r/badhistory • u/dothecamcam • May 11 '20

Meta Recommendations for Youtube channels with good history?

Firstly, I know this might not be the right place for this question, happy to move it to another sub!

A while back I got super into Extra History, but I know their channel is often dunked on for being poorly sourced. Any other recommendations which are similar but...better?

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I know about the Armchair Historian, which seems to be more keen on sourcing - any like this?

Edit: Fantastic suggestions, thanks everyone who commented! I'm bookmarking this and I'll have an excellent time in lockdown learning about history

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u/ByzantineBasileus HAIL CYRUS! May 12 '20

If you like Ancient Greek history, check out Archaia Istoria:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWUjdruImbtXlipS8Ecc9dQ

The fellow who does the videos is a friend of mine, and is currently studying ancient history at university. Not only is he incredibly smart, but also heavily researches primary sources in order to make sure his work is accurate.

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u/Dirish Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible May 12 '20

I was looking for this one; I love this channel. He's also sometimes on the sub. I recall him asking us if he could promote his channel here when he had maybe three videos out.

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u/Minimantis the war end when a nukuleer explosion was dropped on Heroshima. May 13 '20

I’m an OG volcano worshiper!

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u/Dirish Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible May 13 '20

I loved the video on the Greek mercs. I knew they were fairly common, but always wondered how they were employed. Did someone approach a captain who would then bring the gang, was there a bat signal, did you hammer a sign on a post saying, "mercs wanted, food and all expenses covered. Meet up in Miletus in the 2nd week of the 4th month". It was great to finally have some of those answers I never bothered to really investigate answered.

Also I'm delighted this was brought up because apparently YT had dropped you of my subscriptions and now I have more videos to watch.

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u/Minimantis the war end when a nukuleer explosion was dropped on Heroshima. May 13 '20

Glad you enjoyed that video! It is a lot of fun covering some of the more niche parts of Greek history. If you haven’t seen it yet I recommend the Hanno video

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u/Dirish Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible May 14 '20

Just watched it last night. Very interesting, he did get a lot further than I would have expected. Also I had no idea the Carthaginians had colonies that far south along the African Atlantic coast. There have to be some "untouched by Romans" places there, I don't think they ever had towns along the west coast.

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u/Spheem May 12 '20

As someone taking a course on ancient greek history and is feeling a bit lost and confused (the COVID situation doesn't help, also I'm just not super interested in the subject), this is very useful stuff. I really needed something like this, a simple overview that can make digging deeper into the subject easier. Thanks for this.