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Fall of Civilizations (podcast)Fall of Civilizations, in its YouTube video editions
Paul Cooper's documentaries each follow one society to its end: Carthage, ancient Egypt, the Mongol Empire, Achaemenid Persia and, most recently, the Majapahit Empire of medieval Indonesia, which runs to about four and a half hours. New episodes…0 - 2
Historia CivilisFew channels show their work as plainly. The description of the latest essay, The City, lists its sources, from Lewis Mumford's The City in History to transport studies by the US Department of Transportation. The channel made its name with a long run on the last decades of the Roman Republic,…0 - 3
ToldinstoneGarrett Ryan holds a PhD in Greek and Roman history and has taught at universities, and his channel answers the questions a survey course skips: which diseases afflicted the Roman emperors, which luxury brands Romans prized, who the empire's strangest celebrities were. Videos are short, dryly funny…0 - 4
Kings and GeneralsAnimated maps are the draw: armies move across clear terrain, which makes campaigns from Carthage's wars with the Greeks in Sicily to the Eastern Front of World War II far easier to follow than a page of text. A team makes the videos, and the descriptions credit the scriptwriter and narrator by…0 - 5
The Great War (YouTube channel)From 2014 to 2018 this channel followed World War I week by week, a century after the events, with Indy Neidell as host. That real-time series is still a remarkable free archive, and the channel carried on: Jesse Alexander now presents feature documentaries on the war and its aftermath, including…0 - 6
World War Two (YouTube channel)Indy Neidell, the original host of The Great War, leads this TimeGhost channel through World War II week by week in real time. Around that spine sit side series on key figures, military hardware, the home fronts and life under occupation; the current Nazi Rearmament series asks, for instance,…0 - 7
Epic HistoryEpic History tells big stories at length, and its recent films show the range: the First Crusade, Waterloo and the Hundred Days, and the Dutch raid on the Medway in 1667, billed as England's greatest naval disaster. The channel says its team holds history degrees and works with specialist…0 - 8
DrachinifelNaval history in exhaustive detail, from sailing warships to the battleships and carriers of the two World Wars. The channel runs on three strands: battle accounts, such as a new one on Cape Engaño and the last stand of Japan's carrier force; guides to individual ships, now past 500 entries; and…0 - 9
Max Miller (YouTuber)Tasting History with Max Miller
Every Tuesday Max Miller cooks a historic dish and tells the story around it, from a Tudor pear tart to the diet of a medieval hermit. It is the friendliest way into social history on YouTube, because food shows how ordinary people lived in a way battles never…0 - 10
TownsendsJon Townsend's channel explores everyday life in the 18th century, mostly through cooking: recipes drawn from period cookbooks, alongside videos on clothing, drink and getting through the winter. Recent episodes range from cider as the drink of the common man to a marathon of cold-season…0
