82 Breeding Babies for Success, Cardiff
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this episode, powered by their fabulous fecundity and political astuteness, the Stuart family line inherited the Scottish and English crowns and spread their power and influence right across the British Isles.
The C19th saw a canny member of the Stuart clan spotted a gilt-edged opportunity in Cardiff. As the industrial revolution swept across the world, iron, steel and coal were in great demand and high-grade coal from the Rhondda Valley in Wales became a very valuable commodity. If you could control the supply of this precious resource, there were fortunes to be made.
From his castle in Cardiff, John Crichton-Stuart developed the port of Cardiff, which become the busiest in Britain, and as the coal bonanza boomed, feeding an insatiable global hunger, vast quantities of the ‘black gold’ were ship out and incredible fortunes poured in.
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| 0:00.0 | The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday. |
| 0:04.5 | Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize. |
| 0:06.7 | But who will it be? |
| 0:07.7 | Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that. |
| 0:10.6 | Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket. |
| 0:13.1 | Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms |
| 0:17.6 | rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over |
| 0:19.9 | hello fellow time travellers I hope you're well. Last week we passed the 1 million |
| 0:27.4 | downloads mark who could have ever conceived of such a number so big thanks to everyone who's joined us on this journey across the British Isles and through a million years of our history. |
| 0:38.0 | Our history that is unique and a product of this place and these people. |
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| 0:47.0 | which has new and exclusive history and comment videos on it every week, |
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| 1:08.0 | Okay, time to get down and dirty in the valleys |
| 1:11.0 | with the next episode of my love letter to the British Isles. |
| 1:15.1 | Q the music. In 1904 the world's first ever million pound deal was struck. The first million pound deal was struck. The first million pound check was signed. |
| 1:35.0 | In this episode we're following a family line that's rich, powerful and fabulously |
| 1:41.0 | feckened. Politically astute they sat on the Scottish and then ultimately |
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