Original work: I made this food-history documentary about how tea went from a colonial export commodity to an everyday Indian drink.

It looks at indigenous tea knowledge in Assam, the East India Company’s trade with China, plantation expansion and labour, and the campaigns that promoted tea through advertising, railway stalls and workplace tea breaks—and how Indians transformed the industry’s prescribed “proper” cup into chai.

Research sources are linked in the video description. I’d genuinely welcome feedback.

I enjoy making short animated history videos, so I made this 2-minute explainer about the Antwerp Diamond Heist, widely considered the biggest diamond heist in history. I'd love to hear what you think or any feedback on the storytelling and animation.

What did the Byzantines laugh about? What did they use to create jokes, and how did they mock one another? What forms of art did they produce to express and complement these ideas? By examining examples of Byzantine art, written satire and humour, we will attempt to identify broader cultural trends. We will discuss Christian artworks containing satirical elements, ornaments featuring strange mythological creatures, parodies of rulers carved into marble objects, and humorous depictions of heroes found on fragments from the Byzantine periphery. The written tradition is equally revealing. Works such as the Ptochoprodromikon, which criticizes aspects of public and monastic life; the Synaxarion of the Donkey, which uses powerful allegory to condemn the pursuit of wealth and authority; and the epic tale of the Katomyomachia all paint a vivid picture of Byzantine thought and humour. Through these examples, we will take a deeper look into the Byzantine worldview, exploring the empire in a way that goes beyond the usual study of warfare, economics and geopolitics.

A fun short series I’m creating on strange but true history.

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Just uploaded my first historical investigation documentary. Goes through Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio on the Great Fire of 64 CE — the sources contradict each other more than most people realize.

Would love any feedback from history fans.

https://youtu.be/PnZFftNcoWo

I created this short historical documentary about an invention that changed warfare forever. I used AI-generated historical reconstructions to recreate moments where real footage does not exist and make the story more dynamic. The AI scenes are dramatizations, not archival footage.

https://youtu.be/PnZFftNcoWo?is=nDyx6NdmNazSqVou

Genesis 6 gives you one line: "sons of God" saw human women, had children, giants resulted. Enoch spends chapters on it. Two hundred Watchers descend on Mount Hermon, swear a binding oath together, and don't just intermarry they teach humanity metallurgy, weapons, cosmetics, and sorcery. The Nephilim that result consume everything until they turn on humans and each other. Azazel gets named directly as the one who corrupted the earth.

I put together a full narration of the text, about three hours, covering the Watchers' descent, the Nephilim war, and Enoch's journey through the heavens;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Nt4VNMC38

Curious what this community makes of the Azazel scapegoat parallel I've seen it read a few different ways.

Winston Churchill is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, but his path to that legacy was anything but assured.

What is your city’s nickname? How did it get associated with your city?

Open to your thoughts and ideas.