Exclusive Shorts preview
Added 2024-09-05 17:41:00 +0000 UTCDear Patrons,
As mentioned in our recent newsletter, we've been working on some new Shorts - 13, to be precise. They'll be out on YouTube in the coming weeks, but we wanted to give our Patreon supporters a special preview.
There's a whole range of topics here, from the Silk Road to the British Empire to the Crusades, with a few familiar faces too. I'm aware 60 second history is not everyone's cup of tea! But for the channel, I think of it as a kind of 'outreach program', a way to reach viewers who wouldn't normally think our content was for them... Maybe we can turn them into proper history fans in due course.
So, I hope you enjoy this little compilation - and let us know which is your favourite!
Thanks as ever for supporting the channel.
Toby
Comments
Although I’m not the biggest fan of short length videos (because I believe it has contributed to a decline in the attention span of people) I must say I love these shorts. Also, I love that you used Virgo as the track at 17:20 It is one of my most favorite soundtracks from this channel!
Victor Deleon
2024-09-07 05:51:19 +0000 UTCOh
Gage Hardesty
2024-09-06 19:21:10 +0000 UTCIt used to be called Malaya until 1963. I still have newspaper cuttings of my Grandad meeting The Malayan prime minister in 1955.
Stuart Carver
2024-09-06 19:14:52 +0000 UTCUm small typo for the short at 1:45 where West of Borneo that's actually Malaysia not Malaya when looking at Google Maps.
Gage Hardesty
2024-09-06 16:17:13 +0000 UTCI love the charismatic being put into these shorts really sets the stage for who they are rather than what they were it's amazing to look at.
Gage Hardesty
2024-09-06 16:13:04 +0000 UTCWell remembered the name escaped me, it does sound a little ridiculous but not an anecdote you’d soon forget.
Stuart Carver
2024-09-06 09:58:06 +0000 UTCI think that was Margaret of Beverley! As with many accounts from the Crusades, we have to be careful of invented details and hyperbole, but it's a great story nonetheless!
Epic History
2024-09-06 08:26:18 +0000 UTCI can only dream to be as charismatic as Murat. That quote following his jaw injury is amazing!
Cuirassier
2024-09-05 23:44:42 +0000 UTCI really like them and I think they will have the desired effect.
Flint and Ball
2024-09-05 23:07:23 +0000 UTCTIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Beverley
George
2024-09-05 21:16:40 +0000 UTCAn anecdote between Napoleon and Prince Eugene when Marmont was made a Marshal: "I hope that your Majesty will never have to repent of having made Marmont marshal." It did make me chuckle..
TankerBricks
2024-09-05 20:33:32 +0000 UTCLooks good so far!
TankerBricks
2024-09-05 19:00:38 +0000 UTCThere was a women I read about in Dan Jone’s Crusaders that supposedly fought Saladin’s army with a saucepan on her head. I hope some of these covering topics not yet touched apon May give a nod to the future?
Stuart Carver
2024-09-05 18:27:21 +0000 UTC
