Watching the YouTube archives of TimeTeam UK

[bucolic_frolic]

They produced something like 230 episodes over 20 years, it's a few years past cancellation now. But I'm struck, over and over, at how many periods of history they research, how all the rulers and political systems of the times were ensconced and incumbent, yet they all fell, sometimes by invasion, by civil war, by atrophy of civilization, by infighting. This is what America's Founding Fathers hoped to avoid, for all time, with gradual political change, respect for wisdom of the ages in law and custom, by elections for rapid rejection of incompetence, and lifetime judiciary for stability and erudition of life. Yet we struggle with the Republican Party of 2020.

I think this is a case Democrats should make directly to voters. But hey what do I know.

Anyway, TimeTeam is worth many hours of fun!

[msongs]

1. haave watched most of them. recommended nt

[Yonnie3]

2. My neighbor was telling me about Time Team UK a few days ago.

I had mentioned to him when I was very young that my father was employed documenting, cleaning and preserving artifacts from Jamestown and Yorktown. There were Colonial, Revolutionary War and Civil War artifacts. I told him that when I was young I thought that these were ancient history, but tourists from Europe set me straight. They had buildings on their streets that were hundreds and hundreds of years older than the clay pipes, and metal bits my father dealt with. My neighbor talked at length about these shows.

Many years later I would travel to South Wales regularly for work. On the ride from Heathrow to Cwmbran, I'd gaze out on the green fields and ponder the millennia that crops had been grown in these fields thinking of the stories of good times and bad that they could tell.

I think I'll be watching some of these episodes. Thank you for reminding me.

[Cousin Dupree]

3. I love that show!

[Karadeniz]

4. Where have I been? Thanks for the info!

[flotsam]

5. 20 seasons on Amazon Prime! N/T