Oliver Cromwell was a West African Warlord | The English Civil War (Part 2)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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2:01.3	Okay. Welcome back to Finlandist History, part two of our incredibly fascinating deep dive into the most boring Civil War there ever was. Exactly. English Civil War. To get us back up to speed, where are we in the world? What's happening? So this is the English Civil War, which is the 1600s. So it's sort of before the invent... It's after the invention of the bucket. Yeah. The bucket's been invented. Buckets are around are around yeah but it's before Lizzo's second album right so Lizzo's broken through and I don't just mean metaphorically I mean she's broken through it's several walls that's how she makes about yeah but they don't know who that is they've got no no idea. If you said Lizzo's second album, they'd go, where... If you said... An indistinguishable, Cornish accent, they'd go, right. If Lizzo was found shitting on a bucket, they'd be like, well, I know what... I know what that. A bucket. I know what that is. What the fuck's that? So I think that gives you... What is the... That couches it historically as to where we're at. For people who aren't historians as such as we are. B.L. Before Lizzo. Yes. A.B. After bucket. We're 300... 300 this is hang on
2:01.7	1650
2:02.6	1750
2:03.9	1750
2:03.9	yeah
2:04.1	1950
2:04.7	yeah
2:05.0	we're about
2:09.4	380
2:10.1	80 BL
2:10.5	yeah
2:10.9	Charlie
2:14.4	when was the bucket
2:15.1	invented
2:15.5	because I don't know I think there's going to be don't know, I think there's going to be a... Do you know what? I reckon there's going to be a lot of proto bucket. Do you know what I mean? That's what makes it quite complicated. I'm going to say it's after the wheel. Is it after the wheel? Don't blow our load now. We'll have to do a patron special on the history of the bucket.
2:37.2	The history of the bucket is not clear.
2:40.1	But the first buckets are believed to have been used
2:41.1	thousands of years ago.
2:42.5	The earliest known buckets were discovered
2:43.9	in sculptures from around 3,200 BC.
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