I should probably look into doing that sometime soon
maybe oops
face reveal so if you guys click down below you can find a link to my patreon
I'm Chuck here it is
okay so the first question is is your name really hell bit yes my name is
really Helmut that's an easy one nice that's straightforward its history with
hell but because it's its history with me and I'm Hilbert so I see easy next
question are you Dutch / are you English well this is an
interesting one because I kind of go with both so my parents are both Dutch
and they came over to the United Kingdom before I was born
and I was actually born here in the United Kingdom in England in the
southwest at a place called bath but I was obviously raised bilinguals and
speaking Dutch and English at home and I have dutch nationality and obviously I
have a lot of friends over in the Netherlands and a lot of relatives and I
visit there quite a lot so I'd say I'm probably a bit of both as you can
imagine both Dutch and English this that's kind of my my back story between
whether I'm Dutch or English I'd say it's a bit of both you can make up your
own mind if you want to I think I fall into both camps which languages do you
speak which often follows on from this so as a child in the first language I
was raised and was Dutch although I grew up in obviously in England I also
obviously then learned English when I started going to school things and
obviously I speak English and Dutch now as a first language although my spelling
in touch is a bit poorer than in English and some of the grammar and stuff
piccolo snails brought up around English kids a lot of the time so then I also
have sort of a big let's say and beginners knowledge information my dad
is fluent in Frisian and wanted to grow us grow up information that's just and
he wanted to raise us with region as well but obviously growing up in England
we were already learning as a brother and I am speaking for we were obviously
already learning English and Dutch and then adding in Frisian would be a bit
much but I'm obviously very interested in the kind of the whole Frisian
identity in the Frisian language in the the Friedan history because it is such
an interesting part of our past and that I'm personally picking it up a bit
myself so what other languages do I speak well at a level I did Spanish some
fairly confident in Spanish now and say I can pick up quite a lot of it and
learn most the grammar and a lot of the words and things I enjoy Spanish I did
French for a number of years but I've let that trail a bit so I could still
understand and have a very poorly health conversation in French these days and
thanks to my Dutch obviously I can understand anywhere from about 40 to 60%
of German most of the time spoken and reading in some
Deitz are a lot easier than others now recently I've started learning Irish as
well which I'm notoriously bad at as I'm reminded hunt on this channel and also
with languages like Afrikaans and depending on whether you call Flemish
your own language obviously I can get most of that because it's so similar to
Dutch at this point so that's that's really the languages that I know most of
and obviously with the other Germanic languages I can get words here and there
and with Italian it's like Spanish but just more flowery and stuff so you can
kind of get bits of it but I'd said those were the languages that I that I
speak with any confidence at least now okay what's the next one what sparks
your interest in history well and I guess what sparked my interest in
history would be I used to do a lot of drawing when I was younger when I was a
small child I'd come home from school and I'd draw and it was mostly Native
Americans at that point that was sort of my first interest in history and I guess
it was because I liked drawing and where I liked violence I wasn't particularly
violent childhood just like battles and things like that so I had a pirate faith
in a Native American phase and a knight phase and then the Viking face came and
argued I'm still in the Viking phase to be honest and now I just used my
computer to make the little create little figures in my videos and stuff
but I think it was that it was sort of the pastas incredibly colorful and I
liked or drawing that and bring it back and I played my dad in large part as
well because we used to live in the southwest so where I was born in Bath
and Somerset you have a lot of mountains and things and you did he tell us the
story of Beowulf and then he'd say I'll bail off he's buried in that mound and
it's just those kind of stories they stay with you as you grow older and you
kind of learn more and more about it and as well I guess if you if you are an
immigrant like especially with a Dutch background can you come over and then
Northumberland as well as the perfect place because there's words in the
Northumbrian dialect like for Katy Karl and bends and which is obviously a lot
more like the Frisian ban which is also for children and you just sort of see
these similarities between languages and you start to wonder well why are there
so many things in Dutch in English that are similar and what changed and how did
they grow apart and things of that sort of the the evolution of language and
then you get to you obviously the period of of the Vikings of
the Frisian the that kind of thing which is really what
I talk about in a lot of my videos so I say that's that's kind of how I got into
history I think there's a few different ways and you just kind of you know get
more and more into it getting more and more drawn into it then you start
reading and see my parents were a big fact and they bully books and took me to
all sorts of castles and historic houses and things and it just get out grows
from there really why did you start your channel all right so there's a few
reasons here one of the reasons I'll mention last and the other reasons I'll
say is that I've always been interested in history as I've just explained it's
been a big thing for me growing up and I did have this or other channel
beforehand which I've taken down now with absolutely awful so I kind of
already had the stuff I needed to make videos and I think it was something I
always had in mind that I would start up another channel and talk about history
because it's something that I'm interested in my friends were always
complaining that I was talking about history too much and I thought well out
there in the big wide world there must be fool who actually want to listen to
me talk about history and apparently there are which is awesome
so I say that was that was definitely one of the reasons my first video is
actually response to Linda beige he was criticizing the last Kingdom in some
ways which is still an awesome and hilarious video if you want to watch
that I mean Linda Beach's not mind about
Tooting my own horn and another reason that I started my channel is that I
wanted to apply to you Cambridge the University of Cambridge to study
anglo-saxon Norse and Celtic which is if you don't know Cambridge is a fairly
decent university to get into so you have to have color things going on in
your life that makes you worthy of studying there so I thought well that's
an extracurricular kind of thing to show that I'm not just yes I love history
please give me a place I mean that's basically what I did but that's one of
the other reasons essentially is to say that I have something else going on that
obviously I'm not just you know learning about history in school I'm doing stuff
outside of school stuff alright so the next question leads on from that which
is what education do you have okay so I went through the English schooling
system I did a levels my a-levels that I did I did Dutch in the first year I did
history I did philosophy and ethics and I did Spanish as well and also an EP key
which is like a basically it's like writing a mini
dissertation on a topic of your choice then you're assessed on various things
and so that's right my a-levels and currently at university so that leads on
to the next question which is how old are you I'm 19 I turned 19 three days
ago I turned brain team and and I have just started at the University of
Cambridge so it did actually work I didn't manage to get in the course of
knowing is really awesome it's called anglo-saxon Norse and Celtic well it's
essentially what's in the name we basically get to study the languages the
history the literature of the Celtic peoples the anglo-saxons and you know
the Vikings the people from Scandinavia during this period so that's what I'm
studying and and a lot of my recent videos sort of the information they've
got from that has been from my lectures and what I do there and the extra
reading that you do fall out cause I'll probably make a video about that at some
point because I think many of you especially if there are younger people
watching might be interested in looking into that if you do enjoy my videos
about that kind of period because it is a really interesting study and to do
which is you know it's perfect for me as you can probably tell from my videos on
this goddess alright so what is your profession well as I've just started
university obviously Cambridge is very intense so you get an essay every week
which is quite a lot to take in and you have to do a lot of reading for that so
you're not actually allowed to have a job because well you're not allowed to
have fun and plus you really couldn't have a job I guess I'm kind of cheating
with my youtube but I don't really see that as a job YouTube is what I do for
fun it's awesome that I can earn money with it as well but you know it's I
enjoy YouTube I really enjoy doing that and what I did before that actually I
was a lifeguard for two years just at the local pool and which was a which was
a fun job actually I did enjoy I didn't enjoy it but I care to still have the
skills but I'm not really gonna go back to that I think just because I'm too
busy with University I don't really have time to go back to that kind of thing
I'd say that's that's my only real other job that I had and so what do you do
outside of YouTube well obviously now I'm very busy with University stuff so
and it's gonna be interesting to see if I can keep uploading I'm gonna try and
upload a video sort of once every two weeks while I'm at university cuz I
can't make any while I'm there it's just too busy but what I enjoy doing outside
of if YouTube well I have recently taken up
kickboxing which is a lot of fun I enjoyed get to the gym so I have a few
different gym buddies big shout out to George and Callum up here in Gotham
Berlin and chat to hash and showered down in Cambridge isn't my my gym
buddies that's why I enjoy doing that I'm quite the physical person I don't
like doing that also if you could not sure if you can if I dive out the way
you can just make out my shield there and spear on the other side yeah I'm a
historical re-enactors as well I am part of Reggie ankle lorem which is a Viking
Age reenactment Society so I really enjoy doing that obviously I enjoy
reading I have to do a lot of reading for uni now as well and it's where I get
obviously an inspiration for my videos from and that kind of thing so that's
that's really what I enjoy doing outside of YouTube I do a lot of things
academically with just that means third University and also with YouTube as well
so I like I like being a bit sporty a bit active in my in my other spare time
that I have next question are you black yes
I'm black what's your favourite historical period okay so you can
probably tell this is coming already but I'd say sort of the migration era in
Northern Europe and in the Viking Age that's obviously what I'm studying and I
just read that period very interesting there's just a lot of things going on we
don't know all too much about it and there's new research coming up all the
time as well so it's just just makes it very interesting period for me also when
a lot of the languages of kicking around you have great social and economic
change obviously how Christianity could be and you have the Viking raids moving
out you have trade you have the first you
know the first nations start to be born in northern Europe around this time we
see with England and Alfred and Athelstan you have but then also in
Denmark and how that came around with Harald Bluetooth and gone and then later
on in Sweden and what factors sped this up and slow this down a little I just
had a very interesting period apart from that I'd say what other
periods do I find interesting I quite at the 17th century with the
Netherlands the Dutch Republic I found that all very interesting how the
Netherlands essentially went from being this very marginal kind of and two-color
the fish is on the edge of the Habsburg steam of the most powerful nation on
earth despite being tiny and having a tiny population is like it's not just
because I'm Dutch I mean that does play a big part it
but and I just find that the whole story incredibly interesting and so I like
that as well yeah a little bit of south african history quite like the the
booths and how they sort of expanded outwards things that are found that all
very interesting and to the ice that there's bits and bobs throughout history
that i found very interesting and i tend to make videos about them and Siad i'd
say that okay so that's a look what's the next one which countries have you
visited okay so let's think well obviously I was born in England so
I wouldn't really count I've visited every country in the United Kingdom sort
of have I tell why I might visited Wales when I wasn't born here I'm not sure if
that counts I'd love to go to Wales actually I've got a lot of Welsh fans ba
da da say yeah I'd love to go to Wales actually my middle name is actually
Welsh its Brent which means Hill in Welsh fun fact
so yeah I've been having Wales of definitely in England I've been Scotland
quite a few times visited the lowlands the highlands some of the Isles as well
more kintyre that kind of place I've been there I've been to Northern Ireland
as well I went for quite a short term being in Belfast and went through lon
and then actually the the north coast of North Myers very nice Antrim as all that
coastline I've also passed into the Republic into
quite a few have been through went through Donegal and then drove down the
west coast and then sort of cut inland eastwards towards the Carlow County
Carlow and then up through Durham the Brunner point so being the British Isles
British and Irish Isles or whatever and I've covered quite well obviously been
to the Netherlands I've been through Belgium and Luxembourg been through
Germany a couple times I've visited France I went to Spain to the northern
mountains there I've been in Austria as well in Tyrol I've been to Denmark and
briefly crossed crossed into Sweden but I haven't been to Norway yet although
I'd like to at some point obviously I've also been to Greece on holiday that was
really nice to Catalonia which is one of the islands in the Aegean I think on
that side and I also visited America when I was 14 and went she loved
wilderness packing through the West so of the the west coast and then further
inland sea like Montana Wyoming Oregon that kind of area there and I also this
summer went to India which was so probably the definitely the most exotic
place I've ever been which is really awesome and I'll probably make it blog
about that at some point explaining my travels there so that's that's where
I've been in the world that I'd like to visit more places now obviously going to
Union especially Cambridge I've met people from all across the world so it'd
be really awesome to see if I can try and visit them in their home countries
at some point what are your favorite historical YouTube channels and now I
watched attentive watch cry you've watched quite a lot of YouTube before
starting and kind of got a lot of inspiration from various channels but
I'm quite busy so I don't tend to watch lots of them but when I do watch history
YouTube channel so enjoy them a lot and someone who had watch for a long time is
Linda British really awesome channel I used to watch a lot of Metatron and like
scholar gladiatorial knights-errant that kind of stuff as well when I was quite
into the armour and weapons and stuff don't know much about it though
yeah I really enjoy those kind of things and I also watched a bit of their
alternate history her but quite like that style and you know what the great
people of met on YouTube felt just really crazy
and so I'd say yeah those are probably my favorite obviously if you want a more
in-depth kind of thing so people like kings and Generals are quite good people
go into like really in-depth or if you're looking for something a bit more
kind of in just the battle side of things like those battles just to kind
of chill out to is usually quite nice just to find out you know the
intricacies of the actual battles in history and yeah it's I'd say that those
are kind of the people that I watch and watch but I don't have too much time for
YouTube unfortunately I know that makes me a bad issue because she you should
always be watching you know what your your friends are doing on YouTube and
what other people are doing and how you can improve but it is what it is and
what's the espied velocity of an unladen swallow well that depends on if it's a
European or an African swallow and I hope you know the answer.
Okay so Royalist (Orangist) or Republican?
I'll answer this question in Dutch than you can all comment on my Dutch
In the "comments" below
No idea, that sounds so English
Then you can all comment on my Dutch
And a few people asked if I could speak Dutch in this video
Well I can
So Royalist or Republican?
It's a difficult question because I like both and see why they're both useful
I like the Republican side because that having balance in power is always good and was good for the early republic
and how it all went.
But I also like the royal family
And I certainly think that in times of war like Het Rampjaar (The Disaster Year) in 1672
That it was better to have the Royalists in power because then you have to have one figure who directs control
Someone who takes the fight to the enemy, if you can say that in Dutch
I think that's important.
It's a shame what happened to the De Witt Brothers it's a bit sad
But I think William needed to take some hard action and that's just what he did in the war years.
Then again there were historical figures that were good from both the Republican and Royalist sides of the divide
So Michiel De Ruyter was a Republican but then you also had other figures like William of Orange and later William III
Who were important but from a Royalist background
So yeah I think they were both important
If you could be somewhere between both I think that's where I would be
Okay so favorite non-historical youtubers a good question
so let me think favorite historical youtubers what non-historical youtubers
do you watch ok so as I said I don't really watch too much YouTube but I
really have enough time to watch a lot of YouTube in my spare time and but if I
had to say nom historically usually has historical issues that I watch I I don't
know I watched quite a few of the lectures of Jordan Pearson I found that
stuff quite interesting although I watch like language videos would say so for
example this is I think it's called wiki tongues I sometimes put one of those on
it's just you know in some dialects through Europe or something just by
interesting will now I told you know God knows what language should just have on
there and I watch that kind of thing and other than that I already watched loathe
I you I guess but I eat quite a lot and when I usually put on something on
Netflix so sometimes it's like it but then again it's like a historical series
that are watching or sometimes it's like a crime series like an international
crime series of quite a lot of Spanish stuff for Natsume levels I used to watch
it a lot of like I think was called bull Saffy honest it's like this this kind of
this program like this this detective series in Spanish and stuff like that to
help me with my languages see I'd say I don't really watch
temperature on historical youtubers boring as that is but that's just how it
is
okay let's have a look do you make videos about what you make them about so
greedy I'm guessing what people are getting at here and is that like why do
you make videos about the topics that you do so a lot of the time I make
videos about stuff that I already know about which is why it's sometimes hard
when people ask me to put sources in the description of each one it's like a lot
of the time I do a lot of reading and I've always done a lot of reading so a
lot of the time I already have the knowledge but I'm not particularly sure
from where I will usually check up on stuff and just to make sure that it is
up to date but a lot of the time it's in so I've read a lot of books on the
Viking Age now so I can just pull together and think right I want to make
a video about let's hit the Vikings in England then
most of the time we'll already have the knowledge there if that makes sense
because I've read four five six books specifically about that topic in the
last couple of years and you can sort of bring that back so a lot of the time the
videos I make are about things that I find interesting and because it is a
hobby and I do do this in my spare time so I make videos about what I
essentially what I want to make them about what I find interesting and and
also about what I know about because of was it you know I do make videos about
things that I don't know too much about and then I do proper research into it
they get books out of the library or obviously have quite a few books already
especially being at Cambridge now I could it has a lot of potential I just
don't have the time unfortunately and also there's some good online sources as
long as you check obviously you know who's writing them if there's anything
behind it how reputable they are and but usually remember you can look at
citations and things and then just look up you know what how is this treated in
the academic world through all the scholars agree with them do any of them
recommend it and you know usually with about ten minutes of research you can
figure out whether something online is pretty accurate does it match with other
things and that are being said does it seem bit outlandish are there any
scholars criticizing it that kind of thing and yeah I guess that's why I make
videos about what I what I do recently is well with university what I recently
did was to actually obviously I have to write an essay every week for my degree
and but I was thinking well you know what in my spare time so I've got six
weeks off at the moment which is why I'm making more videos at the moment as well
as doing work I can then use that and make a video about that which you
might find interesting about basing it off the essay and then letting you guys
read the essay and things for the link which I did with my Danish video if you
are interested so yeah that's that's why I make videos well what I make for pulse
what I'm interested in and also sort of what I know about what I can make videos
well because I can't just stop making up nonsense as much as it may seem like I
do but yeah that's essentially that okay so do you play any historical video
games now again with uni and with everything going on it's quite hard to
find the time so I haven't played two video games in quite a number of months
now unfortunately I definitely used to I was a big fan of the total war games so
the first one I played of those was Rome one and back in the day so yeah I played
Rome one and medieval to you I played Shogun when it came out it was a big fan
of Empire because I found that time period very interesting and despite
everyone hating on Empire but I think with a couple of mods that's quite fun
game and so I played all those games I played quite a lot of civilization v
when it was out and I also did what else did a platform like heroes and Generals
for a little bit when that was out it was like an online thing
well the tanks I played for a little bit of time so my brother was very into that
he was in the whole clan thing and you know looking up whether most
armor-piercing damage and all the fact you know I just thought it was fun to
roll out a Soviet tank and do some shooting but and see how those kind of
things I played I have god I think it's you fought but I've never played because
I just I just don't have the time that's that's the issue I really enjoyed cigar
as well she played a lot of Skyrim back in the day as well I mean those were the
kind of games that I enjoyed I mean if I find enough free time maybe over the
summer I might you know walk up a video of me playing one of these if people are
interested at least but face come things like they have like a little camera up
there and kind of they kind of look don't they but yeah that's the skirt
essentially what I used to play and but I don't really have time anymore
probably well again when I want to get some time but yeah those are the kind of
things that I play in a quite enjoyed that kind of thing
they're also Age of Empires actually that was the first video game we ever
played and cost of one of the reasons are going to history was because of
video games that plays them some of them and then look up for example on Age of
Empires the Britons and go and look up the Britons and find
out more about them things I see I really enjoyed age of empires age of
empires to rise of Kings I think it's called it's the first video game I
played and yeah I was hooked from them so I've really enjoyed that
all right so pineapple on pizza I do actually love pineapple on pizza like I
love a Hawaiian pizza so yeah definitely favorite Dutch food oh that's tricky I
love a croquette like croquette oh great especially something croquette as well
I've also just touched like fries of they're very different wings fries like
English fries are like like kind of thick but not too C's like they're just
kind of thick of it soggy you know people eat them with like like
it's vinegar and salt up here and then in the north as what's curry sauce which
is actually it's quite nice but like you don't have the flam sofrito like the
French fries like this french fries the Flemish fries which are like these like
the long ones from the Netherlands and with like mayor Pataki all or mmm right
I do enjoy that just like that kind of thing you kind of miss it a lot also
stuff like stomp outs and like snap at the soup like stuff like that definitely
so whenever we go the Netherlands like my family we just have like a car full
for everyone thinks we have a car full of weed but we have a car full of like
food just the committee it's like immigrant problems right there
yeah I'd say there's like my favorite like also Dutch like butter cuca and
with the stroke like skank stroke like oh so good but yep does that say there
was one my favorite kind of Dutch foods right there so okay so this next one of
category answer that how do I research and what books do I read and well a lot
of research is by reading books and also sometimes by like watching documentaries
and things but the documentary have to be quite careful because they often very
much oversimplify the picture and I can completely understand why because you
can't go into everything and make everything nuanced because you have to
make bring it across in a way that people who aren't particularly
interested will understand because that's what you're trying to do with the
documentary but yeah it does mean you have to be careful with documentaries
also with which books I read and which ones I would recommend and I'm currently
working on website and I do actually have a page where I'm gonna have
so sources and things that you can read and stuff I would recommend especially
on the stuff I talked about more often so the Viking Age I'll have like a load
of books and also because I'm reading about three or four books a week now at
uni I can say which ones are thought would be particularly interesting for
various people to read and which would be good for an introduction that kind of
thing so I think I'll definitely go ahead with that because it's something
interesting okay so what music do you listen to you well it's I listen to a
lot of different music quite a lot of historical stuff as well I'd say so when
I'm in the gym quite like a bit of heavy metals as stuff like Amon Amarth
boulders that are more like the metal tunes as well as like quite a rap so mmm
is quite good for in the gym stuff like the army of the Pharaohs are quite like
that kind of thing also some like Eastern European stuff
which is in in polish quite like an in Russian stuff like that that's good for
in the gym and I also quite like Rebecca egg well of time I've actually got a
poster of Bob Marley can probably see in the corner there also big inspiration
and that as well I quite a lot of like folk music so I used to play in a Caleb
and appear so got like a lot of folk music and Scots like some stuff that
sing at Gallagher and Irish and also stuff that's obviously frisian musics
are a lot of boulders that are much more kind of mellow stuff like acoustic kind
of things and yeah I give I even listen to some like the modern pop music from
time to time and I doesn't do a lot of different kind of tunes I guess sabaton
as well also throw in the gym it's good like historical stuff I guess yeah
there's a big range of what I listen to okay so leading on from that what's my
favourite sabaton song it's difficult question it's probably when the winged
has arrived I just think they do like a great job of like the kind of
anticipation and kind of the building of the tension with the whole siege like
you can really envision and what's happening there and then like when the
wing two stars arrive and they charge down the mountain and stuff it just you
know website brings it all back but I clearly wasn't there but it kind of
really helped bring it like the whole you know how it was and but then I also
quite liked the soldier of three armies I think that's a really cool song
at the same time there all right so what's my political or religious
alignment and I'm not really gonna go into this I don't think it's
particularly important I guess if you want to know more about me it would be
but for like the kind of videos I make it's not particularly important
extremely side I'm not really extreme on the right or the left and I guess I'm
probably more of a centrist because I kind of subscribe to some things from
the left traditionally the left and kind of other things from from the right a
bit more I guess but yeah you know I don't think it's particularly important
with my like religious stuff I think I'm quite like it's kind of your own thing
to be honest it's or the Ron Swanson answer I guess is the closest to my
answer I'd say and the final question was your kissed or Lancastrian and well
I have to say were rules were rules and my brother is at the University of York
and absolutely love the city of York actually my first date was in York fun
fact and obviously the old Viking festivals in York soldiers just have a
big connection to York to be honest and also my kind of you read the history of
the Wars of the Roses and kind of the Yorkist just came out to me as the good
guys and this is because I was a bit younger I was reading so obviously
wasn't thinking objectively historically but they just kind of have this cool
story you know with King Edward and how he's like 17 then he goes off and like
he eats the Lancastrians in battles I just tears through them and all that
kind of things I'd say yeah the Yorkists probably although I'm not a massive
Ricardian though I still think like much of the third probably did get a bit of
bad press but I still think he was a bit of you know he wasn't he was a bit of
bad apple like it might been in and he adds a more of a yoga stand I
Lancastrian there but I do like Henry said with a lot like I think but then I
described him as a Tudor rather than a Lancastrian because he a was a
Lancastrian but like you know like visa vie thanks to his mum in that way I
guess and like there were a lot of Yorkists fighting on a side already at
Bosworth I can think it's pretty much already it's in us definitely a separate
stage of the Wars of the Roses by that point so yeah but that's why I would say
for that so thanks for watching everyone this has been my face reveal thank you
for the awesome effort 400,000 subscribers it's really incredible I
have no idea how we got there but we did and we're already passing
over like 124 thousand subscribers so we'll probably hit 200,000 subscribers
at some point next year which is really awesome and then we'll go for the
quarter of a million I think and I'm gonna try and keep uploading definitely
even if it's a bit less at some points obviously because of busy and other
constraints and there's about definitely keep it up so thank you very much
watching i'm hilbert from history with Albarn and i'll see you all very soon so
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