind the Gap voice. Definitely better than the new one. I'm sad to hear they changed it.

Awwwww I hear your little baby in the background during voice over… enjoy. Time flies

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Awww, I thought I edited that out! 😆

@GodWearsGucci

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide as a Mom as well……… we just instinctively know. I’ll delete the comment but it thought how sweet it was and just wanted to be silly to you. Love ur videos

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

@@GodWearsGucci no, please don’t delete!

@juliamcwilliam

Ай бұрын

I agree, it add a personal touch. Plus it proves the video isn't AI lol​@@TheMuseumGuide

I don't cry very often, but the last one, "Mind the gap", actually made my eyes a bit teary 🥹 Love how humanity sometimes conquer the a bit soulless institutions.

@davidlathrop9360

18 күн бұрын

Someday, if I ever get to London, I am making it a goal to go there. When I hear that announcement, I will make sure to say, "Thank you, Mr. Lawrence".

Wow, I stopped and read all those tiles remembering the brave people who died saving others. It was so touching. I'm glad they still do that today. 😇❤️

Wonderful as always! I'll happily watch anything you choose to share with us. I would like to see more about Jeremy Bentham's head. I first heard about him from Caitlin Doughty, and would love to learn about how he's being maintained. Thank you again!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

You’re very welcome!

@michaelhawkins7389

11 күн бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide when did you move to the UK ? noticed that you are American or Canadian :) also awesome vidoe

@TheMuseumGuide

10 күн бұрын

@@michaelhawkins7389 I’m Canadian! I moved here 11 years ago.

Another brilliant tour with Jessica! Honestly, I could listen all day. So informative, compassionate and concise. London, and Britain in general, is full of the strange and macabre. I would like a separate tour of the Tyburn Martyrs but as others have noted, anything Jessica decides will be great. I love that you have your little one with you. A guide in training!

I adore Jessica. She is a woman after my own heart. How fabulous would it be to do a world tour of the macabre but in the meantime, the martyrs relics would be an interesting item, not to mention the head of good old Jeremy. In fact, anything you can think of!

Great video. If you ever do a follow up to this one, you could include the National Covid Memorial Wall on the South Bank. Partly it's the freshness of the tragedy, but I find it really moving. And the way it just goes on and on and on brings home the scale of the loss. Or did you include it in another video? I think you might have.

What a fantastic end note! Great vid ❤

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Hi, the Image shown of William Wallace with "artist unknown is by my godfather, Andrew Hillhouse. Noticed another of his pieces used in this video. Thank you.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Oh wow! I search high and low to find the artists. Which one is it? I can try to submit the artist info to Wikipedia.

🎶Bentham's Head

Charles wasn't much of a king, but he comported himself well before his death. I think that really changed some people's minds about him.

@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR

Ай бұрын

I found out through genealogy that i was related to EDWARD THE 1ST who died 700 years ago and don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing i can't decide?? Lols

Oswald’s announcement is much better. :)

Another wonderfully weird, informative, historical, whimsical and macabre video by Jessica!

@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR

Ай бұрын

I love the graffiti in TOWER OF LONDON from KINGS,ROYALS, MILITARY LEADERS, DUKES,LORDS and QUEENS in the JAIL CELLS.They are so elaborately done and very well written.But what else can you waiting in a squalid smelly cell 24hrs a day while waiting to be Hung,Drawn and Quartered??

Loving hearing the little baby sounds as you tell us dastardly deeds of people long ago.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I thought I cut them out! 🤣🤣🤣

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide Whats with the heavy breathing etc in the back ground? of your monologue! your snicker at 22:10 has anything to do with it? 22:20 clearly kiss! whatever floats your boats I guess!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 it’s my baby. I thought I edited her out but loads of people have commented!

@phaedrapage4217

Ай бұрын

​@@TheMuseumGuide Videos like this need a bit of levity.

Re: Beheadings: From what I've read, a big issue with regard to beheadings is that the axe is not a tool that's designed to be used in this fashion. This is why many beheadings (such as Margaret Pole's) tended to be rather...messy...affairs.

I came across this after my dogs woke me up at 3am to investigate something in the garden. So interesting .. I learned things I didn’t know. I’m going to take myself on a train ride and spend a day visiting some of these places

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I love to hear it! Well, not that your dogs woke you up…

@gillyrambowife8641

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide 😂

You’re my favorite KZreadr!! I hope one day to visit England and go on a tour with you.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I hope so too!

Another interesting tour with you, I must admit that I am drawn to the strange and macabre😁 Was that a little person I could here in the background? Your baby I presume and doing well wandering London with Mum 🥰🦘🦘🦘

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

It was! I thought I edited her squawks out. 🤣

You have a fantastic way of condensing huge stories in a way that makes them so accessible and engaging. I really love your videos, thanks for all your hard work!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

I came across your video when watching KZread. So pleased that I did, thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you for posting such an informative, well presented video.

Thank you Jessica for elucidating the matter of "drawing" in executions. I have listened to many history videos which confuse the dragging behind horses for drawing, as you mentioned. You'd think someone claiming to be a historian would know better. When I was a little girl, my parents killed their own chickens for eating, and when my dad removed the innards he said he was "drawing" the chicken, a process tiny me found fascinating. So I have always known the term.

This was EXCELLENT. If you're ever in Tokyo or Kyoto, you might look into similar tours there.

❤❤ thank you for your amusing and informative uploads your brilliant x

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

You are so welcome

Really well orchestrated video

Of course yes, to videos about the Tyburn Convent and about the keeping of Bentham's head! Thank you for another fascinating video.

I love your videos! ❤

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

How did I miss this video!?! I LOVE THE MACABRE! Thank you for this! 🤘🏻💀

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

😎😎😎

Yes. I would be interested in all of the subjects you mentioned as possible videos. Thanks.

Nothing better than to start the day with a video of urs! ❤ When r u coming to Amsterdam?

I watch Caitlin D. Alot plus her morbid humor will bring a smile or laugh to anyone..plus you will learn alot ..

Great video as always! I’d love to see more memorials over England. There is one near where I live called Caxton Gibbet - and like this video it’s always quite jarring to see as it’s next to a McDonald’s ha!

That was great ...Londoner myself ...now living in Southampton ...Little London as known way back ...em ..bit calmer then London now ...stay invisible ..old London rules ...nuts ...as it goes on ...But love old London ..all my family come from it ...again ..that was wonderful.

Your channel is brilliant I Love 💕 it!!!! Regards from South Africa Andrew

My dad told me once that my great grandma on his mom's side came from England and her maiden name was Tudor. Can't say for certain how true that is, just from the stories my grandma told him. I've wanted to visit the country at some point and explore my possible history. And maybe apologize to all the wives Henry beheaded... Almost feels like something I need to do. But I'm a history nerd as it is and have always been fascinated with ancient and not so ancient history. Mainly foreign. So these videos help me scratch that itch I may never be able to scratch myself.

Loved the video 👍🏼 you had me thinking i was losing my marbles when i could hear the little baby feeding 😂. God bless you and your young family. 🙏🏼

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I made my mum listen to it before I published and she said, “naw, no one will notice.” 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Thank you again...ron

My dear, I really enjoy your videos!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Jessica you are extremely good

@TheMuseumGuide

23 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

Another bit of trivia, the phrase 'On the wagon' meaning 'Not drinking alcohol' comes from the trip by prisoners from Newgate Prison to the Tyburn gallows. The condemned had their last drink and then had to get on the wagon to continue their journey to execution, it was in effect their last drink.

Perfect video for a raining evening here. I learned about Bentham in university (many years ago, since I'm old) and I've wanted to see his remains -- such an interesting character! For some reason, I forgot where he was located and google still didn't exist at the time I made my first trip to London. BUT, now I know! Also have a few other places to check out now ;) P.S. Pause the video at 19:13 for the link discussing the heroes.

16:26 This statue is the official centre of London. Road signs saying eg LONDON 20 miles (captial cities are capitalised) mean that's the distance to this corner of Trafalgar Square.

Very poignant descriptions of macabre events in the capital and the memoria!s which commemorate them. You have given the information so sensitively thank you.

You just got my Sub .

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

🥰🥰🥰

Bentham’s head! 😂

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

🤣

memorials are totems. Storage vessels for grief and markers of memory for when the collective pain fades.

It makes you wonder what kind of human being could think that someone screaming as they burned alive for the crime of believing in something different than you (which based on their religion would be punished after death anyways) is wholesome. To be honest, it’s only gotten slightly better today. And people wonder why I’m somewhat introverted, people suck

If I remember correctly Jeremy ghost 👻 is haunting the place....I just saw your video on the plaques on the macabre I saw the name George Lee...I not sure if he's an ancestor of mine but my grandmother was a Lee and I wanted to know how Mr Lee died and ended up on that wall

One of my ancestors was a martyr during Mary I's reign. He loved in Bury St. Edmonds. The listing I have only lists the city and the year.

YES!!!

Oh yeah just in time for a horrid early morning shift weekend..... Thank you for taking me to sleep once more lol brings several views as I need several attempts to watch the whole video.... Sry not sry I love going to sleep to your soothing voice

History is nuts

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Right?!

You forgot to mention that Bentham insisted his corpse be recorded in the minutes of the meetings as: "Present but not Voting

@TheMuseumGuide

7 күн бұрын

😂😂😂 such a great detail I missed.

lets gooooo!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

🏇🏇🏇

yer the best

I remember having to stand to one side in the mid 1980s as Jeremy was wheeled to the committee room to cast his deciding vote. The old case was much nicer though and the head was in a box under the chair at that point. The story in our day was that sometime in the ?20s, UCL students stole King's College's stuffed gorilla during rag week and they retaliated by stealing Jeremy's head and playing football with it in Oxford Street. It was on a printed card next to the case.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I love this! Apparently the football story is a myth, but it’s great.

@woofbarkyap

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide I guessed as much but it was the official line when I was there 🤣

The Head!!

❤❤❤

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Feeding your Baby while speaking about the executions happening in the Tower is also a bit creepy, but as a mum i understood and smiled ;-) lovely !

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

To be fair, she was rolling around on the floor. 🤣

What was going on at 22:45?

i feel so bad for people getting killed just because of their faith :( thanks for the video :)

Wow who knew.🤷🏼‍♀️

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Bentham had an inkling. 🤣

I think 🤔 that Mr.B was really "touched" in the head 🗣️ or a bit insane just to do that.... I saw the name George Lee.. I'd love to know more about him and I don't even know if he's my ancestor or not

Wallace is my 15th removed grandfather

Thank you for the sights and the history lessons, Queen! 🙏🏻❤️💐

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

You’re very welcome!

How morbid people were. They showed up to watch these horrible executions.

would love a video on the the things the nuns show from the tyburn tree

8:53 no ma’am I’m sorry that is incorrect… That is Ben Franklin 😂😂😂😂😂 (kidding)

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Or the Quaker oat man!

@kateapple1

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide hahahaha yessss

I don’t know if this will be of interest but William Wallace wasn’t the only famous person on this list who was born in Scotland. Charles I was born in Dunfermline Palace in 1600 just a few years before his father would unite the Scottish and English crowns due to Elizabeth I dying without issue. Which makes him the last monarch to be born in Scotland, though he didn’t know until his brother Henry’s death just days before Charles’ twelfth birthday, that it was his fate to become king.

Bentham's heeeaaad

Seeing that the royal family is part Scottish through the Queen Mother, you would think more Scottish people would want to stay connected to the United Kingdom.

Jeremy Bentham looks just like Benjamin Franklin. 🤔

@TheMuseumGuide

29 күн бұрын

And the Quaker Oats man!!!

@JesseCase

29 күн бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide Yep! 😂😂😂

Speaking of Hanging, Salem Witch trial, they found, ( took a while) few hundred years), that the people of (Salem-Danvers), were found to be hung at Proctor's Ridge, right behind Walgreen's 😮 , in someone's backyard, Yup, my Ancestor, was Rebecca Nurse😢, this town is about a hour from where I live, the Strange thing is the judge who signed her death warrant, is buried, in Dorchester, and I passed his grave every day going to School, not knowing it, fast forward 1967, I moved to Stoughton Ma town named after him ( William Stoughton)! Also Governor, of Massachusetts, if there is a Hell, I hope he is in it, and enjoying the stay😮 we who are descendants, have lived on😊.

@TheMuseumGuide

23 күн бұрын

What a cool family history!

Wonderful 🩷 You do such a marvelous job researching and telling the stories you choose, and you choose really interesting stuff!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Thank you!!!!

Normal-ITY is proper. 😮

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I’m not sure what you’re referring to!

You had an apartment in a UCLA storeroom?

@TheMuseumGuide

19 күн бұрын

?

I think our ancestors were cruel , brutal savage's! 🤔😒

Salisbury is pronounced sauls-bree/ sawlsbree

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Is that not exactly how I said it?

@lynnejamieson2063

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide I think the point being made is that you used a hard ‘a’ more associated with the US dish of Salisbury steak, rather than the softer ‘a’ that is typically used in the UK for the same place name.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Ohhhhhh. I’m so used to A being hard in most UK words - I’m used to be made fun of for my long, West Coast surfer A. 🤣

@lynnejamieson2063

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide it’s an easy mistake to make, especially when you may be more used to hearing a pronunciation in one way or even if you are expecting the emphasis to be in a different place (a personal peeve of mine being the mispronunciation of Lomond in Loch Lomond) but essentially the the Sal in Salisbury rhymes with all, so it’s kind of s-all-s-bury with the emphasis on the salis part.

Can anyone hear the struggling voice of a women 22:46 LISTEN CAREFULLY ITS DEFINETLY THERE

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

It’s my baby. 😂👶🏻

Why do you consider the speeches macabre but not the executions?

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Which speeches?

Why does everyone on this platform just scrape by with the worst audio.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Awww, I thought my audio had gotten better! 😢 I bought a good mic, but this is definitely the part of KZread that I struggle with the most.

how do you know so much about the UK but still pronounce Hertfordshire as "hartford sheer" 😭😭😭 it pains my soul lol

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

This is how my husband, born and raised in Farnborough, says it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@soupydoopie07

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide thats so odd to me!! i dont mean offense at all but i have never heard someone pronounce it in that way lol the more you know 😭

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

@@soupydoopie07 now I want to know how you pronounce it! 🤣

@soupydoopie07

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide I'd pronounce it like "hartford shuh" so not overly different but still different 😂

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

@@soupydoopie07 ohhhhhh. The difference is mainly my rhotic R! I don’t drop my Rs because I sound like I’m putting on a fake accent. My husband actually sounds like “Hartford - sheeh.”

So, you are having a collage level scientific background ... and still misuse the word "VIRTUAL" for a Video-Talk-Walk ? Can't find anything "virtual" here, "literally"!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Yikes. 🤣

In order to be a true martyr..... O n e can't b a heretic Genuine Martyrs go straight to h e a v e n upon their d e a t h For giving up their l i v e s for the Catholic G o d they believe and profess. 🙂🙏

That noise in the background is annoying. Sounds like your watching a dirty movie while narrating

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Do you mean around the 22 minute mark? It’s my 7-month old baby. I thought I edited it out, but apparently I missed this bit. 👶🏻

Don’t talk Trump trash, please.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I’m no fan of Trump, as no historians are, but I have no idea what you’re talking about in relation to this video.

@serviustullus7204

Ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide Think again, then. The innuendo of associating the religion slaughter and unpopularity of Queen Mary with “Make England Catholic Again.” That is what I am taking about!

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I said what I said.

In the section covering the execution of Charles I, two paintings feature captions incorrectly referring to Charles II.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Aw nuts. Thanks!