from my imperfect understanding as a second year RMA Medieval student. My first ever history video! Don't hesitate to correct me/let me know if you disagree.

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Mentioned:
SIX the Musical
The History Boys
Jackson Crawford
Mayke de Jong's (fantastic) book
Herodotus
Cicero
Sargon the Great
Jack Whitehall on Robert Pattinson
Sima Qian
The Vedas, the Torah and the Gospels
Irving v Penguin Books Ltd (Objective Historians)
Mary Beard
Olivette Otele
"The Silk Roads" by Peter Frankopan
"The Fall of Rome" by Peter Heather
"Post-Roman Transitions" by Walter Pohl
Leonard Rutger's Paper on Stable Isotopes

Music: Bread (Prod. by lukrembo)

Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00-0:55
Why am I making this video?: 0:56-1:35
Video outline & disclaimer: 1:36-2:41
What does a historian "do"/first historians, in society: 2:42-5:27
Ancient v Medieval History/empathy: 5:28-8:03
Academic history (teaching & researching): 8:04-10:02
Research community/how does research work: 10:03-13:26
Popular history (entertainment): 13:27-14:45
Standardised language + complexity theory (tangent): 14:46-16:41
Popular history (Education and Commemoration): 16:41-17:20
End: 17:21-17:51

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