The Entire History of Brecon // Ancient Welsh History Archaeology Documentary

I butchered a lot of the pronunciations in this vid. Sorry to all the Welsh speakers out there. You now join the ranks of people all over the world whose languages I have failed to read out correctly. Believe it or not I do try quite hard to pronounce things correctly. Languages clearly do not come naturally to me. I will try harder in future to get things as correct as possible.

As a Welshman proud of my heritage, it is so refreshing to find someone who is fair and unbiased in his well researched accounts of the history of our fair islands. for surely the history of the UK equals anything Tolkien could have dreamed up! Thankyou Pete for taking me to places I can no longer actually visit due to disability (price I paid for being a paramedic in the Wesh ambulance Service!) I live in Cwmbran near Isca (Caerleon) and Venta Silurum ( Caerwent) A Roman town with the remains of the town wall a hidden gem that so few people are aware of. My area of wales is steeped in so much History from celtic warriors, Roman legions and Norman conquests(Chepstow Castle and medieval town wall) to the birth of the industrial revolution at sites such as Blaenavon, with it's historic ironworks! And all easily accesible in a day! Cymru am byth.

My dad was adopted so I only knew of my Swedish mom's side of the family. We now did genealogy on Dad's real mother's side, Georgia Morgan. We found out she was Welsh. The Morgans came to America in the early 1700's. They were from Glamorgan Wales. I guess that's why they were Morgans. My 6th great grandfather Zackquill Morgan was an Indian fighter, fought in the French Indian Wars. Built Morgan Fort in what is now Morgantown, named after him. There's a statue of him in the city center. He fought again as a Captain in the Revolutionary War, commanding 600 militiamen. He was at the Battle of Saratoga, and lost half of his men.

I discovered Wales as a young mum in the 1960's when my brother went to Bangor Uni, and I went to visit him - fell in love with the place, & spent the next 15 or so years using my holidays to be up there as much as possible. It is a magical place - full of history around every corner, and so beautiful ! I'm old now -83- & love to watch videos of anything "Wales", thanks to Youtiube since I have been in the US for many years, but a big chunk of my heart still 'lives ' in Wales ! The Welsh history, the people, the green, green countryside, the mountains, the coasts - it has everything, and I always wished I could have moved there totally. My brother in fact never returned to the London suburbs & his kids still live there, so it's a family thing now long since ! I think Wales, rather like Scotland too, has a deep pride in who it is & what the history has been. The English invaded so many places & took over, but it's good to know that the indigenous languages are being taught again in the schools, so as to never lose them. Love you Wales, don't ever change !

You literally saved my mental head so many times over the last 3 years Pete. Thank u sir from the bottom of my heart ❤

This is fab , really well done 😊 The revival of the Welsh language has been a prominent success story in recent Welsh history, ( a third of school children will be taught via Welsh by 2030) and whilst it is magnificent that an Englishman should put so much effort into raising the past from the mists of time, almost every Welsh name and place name is mispronounced (Brecon is correctly said) . When the Roman Empire marched into Britain, English would be a language not invented for another 600 + years. I make this important point not in any way to detract from the content , which was great.

This blew us away. Truly phenomenal video and we learned so much through it. Thank you!

This quality is on par with and even exceeds the history docs I grew up watching.

Wales has so much charm. Love hearing about Merlin and the King Arthur legends.

This is an excellent production! What i would say though is that Brychan was a cousin of Athrwys ap Meurig, the oddly ignored real King Arthwyr. From the genealogy you can see the Irish connection as Brychan is said to have married an Irish Princess. With BHH we have tried to exhibit the welsh royal genealogies for all to see. Its fascinating stuff and does contradict the usual mythological view of Arthwyr. Alan Wilsons research is priceless! And it is great that you're showing all this forgotten and largely ignored fortress landscape. Brilliant stuff! 👍

I got to visit Brecon once. It was a dream come true. Incredibly beautiful and so much history to explore. So glad to learn more about it.

Strangely, growing up in Wales and regularly visiting Brecon I've never been taught this in History classes att school The Cathedral is very beautiful and thanks Pete Kelly

As a welsh person I loved this, your welsh place name pronounciation was amusing.

Pete, your production just keeps getting better and better. This is the kind of documentaries I used to be able to find on channels like TLC or History, thank you for your unceasing efforts to produce quality work!

I enjoyed this video and learned a lot. I'm Australian ( my parents were Welsh) with 70% plus Welsh DNA and some of my Welsh ancestors came from this area. I drove through Breconshire and the Brecon Beacons years ago, in ignorance of my ancestors having lived there. Now more informed about my FT, I'm looking forward to a return visit to Wales. l love having Welsh heritage !

This is great, thanks Pete. Had my honeymoon in a remote but well fancy cottage around there. Lovely area. It would be a crazy landscape to wage a campaign in.

My family (along with probably half of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland haha) are "allegedly" descended from Brychan through one of his many sons. Regardless of how true that may be, it's still nice to hear about this piece of Welsh history, having strong Irish/Welsh roots myself. As an American, Wales is practically never mentioned in school. Great watch, God bless.

Watching this as i sit under a tarp cooking my evening meal. Im hiking the Beacon way. Also learning Welsh as all my grandkids speak it fluently. 👍

Once again,you kept me captivated,and filled in my understanding of post Roman Britain. The kinkdoms that once existed.

Nice to see some local Welsh sites, even if it's sometimes hard to listen to English pronuciations of those places