The Rest Is History

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YouTube: What happened lately

October 28, 2026 4.2x its usual first day The Fall of The British Empire in 30 (ish) seconds The video opened at a pace of 78,713 views a day, 4.2 times a normal first day on this channel (18,672).

Podcast chart #1 on the podcast chart

The Rest Is History returns to No. 1 as Crimea series begins

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook turn from Cold War uprisings to Victorian cavalry commanders as their podcast tops Apple's UK chart.

Channel: The Rest Is History · Story of November 9, 2026

This week on the channel +2.7M views this week

From Suez to Budapest with The Rest Is History

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook turn to Hungary's 1956 uprising in a discussion running more than two hours.

Channel: The Rest Is History · Story of November 6, 2026

This week on the channel +2.6M views this week

Simon Schama joins Dominic Sandbrook as The Rest Is History passes 125 million views

A special bonus conversation on how the French Revolution slid into the Terror sat alongside episodes on Danton's fall and Robespierre's fe…

Channel: The Rest Is History · Story of October 7, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

The Revolution That Almost Destroyed the Soviet Empire

Video published

November 5, 2026

Video views so far

241,484

Video views, pace per day

19,356

Views on its first day

105,533

YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

1.2% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.5% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
The problem with the Roman Republic	November 6, 2026	0:30 short	31,271	1,801	19,492	423	26
The fuel crisis that everyone has forgotten	November 6, 2026	0:38 short	32,190	3,261	16,263	545	28
The Revolution That Almost Destroyed the Soviet Empire	November 5, 2026	2:21:39	241,484	19,356	105,533	2,127	345
Yet another fantastic moustache	November 3, 2026	0:39 short	22,082	587	13,148	422	18
Suez: The Strategic Disaster that Broke Britain’s Imperial …	October 29, 2026	2:26:33	435,459	10,261	107,663	4,074	778
What did Ceasar get up to in Gaul?	October 28, 2026	0:35 short	45,617	237	17,560	585	24
The Fall of The British Empire in 30 (ish) seconds	October 27, 2026	1:42 short	457,404	1,835	113,726	6,927	637
The terror...kind of worked?	October 27, 2026	0:43 short	30,294	81	11,320	404	33
Julius Ceasar's biggest legacy is the calendar	October 22, 2026	0:37 short	23,717	37	10,203	393	11
They had the Daily Mail in the dark ages	October 22, 2026	0:40 short	35,000	113	16,335	653	24
The Truth Behind the Legend of King Arthur	October 22, 2026	1:03:19	293,512	5,091	67,088	2,897	454
Robespierre was the inventor of woke	October 21, 2026	0:41 short	51,096	204	26,983	820	63
Merlin: The Demon-Born Wizard Who Could See the Future	October 19, 2026	1:01:53	201,816	1,628	75,215	2,285	269
Everything is about the 70s	October 16, 2026	0:45 short	54,901	395	20,377	844	13
King Arthur Trusted Sir Lancelot With Everything... Except …	October 15, 2026	1:03:16	162,500	800	58,601	1,893	162

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

11.9 in the category: 19.8

comments per 1,000 views

1.4 in the category: 1.2

a video's usual first day on this channel

23,702 views

short vs long

10 short (up to 3 minutes), 5 long
average views per short video: 78,357
average views per long video: 266,954

YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
The Complete History of The Beatles With Conan O'Brien	December 5, 2025	1:35:02	1,188,204
Could WW1 Have Been Stopped Before It Began?	November 2, 2024	1:43:33	1,059,219
The Nazis Thought They Were the Good Guys	January 18, 2024	53:41	1,037,879
The Day Hitler Thought He’d Won the War	December 1, 2025	1:05:37	1,012,229
The Barbarian Heirs To Rome: Warlords Of The West	December 9, 2024	55:19	946,814

YouTube: Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Some people liked the trenches	June 30, 2026	0:47	2,665,297
Britain was like the moon to Romans #ancientrome #romanhist…	October 24, 2025	0:43	2,517,822
How Germany could have won WW1 #history #europeanhistory #w…	August 25, 2025	0:31	812,799
The unique moustaches of every WW1 combatant... #history #e…	August 25, 2025	0:34	677,938
How castles were used to oppress peasants	March 26, 2025	0:36	502,392

YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 28, 2026Video taking offThe Fall of The British Empire in 30 (ish) seconds The video opened at a pace of 78,713 views a day, 4.2 times a normal first day on this channel (18,672).
2. October 22, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 887,642 views a day, 2.5 times a normal day (350,557).