A rather eclectic channel. Videos include many ‘points’ about ancient and medieval warfare and technology; rants to the camera; etc…
From Lindybeige. Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/gGyh30rvhoo Do you have a favourite armoured half-track? I have a look at 251s inside and out, and at all its variants. Examples from Bovington, re-enactments, and my models. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Picture credits: Engineer By baku13 – photo taken…
From Lindybeige. Invisibility is a power that appears (geddit?) in many stories of myth, fantasy, and science fiction, and many a role-play game, and it can seem to be a world-breaking superpower, but here I suggest that its many drawbacks may temper this view. Picture credits: Transparent snail By J. Bedek, Alexander M. Weigand –…
From Lindybeige. Get your first audiobook credit and full access to the Plus Catalog for free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/lindybeige or text "lindybeige" to 500 500! I review a lot of fantasy gaming miniatures, and point out that there are some things about them that wouldn’t work even in a…
From Lindybeige. Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to https://acorn.tv and use promo code: ‘lindybeige’. I talk for a bit the history of English coinage, and the problems of maintaining a good currency. Once or twice I might stray off topic, but I end with an explanation of why the system worked…
From Lindybeige. Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/B24830rkCR0 Fords, bridges, and ferries were major navigation marks in the minds of medieval folk. I talk about this, when I’m not digressing about Henry VIII. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Picture credits: New London Bridge By Hammersfan – Own work, CC…
From Lindybeige. Get your 1st audiobook and full access to the Plus Catalog for free when you try Audible for 30 days. Visit http://www.audible.com/lindybeige or text lindybeige to 500 500! Carts! Waggons! Boats! I drone on about land and water transport (or ‘transportation’ as my American cousins would say) for an hour or so. Support…
From Lindybeige. Q28 from the book – in which I ramble on about nature versus nurture, what makes a man himself, why starting again is good, the importance of language, peer pressure, introducing children to alcohol, and eventually I answer the question. The next question will be: Q29 have you ever hated anyone? If so,…
From Lindybeige. Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/sgyy30r8uE8 In the movies, climbing a ladder to attack a castle is shown a suicidally dangerous. Was it? How did they actually use ladders in assaults on fortified places? Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Credits: Walls of Rome image By user:Lalupa –…
From Lindybeige. Go to https://expressvpn.com/lindybeige and find out how you can get 3 months free. I was taken to a ‘cow wrestling’ event. I didn’t know what to expect. I saw this. No animals were harmed. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Picture credits: Bangladesh sculptures by Salim Khandoker – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93907638…
From Lindybeige. Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/IQ4Q30r36Gw An extraordinary tale of improvised warfare in World War Two, of pluck against the odds, and how the old-boy network could get things done. The Calcutta Light Horse was disbanded in 1947 with Indian independence, and so never saw action again,…
From Lindybeige. Get your first audiobook and a monthly selection of Audible Originals for free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/lindybeige or text lindybeige to 500 500. Matera is an city in Italy which has suddenly become famous. It is rather special and here I describe why. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige…
From Lindybeige. Sign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/m5Rq30qWCIU Perhaps my most requested topic! I go through the sixteen basic scholars’ cradles, with tips on their use and misuse. A resource for public speakers everywhere. 0:00 Start Illustration of all 16 cradles [1:14] 1.) Apex – 1:24 2.) Front…
From Lindybeige. Go to https://expressvpn.com/lindybeige and find out how you can get three months free. A video of re-enactors and their Roman kit. Sorry about the wind noise. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Here’s a link to the Ermine Street Guard – Britain’s foremost imperial Roman re-enactment group: http://www.erminestreetguard.co.uk Was your re-enactment group featured? Ask…
From Lindybeige. Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/hgBT30qK1t0 You see me here take on the top fencer in Guatemala in his gym. We are using epees, and one of us is using skill while the other shows what can be achieved with controlled panic. Some may note it odd…
From Lindybeige. Get your first audiobook and a monthly selection of Audible Originals for free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/lindybeige or text "lindybeige" to 500 500. This video is an attempt to summarise a fiendishly complicated and often nasty story – that of Yugoslavia in World War Two. There are heroes…
From Lindybeige. Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/IAbV30qCbtN Twenty-one proto-tanks or tank concepts that never made it to battle. Nice models, but some silly designs. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige TV-8 image By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40646351 Buy the music – the music played at the end of my…
From Lindybeige. Brought to you by Raycon. Go to https://buyraycon.com/lindybeige for 15% off your order. In 1943 one battery of Royal Artillery was annihilated by an overwhelming German attack, but its brave self-sacrifice saved countless lives. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Find more pictures of the operation at Sidi Nsir here: https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dba/en/search/?yearfrom=&yearto=&query=sidi+nsir For more on…
From Lindybeige. Paul McCartney wrote this one for The Beatles, and I’ve always found the arrangement they recorded to be too perky for the sadness of the lyrics. This is my alternative interpretation. I am a particular admirer of the bit that goes "She wakes up. She makes up. She takes her time and doesn’t…
From Lindybeige. Start protecting your internet privacy and get 3 months free: https://expressvpn.com/lindybeige. How did soldiers fight with the commonest historical weapon combination: one-handed spear and shield? Nobody knows, but here you see me describe one way they might have done it, with the help of HEMA enthusiasts in Germany. Many thanks to all the…
From Lindybeige. The original was by Paul McCartney and the Beatles, and not as your screen may tell you, The Sandpipers, but it was the Sandpipers who claimed copyright first and that’s how the system works! The band I was in had to stop getting together because of the covid-19 pandemic, and someone suggested that…