80 A Deadly Tug of War! Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we stride around the Elizabethan battlements of a town held ready for war!
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a place packed to bursting with thousands of years of rich history.
Celtic Britons made it their home, followed by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.
It was a wealthy, flourishing port before any of the modern nation states – England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland – even existed.
Sitting on the border of what became Scotland and England it was coveted and fought over in a deadly tug of war lasting hundreds of years. It’s a place that sharply reminds us, that in the British Isles it’s more often than not the case that local rather than national identities have the deepest roots.
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| 1:39.0 | In this episode we stride around the Elizabethan battlements of a town held ready for war. |
| 1:47.0 | Centuries of history flow through it on the beguilingly beautiful river Tweed. |
| 2:02.0 | Celtic Britons came here long before the modern nation states of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland were even thought of. It became part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of North Thumbria, |
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