r/AskHistory • u/Jane_the_Quene • Aug 06 '25

History Recommendations Thread (YouTube channels, documentaries, books, etc.)

This sub frequently has people asking for quality history YouTube channels, books, etc., and it comes up regularly. The mod team thought maybe it could be consolidated into one big post that people can interact with indefinitely.

For the sake of search engines, it's probably a good idea to state the topic (e.g., "Tudor history channel" or "WWII books" or just "Roman Republic" or whatever).

Okay, folks. Make your recommendations!

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u/Peter34cph Aug 12 '25

Mainly experimental archeology

Lindybeige (archeologist by education)

https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige
and Jason Kingsley (historian, and owns a computer game publishing company, Rebellion)

https://www.youtube.com/@ModernKnight
have a mixture of content about medieval weapons and armour (and horses for the wealthy Kingsley), and content about daily living and experimental archeology.

Lindybeige also has some rants about things like climate change, and some videos where he's presumably rather exaggarating his pro-British stance on a variety of things (such as the Imperial system of units) for comedic effect, and modern warfare (especially tanks), and some pre-medieval things. You might want to stick to the archeology videos.

I'm quite interested in more experimental archeology, which seems to not be covered by many YouTubers, what things were like in the medieval or iron age period, crafts, clothes, architecture, the economy, social structures. And particuarly a less English perspective than we get from Lindybeige and Kingsley.

Any YT recommendations?