I just started watching this, and I feel like it is underrated! I love it so much.

Incredibly fun series. Enjoyed looking up historical facts while watching episodes of Renegade Nell. Austin did his homework!

just finished watching it, very enjoyable series, ive always had a random interest in 18th century Britain, if i ever bump into 'the doctor' i think id take a trip there in his/her/its tardis.

I just finished watching the third episode. It's an awful lot of fun. I was fuzzy on the info about the queen, thanks! I didn't realize the plague was so recent. I'm a big fan of the American Revolution so I've picked up some of this English history along the side.

Very succinct and helpful. Thank you for putting this together. Wish I'd come across this before watching Nell.

@mickeyology5180

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I liked the series, but it must have been in a parallel universe, so many black people in high positions...

@mickeyology5180

3 ай бұрын

My other Renegade Nell video addresses that! You're right, though. There weren't Black English aristocrats in 1705.

i just saw the Show throu coinsident. It is great and underrated

""Renegade Nell" is steeped in real English history and folklore!"...except the bits where early 18th Century Britain was full of black aristocrats and mixed-race marriages.

@mickeyology5180

3 ай бұрын

Kind of, yeah. There weren't Black aristocrats back then but there were plenty of mixed-race marriages in 18th century Britain.

@Kopp203

3 ай бұрын

@@mickeyology5180 They were so exceedingly rare that they were a blip. Exceptions do not make the rule. Certainly they were not as prevalent as depicted in the Renegade Nell, where nearly every major couple where mixed race.

@mickeyology5180

3 ай бұрын

That's not what I've found in my research. Douglas Lorimer wrote that 18th century Londoners were pretty tolerant towards Blacks and a significant number of Blacks married whites at that time. Passenger lists from three ships sailing to Sierra Leone in 1787 list 81 mixed race married couples. In 1778 a man named Philip Thicknesse even complained about how common race mixing was in England. He wrote, "‘London abounds with an incredible number of these black men...and every country town, nay, in almost every village are to be seen a little race of mulattoes". Granted, these sources are from the later 1700s, which is after the period of Renegade Nell, but there are records of interracial marriages going back to the 1600s. I'm not saying they were everywhere, but it seems inaccurate to say they were just a blip.

@Kopp203

3 ай бұрын

@@mickeyology5180 If that were truly the case, why was Britain culturally and ethnically homogenous up until post -WWII? the country was 99.9% white european. If things were as diverse as you claim, we would have have multiple generations of mixed-race descendants of all these ethnic people you allege were here since the 1800's, or was there a genocide between now and then that has been mysteriously omitted from the history books?

@mickeyology5180

3 ай бұрын

I mean, even if that's true, a lot of things could change a country's demographics in that time, right? All I'm saying is that the scholars and sources I've found agree that interracial marriages were relatively common. Where'd you get the 99.9% statistic, by the way? I didn't think the English census asked people about their ethnicity until 1991.

Great show, but not England - it was Britain by that time. Just FYI.

Shame about the woke nonsense, England was not multicultural in 1705 , and didn't have superheros, otherwise looks good

@markorollo.

3 ай бұрын

i suggest you google before commenting,

@markorollo.

3 ай бұрын

and obviously we disdnt have superheros, theyre not real.

@drumgold23

3 ай бұрын

He probably wishes black people aren't real, dreaming of a time that never existed.

@meredith5879

3 ай бұрын

It didn't have magic pixies either, bro 😂

@Kopp203

3 ай бұрын

@@markorollo. I suggest you learn some actual British history instead of regurgitating Woke talking points. 18th century Britain was ethnically homogenous. There were no black aristocrats, nor where there mixed-race marriages.