A Tour of Lincoln Castle and Cathedral with Dan Snow.

Morning everybody. How you all doing? Hey, welcome, welcome, welcome. This is where I am today people. Check this out. Hey Nick, how you doing? It must be late in New York. Go to bed man. Look at this. Lincoln Castle. Once one of the most important medieval castles in Britain. Hey, thanks for sharing Qs. Yeah, if anyone wants to share, please swipe left I think on iOS and then share with your followers. It's going to be a good one actually guys. Hey, New York City, how you doing? Hey, thank you very much for sharing and inviting. Just quickly fill you in here on what I'm up to. How you doing? I'm Dan Snow. I'm doing one of my historic walking tours around amazing world cities. Today I'm at Lincoln in Britain, which was once one of the richest and most important settlement. Hey Ruby's mum, thanks for inviting me. One of the richest and most important settlements in the whole of the UK. Early start. Damn right buddy. What anniversary October the 2nd? I don't know. I'll have to think about that in a sec. I'll have to think about that. Now guys, we are going to have a look at this castle. We are going to have a look at that cathedral over there and we're going to have a look at some beautiful medieval streets. So here we go. Join with me. This is the not particularly nicest part, but let me tell you a little bit about Lincoln here. Lincoln, here we go. Look at this. Are you loving the steadicam guys? Hey, good morning. Good morning, Greensboro. Hey in California. How you doing? Look at this city here. Oh, let's try again down here. Let's see what happens down here. So there's the cathedral over there. Guys, I've got amazing facts about that cathedral for you. I'm so smooth. Yeah, I'm a smooth guy. Here we go. Welcome everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's going to be a good one. I think this one, I think we're going to be in Lincoln. We're going to be looking around and I'm going to show you some fun stuff. Here we go. Boom. What would you call your accent? I'd call my accent British, unfortunately. I'd love to have a different accent, but you know, I got this one. Okay, here we go. Empty car park here in Lincoln. Yeah. Hey, how are you doing? You know why? It's 8.40pm. Oh look, let's go through here. So basically guys, this Lincoln was a Roman, well, it was an Iron Age settlement. Its name came from a kind of pool in the river down below. We're on top of a big hill here. And the Romans arrived and they made it a colony, Lindum Colonia, one of their most important legionary centres. It was a force from here that was ambushed by Bodicea, by Boudicca, disastrously. Here you go. And then in the medieval times, this became one of the most important settlements in the UK. Very, very rich. And wait till you see this cathedral guys. It's going to completely blow your minds. Hey, thanks for inviting me. That's cool. You know, someone asked me about anniversaries earlier. I've got a couple of anniversaries. I think today is the start of Operation Typhoon in the Second World War. One of the coolest named operations, one of the largest, and actually possibly one of the most important operations. Hitler had been not sure about where to put the main focus of his attention in the Soviet Union in 1941. And today he decided he needed to take Moscow at all counts. So he unleashed Operation Typhoon, sent his panzers, his tanks back into Moscow in absolute desperate struggle to knock Stalin out of the war. It didn't work. And the defeat in Moscow was obviously one of his biggest defeats of the war. I think also today, I was looking at the other day, I think Saladin captured Jerusalem today in the 12th century, bringing it back into Muslim hands. And that was the end of the crusade. Last Christian army in Jerusalem until 1917. So as always, guys, big anniversary today. Now here we go. Look, we're in the castle square now. Boom. Okay, this castle is pretty cool. This castle was built in New Zealand. How you doing, buddy? This castle was built by William the Conqueror. Lincoln, one of the most important Roman sites in Britain. So of course, the Normans wanted to secure it for themselves. And look at this bad boy here. I mean, it's a fantastic castle. Now, what you've got to remember about Lincoln, because this was one of the most important sites in Britain and remains in the medieval period, one of the four surviving copies of Magna Carta, one of the most important documents ever made, ever agreed to, ever written down, is here. Hey guys, thank you very much. Isn't this great? It's a beautiful autumnal morning here in Britain. There's the castle. Let's go look through the gate. I don't know if it's open here, but let's go and do this. Come on, there we go. Meanwhile, that's coming up, team. Stay with me, because that bad boy is coming up. Okay, let's look at that extraordinary cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral. You're right, George, share it, because it's awesome. Okay, but let's have a look at the castle. I don't know what's going on in here. Now, Magna Carta, one of the four surviving copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta is here, because obviously the Bishop of Lincoln was a serious dude back in the medieval period, and he needed one. He played a big part in negotiating. Here we go. We're coming through the door here. Now, guys, two huge battles happened in Lincoln. One was one of the most decisive and forgotten battles in British history. Now, look, here we go. No one's stopping us. I hope there's some dudes. Hello, can we, can I go in? No, not until 10 o'clock. I can't go until 10 o'clock. I'm just going to stand here and film it a bit. Oh, yeah. Here we go, guys. Looks like a prison building there. I'd say from the 18th century, but despite all castles, it remained an important part of British life, sort of governmental and military life, way after medieval period. Anyway, and there's a curtain wall up there with an ice cream van in front. Okay, here we go. Thanks, buddy. Okay, so here we go. So anyway, Magna Carta, it's here. This is the thing about Britain. I know I'm British, so I get very excited. I'm actually half Canadian, but you're excited in Britain, because Britain, you go to a fairly random place like Lincoln in the middle of the Midlands, and you discover a world historic document like Magna Carta. It's just here. So much history has happened on this crazy little island, and history that has hugely impacted the rest of the world. But now, guys, so anyway, I was telling you about the Battle of Lincoln. Oh, thank you. That's as an American. Yeah. Anyway, I was telling you about the Battle of Lincoln. So the forgotten invasion of Britain. Okay, guys, 1216, 1217. Prince Louis of France comes over, joins with rebel barons to capture the throne of England. He does pretty well. He takes London. He hears a mass in Westminster Abbey. People are claimed, not crowned, but people claim him as king. A beautiful building here, right? Look at that. That is just the kind of thing that Lincoln is full of. Here we go. Okay, so anyway, Prince Louis invades 1216. Dover Castle holds out, but most of the rest of South England falls to Prince Louis. But then, William the Marshal, the greatest medieval knight in English history, a total legend, he ambushes and destroys Prince Louis' army right here in Lincoln. Prince Louis is forced to head back south. He's then defeated subsequently, and England is freed from French control. So, I mean, it's pretty exciting. You know what? I'm going to do that again. Thanks, studio, for sharing this. I'm going to do this walk again because it's so goddamn cool. I want to show you, rather than looking at myself, we're going to look at this gatehouse. This is real, straight up. Here we go. Everybody, you can, I'm going to be doing a lot more of these if you want to touch the little guy. Okay, here we go. Bottom right, touch little guy, bottom right. You can follow me. You can get involved on Twitter and everything. And here we go. Look at this, coming through here. And I'm going to be doing a lot more of these. This autumn, I'm going to be in China. I'm going to be in Denmark. I'm going to be doing some cool places, so get involved. Look how beautiful this light is here, this tickle of light along this medieval place. Now, guys, this isn't, you're not actually going to believe me when I say this. There's something awesome going on with this cathedral, okay? Here we go. Here we go. Boom. How's this steadicam, eh? How is this steadicam? Shall I tell you something about this cathedral? Built very soon after the Norman invasion. Once one of the richest, well, pretty much the richest religious area in the UK. Wool, the wool trade was amazing here. This was the wool trade. They exported wool from here to the Low Countries and they made a lot of cash. But this, this, guys, it's hard for me to explain how cool this is. There was a tower in the centre of this cathedral up here, okay, which is now fallen over, okay? That tower was briefly the tallest man-made object on planet Earth. And in fact, it took the record over from the Great Pyramid of Giza. So for three and a half thousand years, until the 12th, 13th century, the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was the tallest building on Earth. It was taken over, that record was taken from it by Lincoln Cathedral. Now that tells you how unbelievably wealthy and important this place was. Now let's just head over here, because what I'm going to do is going to get you the widest possible view I can find. There we go, boom. Doing some repairs on it at the moment. Can you believe that? That fact? That's, I think, if I was asked my favourite fact from history, my weirdest fact from history, I'd say it was that Lincoln Cathedral took the record of the Great Tower and Pyramid of Giza, the tallest building in the world. Okay, what time is that? I'm in trouble. Hang on a second. Ah, 7.45. So guys, I'm in Lincoln today because I'm unveiling a big memorial to all those who died during Bomber Command during World War II, so I'll try and do another periscope later on, because I'm going to be interviewing a lot of guys who served in the Second World War. Here we go, let's have a little look at this now. Did they have a world record? Yeah, it's a world record, check this out. Guys, I'm using a Landpart Steadicam for iPhone. We've got a tickle of morning sun on there now. Thanks for sharing. Well, the cathedral was begun in the 11th century, so it was begun over 900 years ago, nearly a thousand years ago, and like many cathedrals in the UK, it's been added to enormously. There was actually an earthquake here in the 12th century, which was very rare, because you don't get many earthquakes in the UK. It was added to many times. There we go. I'm in Lincoln, everybody. Sorry if you just joined. Lincoln, England, one of the most beautiful cities in this island. I'm in the UK now. Lincoln, after the medieval period, Lincoln kind of doesn't really flourish that much, but it did have a renaissance, an industrial revolution, and two very important things happened in Lincoln. One is they invented the tank here in Lincoln. Yeah, pretty big. Invented the tank in 19... a hundred years ago, a hundred years ago this fall, a hundred years ago this autumn, a company in Lincoln started producing a viable armoured vehicle, a viable tank, and that was... so that was really important, and that helped to shape the course of World War I, and then also during World War II they made extraordinary amounts of bomber aircraft and other aircraft here, so it was a place of extraordinary... huge innovation. They still make jet engines here to this day. Now look at this. Here we go. Boom. Thank you for sharing, DBB. Okay, let's go and have a look at the front, the eastern end of the cathedral here. Look at this beautiful stuff as we're passing. See, this is the kind of detail. Here we go. Thank you. I think that is the proper way to share history. We're on top of a huge mound here where the Romans selected this very, very strategic, very dominant position, and you can see the beautiful buildings all around. You know, on mornings like this, you wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world. The weather here in the UK can be a little bit average, on mornings like this, you need your own TV show. You know what, Jack? It's funny you say that, buddy. Thank you, Cork Coast, for sharing. Jack, I'm on TV in the UK. Don't worry. That's my job. That's the good stuff here. Thank you much, oh problems. I got one less problem because of you today, pal. Okay, that is Lincoln Cathedral, one of the most magnificent cathedrals on the planet, and one which 800 years ago was the tallest building on planet Earth. The spire that has now fallen down, I should say. So you can't see the spire. It's about 150 meters high or something. I can't remember, but it took over from the Great Pyramid at Giza for the tallest building on planet Earth. That shows you how important Lincoln was back in the medieval period. It was a rich place. They made money selling wool to people from the low countries. Hey, silly Z, thank you. Cathedral, it's carved in butter. I know, isn't it? It's unbelievably beautiful, and the knees of the Now, later today, team, I'm heading down. It's a special day. I was mentioning earlier in the scope. Today is the anniversary of Saladin, one of the great generals of all time, taking Jerusalem from the Crusaders in the 12th century, and from then until 1917, no Christian army ever entered Jerusalem. Big day in history. Every day is a big day in history. Boom. It's so serene. You know what? You're absolutely right. It's very, very beautiful here. The car just passed by. Look at that. Great bit of British design there in front of the mini, in front of this amazing church. Lincoln Cathedral. Later today, join me. I'm going to be interviewing a load of Second World War veterans of the bombing campaign over Europe. Controversial, terrifying, and bloody campaign to bomb Germany and submission during World War Two. I'm going to meet a lot of veterans in a couple of hours and next week, doing all sorts of fun stuff. So follow me, get involved. Follow me on Twitter. Hey, everybody. By the way, I've just done a podcast that's in the top 10 in the UK, so get involved with the History Hit podcast. Check it out. I'll be doing lots of fun stuff on there as well. Okay. Everybody, thank you very much for following me on this journey through Lincoln and see you next time. Bye-bye.