Best Ever History Song

ZombieCake

ZombieCake

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History happened in the past according to academics. Here's concise version I'll start with. As ever comments and thoughts welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEXthmxD4dI
 
AR

AR

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Large swathes of Blyth Power's back catalogue cover historical themes but the absolute best one is "Katharine's Will" off "Out From Under the King" - a superb tale of coping with an intolerable situation through force of will, knowing the end  can't be far away, and a track that helped me through some low points.
It's on soundcloud as a single track here - https://soundcloud.com/blyth-power/katherines-will but the whole album is on Youtube and worth a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLKreFuIk8
 
Graigwen

Graigwen

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If all you want is as much historical narrative, detailed and fairly accurate, crammed into one song, I don't think you can do better than this quarter hour history of the life and death of James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (1612-1650) and his role in the Scottish and English Civil Wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLce6Hi6gD0

Connoisseurs of delicate acoustic guitar playing may be interested to see Martin Carthy playing rather heavy electric guitar. There are a few transcription errors in the lyrics shown.

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Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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This one always reminds me of a certain caving club's annual dinner at Castle Bolton!
It was a good do . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AywIL5_eYM

 
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