HMS Warrior

:00:10. > :00:15.150 years ago the world's newest and largest warship was preparing

:00:15. > :00:21.to put to sea. A Royal Navy ship so powerful, so intimidating, that no-

:00:21. > :00:31.one dared challenge her. From HMS Warrior... This is National

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:00:47. > :00:51.APPLAUSE Good evening from Portsmouth and

:00:51. > :00:56.welcome to National Treasures Live. This ship was the pride of Queen

:00:56. > :01:01.Victoria's fleet. It it was first big warship to have a hull made of

:01:01. > :01:07.iron. Even 150 years later she is still an imposing figure. Which is

:01:07. > :01:12.why we've been joined by hardened Warrior fans. Armour-plated and

:01:12. > :01:16.loaded with 40 state of the art guns, she never fired a shot in

:01:16. > :01:20.anger. She didn't have to. Warrior was the ultimate deterrent. She was

:01:20. > :01:26.the largest, the fastest, the most powerful ship on the ocean.

:01:26. > :01:31.believe it or not she was the first warship to have walking machines.

:01:31. > :01:39.It was important to keep the men clean. And what is amazing is how

:01:39. > :01:45.young the men were. How old are new Five. Eight. 12. Perfect, the

:01:45. > :01:50.youngest were 12. Is this your mum? Do you think he would be alright on

:01:51. > :01:55.a ship? I think he would mishis Xbox. He can manage. There would

:01:55. > :02:01.have been 700 men and boys on board. Tonight we are going deep inside

:02:01. > :02:06.the ship to find out what it was like for them living and working on

:02:06. > :02:12.the Warrior. They've spent years working on the sick berth here.

:02:12. > :02:18.We'll give you a look later on. I will be looking back in history

:02:18. > :02:22.as I try to explain the history of King Arthur to Michael Douglas. And

:02:22. > :02:28.our archaeological team in York make a discovery deep in the city

:02:28. > :02:33.centre. And we want to hear from you. You can either e-mail us:

:02:33. > :02:37.Or follow us on Twitter. Especially if you have any

:02:37. > :02:42.questions on naval history. We are going to use them and put Dan on

:02:42. > :02:47.the spot later. You are making me nervous. These are the daily

:02:47. > :02:52.rations for every single man on board. It looks like quite a lot.

:02:52. > :02:57.We'll explain why in a moment. the word "ration" means different

:02:57. > :03:02.to many people today. MasterChef's Gregg Wallace looked at how a

:03:02. > :03:05.different sort of rationing created a generation of very incentive

:03:06. > :03:10.cooks. Nowadays there is an abundance of food in our shops, and

:03:10. > :03:15.a fine array of food in our markets. We are, literally, spoilt for

:03:15. > :03:21.choice. It is easy to forget but there was a time when British

:03:22. > :03:27.resourcefulness was stretched to the limit, when nifty and busy

:03:28. > :03:32.people had to find cost-effective ways to feed the country. That was

:03:33. > :03:38.during 19421939, almost immediately after war was declared with Germany,

:03:38. > :03:43.Nazi U-boats attacked our merchant ships in the hope of starving

:03:43. > :03:47.Britain into defeat. But that was a serious problem, because back then

:03:47. > :03:50.Britain imPorthed 55 million tonnes of food and produced only enough

:03:51. > :03:55.home-grown to feed one in three of us. The Government decided to

:03:55. > :04:01.control the supply of food. On January 8th 1940 introduced

:04:02. > :04:05.rationing. Meet Terrence charman from the

:04:05. > :04:12.Imperial War Museum. What effect did rationing have on the people?

:04:12. > :04:15.It it was basic food-stuffs: sugar, bacon and, disastrously for the

:04:15. > :04:21.British, team. One could say the Second World War really saw the

:04:21. > :04:24.birth of the queue. There's no more. Has it gone? That's the lot.

:04:24. > :04:29.Government introduced campaigns to encourage families to grow their

:04:29. > :04:34.own food. People were urged to use gardens and every piece of spare

:04:34. > :04:38.land - parks, railway embankments, tennis courts. All were turned into

:04:38. > :04:44.allotments. Surprisingly, no place seemed out of bounds. Even the moat

:04:44. > :04:50.at the Tower of London was turned into a great big vegetable patch!

:04:50. > :04:54.People were encouraged to Pete more potatoes and then carrots. The

:04:54. > :05:02.Ministry of Food created two cartoon figures, so there was

:05:02. > :05:08.Potato Pete and Dr Carrot. The ministry had this rumour that our

:05:08. > :05:12.night-fighter aces could see in the dark because they ate carrots. The

:05:12. > :05:17.encourage ment was to eat your carrots. It could very successful

:05:17. > :05:23.as well. Recycling I imagine was very important? Nothing was thrown

:05:23. > :05:31.away. Recycling of newspapers, cardboard, meat bones. Bones?

:05:31. > :05:37.because the Ministry of Supply told people that enough glycerine was

:05:37. > :05:41.produced bay chop bone to provide am mission for a Hawker Firearm. It

:05:41. > :05:45.encouraged people to think they were making a positive contribution

:05:45. > :05:50.to the defence of their country. But it wasn't just a question of

:05:50. > :05:54.being frugal. Mothers had to skillfully conjure up tasty dishs

:05:54. > :05:59.with meagre rations. In fact putting a proper meal on the table

:05:59. > :06:05.was one of life's biggest challenges. Popular shows like The

:06:05. > :06:10.Kitchen Front with shared cooking and house-keeping tips to make

:06:10. > :06:17.rations go further. Blimey, I would like to cook his goose fer a

:06:17. > :06:23.tenner! This man knows how to make the best from what he's got. What

:06:23. > :06:30.is he making? This is parsnip whip. I'm pureing it with banana

:06:30. > :06:39.flavouring. Sorry, chef, but that smells like a bowl of parsnip!

:06:39. > :06:44.is mock cream. How can you mock up cream? Flour, butter and water.

:06:44. > :06:48.only consolation was knowing most Germans were eating worse than you

:06:48. > :06:53.were. What is this? This is squirrel and rabbit stew. Where

:06:54. > :07:02.would you get squirrel and rabbit? Some schools had rows of rabbit

:07:02. > :07:06.hutches one for the head -- one for each children. At the end of the

:07:06. > :07:16.term they would whack it on the head with a piece of led and take

:07:16. > :07:16.

:07:16. > :07:23.it home. This is rabbit stew. Rabbit's alright. And squirrel?

:07:23. > :07:28.Have some dessert. What is that? Parsnip. It tastes like custard and

:07:28. > :07:36.potato. If you had that once a week could you manage? Yes, it is not

:07:36. > :07:42.that bad. Do you like that? That is squirrel. It fasts Lammy. If that

:07:42. > :07:46.taste -- it tastes the like lamb. If that tastes like lamb I would

:07:46. > :07:51.change your butcher. I honestly believe without the control of our

:07:51. > :07:55.food, without feeding ourselves and our armed forces on dishes just

:07:55. > :08:00.like this, we wouldn't have endured, we wouldn't have got through and we

:08:00. > :08:04.wouldn't have won the war. Rations, get your rations. Get 'em while

:08:04. > :08:07.they are hot. They're lovely. We've left the upper deck and we are in

:08:07. > :08:13.the heart of the ship. This is the galley. It would have prepared food

:08:13. > :08:17.for 700 men. A very important part of the ship. A hungry ship is an

:08:17. > :08:22.unhappy ship. We've been joined by Greg. Surely that squirrel was

:08:22. > :08:25.horrible wasn't it? It is not that much meat on it and it's a little

:08:25. > :08:28.bit greasey. You put a brave face on it. If anybody at home is

:08:28. > :08:34.feeling brave enough to try out these recipes they are on our

:08:34. > :08:39.website. Last week we asked tow get in touch

:08:39. > :08:45.with any of your own rationing recipes passed down the generations.

:08:45. > :08:51.We've got loads. Greg has a family interest. Dorothy Devereaux, a

:08:51. > :08:55.recipe for making stale bread fresh, dip it in cold milk and water and

:08:55. > :09:02.put it into the oven. This is almost like a mudding. This sounds

:09:02. > :09:08.like a good pudding. Would that work? Stephanie Clarke is from East

:09:08. > :09:14.Grinstead. She's brought a book of recipes for -- with her. This is

:09:14. > :09:19.very kind of you. Your mum made meticulous notes. Yes, she kept all

:09:19. > :09:24.the cuttings from the war. She still makes the stuffed heart she

:09:24. > :09:31.used to make. We grew up on that. Pretending it was something else.

:09:31. > :09:37.Yes. What is this? This is a cutlet. This looks like a lovely cutlet.

:09:37. > :09:42.Greg, did you want this? With the do you reckon? Tastes like cheese

:09:42. > :09:48.and potato. It's the cheesy flour and water paste really. I thought

:09:48. > :09:54.this was a bone. It is supposed to make it look like a bone. Thank you

:09:54. > :09:57.for bringing that in. That's really a treasure. Back 100 years

:09:57. > :10:01.rationing on board the HMS Warrior was luxurious compared to this.

:10:01. > :10:09.was. No cheese cutlets on board here. The conditions where the men

:10:09. > :10:14.may have eaten may have been camped. Would have got 300 people here, so

:10:14. > :10:20.-- cramped. You would have got 300 people here. This is what they ate.

:10:20. > :10:26.This is one day's ration for one man. I'm here with Andrew Baines,

:10:26. > :10:31.chief historian for the HMS Warrior. The men ate extremely well. It is

:10:31. > :10:37.incredibly high calorie this, do it. 4,000 calories per man per day.

:10:37. > :10:44.Double what we recommend now. These guys were undertaking physically

:10:44. > :10:48.demanding work. They were using a large gun and were up and down the

:10:48. > :10:54.rigging. It was important to keep the men healthy. The Navy had

:10:54. > :10:59.invested a lot in them. Absolutely. It is made easier by giving them

:10:59. > :11:05.the right amount of the right type of food. The Captain and officers

:11:05. > :11:08.would have Eton same. Why sit important for everybody to get the

:11:08. > :11:12.same radiations? It is very important that everyone got the

:11:12. > :11:19.same. I notice you are not tucking into the ship's biscuit. Give it a

:11:19. > :11:23.go. That's where the men ate. This is the 6.5 tonne gun. Geengs. This

:11:23. > :11:27.is the hammocks where they would have slept. Can you imagine five or

:11:27. > :11:32.six of these strung up and the way white have moved at sea. Is that

:11:32. > :11:36.comfortable for you? It is wonderful. We've got burly men here.

:11:36. > :11:41.They relaxed here as well, the men. You are performing an interesting

:11:41. > :11:47.activity here, which I doubt any of you will have done before. This is

:11:47. > :11:53.embroidery. A leisure time. We can't get our paint out, we haven't

:11:53. > :11:59.got the room, so we would have a piece of cloth that the men would

:11:59. > :12:03.embroider. And you can roll it up and put it away. This dates from

:12:03. > :12:08.1864. What do you do for a livering? I'm a construction site

:12:08. > :12:15.manager. Have you going to take that on site with new I don't think

:12:15. > :12:18.so! They seem to be at home. The team here have been celebrating its

:12:18. > :12:23.150th anniversary. Other historians have been celebrating something

:12:23. > :12:27.much, much older. Two weeks ago archaeologists working in York city

:12:27. > :12:32.centre made an amazing discovery. Joe Crowley was lucky enough to be

:12:32. > :12:36.there. Amongst the great historical

:12:36. > :12:40.buildings of York city centre a team of archaeologists have made a

:12:40. > :12:45.remarkable discovery - a Roman cemetery has been hidden deep

:12:45. > :12:50.underground for almost 2,000 years. Over the last 18 months, 50graves

:12:50. > :12:54.have been uncovered. They've given the archaeologists a fresh insight

:12:54. > :12:59.into Roman burials and their belief in the afterlife. Today I'm going

:12:59. > :13:03.to help them dig what they believe could be another grave. Tom, I'm

:13:03. > :13:08.excited. I want to keep dig. If possible I will lend you a hand, if

:13:08. > :13:14.that is OK. Yep. If you want to take this trowel and slowly scrape

:13:14. > :13:17.away. That looks quite light. It could be bone. Just a bit of stone

:13:17. > :13:22.today. That's probably from the Roman period, that stone, but still

:13:22. > :13:28.it is just a bit of stone. The cemetery lies just outside what was

:13:28. > :13:38.the main fortress of Eboricum, the Roman name for yofrpblgt We were

:13:38. > :13:38.

:13:38. > :13:43.close to the River Foss. This was a wet Roman road, a river. As people

:13:43. > :13:46.come round, they would see this low cemetery on the hillside beside the

:13:46. > :13:49.river. Maybe that says something about identity. Maybe the people

:13:49. > :13:52.who were buried here carried out their lives on the river. Maybe

:13:52. > :13:55.they traded a lot. Maybe the people themselves came from abroad and

:13:56. > :13:59.their life was about trade and river connections and river

:13:59. > :14:06.transport. And eventually settled down, lived here and then died and

:14:06. > :14:10.were buried here as well. At our grave inside the mud, a discovery.

:14:10. > :14:17.Tom, you think we are just starting to scratch the surface of some

:14:17. > :14:23.bones, is that right? Yes, we have a human long been here, probably a

:14:24. > :14:29.femur, the upper leg bone. And this is a kneecap? I think so yes.

:14:29. > :14:35.like you said, looking like a stone. I might have turfed that out.

:14:35. > :14:45.could be the pelvis area. It could be the start a vertebra. Progress

:14:45. > :14:47.

:14:47. > :14:54.As the skeleton starts to take shape, we discover more than just

:14:54. > :14:56.bones. We just got some teeth up here. Teeth? Yeah. They're in

:14:56. > :15:02.amazing condition. I know we have been looking at this person all the

:15:02. > :15:06.way through, but suddenly seeing teeth is for me an extremely human

:15:06. > :15:11.aspect because they look like they would have looked 1700 years ago.

:15:11. > :15:14.When you find the skull and it takes shape, that's when it really

:15:14. > :15:21.hits you, this is a person we're digging up. It's in the just bones

:15:21. > :15:25.in the ground. Now, Tom has found something

:15:25. > :15:29.particularly excited (SIC) and perhaps a little bit unexpected.

:15:29. > :15:34.Just hear I found a ring. It's in the area of the hand, so it

:15:34. > :15:38.probably would have been on the finger. It is immaculate condition.

:15:38. > :15:41.It looks brilliant. It's a first for this site as well. A first for

:15:41. > :15:46.this site? Yeah, it's absolutely amazing. There we go. That's

:15:46. > :15:52.definitely very much one of a kind that you found. Yeah, but actually,

:15:52. > :15:56.there's another one underneath it. It's so exciting, and I have to say

:15:56. > :16:01.it's the personal nature of it, and this person wore these two rings

:16:01. > :16:06.probably next to each other, and here they are. In graves elsewhere

:16:06. > :16:10.on the site other objectss have been discovered, bracelets,

:16:10. > :16:15.necklace beads and a perfume bottle. Hats off to them that they knew how

:16:15. > :16:19.to make beautiful things just so intricate, so gorgeous. We've not

:16:19. > :16:25.seen anything like this excavated in York for about a hundred years.

:16:25. > :16:29.It's just perfect. You could go out and wear that tomorrow. What's most

:16:29. > :16:33.fascinating about the grave goods is what they tell us about Roman

:16:33. > :16:36.beliefs in the afterlife. These objects have been placed with the

:16:37. > :16:41.bodies. These objects are an expression of the living person in

:16:41. > :16:46.the afterlife. When you go on a voyage, you want to look good, so

:16:46. > :16:50.the woman was buried with her best jewellery. She was buried with

:16:50. > :16:54.perfume to smell fantastic as well. Obviously, when you're going on a

:16:54. > :16:58.voyage, you need a lot of food and drink. Believe it or not, we even

:16:58. > :17:03.found some remains of a chicken as well, so you've got both food and

:17:03. > :17:08.drink for the afterlife. What a day. Look what has been uncovered. It's

:17:08. > :17:11.pretty much a whole skeleton. We've got the teeth. Oui got these

:17:11. > :17:17.incredible rings, which are such an intimate connection to this person

:17:18. > :17:21.and a first for this site - so, so exciting, and all of this -

:17:21. > :17:26.incredibly well preserved from 1700 years ago.

:17:26. > :17:31.Peter Connolly is joining us now. Thank you so much for coming down

:17:31. > :17:37.and for bringing these rings. I can hardly restrain this man here.

:17:37. > :17:41.I touch it? Go on. Pick it up. That's 2,000 years. That's

:17:41. > :17:45.unbelievable. Were these decorative or could they have been symbolic?

:17:45. > :17:48.They're both, to tell the truth. They're decorative, lovely, but

:17:48. > :17:51.they mean something. They're a display. We can make that

:17:52. > :17:56.connection to the past just through the ring itself. That's incredible.

:17:56. > :18:00.It would have been worn by someone. It would have. Since we made that

:18:00. > :18:03.film a couple of weeks ago you have found more, haven't you Yeah,

:18:03. > :18:08.around the grave Joe was excavating, we found another six graves, and

:18:08. > :18:11.just last week, just last Friday, we found a complete French simian

:18:11. > :18:18.imported bowl, beautiful, beautiful things. Know the project is going

:18:18. > :18:19.to continue, so stay in touch and we'll let everybody know how it

:18:19. > :18:23.goes. This gun deck might be difficult to

:18:23. > :18:27.get around but it offered protection. That's key. It was

:18:28. > :18:33.meant to compete with the French. They launched a ship with iron

:18:33. > :18:38.plates on the side. We launched a ship that was 50% bigger and

:18:38. > :18:42.completely made of iron. The hull was made of iron. It was such a

:18:42. > :18:46.success, nobody would be able to take her on. That didn't mean

:18:46. > :18:49.sailing her wasn't a dangerous business. Yes, it was very

:18:49. > :18:54.dangerous onboard because the men faced a daily battle against the

:18:54. > :18:56.enemies - against disease, against industrial injuries. This is the

:18:56. > :19:01.place where they would have been treated. This is the sick berth.

:19:01. > :19:05.This is how it would have looked in 1861. So although the men never

:19:05. > :19:14.faced any battles at sea, they were prepared for the worst here. Andrew

:19:14. > :19:18.Baines is with me. Hello. This is the surgeon's table. It looks wide.

:19:18. > :19:25.It is wide because it could have had two surgeries. I don't like the

:19:25. > :19:30.look of these implements. These are used for amputations, the knife for

:19:30. > :19:34.cutting through skin and the sore for bone. Always carry a spare

:19:34. > :19:39.blade because these go blunt. they have been performing a lot of

:19:39. > :19:43.amputations? How quickly would you have been able to do one?

:19:43. > :19:48.fastest surgeons in the day, 28 seconds. With a primitive

:19:48. > :19:53.anaesthetic? Yes, mainly chloroform. And flammable, we should say, which

:19:53. > :19:58.means you can't have lightbulbs. they would have been very, very low

:19:58. > :20:02.indeed. So a blunt sword and dim light, not ideal. This is the

:20:02. > :20:05.medicine cabinet where they would have put together all the medicines

:20:05. > :20:12.for illnesses. There is one thing the men were particularly afraid of.

:20:12. > :20:16.Explain this. It just looks like a ball bearing. The Victorians were

:20:16. > :20:22.very much obsessed with purging, getting rid of the badness out of

:20:22. > :20:32.the bottle. This is called an everlasting pill. It's a tablet.

:20:32. > :20:36.You swallow it. Your stomach acids Corode. Makes you sick. You pass it.

:20:36. > :20:40.The assistant washes it off, and there it waits for the next patient.

:20:40. > :20:43.It's used again! I'll tell you what. You can have it back. Thank you

:20:43. > :20:46.very much. This is the first time anyone has

:20:46. > :20:51.seen Warrior's sick berth refurbished. If you want another

:20:51. > :20:55.look, it will be open tomorrow. Restoring something like HMS hls

:20:56. > :20:59.takes a huge amount of research, obviously. The team here have been

:20:59. > :21:05.using research from the descendants of the men who lived onboard and

:21:05. > :21:09.photos of it in its prime, but what happens when there is no evidence

:21:09. > :21:14.and the history between myth and truth gets blurred? That's one

:21:14. > :21:19.thing I tried to tackle with the One Show's hairdresser on the

:21:19. > :21:29.second leg of our history road trip. You're up there tonight, by the way.

:21:29. > :21:33.It's horrible up there! That is the worst sound I have ever heard from

:21:33. > :21:38.a kettle. I thought it was you for a minute. So it's King Arthur Day

:21:38. > :21:42.today, my favourite. Yes, it is. Don't get over-excited because the

:21:42. > :21:48.problem with King Arthur is it's not clear he existed. Did he exist

:21:48. > :21:53.or didn't he? Is it worth doing? the end of today you'll know a lot

:21:53. > :21:58.more. Yeah, about something that didn't exist or did it exist? Did

:21:58. > :22:02.it or didn't it exist? So why are we going to Somerset? Because

:22:03. > :22:08.presumably, if he was a King, he'd just live in London, would he not?

:22:08. > :22:12.He came from one small part of England, Wales or maybe parts of

:22:12. > :22:16.Scotland. Do you want to narrow that down a little bit? He came

:22:16. > :22:21.from maybe England and Wales or Scotland? Not Ireland? No. Thank

:22:21. > :22:26.goodness for that. But this country, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, this

:22:26. > :22:30.is an area especially in connection with the Arthur myth. This better

:22:30. > :22:35.be worth its snow. You owe me a pair of shoes. You know that don't

:22:35. > :22:41.you? The Romans were split into these tribes quite hostile to each

:22:41. > :22:46.other. The Romans come along and everything falls into disrepair.

:22:46. > :22:51.Then when the Romans leave everyone has a go. The Saxons come across

:22:51. > :23:00.the North Sea. The Scandinavians come. War has come back to Britain.

:23:00. > :23:07.And this is the magnificent remains Well, "magnificent" isn't the word

:23:07. > :23:11.I would use, really. It's epic in its scale, isn't it? Epic,

:23:12. > :23:16.magnificent. It's a bit of a big hill. There was a kingdom here that

:23:16. > :23:20.managed to hold back the Saxons. People have said perhaps Arthur was

:23:20. > :23:27.in charge of that kingdom that threw back the Saxons and protected

:23:27. > :23:31.the Britons. What are we talking about? 400 AD? Yeah, 400, 500 AD.

:23:31. > :23:36.No-one wrote much down because it was so chaotic. Where was the round

:23:36. > :23:41.table, then,? Was it around here?S Of things like the round table and

:23:41. > :23:44.Merlin, they were added by medieval authors. Hang on. There is a

:23:44. > :23:49.difference between Merlin because he's magical and a basic round

:23:49. > :23:52.table. You can't go, Merlin and the round table. Presumably, there was

:23:52. > :23:56.a tail, and it could have been round... Yes. How do you think the

:23:56. > :23:58.round table could have been? How many people were sat around it?

:23:58. > :24:04.About 38. Really? LAUGHTER

:24:04. > :24:09.You do know Camelot is a theme park, don't you? Junction 27 on the M6.

:24:09. > :24:14.So where are we going next? We're going to that beautiful hill over

:24:14. > :24:19.there, Glastonbury Toll. My big problem with history is it's always

:24:20. > :24:28.at the top of a big, flipping hill. That's because hills are strategic

:24:28. > :24:34.points. That's where you want to be if the Saxons are stampeding around.

:24:35. > :24:39.This is one of the great sites in the west of England. It used to be

:24:39. > :24:44.surrounded by marshes and water. It used to be an island. There is a

:24:44. > :24:49.strong possibility this was Avalon, that great myth that appears in all

:24:49. > :24:54.the tales. Where is the sword and the stone? People claim it's in

:24:54. > :24:58.different places. Another version is a hand came out of the lake that

:24:58. > :25:01.surrounded this... What? The lady in the lake gave him a sword.

:25:02. > :25:07.you think in 2,000 years' time they'll go, oh, there were some

:25:07. > :25:10.rings and a man with a white beard called demandoff and people will

:25:10. > :25:14.think that Lord of the Rings is real in the way we think King

:25:15. > :25:20.Arthur is real. That's why you need historians, to work out what is

:25:20. > :25:23.real and what isn't. Down there there is an abbey. Allegedly he

:25:24. > :25:29.came here in his final battle. he died down there? That's one of

:25:29. > :25:33.the interpretations. OK, OK. here at Glastonbury Abbey in the

:25:33. > :25:40.late 12th century, the 1190, the monks, amazingly, dug into the

:25:40. > :25:44.ground just near here and found the tomb supposedly of Arthur and his

:25:44. > :25:48.Queen Guinevere. This is where the myth begins? It does because the

:25:48. > :25:52.monks here, they know that the most crowd-pleasing thing they could

:25:52. > :25:57.ever do is discover Arthur. Thousands of people came here and

:25:57. > :26:01.pilgrimed. It was fantastic for business. This is where they

:26:01. > :26:07.reburied this alleged King Arthur. Oh, is it? And the King of England

:26:07. > :26:12.came. It was a massive ceremony. He could still be down there. Really?

:26:12. > :26:15.Yeah. Let's get a spade. I believe the legend is probably based on

:26:15. > :26:19.some real events. What's more important than all of that is

:26:19. > :26:23.people think it's true. That's what's really interesting about

:26:23. > :26:26.history is the myth is almost more important than reality because

:26:27. > :26:30.myths change the way we think of ourselves and our society. If you

:26:30. > :26:39.believe it, it will happen. Yeah. can live with that. Merlin, is he

:26:39. > :26:42.He seems to be making some progress, isn't he, with Michael? It's slow.

:26:42. > :26:46.He's trying. Getting there, absolutely. Thank you so much for

:26:46. > :26:49.all your questions coming in on Twitter. As we said at the

:26:49. > :26:56.beginning Dan doesn't know what these questions will be. First from

:26:56. > :27:01.Gregg. This is an e-mail "Have there been any females onboard?" I

:27:01. > :27:07.believe he means serfs. In the 19th century, no, the Victorians didn't

:27:07. > :27:11.like that kind of thing. In the 1700s, lots of women onboard, legal

:27:11. > :27:15.and illegal. Some cauld through the gun ports. This is a Tweet from

:27:15. > :27:20.Harry, "Is it true Nelson was seasick? How was it cured?" I know

:27:20. > :27:25.this. The greatest sailor that's ever lived was seasick. I was

:27:25. > :27:30.terribly seasick when I was a kid. My dad used to say, "Don't worry,

:27:30. > :27:35.son. Nelson was seasick." There was no cure. He used to have to line

:27:35. > :27:39.his cot and two or three days later he'd be right as rain. Didn't have

:27:39. > :27:44.one of those everlefting pills? You have a question. What happened to

:27:44. > :27:49.Warrior this beautiful old ship? good question. It was part of a

:27:49. > :27:57.revolution. Eventually the revolution outgrew it. The guns got

:27:57. > :28:02.more powerful. Like your laptop or mobile phone, it was out of date.

:28:02. > :28:06.Couldn't even sell it for scrap. Thank you very much. We will leave

:28:06. > :28:10.you with Stephanie because we know you want more of those cheese

:28:10. > :28:15.cutlets. Now, Sian is very excited about next week's show. Absolutely.

:28:15. > :28:20.We're headed for Stratford. We're going to join hundreds at the site

:28:20. > :28:24.of an archaeological dig at shax peer's house. We're going to be

:28:24. > :28:30.planting a time capsule, so if you have any suggestions of what should

:28:30. > :28:35.go in it, get in touch. Thank you so much for all your messages.