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    6711 days ago

    There are no medieval equivalents to YouTube channels, since YouTube wasn’t invented for at least a decade after the medieval period.

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    2311 days ago

    It’s not medieval but something that feels in the same Genre to me is Townsends on youtube. They do historical videos about 18th/early 19th century America - mostly recipes

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      210 days ago

      I know about townsends and have watched some of their videos but I’m not a fan on american only centered stuff

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        19 days ago

        There are lots of traditional crafts channels from all the corners of the world, if that scratches your itch. How about something like this?

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    Not a YouTube channel unfortunately but there are several videos and documentaries about it.

    The castle of Guedelon is exactly what you are describing.

    In France a group of archeologists decided to build a full castle, from scratch pretending to be in the XIIth century.

    A blacksmith is making the tools, they are chopping trees in the first forest around, extracting stones from a local carry, carrying on carts built by the Carpenter, making their own clothes …

    It’s amazing !

    Edit: here is an aerial picture of the castle in 2025

    aerial view of the guedelon castle

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      I visited this place many years ago during w school trip. It was pretty cool. Pro-level roleplay

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    I can offer something in between: Clickspring. He started re-making the Antikyera (SP?) mechanism, was criticized for using modern tools for this, and then started developing and using tools basically from scratch like the people in Greece could have made and used them.

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      Man, I love this guy’s videos. He’s got the most pleasantly chill voice (think Australian Bob Ross) and shows a great mastery of the things he makes. Highly recommended channel.

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    Medieval technology is vastly more complex, broader in scope, etc. compared to the Stone Age stuff on Primitive Technology. It’s actually extremely challenging to go from scratch like he does and then achieve medieval-level ironworking. He can barely make a few little iron pellets which are excessively-hard (too much carbon) and need further processing to become workable. He is a very long way from building a proper medieval smelter capable of producing pig iron or other cast iron products.

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    This channel is clearly inspired by John, I think he even says so in the description. Maybe not quite medieval but definitely up the right alley Edit: I was wrong about when the medieval period started, its definitely early medieval. https://youtube.com/@gesithasgewissa

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    Todd Cutler is a solid creator who goes over production of medieval era armour and weaponry such as longbows, warbows and the reality of armour such as plate, maille and gambesons.