Lindybeige

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)

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)

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

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

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)

Happy New Year everyone! My new computer is due to arrive in January. Fingers crossed it will work, and I'll get more done on it. Some points about Caltrops (YouTube)

The 'shorts' experiment continues. No charge. Longswords are not what they say (YouTube)

Will I ever get any good at click-bait titles? No charge for this. Medieval Vices - not what you think (YouTube)

I hope you really do like them long, because this one is LONG. hqdefault.jpg (YouTube)

I had to get my armour ready for the refight of the Battle of Tewkesbury. Here, you see me spend a day at the workshop, where several things were sorted out. Racing to get my armour ready (YouTube)

A collaboration with Jason Kingsley, whom I visited a short while ago. We shot footage of me trying out a medieval saddle and having a tentative go at riding and fighting from horseback. That will appear on his channel. This, the archery, was for my channel. Field Archery - like normal archery, exce

This one scrapes in in April! I'm not happy with the picture quality. It is very 'noisy' for some reason. Anyway - one hour of me rabbiting on about armour. Thank you thank you, dear patrons, for making this possible. It took four years to get the plates out of the armourer, and then a pandemic hit,

Castle! Siege! Bang! Armour! Clash! Roses! Banners! A Castle Siege in 1464 recreated (YouTube)

I hit hot metal with a hammer a lot! I talk about this and that. Then more hitting! Ever met a journeyman? I have! Forging an arrowhead - plus digressions (YouTube)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto a tennis court, I bring you this editor's nightmare of a video! You try synchronising hours of footage, the soundtrack of which consists mainly of the echoes in a big room of footsteps and ball bounces! Anyway, it is done now. I definitely intend to

Another video of experimenting with a weapon: Also, rare evidence that I have feet. The spadone - was it a longsword or greatsword or... what? (YouTube)

I need a better click-baity title. Any suggestions? This was an absolute monster of an edit. It was shot over two trips there in different years, and I had a ton of footage. One day I expect I'll use the footage of soldiers and knights, but here I concentrate on the non-military things. Whoops - I s

Coins! Improved sound! Tangents! Rants! A jumper! Pounds, shillings, and pence: a history of English coinage (YouTube)

This was going to be one video with the one on transport, but I'm glad I split it into two. Where are your local river crossings? It was important to know. You may spot a change with this video if you are blunt-eyed. The importance of river crossings in the olden days (YouTube)

Carts! Waggons! Boats! Medieval Transport (or 'transportation' for my American cousins) in this video: I ended up talking about half the things I had planned to. I'll probably return to this topic very soon. Medieval transport - the beginners' guide (YouTube)

And now, another video, with retro thumbnail: https://youtu.be/S5oDKhqka8Y TLDW: they should have just held the ladder.

I was in Germany teaching at a HEMA camp, and while there shot this video with help from volunteers, showing one way that spears might have been used in formations - the commonest weapon combination of soldiers in the past. The fighting method of most soldiers: one-handed spear and shield (YouTube)

I was invited to a see a piece of experimental archaeology. What does one say when invited to stuff like this? Why 'yes' of course! A pyromaniac's dream. Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment (YouTube)

I've done two versions of this, and they took ages to edit. This is the short version, with shortish intro, and most of the bouts are reduced to their concluding seconds. Spears are better than swords: scientific proof (YouTube)

This is a bonus video for patrons. You have not been charged. I thought that some of you might like to see the complete ramblings - all seventeen and half minutes of them - of the interview I did with the creators of the computer game Thrones of Britannia. I used clips from it in the video for gener

At last! This one was a nightmare to edit. Having footage with three different video formats didn't help. Not quite an architectural discussion, not quite an advert, not quite a review, not quite a travelogue, not quite an interview, and not quite a dissection of history. It is a video that navigate

Again, you get this for free, because you paid for the boots in the first place. Thank you. The armourer now has these boots and is working on the metal to cover them. Boots for sabatons (YouTube)

Not since 2012 (The Adventures of Stoke Mandeville) have I spent so long in post production on one video. I thought this would take about three days. It took ten very long days. There are twenty-two animations, and it took seventeen tracks on the editing timeline to get it to work. Much had to be cu

At flipping last! So sorry for the massive delay. This video ran into several problems. My new camera was a bit awkward and I had to reshoot half of it. This is the first video with my new kit. Does the new mic sound any better? I hope it does. You paid for it, and the new camera, so thanks for thos