DAY 7 “LONDON HISTORY“ ’80DAYS’ Series with Paul G Roberts

It’s DAY 7 and Roberts is in Ye Olde London Town, and he is looking into it’s early days and history. The history of England is not just about Kings and Queens and the monarchy. It’s a story of invasions, cultural-revolution, and change. Let’s go way back in time and start in the beginning. When the Ice Age ended and the sea levels rose, the low-lying land of modern- day England was swamped, creating an island. It was first inhabited by “modern“ humans during the Upper Paleolithic period but took its name from Angles, a Germanic tribe from the Anglia peninsular who settled there in the 5th and 6th centuries. The Iron Age followed the Ice Age when hunting continued as a source of food but farming technology developed allowing the nomadic peoples to create settlements and early farmsteads began to appear on the landscape. The Bronze Age was named due to the use of bronze and copper to create tools, weapons and decorative items by peoples known as the Celts, the Bronze Age existed from 2500 until CE. It was during this period that large stone meeting places, or Henges, such as Avebury and Stonehenge were constructed. In feats of engineering that rival and predate the great pyramids of Egypt. Whilst the Roman Empire was expanding in all directions. Eventually the Celts of the North came to the attention of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, who sent a military expedition to England in 55BCE but failed to conquer it. The Romans succeeded in 43CE when Emperor Claudius successfully led an invasion and they ruled England as a colony for the next 600 years. And it was the time that the settlement known as Londinium was formed, which later became known as London. The Romans brought with them elements of their own civilisation, they constructed roads and cities with forums, baths, aqueducts and theaters. Traders and craftsmen arrived and the Anglo-Roman population grew. In 120CE Emperor Hadrian commissioned a massive wall between England and Scotland to dissuade attacks from the Picts and Scots. Known as Hadrian’s Wall it marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire. As the Empire began to crumble troops were withdrawn from England to defend Rome but in 410CE it fell to a Visigoth army and England, was left to defend itself. ’80DAYS’ Series In ’80 DAYS’, starting from his home base of Sydney, adventurer and Award winning film maker Paul G Roberts, retraces the global footsteps of Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne’s most famous work, “Around the World in 80 Days”, and this time around Roberts is not going to spend half his time out at sea on Steamers as Fogg did, instead he does a deep dive on history, art and culture of the cities he visits, and he captures and records his global adventures for a new 80 Episode TV series. @Fashionindustrybroadcast ​ Making an Award winning film is no small feat. Roberts has no less than 16 Best picture wins from major international Film festivals to his credit. Usually it takes a great story, a team of highly skilled artisans. Writers, producers, a great director, editors, actors and usually a pile of money. And even then it takes a decent amount of luck and a lot of dedication for it to realise the promise it had on paper. There are a million things that can derail the project. The degree of difficulty is amplified many times over when it has ambitions to become a series. But for one person to attempt to all of this solo, is for most experts just insanity. In this new 80 episode solo ’Round the World’ Series, Award winning filmmaker and travel lover Paul G Roberts attempts to do the impossible, in which he is the writer, director, producer, star, presenter, camera / sound / lighting / drone cam operator and financier. Everything but the editing. EDITED BY ORLANDO REVELO