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This is a collaboration I did with the lovely Jill Bearup. She does the narration and editing, and I provided the dance teaching. It appears on her channel, so I'm not charging for this. I interviewed her while she stayed with me. Expect a video of that soon. Jill is doing a project of going through

A history of early motor cars, while making a model of what is supposedly the world's first car, but is it? This video was an utter nightmare to edit. It involved many days of work, very numerous and inexplicable computer crashes, the sudden loss of two days' work, and multiple attempts to render, s

This one is in interview format, and my two guests are the writers of a new dramatisation of the true (as far as they can get it) life of a British legend. I'm considering doing what a lot of other YouTubers do, which is to publish a list of patrons - showing their names rush across the screen. Is t

You may not like 'the beautiful game' but you might like a rant criticising it! Last one on footie for a while, then back to normal. Coming soon: The Odyssey! Dick Turpin! Japan! Egypt! The stone age! How to end diving in football (YouTube)

In which I discuss villains in the movies with a chap from Ceylon who is bit more Disney than I. In other news, I have just witnessed the trailer for The Uprising (presumably about Wat Tyler) and it looks so amazingly bad I found it astonishing. If I did a video about it, it would be saying all the

For those of you who don't like sport - there's SPORT! I wrote to FIFA about this and got a reply. Who'd have guessed? Sorry there's been so little this month. Putting my back out again while mending my bike didn't help. Lots more next month! The end of penalty shootouts! An alternative has been fou

I haven't done one of these for a while, and by Crikey - it was a lot more work than I had anticipated. I have a few more engines to look at, but don't hold your breath. The flame-eater engine is a concept that had a brief moment in the light, but was then cast into the shade by more powerful steam

The British and Free French launched a joint operation to Dakar in Senegal in 1940. As I relate, it did not go to plan... Operation Menace 1940: three days of incompetent bungling (YouTube)

A podcast, in which I talk to a nice chap about castles for an hour or so. What defines a castle? Sieges! Oppression! The end of castles! Big piles of rock! Lindybeige on besieging a castle (YouTube)

On Monday, I sat down and recorded thirteen videos on the trot. None is long, many are very short. I'm calling them 'not longs' because a 'short' has to be in that silly vertical format for people who can't hold a 'phone in landscape orientation. On Tuesday, I edited them all, finishing at two in th

The main part of the interview I did with BigMac in a museum in a hidden bunker somewhere in the Carpathians. Not for the very faint of heart. Two Brits and a dog in a bunker in Ukraine (YouTube)

A guided tour of all the places in Lviv where with the aid of a time machine you could see something medieval! Medieval Lviv - a quick tour without all that tedious looking at things (YouTube)

This was going to be added to a video about Lviv, but it is a bit grim and perhaps is better as a separate thing. Postcard from The Field of Mars - a war cemetery in wartime (YouTube)

How much can one mix light-hearted banter with grim facts of both the past and the present? Thanks to my fixers and guides, I walked around the city for a couple of days and shot this footage. Thanks to my patrons, I could afford it. A walk around Lviv in wartime (YouTube)

The first of a series. Thanks to people like you, I am able to do things like this. It is appreciated. On Holiday in Country at War (YouTube)

I shot this first take! How political am I being? Well, it's impossible not to be when doing satire, but I think this is moderate enough stuff. The use of AI I think actually adds to the comedy in places, especially the protesters complaining about AI. As you can see, I am able to get a comb to work

Mark and I try to drill through a stone using the conjectured method that archaeologists suggest that stone age Man used to make stone axe heads. Will we make it though before running out of time? Make your guess at the half-way mark. Drilling through a stone with stone-age technology (YouTube)

Rambling again, this time about medieval weaponry. Old skool, innit? Some points about double-handed flails (YouTube)

This one is for patrons only, and for you there is no charge. A good friend is celebrating his seventieth birthday in Los Angeles, and I was asked to contribute a video to wish him a happy birthday. I put a bit of effort in. Should I risk videos like this for public consumption? Perhaps it matters t

People seem to like it when I point out historical inaccuracy in films. Well, here we go again. I'm not sure I like the tone in my voice in this one. Possibly I should have recorded a second less harsh-sounding narration. Wicked Little Letters: a film that gets it all wrong (YouTube)

Here you find the link (https://youtu.be/4koValnuA58) to the last episode of Finders Keepers. I know I said that you would get it 'early' and when I typed that, I thought that it would be a week early, but that is not how things worked out. YouTube now has 'memberships' which is its way of having it

This video is now published with three competing titles suggested on Facebook by followers of the Lindybeige page. It starts with a dramatic scene, imagining what it might be like for a worker at a resurrectionist's temple to have to deal with a stressed and uncomprehending customer. The customer th

As promised, my patrons get early access to this. The rest of the world has to wait a bit. You'll get episode three early as well. Finders Keepers - episode two: The Crack In The Floor (YouTube)

Here is the first episode of the three-part drama-comedy Finders Keepers. As with the other episodes in this series, it was largely edited by a media student from Northumbria University, who had to learn the software from scratch and then take on a mammoth task, so I think he did pretty well. It see

This was shot ages ago, and was a gargantuan effort of editing. Thankfully, I had two students to help me out. Here is the set-up episode, in which we set up the characters and situation. After this, there will be three episodes of the drama playing out, and if we find the time, a 'drama-cut' versio

I know that not all of you are into role-play games, but I have become aware that there are out there 'professional dungeon masters' playing not only D&D but all manner of role play games on-line. Some of them charge a lot of money per session. I wonder whether I have patrons who might be interested

I've been doing this YouTubery since 2008, so you'd think I'd be getting the hang of it by now, but no. I'm using DaVinci Resolve now to edit, and it has a lot of annoying quirks. I keep having to watch tutorials on how to do the simplest things and thinking "How in the world anyone guess THAT?" Any

I did several of these, and a few of them are yet to be published. Expect one more a day for a few days. I also did 'shorts' versions of them, which may have been a terrible idea, but what do I know? Anyway, although it is about fourteen videos, they are all very short and silly and I would feel wro

As I type this, three titles and three thumbnails are competing to see which is most attractive of clicks. Will it be the old-school beige text and simple title, or the fancy cinematic scenes with dynamic titles? Place your bets... An hour of me rambling more widely than usual, getting into marrying

Another Q217 video. In other news, I have a student editor who has been coming in and working on the mountain of footage we shot for the next RPG adventure. It looks as though that will come in at around four hours of finished material, in the not-very-distant future. I see that Patreon has, for cre

Already it's been hit with a copyright strike, which leaves me in a dilemma. I could appeal, risking having it taken down, but if I win I get to earn money from it. So far, I have won pretty much every appeal of this type, using the 'fair use' defence, BUT if I lose and it gets taken down, then that

I've noticed that a lot of YouTube videos effectively have two titles: one in the text on the thumbnail and another in the listing, which gives us two bites of the cherry. I'm not sure that either title here is great, though. Anyway, this one is for role-play gamers, fantasy writers, and students of

A poem, about the Second Punic War, but set in the early fourth century A.D. Following the poem, a talk about working with A.I. graphics, and then an update on the Hannibal book. The video calls with patrons over the weekend went all right, but were rather under-attended. Perhaps this just isn't som

I'm position, and looking forward to a chin-wag. The link you need is: https://meet.jit.si/TheCoalFiredStudioMeet

https://meet.jit.si/TheMotherWhoWaitedMeet Sorry this is so last-minute. Why did Patreon pick now to go all weird? See you soon, I hope...

Sometimes, a big number means that we're all fine. No charge - it's short and probably not what you signed up for. I look forward to talking to you this weekend (see other posts). I handle the matter of big scary numbers (YouTube)

It is one of those elephant-in-the-room issues, and someone had to speak up. The importance of Angelina Jolie's nose (YouTube)

Q59: If you were given the power to control the world's medical research, what would you do? Would you save yourself? What is the priority? Slightly click-baity title, I know, sorry. Should world medical research be centrally controlled? (YouTube)

It is high time that I did another video call or two for my generous patrons (that's all of you lot). In the past, I have mainly done two calls at two times on a Saturday, so that people in different time zones had options. This seemed to work all right, but might have been frustrating for those who

The last in the current run of scenery videos. There will be more one day, but this is enough for now. You may note that the thumbnail has been used before. One of the comments in the last dungeon scenery video was that I would get far more clicks if I showed the whole layout than with an arty compo

It is a follow-up to the other recent one on dungeon scenery, which I hoped crafters of that sort of thing would find inspirational. I have called it 'More Inspirational Dungeon Scenery' and you can decide for yourselves which word in that title is described by 'more'. Yes, the title on the thumbnai

An hour and a half of story, with quite a build of tension (I hope). This includes two short animations which took perhaps longer than they should have taken to do, and much less of the historical background that took up the first hour of the last one about the last war against the French. As the th

I haven't done one on this topic for years. Here, I take you through the scenery I made at my last house, which has been sitting on the shelves, waiting for the day. Model dungeon scenery to inspire the would-be evil overlord, part one. (YouTube)

The sound is odd, as I spend some time explaining, but for those trying to imaging how medieval horses were used in battle, there is lots here. Horses were one-shot weapons (YouTube)

Some patrons reported that the latest video had a sound-synch problem. Here, then, is a corrected version, which is of course free to you. I know that a bad workman blames his tools, but DaVinci Resolve insisted that the last version was in synch, and is very insistent - using a big red alert box -

The Joy of Free* Energy! https://youtu.be/GGue3ZCIOgc *N.B. not actually free It's been ages since I did one on motors. There will be more. Science! Comes complete with custom jingle - all instruments played by the editor.

This one hasn't aged well. Should we avoid the afflicted? (YouTube)

Much like yesterday's upload, but not a short, but a proper videos instead. As usual, it's a different performance of the same lines. Too short to charge you for. Gems of Jedi Wisdom number 138: Do or do not do - there is no try (YouTube)

My first 'short' in a long time, and my first using my new editing and colour-grading software. Not perfect, but I'm getting there. No charge. Gems of Jedi Wisdom number 138: Do or do not do - there is no try (YouTube)

Perfect parity is presumably impossible, but is it better to the brighter and more beautiful of the pair? I hope you all appreciate that I managed to get all the way through this video without once using the word 'hypergamy'. Why marry someone cleverer and better-looking than you? (YouTube)